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Produce => Edible Plants => Topic started by: Jayb on October 17, 2012, 10:29:58
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Just wondering what were the biggest stars of your veggie garden this year?
Not much competition here as lots of things have been poor, but I’ve been pleased with tomatoes, chillies and runner beans.
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For me its the year of parsnips and savoy/winter cabbage. Best ever for both of these.
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I haven't pulled any parsnips yet as they looked a bit small compared to usual, glad yours are fab though. I'll go and have a snoop and see if they are ok size to pull.
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Well happy with my carrots this year - picked a 13 oz one on Sunday - no slug or fly damage!!!! But beetroot was my star this year and I still have a long row of bolthardy to pull.
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Runner beans are briliant and still going strong. Jerusalem artichokes look good but I haven't dug any yet to see how the tubers have come along. Pumpkin has done well, outdoor cucumbers were fantastic. Foxgloves are doing well at their second flush - and the first flowering was excellent too. Quite pleased with everything, reallly, considering the poor start to the season.
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Runner beans and sweet peas
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Sweet peppers and runner beans were good most other stuff was around half the size I would expect it to be!
My potato crop has the numbers but only half the weight so looks like I will be buying in early in the new year, when normally I finish them around Easter!
The sprouts are the size of peas at the moment when I would expect them to be about walnut size, so going to need to lift a lot of plants for Xmas dinner this year.
Don't know about the parsnips yet, haven't lifted any!
Late cabbage and savoys look quite good as do the leeks!
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Cobra beans had a good second flush. Moonlight taste good but not as prolific as Cobra and no second flush. 20 large apples on tree fruiting for first time. Lots of Comice pears but they won't keep long as they are somewhat scabbed. Otherwise fruit and veggies very so-so.
Tricia
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Rhubarb, runner beans, onions, leeks, beetroot have done well. The rest has been very pooor.
Regards
Bluecar
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Stonehead cabbage were great ,Cobra beans so prolific first time Ive grown them they were amazing, great parsnips and carrots with no dreaded fly damage, sprouts also looking really good for the first time ever.
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only peas have done well for me this year :happy7:,telephone from RealSeeds grown up the fences that are put around building sites(have forgot the name of them) with pea meshing tied to them ...Best year ever and they stayed up and not blown over . EVERYTHING ELSE rubbish :sad10:
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Raspberries, jam and freezer full of raspberries. I actually had to buy two courgettes yesterday for veggie daughter for veggies spagetti sauce, I nearly cried. Told the man in the shop but as he was foreign, he just nodded at me, so I shouted I have an allotment, I grow them, but only got 3 or 4 this year, but do not think he understood my frustation, cost me over a £1. Next year must be better I hope. Also had to buy oregano, as my herb either got nicked or disappeared. :sad10:
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The onions Sturon as usual, my best ever sweetcorn Swift F1 and yellow tomatoes Golden Queen.
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Parsnips, celery, caleriac, broad beans, late sown spinach and oriental greens, runners and kohl Rabi have done particularly well. Jeruselem Artichokes and oca are also looking good.
Many other things have done ok though not spectacularly well.
At least there should be enough to keep us fed till next springs early crops are in. :happy11:
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I thought I had some lovely beetroot, but each one looks as if someone has taken a huge bite out of it. I hate slugs.
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Basically everything green and leafy! Everything that was more spring/autumn...
First time I had such nice lettuce and salad greens, and radishes (usually they are rubbish.). STill have some beets in., maybe we will at least eat them as baby beets before the harder frosts. Pumpkins still did OK, but I had fabulous spuds (too many in fact!) and very good garlic and onions.
The autumn stuff is going great guns: lettuice, caulis, broccolis, swiss chard, leeks, all those are looking great as there is just perpetual rain here.
But all the rest which is normally so good was crap - no toms, no courgette or cucumber, almost no strawberries and the raspberries cropped but were completely spoilt by rain, poor beans (peas OK), and as usual can't get carrots to grow (no surprise there).
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I've had very mixed reslts from my beans, but Kew Blue did well. The only trouble was that something bit through most of the stems, leaving only a couple of plants. I'd have had a good crop from them otherwise.
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THe thing biting your stems was probably snails... I lost a few to that as well, once they get big enough they're immune (or rather the snails don't bother adn go looking for somethign less stringy)
chrisc
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I doubt it, the cuts were too sharp, and they were all at exactly the same level, a few inches above the ground. That wigwam was well and truly done, a few stems on the next one were chopped, and nothing else was touched.
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Hmm.... rabbits?
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It has been a very good year for peas and lettuces, ok for beans but they were very late - greenhouse tomatoes were ok too. Second sowing of carrots are good, parsnips no germination at all. Achocha are still going strong outside on frost damaged plants! Cucumbers and squashes fairly poor. Courgettes a little better but no gluts. There were unexplained losses in the potato bed - my guess is that they must have rotted when we were flooded. About 5 pounds of scabby apples from all of our trees, with the exception of 3 pounds of first class Egremont Russets, which love rainy weather! Pears and plums little better. Blackberries very good.
Now I need a recipe for blackberry filled achocha on a bed of lettuce !?! :laughing6:
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Most leafy plants did well. Cabbages, broccoli but brussels seem to be suffering from all the rain. Still cutting lettuce leaves and chard. Earlibird sweetcorn did well, lots of water and whatever sunshine was about did the trick! :icon_cheers: Onions and garlic ok. French beans were good but runners ok ish. Hit & miss with courgettes and squash plants
Spuds, carrots, toms, caulis not so good.
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Most of my apples have done well, though the Bramley's hasn't produced anything. I suspect it's got biennial bearing coming on, and will need thinning next year. The plums were a dead loss as it was too cold when they flowered.
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Red cabbage, first time I have ever had a good crop.
Tomatoes in the greenhouse, loads of unripe chillis. Sweetcorn.
Pumpkins and squashes. Parsnips and leeks look good.
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Broad Beans. Didn't seem to care that they were actually growing on flooded land and produced best ever crop. Apples seem great - just started picking Cox's. Also French Beans were terrific but had to kept in cloches in July and climbing French beans were best ever.
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.... Oh and also tomatoes, Tigerella grown in a greenhouse. Still got a few and had to reduce the number of plants as it was too much for us. Quickly abandonned growing outside as this was never going to work