The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Growing => Vegetables => Topic started by: Terri-Lynn on January 11, 2008, 09:08:44 pm
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This year I am going to try some kale (never even ate it before) and some heirloom tomatoes. I am also going to do lots of different types of beans this year I usually only plant yellow bush and green bush types but I want some variety this year. What's going to be new in your garden?
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am trying kale too not sure the family will eat it but have gotten a new steamer 'machine' so hopefully this well help with veg:)
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we are going to try horse raddish if we can find the plant to start us of and sunflowers. up at Sevilla last week and we saw some all ready in flower, our seeds have just come through
Rosalie
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we are setting up our asparagus bed at the mo - so with one year crowns going in , we may see some early results next year!!!
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our asparagus
ooooooooowwwwwwww we are posh lol only joking
I tried growing it but failled badly but i guess i had lots of things against me when i tried it.
Linz
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well we are thinking it may well be a trial to set this up - but you have to give these things a go (and theres no shame in being posh!!!!! :Dlol)
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One of the things i think people forget is at home you can do anything lol
I have always read that it is better to grow 'special' veg at home where as the ones that you would normally buy from the supermarket but which are very expensive.
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piked up a chinese gooseberry bush so i'll let you all know about this as it get growing.
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that sounds fascinating -what do the fruits look like (or am i just being dense? :-[)
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well i have never heard of them before either lol
An ornamental, bearing tasty fruit (Mini Kiwi) climber that will adorn any garden
(http://www.banana-tree.com/catalog%20images/image292.jpg)
here is a piccy
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiwifruit
I thought they were something else , till I looked I was getting mixed up with Cape gooseberry. Looks like they are Kiwi Fruit...
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yeap when i 1st picked it up in the shop i though that bet then read mini kiwi fruit i was still happy lol
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going to try globe artichokes for the first time, have started off some seedlings which are doing well and going to transplant them once they look bigger....im deciding whether to put them in the flowers and herbs bed or with the veggies or i might put them in with both if i have enough little plants :)
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put em in both :) great looking plants.
I am try jaruaslem (spelling?)artichokes never even eaten them before i have put them in a long deep pot at the moment as the ground they are going to is still my lawn and very wet to work with.
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my dad use to eat jerusalem artichokes when he was a lad so i started growing these in my garden and have made them into a soup with potatoes and have had them mashed, but be warned they will give you wind :o , they produce a cluster of lovely sunflower like heads which make them worth growing just for that! yep i think i shall pop the globes in both veggie and herb beds thanks ;)
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lol wind is not a problem here (i live in a house with 3 blokes and two girls) so am used to that lol.
AM thinking of having a bashagain in the front garden just to tidy it up as it is look a bit of a mess at the moment
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new for us this year are Asparagus peas, good climbers with a crazy pod! and crimson amaranth leaves to give the salad beds even more colour!
Working on a big scale solar drier for the Principe Borghese tomatoes so we hope to finally crack the english sun dried tomato market! will let you know how it pans out (maybe just bulk loads of passata :D)
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Now that sound promisiong and both interesting
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I am trying leeks and several herbs such as terragon. Kale is really easy to grow and will over-winter well.
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Never tried Tarragon - I think it's supposed to be hard to grow. Dan does a lovely chicken, lemon and tarragon soup - mmm, it's my favourite.
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I'm growing horse radish for the first time. Bought a couple of roots in January. Anybody any advice on growing techniques!!!
:chook:
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No - we were given some but Dan forgot where he planted it and iit's never shown up again!
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ive not grown horse raddish, but am aware that its like mint and will spread if not contained and kept in a pot in the ground....hope that helps!
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I recently uprooted a conifer from the end of our drive as it obscured the view when reversing and caused my mum to have a small prang (nothing to do with an arthritic short-arse in a volvo reversing uphill then...). This left a patch of bare soil on what was otherwise a lovely front lawn. In a moment of madness I decided to dig it over and plant garlic, carrots, parsnips and beetroot. I must say it's caused a lot of shaken heads, confused looks and tutting. Being nextdoor to the church in a small farming community a lot of people walk past and its right in their line of sight...
I think I'll grass it over after I've harvested and leave the growing for the back garden.
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Please don't! We dug up the front lawn in our old house to plat veggies - hte back garden was north facing and quite dull because of a huge Leylandii hedge. The vegies got some strange looks at first but folk were quite inetersted in it - I suspect more so now, as veg. growing has become more popular. Anyway, veggies look nice - we've got potatoes in pots on the patio and they're lovely, with dark purple flowers.
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veggies look nice - we've got potatoes in pots on the patio and they're lovely, with dark purple flowers.
I didn't know that you could pot grow potatoes, what a brilliant idea. Any tips Rosemary???
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Oh the bigger the pot the better.
Put a little bit of soil in the pot then place tatties on top then earth up like you would in the ground
linz
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Yup, wouldn't disagree with anything Linz says.
I've got my Mayan Gold in pots - too expensive to risk in the dirty old ground!
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/me is all for putting stuff in the 'wrong' place. I had tatties in the front lawn and i think i upset a load of neighbour but tough DIG FOR VICTORY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I'm going to try growing mushrooms this year. I'm setting up an old bed frame filled with chipped bark for lions mane and putting shiitake and oyster mushrooms in the chipped bark I use for footpaths in the woods.
Hope it works....
Actually, is a mushroom a vegetable???
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nope .... it's a happy chappy ...or a fun guy (fungi ) hehehe....couldn't resist that ...I am sorry ....
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Oh deary deary me......
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:D :D :D I did say I was sorry ::)
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I am attempting Dandelion and Burdock beer. Just like Hugh.
It's in the early stages still though. Has anyone else tried this and succeeded?
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Am growing Cape Gooseberry from seed and also monster giant pumpkins from seed my mother brought back from Canada. Hehehe. ANy suggestions on a good feed for pumpkins in scotland?