Two rows of Pink Fir Apple tatters went in this afternoon.... and more heroic digging of the more overgrown parts of the garden (well, not strictly mine, I'm a squatter!) - just finished, off for much needed beers soon:D
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Two rows of Pink Fir Apple tatters went in this afternoon.... and more heroic digging of the more overgrown parts of the garden (well, not strictly mine, I'm a squatter!) - just finished, off for much needed beers soon:D
2 little babies sprouting from their pots :).
I have to wait until the end of next week for job news - financial issues might yet scupper it; damn recession.Quote:
Originally Posted by molehill
So...do I plant my seeds and risk having to transport them, or do I hold off for another couple of weeks? :(
The story of my life. I always tend to go for the former. After all, you can always plant some more. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Stef F
We ordered this year's vegetable plants last night. Due to arrive some time in May. Borlotti beans, french climbing beans, four courgette plants (one of which is a yellow one), beetroot, mixed salad, spinach, mange tout, globe artichoke. Should be nice. :cool:
I've been eating lots of broccoli from the garden recently, no courgettes though.
Up to 6 sprouting babies today.
2 more giving birth right now, and I have to go to work :(. Missus will act as Midwife to them on the kitchen windowsill.
Courgette afterbirth! Yerkk!!! :eek:
Courgette excitement starts early this year :D
erm, I have some tiny tarragon shoots appearing. Does this count?
You can get cream for that. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Wheeze
Ahem, they will not turn into courgettes, according to Darwin anyway........Quote:
Originally Posted by Wheeze
so no :p:D
For 2010, I think this thread should be all encompasing of vegetable varieties. So I shall accept Wheeze's shot tarragons (are they in season, are they big enough?), one has to move with the times.
Courgettes shall continue to have pride of place on the thread, being top of the evolutionary (compost) pile :D.
I have chives.....and that's it :( can they count?? everything else died and I have given up trying to grow anything it always ends in disaster.:o Mind you now the cat is dead they may stand a better chance :confused:Quote:
Originally Posted by molehill
Your cat died too? :(Quote:
Originally Posted by emmilou
I have chives and the mint is sprouting.
My seeds are all still in the packets. Grand plan is to sow at bank hol weekend with DT - romantic seed sowing planned!
That is, if he makes it back from China (fingers crossed)
He'll be back :D he has to be he's on leg 4 :eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by Stef F
yes the cat died, I had it put down.......for pi55ing on my plants :mad: no seriously she was just ancient and decrepit and loosing her marbles, not able to walk properly and had gone senile, it was a real shame and I was very sad but she was 28 so lived a very full life!! :)
Maybe she's a courting with Stollys cat?!!Quote:
Originally Posted by emmilou
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Originally Posted by emmilou
Blimey... change gender and that's me you're describing...:eek::eek:
Seriously. sorry to hear about the cat.. always hard when they go, but she was obviously a survivor, must be a cat age record!
Four cougette plants for us this year. One looks a bit runty but others are healthy so far with first little courgette about 1 and a half inches long so far. Hope the frost doesn't get him.
Great to see all the other veggies springing in to action too.
Sorry to hear about the cat. Ours is only half that age and we though she was getting on a bit even if she doesn't think that way.
6 courgette plants now sprouting in pots, still too cold in North Wales for them to go on the allotment, not much sign of anything else yet except a load of weeds
90 onion sets planted this evening.... planter is cold, wet, muddy, but very pleased! Courgettes (x 2) are sitting in pots in the back yard waiting for their chance to be planted out...
The first 2 plants are out on the compost heap (which they are sharing with the 2 sloworms) underneath two plastic bell cloches. 1 plant is a Tosca and other Orelia, some Zuchini are chitting in the kitchen.
This is exciting :).
several plants now in potting shed (still too cold for outside) 5 round yellow fruited plants still in kitchen (don't know the name)
I've got 6 Courgettes, 4 Aubergines(experiment) and 4 pepper plants gone out, Peas and mangetout, Strawberrys and Raspberrys, Early strawberrys are already flowering, We've had Rhubarb already.
All progressing well, 15 plants scattered about the garden, with the 2 on the compost heap well ahead and showing baby courgettes. Just waiting for them to flower :).
Owowowowow! This is getting exciting! Babies already :)Quote:
Originally Posted by molehill
I have been eating away at the asparagus, have had rhubabrb already and the oakleaf lettuce is growing profusely... strawberries about to turn red and flowring/fruiting like maniacs :) tomatoes coming along in the greenhouse as well... but no sign of any courgettes :(
When you're up a mountain it's all a bit slower but we have got flowers on the tomatoes in the greenhouse. What does grow like weeds here though are Jerusalem artichokes!!
A courgette flower (with baby underneath) bloomed today, with others close behind :D. Not long now.
Missus had the first strawberry on Thursday (with her porridge, there's class :rolleyes:). And more ripe, but Missus is away till Monday - should I give them to the Tortoises?
Do tortoises like strawberries? I'll try that one on mine...
About as much as you like beer ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by dominion
First courgette tonight. Plants just about survived the late frosts and slug attacks.
Had our first spuds on sunday. Charlottes from the greenhouse- just lovely.
Damn, damn, damn, damn, damn .....you've beaten me to the ultimate prize :mad:. Have 2 courgettes which I've been saving to pick tomorrow:(. Strawberries coming in now though (Missus shares them with the tortoises) and broad beans developing well, first new spuds toninght. Had a nice drop of rain and now a week of warmth will see things shoot up.
How can you have courgettes already?
that is what I was wondering
We've been eating them for about 3 weeks or so (p'raps more, thinking about it). The present Mrs Fat Bloke put them on too early, we think, before end of Feb I think it was. They were inside for ages then outside and being fleeced up seemingly every night (they went outside and then it turned really cold again...). We were lucky they made it, I think.
Mind you, they suffered in all that rain last week; we lost quite a lot 'cos they got waterloged.
I didn't know I liked courgettes as much as I do (had some in a prawn and mushroom linguine last night - flippin' fantastic).
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Picked the first 3 little ones tonight, added them to the omlette. Also salad leaves and new spuds from the garden.
no courgettes or spuds just yet, but the salad leaves are good, I think it must be a lot colder in North Wales
We have the following on the go -
Courgettes,spuds (5 types - 1 early 4 main crop), broad beans,peas,lettuce,leeks,sprouts,cabbage,sweetcorn
Have had nowt yet apart from a few lettuce leaves :p
We planted our courgettes last night. We're 1000 feet up in the Peak District, so we're a bit behind many of you. I was hoping to get them in the ground in May but our on-line vegetable plant supplier let us down somewhat. We have 4 courgette plants so I hope to have some courgettes by mid July.