Raised Vegetable Garden – Photo Update 23.05.09

Posted on 25. May, 2009 by Tracey in Veg Plot

This is my Photo Update for May for my 3 back garden raised vegetable beds.

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: Plot 1 Broad Beans, Mange Tout and Dwarf Beans

: Broad Bean Pods

: Radish Closeup

: Plot 2 Onions, Carrots and rogue Lettuce

: Maincrop Potato Forest

: A Rabble of Radishes

: Perpetual Spinach

: The Carrot Runway

: Mange Tout Weggisser

: Demi Dwarf Beans

: Quadruple Red Cross Onions

: Plot 3 Potatos, Carrot, Radish and Spinach

What vegetables are you growing in pots, raised beds or allotment?

Vegetables Ready to Harvest in the next month are:

Broad Beans – Bean pods are growing strong, nearly ready to harvest – yum!
Things to watch out for on Broad Beans:
Blackfly – clusters of tiny black bugs on the tips of the plants. Usually only occurs on a few plants, just pinch out or remove the growing tip of leaves at the top of the plant after your flowers have died off. Blackfly can infect the whole plant and broad bean pods so its worth checking the tips at this time of the month until harvest.
Overwintering Onions – Red Cross. Sowed in October 2008 as autumn onion sets, ready to harvest end of June.
Please check out my old post in October 08 when I first planted my onions – What to Sow in October.

Vegetables sowed at the end of April were:

Mange Tout – Weggisser (Sow April to June)
Radishes – Scarlet Globe (Sow April to July)
Carrots – Nantes and Chantenay (Sow April to July)
Perpetual Spinach – Leaf Beat (Sow April to July).
Potatoes Maincrop – Variety: Cara – planted in plot on 19th April 2009.

Other Posts you may be interested in:

Please sign up for my iGrowVeg Newsletter – Next Issue emailed on May 31st 2009.
Its packed with tips, monthly roundups, useful links, what to sow in June and how to guides.

Want to see more photos? Here’s some great pictures from other blogs I read:

Greenforks – Allotment and Greenhouse Vegetables are Go!
Our Little Acre – May I Show you Some May Flowers?
My Tiny Plot – Your Garden from the Ground
Vegetable Kingdom – 13th May Update
Down on the Allotment – Matrons’ Flower Show
Petunia’s Garden – Busy Like Bees

Tags: Blackfly, Broad Bean, Carrot,, Dwarf Bean, Mange Tout, Onion, Pests, Photos, Plot Report,, Potato,

7 Responses to “Raised Vegetable Garden – Photo Update 23.05.09”

Adam P.

26. May, 2009

Well, I mentioned earlier that I was going to get my garden up and running. Today i borrowed a tiller and prepared the garden to plant. So, it’s June…what would you recommend planting.

I am going to be writing a series of posts on my blog concerning eating, so i would like to get some home grown veggies in there.

Adam
easygardener

26. May, 2009

Your Broad Beans are much more advanced than mine. I also see you have carrots coming up – for me they are an irritating vegetable – I never get anything off them but can’t stop trying to grow them! Probably because they are always one of the free packets of seeds stuck to the front of gardening magazines.
Doug

26. May, 2009

I’m growing quite a lot of stuff in pots and containers, mainly because I’ve run out of space in the ground on my allotment and in the garden, in pots/bags I have:

Carrots – Chanteray Royal
Tomato – Gardeners Delight
Celery – Green Utah
Spuds – Arran Victory and Anya (on my shed roof!)
Onions – Bedfordshire Champion (in a recovered roof box)
Basil – Purple Basil
Coriander
Lettuce (mixed)
Rocket

Not sure how any of these will do, but I’ll wait and see, it’s a lot of fun having a go and using up the space.
Tracey

27. May, 2009

Hi Doug,
Thanks for sharing what you are growing. Spuds on your shed roof?! sounds interesting, that’s a good use of space.
Sounds like you don’t have much space left but just think of that bountiful harvest.

Kind Regards
Tracey
Tracey

27. May, 2009

Hi Easygardener,

I sowed my broad beans in October last year instead of November (which I did the previous year), I think this is why I am getting an earlier crop of them. It is good as my cabbages bolted so I’m glad I’ve finally got something to harvest, radishes are nearly there too.
We do eat a lot of carrots in our household so I always grow them, the better varieties have been the main crop ones, the early carrots never produce anything great for me either.

Kind Regards
Tracey
SquareFootHammer

03. Jun, 2009

Hello, what a great blog! Love the look of it.

I’m growing vegetables in a raised bed in my garden too (as you’ll see from my blog), but I’m trying the square foot gardening technique.

As for what I’m growing (and I haven’t revealed all of this on my blog yet, so this an exclusive!) I’ve got tomatoes, aubergine, chilli peppers, Sugar snap peas, french beans, spinach, oriental salad leaves, onions plus some potatoes in gro-sacks!

I’m hoping for a good year this time round?
Tracey

05. Jun, 2009

Hi Adam,
Thanks for keeping in touch.
I have just posted Vegetable Seeds to Sow in June which features 6 vegetables in detail (lettuce, radish, swede, runner beans, beetroot and perpetual spinach).

Other vegetables to be sown in june are dwarf and climbing beans, kale, carrots, Mange tout, cabbages, chard and spring onions. There’s loads to grow in June and fingers crossed for the good weather. Let me know how you get on with growing your vegetables.

Kind Regards
Tracey