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10 Vegetable Growing Highlights of 2009

Posted on 03. Jan, 2010 by Tracey in How to Grow Veg

Whilst I was reading ‘A Year of Harvests – 2009‘ over at Skippy’s Vegetable Garden blog, it inspired me to express my own vegetable highlights of 2009. As you can see below I’ve got through quite a bit in a year and there’s more to come in 2010.

Closeup of Mange Tout pink & crimson flowers

1. Growing Mange Tout with the most gorgeous coloured flowers. It certainly brightened up my vegetable garden. Read my Post ‘Mange Tout Rodney Mange Tout‘.

Hedgehog

2. Seeing a hedgehog in my garden for the first time up close and finding out more about beneficial insects in the vegetable garden. Read my Series ‘Beneficial Insects in the Vegetable Garden‘.

3. My Compost Watch Project to record every piece of waste that I place into my compost bin. Yearly results coming soon. Read my ‘Whats in my Compost Bin after 14 weeks?‘ post.

Radish - Scarlet Globe Harvest

4. First Radish Harvest of the year. A lovely bunch of rosy red radishes always welcomed in spring as the first vegetable harvested in the year.

5. The Big Carrot Harvest. 2009 was the year of the carrot for me, they just kept growing and growing. See my post ‘And the Best Vegetable Performance Award goes to… My Carrots‘.

6. Grow Your Own Veg on a Windowsill Challenge. My project to prove you can grow vegetables anywhere even if you only have a windowsill. Read my ‘5 Reasons To Grow Veg on a Windowsill‘ Post.

A bowl of green & yellow beans

7. Growing Yellow French Beans. Reasons to grow yellow beans are: They look great, slugs avoid the plants and they taste delicious. I’ll be growing these and purple ones this year.

8. Building a Geoff Hamilton inspired Cloche was the best thing I have ever done for my vegetable plots. They are sturdy cloches with enviromesh covering and have done my vegetables a world of good with better harvests and healthier plants. However I will have to be awake when the caterpillars attack this year! Instructions to Build your own cloche here.

Cloche over Broad Beans

9. Growing Winter Vegetables. Showing that you can grow vegetables through the winter successfully. Read my ‘Don’t Delay Sow Today. Winter Vegetable Seedlings emerge in just 1 Week!‘.

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