I’ve got a few gaps in my vegetable plot where the last of my beetroot and carrots will be harvested from this week (when I can dodge the heavy rain), so I’ve been trawling the vegetable seed websites for something unique and exciting. So that in the darkest of miserable winter when I harvest it [...]
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I’ve finally got lots of tomatoes growing on my plants but they are all green. I, like many other growers at this time of the year are desperate to know how do I get them to ripen and how long will it be until they turn red or yellow. Here’s some of the answers to [...]
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This post was inspired by an article I saw on the web a few months ago about growing vegetables in space. There must be plenty of wacky and unusual places that people grow vegetables so heres a few to get you started. If you know of any weird places to grow veg that I’ve missed, [...]
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I have been growing cabbages ever since I started growing vegetables in my back garden raised beds, so nearing on four years I would have thought I might have got it sussed by now?! Well my answer is kind of. The first year I had a large amount of cabbages but learn’t that growing them [...]
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I haven’t really spoken about my peppers this year as I wasn’t sure about them surviving my mini greenhouse experience (see Growing Tomatoes – Is It Really Worth the Effort?). I don’t know why as its been hotter than the Mediterranean this year but they have surpassed my expectations. It is the first time I [...]
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Are you harvesting more runner beans that is humanly possible to eat and freeze? Are you over-run with tomatoes? Have you made enough tomato sauce to feed a small army and run out of ideas to use your excess? Then this fab new website, launched today called Lourish is for you! Lourish.com aims to help [...]
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More July Harvests of Beetroot, Spinach, Cabbage & Spring Onions
Posted on 31. Jul, 2010 by Tracey.
The harvests just keep on coming, beetroot, perpetual spinach, carrots, summer cabbage leaves and spring onions are now ready for harvesting. Spring Onions Variety Growing: Purplette Spring Onions are quite an underrated vegetable as they do take a fair amount of time to grow. Mine are still quite small however I was really pining for [...]
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In vegetable growing, a lot changes in a month so I thought I’d show you a snapshot of what is happening right now in mid summer on my plot, what pests and diseases I’m suffering from, what is being harvested or sowed, what I’m looking forward to and what I’m doing next. Plot 1 Currently [...]
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I’ve only ever tried seed saving once before with my runner bean seeds and to my horror they became a mouldy mess in the bottom of a brown paper bag. Urgh! This time I thought I’d try again with the Mange Tout ‘Golden Sweet’ plants which have now dried out in the sun and some [...]
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Here is my modest Carrot and French Bean harvest, not as sizeable as last years summer harvest but the carrots have definitely performed better this year with still loads more in the ground ready to harvest. Carrots Varieties Grown: Heritage ‘Beta III’ and ‘Scarlet Horn’. See Post: Sowing carrots and other Veg in April Carrots [...]
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