Which summer veg do you grow or would reall... - Healthy Eating
Which summer veg do you grow or would really like to grow and please say what other is. 🌞
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This is a great poll, Hidden . It gave me some ideas as to what I should go and do in the next few weeks when I have some extra time.
This year it is cucumbers, tomatoes and courgettes for us. Pumpkin and salad leaves did badly...
Hey thats a shame at least some were good. I love home grown tomatoes. 😊
My Grandfather had a tomato garden years ago in Ohio.
That’s a shame. Salad leaves are great when they work!
Cucumbers, tomato's several varities, zucchini and yellow squash, butternut squash, jalopeno's This is the first year we have attempted a garden in a few years the deer have not eaten we put them in pots on the driveway. She and her fawn have seemed to have been leaving them alone we keep our fingers crossed I have hangers up to spock her, she is my sweetie and I feed her daily but tell her my garden is off limits! lol We have had a harvest so far and are pleased so getting any of the sweet fresh product organic was our goal from the start if she or a few that pass through do happen to feast we are willing to share. Beest of luck to all growing or going to market. We do that foten for fresh corn other peppers and pea's, beans and fruits that happen to be fresh picked. Great poll Jerry!
Can you please post a picture or two of the garden when you’re ready?
Will be happy to Post a picture, once done giving Bear our dog his medicated bath. Jerry LOL on the cat way to funny, animals have a mind of their own. He pictures him/herself a guard cat!
Hey you've done well this sounds brilliant to me cherv, I'd like to grow chilli, as for your deer my next door neighbours cat sits on my lawn by the 'please keep off the grass sign'...Thanks for your great reply. 😊
We grow tomatoes, chilli’s, cucumber, spinach and lettuce. It’s great to grow your own. A couple of years ago we had an allotment and we grew raspberries, brocolli, spinach, beetroot, artichokes,squash and courgettes etc some years were good and others we just fed the slugs. There is nothing like home grown food. In our last house we had courgettes and tomatoes growing in the borders along with the flowers and shrubs.
Sounds great!😀👍
This sounds brilliant Ali a great selection of veggies so good for you, we grew raspberries and gooseberries when I was a child and I still love them. 😊
What do gooseberries taste like?
They're very tart so are best stewed and sweetened, they also make a great jam.
I always look forward to them being in season. 😊
It’s making my mouth water thinking about gooseberries. You must like that sort of thing as you like rhubarb as well don’t you which is also quite sour.🤪
Hi Ali, I do indeed, as I've some rhubarb in my fridge and I also really like Bramley cooking apples. 😊
😀 I’m hoping to make an apple crumble tomorrow after a neighbour gave me a few apples. I was just looking up your topping of the peach crumble you made once.
I'll check them out very soon.
Other is Potatoes.
How many do you have growing usually?
Thats great growing potatoes penparc, you have to make sure the soil is well prepared for root veg so good for you. 😊
Hi there Jerry, another good poll. I would love to be able to grow runner beans and beetroot but the soil in my garden is very poor. Also, I have a tiered garden and it's alot of work never mind not being able to grow vegetables so it's a time thing for me as well.
Thanks Alicia, I'm sure that you still enjoy your garden and make the most of it, a tiered garden can be very attractive and its your personal outside space regardless...😊
Yes I do but would love a smaller level garden. For me re your poll, you can't beat fresh beetroot or runner beans.😀
I can't argue with that...😊
I remember my mum picking and cooking fresh beetroot, amazing stuff ☺
I grow all of these on my allotment plus courgettes, chillies, potatoes, and sweet peppers. The Badgers got all 25 of my sweet corn plants just as they were ripening.
Hey that’s a shame about the badgers Elizahanna, I didn’t know they liked sweet corn, it still must be very rewarding having an allotment so good for you, And it’s National Allotment Week this week. 😊
My wife also grows courgettes which sometimes hide and turn into marrows. Her courgettes form part of the ratatouille she makes and stores in portions in the freezer for the winter.
Sounds great Tibbly.😊
Aubergines, sweet peppers, chillis, spinach, carrots, turnips, courgettes, squashes, potatoes, cabbages, cauliflowers, sweet corn, probably one or two others I’ve forgotten. We aim for self sufficiency
Knew there was something I’d miss, broccoli
This sounds very productive ClareCrip. so I'm very impressed so good for you and you enjoy the rewards of your efforts...😊
The winter veg is just as productive, mostly brassicas in variety. We’ve been doing it just about all our lives, I grew up helping grandparents and parents in the veg and fruit gardens and just carried on once I had my own. Not bad for a 63 year old wheelchair user!
It's lovely to just walk out into the garden and pick a handful of salad leaves tor your lunch. We also grow cherry tomatoes. The peas and french beans haven't done well thought. My grandsons love to pick the strawberries and raspberries. Number one grandson likes to eat raw gooseberries but I try to discourage this.
We also grow cabbage, broccoli and sprouts. This year were also growing kalets..a cross between kale and sprout tops. Don't know what they'll be like yet. Apples and pears too.
Hi bridesmum, I agree about picking lettuce straight from the lettuce bed as how fresh is that and I'm very interested in your Kalets I've seen it in the shops so will have to try some. So with your apples and pears I'm impressed. 😊
I don't grow my own veg but used to. I keep chickens and ducks at the end of the garden so the future intention is to have another veg patch and alternate the fowl and veg patch every couple of years to keep the ground fertilized.
I am excited about growing edible flowers for salads this year. I have nasturtiums and an edible weed- purslane. I want to add in the edible flower, borage when I find some.
Hi poseymint, this sounds delightful and I for one would love to see some photo's of meals with flowers. 😊
I also grow carrots, potatoes, peppers, courgettes and spinach.
Well done you HealthSeeker7, it all sounds good to me. 😊
This is my first summer in our new garden, and mostly we have been cutting back years of overgrown plants and weeds.
However, a couple of mysterious tomato plants appeared growing on the earth floor of the greenhouse....strays seeds from a previous crop? I have never grown tomatoes before so have been pleased to finally see these plants bearing fruit! I may have at least 3 tomatoes.....and a lot of watering went into their care!
We have yet to see if they taste better than the supermarket variety...
Hi DartmoorDumpling, I bet your tomatoes taste good and think its a good omen for your new garden as the soil will be very nutritious if its over grown now. 😊
Others being .. Leaks, Lettuce and Marrows.
Hi basil57, a good selection here and my next door neighbours keep chicken so with ducks your garden sound like its being used well to me. 😊
Carrots, blueberries, spinach, black currents, red currents and rhubarb also grows in our garden
Hi Ifn1, growing blueberries is fantastic as is everything else you grow, I love rhubarb too, so I'm impressed. 😊
I've just built a greenhouse at the bottom of my garden and am looking forward to growing cucumbers and peppers in it next summer. I'm also intending to grow potatoes and courgettes in some raised beds alongside.
Hi MeTeeCee, a greenhouse will be great lots of tomatoes and other salad veg so good for you. 😊
I'd love to grow most of these, but I don't have a garden! I'm growing potatoes, chillies and some herbs on our balcony. I'm hoping to move to a house with a garden, that I can dedicate a corner for berries, courgettes, tomatoes, maybe salad leaves and kale. Plus an apple tree for autumn.
Hi Cooper27, well done for growing these on your balcony it all sounds great. 😊
My other would be courgettes and garlic
And what good choices OumapLoumpa, 😊
