A 2010 crop

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• Aug 2, 2010

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My first crop haha

Don't know what's going on with the carrot there, any resident gardeners here? Left the rest of the carrots in for now

 

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Perry

• Aug 2, 2010

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must be hungry Dan if you are going to eat that lot tonight :yikes:

 

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We had out tatties for our dinner yesterday Dan - lush

We've just had strawberries and raspberries from the garden for our pudding tonight

The cabbages are looking great and I think the missus' sweetcorn is looking good too

Other than that I grow a mean Rocket plant, oregano and mint:smilewinkgrin:

 

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• Aug 2, 2010

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this tends to happen if they are planted in the wrong kind of soil,for carrots it should be well dug and turned and free from stones,which is really bad for causing deformaties,they prefer raised beds with a 40/40/20 mix of soil/compost/sand,the sand helps them to grow bigger because it encourages equal growth

 

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Would love a crack at me own garden but live in an apartment at the mo:mad2: never mind

 

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but live in an apartment at the mo

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I love how a 'flat' has now become an 'apartment' in England these day:lol::lol:

No offence B30 Villain mate, I say it as well

 

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b30 villain said:

Would love a crack at me own garden but live in an apartment at the mo:mad2: never mind

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you can quite easily grow vegetables in containers,i sometimes do spring onions,chillies,parsnips,tomatoes strawberries and other things in containers if i'm running out of space

 

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b30 villain said:

Would love a crack at me own garden but live in an apartment at the mo:mad2: never mind

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me too mate, but i do have some herbs growing on the windowsill

 

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pjc said:

must be hungry Dan if you are going to eat that lot tonight :yikes:

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Nah, looks like potatoes for a couple of days for me and the other half.

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this tends to happen if they are planted in the wrong kind of soil,for carrots it should be well dug and turned and free from stones,which is really bad for causing deformaties,they prefer raised beds with a 40/40/20 mix of soil/compost/sand,the sand helps them to grow bigger because it encourages equal growth

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Excellent advice mate! I'll note that for the next batch!

 

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Those potatoes are going to be delicious, My first ever job was spud bashing, I was only 12 and got paid 50p a day..blimey nothing has changed in all these years! In my tiny garden I got chives, mint and parsley, and 6 tom plants, thats my effort this year, but its better than nowt. I want to grow runner beans I love em.

Lynn

 

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carrots fork if the ground is well fertilized

nothing to worry about, I save mine for the ma in law, she really misses thats life on the telly

they look good , bet their tasty:drool5:

 

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I remember lifting spuds for farmers years ago,late 70's early eighties.
Some days we pulled 5-7 quid

 

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they all look the same when sliced or diced and home grown carrots are much sweeter and fresher tasting

 

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seeing Dans carrot reminded me that there are billions of tonnes of carrots disposed of every year as they dont conform to the carrot shape while there are billions of people undernourished in the world

 

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I'll note the over fertilising thing too! Thanks.

Me and the mrs have mint, parsley, rosemary, onions, carrots (and there were potatoes, need to do another batch now), 8 tomato plants and we did have different types of peppers but they didn't survive the week holiday we had when it was really sunny all week and they had no water! We also killed three other tomato plants but saved the others with some TLC (and plant feed, we didn't want to use it but had to in the end).

Never done it before and started March this year.