A 2010 crop

[mikethetile]

youve done well Dan

ive been doing it for 30 yrs and love it, once youve caught the growing bug its hard to stop

 

[david campbell]

dan! a good trick for when you are on holiday for tomatoes/chilli/peppers is to fill 2 bottles(2ltr coke bottles) with water and connect a hose/tube between them long enough to run the length of the plants and pierce holes over the pots or base of the plants allowing them to be slowly drip fed,it's cheap and stops things dying when you go away for a while

 

[Scott]

We had our first batch of potatos and they were really good. My little one loved digging them out and also the shelling peas!

The beauty of it is he wouldnt touch peas before and now he loves them, mind you they do taste soooo much better.

Miss my beans this year though as i didnt get time to do them with the extension going on.

Next year will be better and will get my chickens too

 

[doug boardley]

I think you got that carrott from an Ann Summers party Dan:lol::ban:

 

[Ken Bruty]

My first year for veg growing too, I built us a 4mx2m raised veg garden last September, and I planted in May this year: - carrots, marrows, broad beans, courgettes, celery, cucumbers (burpless variety), italian chicory, tomatoes, so far I have harvested all the broad beans (fantastic eaten raw without skins), marrows some absolutely huge and still producing, courgettes also huge and one turned into a marrow it got so big, chicory has been producing salad leaves for the last two months and still doing so, cucumbers seem to be burpless because they don't exist :mad2:, celery is non-existent too :mad2:, and carrots and tomatoes are well on their way, so all in all fairly successful, and when there is some space left when the marrows/courgettes have finished (they have taken over :yikes, I will be planting whatever the next lot of seasonal veg is. I agree, once you get the bug, it's addictive and very satisfying.

 

[Dan]

Some more veg

 

[The Legend; Phil Hobson RIP]

Nice Dan, but a few of those carrots look like they have high blood pressure, and one is anaemic:lol:

 

[DHTiling]

I think they will grow longer if you use a tray deeper than 1 inch..:lol:

 

[Scott]

The dodgy looking veg get used in food manufacture rather than just thrown away

 

[david campbell]

looks like you planted your carrots in really stoney ground dan,are you actually trying to grow the most freakish looking carrot?....lol:lol:
try the early nantes variety they tend to grow truer if your after perfect looking carrots,you can also leave carrots in the ground till about xmas and they won't rot

 

[Dan]

Ahhhh. Dodgy, tasted nice though. Mmmmmmm.

I do need to sort the ground out down where I planted them. We planted round carrots at first but they didn't take well, so we just got a range of whatever we could get and most worked out okay.

First year planting though so we will do better next year, as they say. lol

I've moved the rest of the carrots to a large pot with a nice compost / normal soil mix. Hopefully they'll look more normal but providing they grow, they're edible IMO.

 

[mikethetile]

looking good Dan

 

[Rob Z]

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

and it's the other way here now...people will refer to "their flat" in such-and-such neighborhood....and I say "What, are you British now"? It sounds right when I hear it from a European, but from someone that grew up in Pittsburgh or North Carolina or Kansas City....uh NO.

 

[White Room]

Have you checked out the eruopean standards Dan:lol:

 

[Dan]

One of the carrots reminded the Mrs of Chunk off of Goonies. "Heeeeyyyy youuu guyyyyyys". haha :lol: