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Home gardening - "Grow your Own" thread.

For any Oxfordshire based fruit fans, the greengrocers I go to are going to have a stall at Wantage market and Gloucester Green I think Saturday and Wednesday. Unique Fruit is the name. Very good quality.
 
Thought I’d resurrect this thread.
Who’s growing what this year?

For me the usual strawberries, raspberries, salad potatoes, onions, carrots, radish, spring onions, lettuce, tomatoes and for the first time garlic , French beans and outdoor cucumbers.

A word of warning for all local gardeners, tonight we are looking at a temperature of 1 degree in the shire, so look after those tender plants!
 
We’ve got a half allotment plot. Thought it was something our son (5 at the time) would enjoy and learn from.

This year we’ve got in:

Carrots, onions, garlic, second earlies, radish, beetroot, cabbage, sprouts, cauliflower, broccoli and parsnips. There’s some fruit (strawberries, blackberries, gooseberries, raspberries, rhubarb) there as well. My dad is giving me a young apple tree that I’ll plant in a few weeks as well.

We’re running a bit behind this year but have done some stuff to make next year much easier.
 
If anyone wants one, I planted a bunch of acorns back in the autumn, and now I have 19 saplings growing in the garden in pots that I need to re-home.

We don't even have space to plant an Oak tree in the garden and are selling the house this year to move, I just did it for the fun of it.

Was thinking of seeing if OUFC would take one to plant at the Triangle as a ceremonial middle finger to the "environmentalists".
 
We had great cucumbers this year and a couple of volunteer butternuts have produced about 6 decent squashes. 3 or 4 chilli plants with decent crops. Just planted peas rocket lettuce for winter.
 
Well......... we moved, so did the greenhouse. :ROFLMAO:

Broke the GH down into ends, sides and roofbar.......... was still "tricky" on the roof of the Vitara, still it was early on a Sunday and if it`s on its gone.

Inherited a 12 x 6 shed at the new house that was in the wrong place so disassembled it, refurbished it and moved it down the garden, new garden being 225ft long.

So shed & GH were soon joined by a polytunnel, which has been mostly used for storage while the building work went on.

I also found another 8 x 6 pent roof shed on Marketplace........ free and already disassembled. See "How to transport a GH on a Suzuki" and the shed arrived.... just.

Shed sections catch more breeze when driving than greenhouse frames. :ROFLMAO:

Got otherwise engaged decorating etc post builders and actually assembled the second shed this year. Needed a bit of refurb work, couple of new T&G boards and new felt, replaced the window frame and glass. Now used to store powered tools. Mowers, rotovator, chainsaws, strimmers, chipper etc.

We now have two veg plots, 3 apple trees, 1 plum tree, blackcurrant bushes, redcurrant bushes and 3 raised beds as permanent features.

Sweetcorn, carrots, broad beans, courgettes, spuds, tomatos, chillis, radish, pak choi, red kale, green kale, cabbages and runners all on the go.

Half tempted to enter the Village Show this year but calendar hasn`t helped so 2027 will be the year.

Aside from that we discovered the Merlin Bird App (30 species so far) which has opened a whole new obsession with "all things wildlife" and we are also a release site for fostered hedgehogs.
 
OUFCwaffle said:
If anyone wants one, I planted a bunch of acorns back in the autumn, and now I have 19 saplings growing in the garden in pots that I need to re-home.

We don't even have space to plant an Oak tree in the garden and are selling the house this year to move, I just did it for the fun of it.

Was thinking of seeing if OUFC would take one to plant at the Triangle as a ceremonial middle finger to the "environmentalists".
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Nice idea. Oaks are absolute bastards to transplant, though. Unless you know some local tree conservationists maybe contact https://www.tcv.org.uk/contact/ and see if they can help you find homes. I'm pretty pleased that about 8 that we (volunteers) shifted into a hedge on a local farm are showing leaves - they're yearlings about 6 - 9 inches tall.

Here in the wild west (of Dorset) there's a rare abundance of 'Cuckoo Flower' (or Ladies Smock), once very common on damp, unimproved farmland. Even for a few in my garden.
 
I'm more of a herb grower ( not for smoking though ) although do toms , peppers , chillis and cucumbers.
Various currants , apples and while no partridge a pear tree.
Herbs lovage, chervil , mediterean hartwort , as well as the more usual parsley, coriander , chives , basil etc
 
Got some tomatoes, strawberries, and raspberries on the go but more into decorative flowers and foliage. Trying dahlias for the first time, advised by my neighbour who is doing a diploma in gardening, which is nice ( I know basically nothing).
 
Boris said:
Blimey, when did you plant it?
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Mrs QR planted them indoors in Feb (told her it was too early), I moved them to a south facing greenhouse against the back of the garage a month ago. The wall of the garage acts like a storage heater so the lowest temperature I recorded was 4.4°c.
 
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Strawbs in hanging baskets. Raspberry. Snowberry. Pineberry. Honyberry. Tayberry. Loganberry. Blackberry.

Toms. Peppers. Potatoes small salad ones.
Mangetout. Sugar snap. Cues.
Cut and come again Spinach..lettuce..mizuna.

More of the dearer veg
 
Had quite a few Asparagus so far, but not as good as last year. Rhubarb has been good.
 
Rhubarb has been excellent. Cherry, blackcurrant and blackberry bushes off to good start.
Five hydrangeas fed and colored. To prose and top soil in for twelve roses.
13/18 orchids in flower with home made food from herbal and black tea. Banana skins rotted too. Nettles in Water butts too
 
Basham Wonderland said:
Rhubarb and asparagus for me too. Plenty of peas and potatoes on the way. I can't seem to grow onions though.

Not sure what @QR is feeding his tomatoes though... Mine are 3 inch seedlings at the moment!
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He must have planted them as plants? Seedlings stay weedy for ages
 
werthersoriginal said:
He must have planted them as plants? Seedlings stay weedy for ages
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Nope, grown from seed. Although some of them do look a little odd; strong initially growth, stunted leaf growth in middle third, loads of trusses higher up. As I said I think Mrs QR started then too early but time will tell. I'll post a picture of the first ripe one and give the flavour a mark out of 10. Bet you can't wait!
 
My potatoes got nipped by the frost here last night
 
Basham Wonderland said:
Rhubarb and asparagus for me too. Plenty of peas and potatoes on the way. I can't seem to grow onions though.

Not sure what @QR is feeding his tomatoes though... Mine are 3 inch seedlings at the moment!
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My tomato seedlings struggled. I bought eight at the MayFayre locally. Planted in top,soil and left in the greenhouse and they’re flying
 
OUFCwaffle said:
If anyone wants one, I planted a bunch of acorns back in the autumn, and now I have 19 saplings growing in the garden in pots that I need to re-home.

We don't even have space to plant an Oak tree in the garden and are selling the house this year to move, I just did it for the fun of it.

Was thinking of seeing if OUFC would take one to plant at the Triangle as a ceremonial middle finger to the "environmentalists".
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Snap! Last Autum whilst visiting Drum Castle walked through the “Genuine” ancient wood which has Oaks dating from the 1700s. The ground was covered with acorns, selected few and now have a pot with at least 8 micro saplings
 
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