By Jools

Re: growing my own veg - I love it!
08 Aug 2008 18:41

Just want to say how much I have enjoyed growing and eating my own veg this year. I had never grown vegetables before this year but am amazed how easy it is. Also how great when i need vegetables for dinner to just walk to the end of the garden and pick. The taste of them is just awesome
Already planning next years and digging out an even bigger plot
Anyway just wanted to tell you how much I am enjoying myself!

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By Crafty Cookie

Re: growing my own veg - I love it!
08 Aug 2008 19:11

Hope you are well Jools, loved the blog, congratulations on a wonderful site.

That is fantastic I'm really pleased for you.

There is nothing to beat picking or digging up veg, washing it cooking it and then eating it within the hour.

Have you got a compost heap or a water butt yet? Invest in them and reap the rewards.

By Jools

Re: growing my own veg - I love it!
08 Aug 2008 19:33

I have a compost heap which is maturing nicely. Water butt is next on my list

By *Bramble

Re: growing my own veg - I love it!
08 Aug 2008 21:30

Good start Jules, it took me some time to be convinced of the compost heap, but it does make a difference. We've had a sad year for beans, but very good for apples, blackcurrants and soft fruit, things have their own ons and offs, but you get into the feel of it :-)

By Amelia

Re: growing my own veg - I love it!
09 Aug 2008 16:20

Homegrown vegetables are so much more tasty, aren't they? You must have green fingers Jools, I can't even keep my house plants alive ! I live in an apartment and try to grow some herbs in pots in the window sills, but that's as far as it goes...My mother-in-law has a small garden where she grows vegetables, and her soups always taste so good, the lettuces are so crispy, nothing like tho ones I buy in the supermarket.
I'm so glad at your good news, never give up hope !
Amelia

By Fish Wife

Re: growing my own veg - I love it!
09 Aug 2008 18:53

We have also grown our own for the first time this year and are equally chuffed and also thinking bigger and better next year.

We're only ever grown toms before and I can't get too excited about them as I often think shop bought toms (specially M&S santini) are superior. They are off next year's list.

We really enjoyed our potatoes and broccoli and are now waiting for the sweetcorn to be ready - that's been great to watch, a few weeks ago it was growing several inches daily.

Our courgettes have been the biggest disappointment, we've had several big flowers, then the next day, they seem to have been gobbled up by something and no courgette has grown. Maybe we've done something wrong.

I'm sure it's obvious to most sensible people (i.e. not us) but do think about where you put your water butt. Ours is in the front of the house about as far from the veg as could be and consequently we use the hose more
often. Oh dear, confessing to our laziness now.

finally, Jools, felt so pleased for your with your good news and so glad you can go on hols without that worry. hope you enjoy. warmed my heart.

FWx

By Honey

Re: growing my own veg - I love it!
09 Aug 2008 23:50

Jools, gardening is soooo theraputic, it will do you the power of good in so many ways.

Fish Wife, our courgettes haven't been as good this year. Perhaps it's not a good year.

It's been a funny old year... broad beens have done better than last year, beetroot and carrots have done very well and potatoes have also done well. Somethings have been really slow... like the spring onions. But pleased with my onions and garlic. Must get the garlic up tomorrow. Rocket not done as well as usual. I grew wild rocket last year and that was much better. It has self seeded and that is better than the freshly sow different variety that we've sown this year. Parsley slow too. Tomatoes have done better than last year, but I think we need more sun !!

Honey :-x

By *Bramble

Re: growing my own veg - I love it!
10 Aug 2008 11:49

Our courgettes have been disappointing too, must be a bad year for them, and the broad beans, which never let us down before, were quite pathetic :-(
Bramble xxx

By Honey

Re: growing my own veg - I love it!
11 Aug 2008 00:12

Bramble, we grew the shorter broad beans this year... not sure they may have been called dwarf broad beans, I must look.... but they have cropped better than the taller ones did last year. We are certainly going to grow these again next year.

Honey :-x