How are the veggies coming along?

[gary112]

Not got a good crop of spuds this year though,they got frosted and a bit dry i think

[Mick Dempsey]

Potatoes have had a problem this year, cropping, but poorly, never flowered.

 

Peas just being picked today, everything else good as gold. Sweet corn always a treat!
 

Asparagus bed is worn out, might grass over and not bother replacing, can’t wait another 3 years, want to move by then. Should have planned to replace the current one a few years ago.

[gary112]

10 minutes ago, Mick Dempsey said:

Potatoes have had a problem this year, cropping, but poorly, never flowered.

 

Peas just being picked today, everything else good as gold. Sweet corn always a treat!
 

Asparagus bed is worn out, might grass over and not bother replacing, can’t wait another 3 years, want to move by then. Should have planned to replace the current one a few years ago.

Looks good Mick

[Mick Dempsey]

Mostly the wife’s work, I’m all about the flower beds, but I do the donkey work (rotovating etc)

Edited June 28, 2020 by Mick Dempsey

[gary112]

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[Steve Bullman]

Does anyone use wood chips for allotments and vegetable growing?

 

Caveat....I don't actually care, i'm just shamelessly spamming my own forum for link juice ?

 

 

[Mick Dempsey]

Use it a lot Steve, it’s good stuff, especially really well rotted stuff.

 

BUT...

 

You need to add lime otherwise it gets too acid and the brassicas suffer.

[Matthew Storrs]

First year growing veg with a concerted effort. Loving my Rhino greenhouse, and touch wood most things seem to be coming along nicely- but some stuff wasn’t even planted until May so perhaps a bit behind.. just had first courgettes- and cucumbers are just got their first fruits. I find it quite obsessive- it’s the first thing I check on when I come home from work, give the chickens a talking to then go in to say hi to the family!

[Matthew Storrs]

1 hour ago, Mick Dempsey said:

Potatoes have had a problem this year, cropping, but poorly, never flowered.

 

Peas just being picked today, everything else good as gold. Sweet corn always a treat!
 

Asparagus bed is worn out, might grass over and not bother replacing, can’t wait another 3 years, want to move by then. Should have planned to replace the current one a few years ago.

Do you plant your sweet corn I’m blocks? I done mine in two staggered lines, but since learnt they need to be in blocks to pollinate?

[Mick Dempsey]

According to the missus..

”always! Otherwise they won’t pollinate”

 

Hope that’s clear,