How are the veggies coming along?

[Matthew Storrs]

35 minutes ago, sime42 said:

Bugger, I thought I'd vetted the photos for any incriminating or shaming evidence! I'm in the Midlands so by rights mine should be further on than yours. I think probably I was a little late in sowing them and secondly I didn't really harden them off before planting out. They were looking good in the pots week before last. Since they've been in though they haven't done much. Weather doesn't help either; this hot sun is hammering them.
I've never quite got my head around the process of hardening off to be honest.

Don’t worry- it’s not just you. My courgettes look identical to to yours at the moment. Sickly looking and unpromising. I compared a pic of the same date last year and the courgette plants were about 2ft diameter with massive green leaves and already getting courgettes growing well. Been a funny year this year for veg I think. I planted out onions, leeks, squash, courgette, beans and peas over 3 weeks ago and I don’t think they’ve hardly grown since.

My new veggiemesh tunnel/cloche is looking promising though and the cauliflowers are coming along nicely under it plus carrots and parsnips sowed under it germinated far quick than ones sowed outside the cloche.

[Matthew Storrs]

I’ve tried nematodes this year for the slugs. So far so good but will see long term. I had big problems last year with the buggers.

[daveatdave]

1 hour ago, Tippin Alaybye said:

We have ZERO plums this year???

next doors plum tree dos not have many on the wood stogies were plucking the blossom off back in April  

[gary112]

First root of new potatoes tonight 👍

[sime42]

Nice. They look good. Ours should be ready in a week or so, just starting to flower now.

It's a good time of year, with stuff starting to be ready to harvest after weeks of work. We're picking strawberries and mangetout peas every day now. The courgettes will be coming on-stream soon as well, if we get a few more warm but not scorching days. Tomatoes and cucumbers are a long way off still but got lots of other salad stuff like lettuce, radishes and Pak Choi to be getting on with.

[gary112]

Veg garden not looking too bad now 

[Mesterh]

Most of my veg gets attacked by slugs and caterpillars which the kids think is great as they love to hunt for them!

 

Just a quick one, how long should it take for potatoes to be ready to harvest? We planted some earlier this year, is it x months after they start to sprout?

[gary112]

5 minutes ago, Mesterh said:

Most of my veg gets attacked by slugs and caterpillars which the kids think is great as they love to hunt for them!

 

Just a quick one, how long should it take for potatoes to be ready to harvest? We planted some earlier this year, is it x months after they start to sprout?

Ours were 10 wks from planting to eating our first ones yesterday

[Mesterh]

👍

 

That's quicker than I thought it would be. I'll have to check ours tomorrow.

 

[gary112]

1 minute ago, Mesterh said:

👍

 

That's quicker than I thought it would be. I'll have to check ours tomorrow.

 

If they have flowered or are flowering,i,d get the fork under them