Growing Vegetables

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Is there any keen gardeners on here?

I like gardening I have a fascination with sunflowers and I grow lots of fruits and veg in my garden.

I particularly like growing strawberries, potatoes and runner beans.

Last year I tried growing cauliflower, corn on cob and green peppers but they didn't grow (I got no glass house)

I fancy growing a lot more this year I want to grow something I haven't before can any of you recommend anything?

I'll see if I can dig out some pictures. :) vegetables.

So what do you lot grow?
 
Not myself personally, but my Dad is right into growing his own fresh veg. He works in the Lost Gardens of Heligan, and he takes home some vary odd and fascinating varieties of many different vegatables and fruits. Purple potatoes are excellent for kids for mash..

I recommend growing yellow cherry/plum tomatoes, as their taste is absolutely lovely, really sweet (Love cut in halves, drizzled with olive oil and balsamic vinegar). You should invest in a mini-green house.. or make one yourself out of reclaimed plastic sheets, or even a cheap poly-tunnel.
 
thanks mate yellow/cherry plus tomatoes sounds good.

Last year I grew tomatoes and picked them when they were still greenish but after a few days they turned red.

Will look out for them.

I was thinking of going down the herb root this year could for the salad.
 
Wow. Very little enthusiasm for this thread!
I don't have a garden any more, but I'm still growing stuff on my balcony.
I've got strawberies and tomates on the go, as well as an olive tree and a lemon tree.
Strawberries are thriving at the moment, already plenty of flowers and will get some fruit before June at this rate (some of the flowers aready look like they've been fertilised and have dropped leaves).
Tomato plants are in a pot - I tried to pick varieties that would tumble over the side rather than need staking up.
Lemons apparently take an age to ripen, but if the tree survives I should have some in 6-9 months time.
I hope to get a few olives too, but again can't be harvested until winter. No flowers on that yet.
 
i sometimes help out with digging and things. my dad bought a couple of fields about 6 months ago and recently put up a poly tunnel. Its relaxing thing to do for a couple of hours over the weekend. Looking forward to seeing it in a couple of years when its a bit more lively :D. Going to grow bit of everything i think
 
i am.

i have a polytunnel with tomatoes, strawberries, beans, pepper, chillies, onion, galric and various other herbs
 
It's what I miss most about living in central London compared to living out in the middle of nowhere. At home we kept hens and grew loads of veg. The eggs tasted out of this world and the new potatoes cooked with mint and a nob of butter were so sweet and tasty.
Lots of really good quality horse muck manure in the countryside, great for spuds!

Onions, carrots, purple sprouting brocolli, tomatoes, leeks, beetroot, peas, sweetcorn, swede, lettuce, strawberries and plenty more that I can't quite remember. Everything (except maybe the lettuce...too plain) tasted sooo much better than even decent veg bought at the market. No wonder people don't eat enough veg - they can't taste the mass produced stuff.
 
I would be if I had a garden. a few of us are growing chillies indoors.

Butternut squash can be grown in the uk, without a greenhouse apparently. And one of the best vegetables ever.

and you can't go wrong with the essentials, potatoes, onions, garlic, ginger, carrots, salady stuff.
 
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Go for Courgettes which are easy to grow

few pics from last year which were grown from seeds

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Over the summer i got about 30 Courgettes from 6 plants you just have to remember to surround the Courgettes with straw so they don't touch the ground or they root , funny thing is i don't eat veg myself :D
 
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I am growing veg as well :)

Spuds, parsnips, carrots, beetroot, garlic, leeks, onions, salad, and others I forget.

Also blueberry, rasberry, strawberry, blackcurrant and redcurrant...

The fight with the weeds has started already tho :)
 
Veg here too, on the allotment and at home.

This year I should have: tomatoes (bush, cherry & hanging basket), courgette, aubergene, cabbage, sprouts, cauliflower, carrots, parsnips, potatoes, onions, leeks, sweetcorn, pumpkin, squash, lettuce, spinach, cucumber, gooseberries, blackcurrants, rhubarb and whatever else I can sneak in.

Blimey, that's quite a lot. I should get digging!

Edit: call that a big courgette EYEREX? This is a big courgette!
 
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I grow a few bits of veg, but I'm more of a fruit man myself. Only have a relatively small space, so I'd rather have something I can make nice fruit pies & crumbles with :D

Fruit : rhubarb (just starting cropping), strawberries, raspberries, tayberries, blackberries, blackcurrents.

Veg this year will be: Potatoes (in bags/planters), french beans, peas, lettuce, broccoli.

Greenhouse: Tomatoes (various varieties) + peppers
 
my seeds have started to spring up now :D

I'm a student and thought it'd be fun to grow some random packets of everything!

howmuch are alotments usually?
 
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