Personally, I simply love beets. Cooking the beet tops is even good by a simple boil.
I did my fair share of backyard gardening but since my divorce, I don't have a backyard anymore, just a condo with not much sunlight on my patio to try potted plants.
Anyway, I digress. By now, I would be growing tomatoes. Right now, we'd be past the "Early Girl" variety that will grown in the Northeast Pennsylvania as early as May. We'd be onto the "Better Boys" and even "Beefsteak" tomatoes by now. Snow peas are an easy one to try. It looks like you have the nice wooden lattice behind the pots that would be perfect for those since they grow in a vine. If you snatch one one right from the vine, they are delicious, uncooked and sweet.
My main issue was animals. Groundhogs, rabbits, squirrels primarily. I could control the insects but those animals will climb wire fences just to take one bite out of a bell pepper or tomato and decide they don't like it.
I swear there would be days that I would be looking at certain tomatoes saying that I would pick them the next day so they'd be perfectly vine ripened, only to come to find tooth marks in a few or have them missing altogether.
The strangest thing I ever grew by accident was gourd sized or mini pumpkins. I had a handful of them out from my house around Thanksgiving time. The squirrels would run off with them, which is quite a site to see since the mini pumpkin is as big, if not bigger than their heads. They must've eaten would they could of the pumpkin at my little "shut down for the year" garden area and buried the seeds or remnants.
Next year I was growing mini pumpkins alongside my other vegetables. :)
I tried a blueberry bush once too. The same kind of experience happened to me. Things were looking just right. I had a cage around the whole plant but the squirrels or someone got their head in there. I had planned on picking most of them the next day because I thought they would be perfect. The bush was picked clean with evidence of fur on the wire caging. I never ate a single one of those blueberries. Never tried that again.
We don't have that problem here with squirrels etc, sometimes would like to see those animals around but living near a town and beach. We do have the odd fox that comes around at night time. I have tall fences around my house so nothing getting in our out.
I would like to add alot more veg next year if these grow well. I would like to grow pea pods but they wouldn't last very long as love them straight from the vine. I buy bags off pea pods so i can sit and eat then like crisps lol.
Have you though of radish they grow so easy and quick as so mixed salad, and spring onions.
i also use a company called premier seeds direct on ebay/amazon for seeds their worth checking out, you can get 3 packs of seeds for the price of what one would in a garden center/shop.
I just planted carrots and parsnips. Hoping that they grow. Last year they got washed out with the rains twice. Beetroot and carrot salad sounds really good. Depending on your growing season, you may be able to grow a second crop if you started them now...
Did you think of lettuce, cabbage, cauliflower, etc??
The local garden shop should have little ones for you to transplant, feed, and when grown, eat.
Try planting all the transplants, waiting for a week, dig all but two or three up and replanting them, do this each week until there is none left.
This should give you 2 or3 per week at harvest time, instead of them all ripening at once
As the Bishop said to the Actress, Have a go, you will enjoy it.
Use your unemployed pots etc in the sunnier parts of the back garden,
Get the smallest packs of transplants, and have a go.
At worst, you are down a quid, at the best you are a vegetarian to keep up with supply.
Personally, I simply love beets. Cooking the beet tops is even good by a simple boil.
I did my fair share of backyard gardening but since my divorce, I don't have a backyard anymore, just a condo with not much sunlight on my patio to try potted plants.
Anyway, I digress. By now, I would be growing tomatoes. Right now, we'd be past the "Early Girl" variety that will grown in the Northeast Pennsylvania as early as May. We'd be onto the "Better Boys" and even "Beefsteak" tomatoes by now. Snow peas are an easy one to try. It looks like you have the nice wooden lattice behind the pots that would be perfect for those since they grow in a vine. If you snatch one one right from the vine, they are delicious, uncooked and sweet.
My main issue was animals. Groundhogs, rabbits, squirrels primarily. I could control the insects but those animals will climb wire fences just to take one bite out of a bell pepper or tomato and decide they don't like it.
I swear there would be days that I would be looking at certain tomatoes saying that I would pick them the next day so they'd be perfectly vine ripened, only to come to find tooth marks in a few or have them missing altogether.
The strangest thing I ever grew by accident was gourd sized or mini pumpkins. I had a handful of them out from my house around Thanksgiving time. The squirrels would run off with them, which is quite a site to see since the mini pumpkin is as big, if not bigger than their heads. They must've eaten would they could of the pumpkin at my little "shut down for the year" garden area and buried the seeds or remnants.
Next year I was growing mini pumpkins alongside my other vegetables. :)
I tried a blueberry bush once too. The same kind of experience happened to me. Things were looking just right. I had a cage around the whole plant but the squirrels or someone got their head in there. I had planned on picking most of them the next day because I thought they would be perfect. The bush was picked clean with evidence of fur on the wire caging. I never ate a single one of those blueberries. Never tried that again.
We don't have that problem here with squirrels etc, sometimes would like to see those animals around but living near a town and beach. We do have the odd fox that comes around at night time. I have tall fences around my house so nothing getting in our out.
I would like to add alot more veg next year if these grow well. I would like to grow pea pods but they wouldn't last very long as love them straight from the vine. I buy bags off pea pods so i can sit and eat then like crisps lol.
Your carrots are looking good,
Have you though of radish they grow so easy and quick as so mixed salad, and spring onions.
i also use a company called premier seeds direct on ebay/amazon for seeds their worth checking out, you can get 3 packs of seeds for the price of what one would in a garden center/shop.
There are a few others i will be trying next year as long as mine continue to grow :)
I just planted carrots and parsnips. Hoping that they grow. Last year they got washed out with the rains twice. Beetroot and carrot salad sounds really good. Depending on your growing season, you may be able to grow a second crop if you started them now...
Never thought out that, not I'm thick at the minute. Way behind on everything
Look at all your yummy stuff! Kiwi doesn’t grow well even in my area, I guess it’s very particular on the climate it prefers.
I'll be bining the Kiwi and using the pot for something better :)
Wow. I love this. They are no longer labelled 😀.
And the beetroot is doing super fine.
Keep up the good work dear
Thank you :)
:)
Did you think of lettuce, cabbage, cauliflower, etc??
The local garden shop should have little ones for you to transplant, feed, and when grown, eat.
Try planting all the transplants, waiting for a week, dig all but two or three up and replanting them, do this each week until there is none left.
This should give you 2 or3 per week at harvest time, instead of them all ripening at once
I need too read up more about it. I Don't have much space in the side garden, got loads in the back garden but not much sun.
As the Bishop said to the Actress, Have a go, you will enjoy it.
Use your unemployed pots etc in the sunnier parts of the back garden,
Get the smallest packs of transplants, and have a go.
At worst, you are down a quid, at the best you are a vegetarian to keep up with supply.
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Baby beetroot leaves are delicious. So much better than the beetroots. When you pick the beetroots, try the leaves as well.
I think we have them with a squeeze of lemon. I can find out for you if you are interested. :-)
I buy them I my salad packets. I will be trying mind out once there ready to be picked :)