Lessons from a season of bolting leaves, slugs at the salad bar, and courgettes big enough to row down the Thames - where peas ran amok, onions lay in disgrace, and the sweet taste of small victories
Thank you , love the way you write, successes, failures and humour. I used to have an allotment but now attempt to grow just a few veg in containers with mostly fails but I will continue! Blackcurrant bushes are doing well though and rhubarb is looking happier now it’s been moved. Gooseberries not great but I live in hope! Your garden is fabulous,writing informative and fun . Thank you for still having the free option on Substack it’s appreciated.
Thank you! That’s really very kind. Very much appreciated. I’m looking forward to adding fruit to the garden next year. We can compare notes! (There will always be free content. I promise 💚)
Hello - great post. It’s been an upside down year here in Cheshire. My courgettes/french beans/runner beans that are normally prolific have been dismal. Beetroot, carrots and onions have had their best year ever. My problem is I don’t know what to put the success and failures down too! Also I grew my potatoes in big plastic tree pots and they have been good also. Get to harvest a little asparagus for the first time next year - just hope we’re not on holiday in the small picking window!
Thank you very much! Oooh that’s interesting! Almost complete opposite. I think ignore the factors and trying to fathom out the reasons this year as it has been so extraordinary.
Loved this. I inherited a decent greenhouse in the house I bought, my dad promptly brought me 3 tomato plants and two chilli plants. They thrived as long as I watered them twice per day, which to be honest got a little tedious after a while, nevertheless we’ve had plenty of both. Is there a more instructional post about what to sow when for next year at all? I’d like to try a few more things.
Thank you! I would LOVE a greenhouse!! I envy all that gave one. This year was ridiculous to be frank. So much watering for crops and yes very tedious!
I do have this post. But I would highly recommend visiting Charles Dowding’s website. He has a sowing timeline on there. You can also buy a sowing calendar which I do without fail.
Very useful lessons learned! My veg were horrendous this year, even the courgettes! I just couldn’t keep up with the watering, and then the hosepipe ban came along. Only the tomatoes reigned supreme. And the runner beans were acceptable. The main lesson I learned was that having a huge thirsty willow tree right next to my veg plot is not helpful! Onwards and upwards.
Thank you , love the way you write, successes, failures and humour. I used to have an allotment but now attempt to grow just a few veg in containers with mostly fails but I will continue! Blackcurrant bushes are doing well though and rhubarb is looking happier now it’s been moved. Gooseberries not great but I live in hope! Your garden is fabulous,writing informative and fun . Thank you for still having the free option on Substack it’s appreciated.
Thank you! That’s really very kind. Very much appreciated. I’m looking forward to adding fruit to the garden next year. We can compare notes! (There will always be free content. I promise 💚)
Hello - great post. It’s been an upside down year here in Cheshire. My courgettes/french beans/runner beans that are normally prolific have been dismal. Beetroot, carrots and onions have had their best year ever. My problem is I don’t know what to put the success and failures down too! Also I grew my potatoes in big plastic tree pots and they have been good also. Get to harvest a little asparagus for the first time next year - just hope we’re not on holiday in the small picking window!
Thank you very much! Oooh that’s interesting! Almost complete opposite. I think ignore the factors and trying to fathom out the reasons this year as it has been so extraordinary.
Loved this. I inherited a decent greenhouse in the house I bought, my dad promptly brought me 3 tomato plants and two chilli plants. They thrived as long as I watered them twice per day, which to be honest got a little tedious after a while, nevertheless we’ve had plenty of both. Is there a more instructional post about what to sow when for next year at all? I’d like to try a few more things.
Thank you! I would LOVE a greenhouse!! I envy all that gave one. This year was ridiculous to be frank. So much watering for crops and yes very tedious!
I do have this post. But I would highly recommend visiting Charles Dowding’s website. He has a sowing timeline on there. You can also buy a sowing calendar which I do without fail.
https://open.substack.com/pub/thegardeningkind2024/p/marks-get-set-sow?r=48136u&utm_medium=ios
Thank you super helpful
Very useful lessons learned! My veg were horrendous this year, even the courgettes! I just couldn’t keep up with the watering, and then the hosepipe ban came along. Only the tomatoes reigned supreme. And the runner beans were acceptable. The main lesson I learned was that having a huge thirsty willow tree right next to my veg plot is not helpful! Onwards and upwards.