Monday 5 October 2020

Feeding Myself From the Garden - The up to date list

I've been keeping a note of what's been produced from the garden this year. Surprised myself at just how much there is when it's written in a long list like this!

So  this is the  up to date list of what one 'not quite old woman' can produce from a garden..................

All these are finished now

  • Lettuces (I tried to get some more going but they just ran to seed - too hot I think)
  • Rocket and small beetroot leaves as salad leaves
  • A few asparagus spears
  • lots of rhubarb
  • A surprising amount of strawberries from 6 new plants and a few from the old bed.
  • 3lb of gooseberries
  • Lots of raspberries and 3lb put in the freezer
  • 2lb Redcurrants
  • Few mange-tout peas  - put in the freezer
  • Green beans  - some put in the freezer
  • 2 small Calabrese heads.
  • 2 small cauliflowers 
  • Figs 
  • Courgettes
  • Aubergines
  • Cucumbers
  • Plums
  • Runner beans - my late sowing seed experiment  worked until the wind blew them over a week ago. I salvaged some to eat last weekend and this week but that will be it for this year
  • I can see lots of weeding to do sometime!

    Still eating

  • Last of the tomatoes from greenhouse
  • Almost the last of the potatoes
  • Beetroot
  • Onions 
  • Cooking Apples (Lots have gone into freezer)
  • A few Eating Apples
  • Few peppers left in the greenhouse (lots in the freezer)
  • Pears

 Still to come

  • 4 Cabbages - If they've survived the butterflies
  • Brussels sprouts ditto
  • A few Leeks

I could do better - there are things that can be sown regularly - like lettuce and I meant to say weeks ago that my trial of growing new tomato plants from the side shoots didn't work. Each potted-up side shoot grew - at a great rate - until they were about two  or three feet tall, very spindly and no sign of any flower trusses! So I chucked them out.


Now it's almost time to decide what to grow next year. 

Back Tomorrow
Sue

26 comments:

  1. That is such an impressive, and diverse, list. Well done!

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  2. Well done Sue l read a tip you put old panty hose over the small cabbages and that helps.
    Best wishes Marie

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  3. That is a seriously impressive list of food. What a triumph!
    xx

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    1. Ithink you've done equally well on your allotment

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  4. You’ve done very well you seem to freeze a lot do you have a chest freezer. Heather

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    1. Yes - in the garage - a good sized one - I'd be lost without it

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  5. Not bad at all for a 'not quite old woman' :-)

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    1. Decided I was completely OLD after all!

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    2. Never ... that would make me 'nearly old' and I am most certainly not ;-)

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  6. That's a massive amount of food. We hope to do better on the allotment next year, it's been a very big learning curve this first year!

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    1. I've been growing stuff forever so know the fun you will have

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  7. That's an impressive list. We'll be eating the last of our fresh beetroot this evening. The tomatoes have been a bit of a disappointment this year. X

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  8. Bob Flowerdew on Gardeners Questiontime recommended growing tomato plants from the side shoots but he hasn’t reported any resulting fruit!

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    1. Lots of people told me about it - but it was a fail here

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  9. You have been well rewarded for all your work. And not only have you saved money on buying food you have much healthier food to eat!

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  10. What a load of rubbish up there! Well done for your produce this year.

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  11. Very well done. I envy you your greenhouse.

    God bless.

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    1. I would be lost without one after so many years

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  12. It is so satisfying growing your own food, and you have done well producing so much from your plot.

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    1. I'm pleased - looks good written in a long list

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  13. Good job! We harvested a few zucchini, onions, potatoes (lots!) and I'm still picking tomatoes. I picked a 5-gallon bucket full this evening. I've canned many pints this summer and I should can these into juice this weekend. There are still quite a lot of green ones that I hope will ripen.
    I also harvested my basil, rosemary & thyme. I will be potting the rosemary and thyme and will winter them at my office in town where there are nice big sunny windows.

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