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| MushroomGirl |
on Thu 31 Jul 08, 8:36 PM to MushroomGirl's blog.
Hummm it seems that I let the seed blogs slide somewhat...
Anyway the Garden of Shroom grows in a shamelessly verdant and lavish manner... Infact most of the turnips (which some may remember were the first things to sprout) have been harvested and eaten by now...
I have the lettuce daily in my sandwiches but it still manages to grow faster than I can chomp my way through it.
The onions are now of a respectable enough size to start munching through in various stir fries etc.
The parsnips were at one point afflicted with what I thought was scale bug... however the insecticide I used to treat it seemed to be doing more harm than good so I left well enough alone and they are now doing extremely well.
My carrots are growing with more enthusiasm than is good for them...
The sunflowers too were once looking very poorly but have perked up and 3 of them now have flower heads... I eagerly await flowering sometime in August...
New additions to the family included a tomato plant which has shot up from 6 inches to 3 foot high and has no less than 6 trusses currently developing... I also bought an aubergine plant at the same time which developed a mysterious illness and refused to show any signs of growth until recently...
I've also been given a Dorset Naga chili pepper plant... we shall wait and see if I get any fruit from it... if I do they will be used in cooking with caution... I will probably dip them into a chili con carne like a tea bag and then dispose of them wearing gloves.
Tune in again at some vague point in the future to find out if my augergine is more than 20cms high or if I've melted my palate with a homegrown chilli.
Edited Thu 31 Jul 08, 9:38 PM by MushroomGirl
| 31 Jul 08, 9:49 PM bratyboyslim 8 yrs |
Let me know how the naga turn out, I am growing me own chillies in a window box, sadly not naga mind you can't crack me I'm a rubber duck |
| 1 Aug 08, 8:24 AM Whipkick UK(CB), 9 yrs |
I started an allotment this in May. (loved to have started it sooner but the Council in its wisdom released them then) Still after clearing the 200 year old flood meadow. Vegetables are now invading the house. At the moment courgette, marrow, spring onions, carrots are rolling off the plot. I figure by next year to have a full working plot and enough space to meet the vegetable needs of the household. Though I will probably end up growing exotics like Artichoke (globe and Jerusalem.) Maybe even Chillis ? I have a got pepper plants outside and starting to produce. Maybe IC should have a gardening produce show, as I know of other keen gardener's here. Oh the other revelation is the archeology of the plot. Mainly 1700's onwards (clay pipes, animal bones, pottery, glassware.) Though I do have a nice stone hand axe from the neolithic. When the least they could do to you was everything, then the most they could do to you suddenly held no terror. |
