FabSwingers.com forum: Are you a grower..?

By *ickshawed OP Couple
over a year ago

Wolverhampton

Do you grow many fruits and vegetables in your garden/balcony/window box?

How are they doing? Do the birds get them, do you get a nice crop, or just enough for a little snack?

Our rhubarb died this year and the tomato plants aren't doing much.

But our redcurrants, gooseberries and blueberries are doing well. We should get a few strawberries and raspberries, but only enough for a snack. Plus I think we might get quite a lot of French beans.

We have the redcurrants behind a net to stop the birds and have to be quick to beat them to the blueberries, but they don't touch the gooseberries.

How about you?

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By *eroLondonMan
over a year ago

Covent Garden

Rhubarb †

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By *appytrailmanMan
over a year ago

Manchester

I've always fancied having a go at doing some of this but not very green fingered! I'll have a go at spring onions sometime though

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By *ickshawed OP Couple
over a year ago

Wolverhampton

Rhubarb †"

Thank you, it means a lot. And I blooming love rhubarb crumble as well

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By *rwhowhatwherewhyMan
over a year ago

Aylesbury

Rhubarb †

Thank you, it means a lot. And I blooming love rhubarb crumble as well

Same. It's a shame that rhubarb might not grow here for much longer as it likes the cold. It actually came from Russia, yet 90% of its consumption happens in the UK

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Wouldn’t call myself a “grower” more a experimentalist….. in the past I have grown or attempted to grow..

Melon

Green pepper

Birdseye chilli

Peanuts

Strawberries

The melons were a waste of time

The Peppers didn’t get bigger than a mouthful (don’t like them anyway)

Strawberries - meh

The chilli were brilliant, must have got close to a hundred in the first year! But I don’t like them either

And the peanuts were extraordinary, had to have extra little pots placed around the main pot of the shoots to bury themselves in

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By *haron StonerTV/TS
over a year ago

Haywards Heath

We started off with a wild strawberry flown in wih the birds. Now they're like s and so many strawberries, we leave most for the birds. Must've been because it was a wild one??? Sweet even when big.

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By *hrista BellendWoman
over a year ago

surrounded by twinkly lights

I have cucalemons growing indoors atm, should be ready for Pimms o'clock in the summer

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By *unx2019Couple
over a year ago

Moray

Been growing micro herbs this year and so easy even I can't kill them. Brilliant for throwing over salads and basically anything. Tasty too.

Dont need much room to grow them either and if plan right can have steady supply all year round.

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By *ickshawed OP Couple
over a year ago

Wolverhampton

Rhubarb †

Thank you, it means a lot. And I blooming love rhubarb crumble as well

Same. It's a shame that rhubarb might not grow here for much longer as it likes the cold. It actually came from Russia, yet 90% of its consumption happens in the UK"

How annoying. What happened with yours? Ours started to grow, put out a few leaves, but they turned red and then brown.

I should probably check our soil isn't absolutely deadly for rhubarb before I try again. Though it grew fine last year

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By *inky-MinxWoman
over a year ago

Grantham

I have been known to dabble.

Had a rampant rhubarb plant once, how on earth did you manage to kill one

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By *inky-MinxWoman
over a year ago

Grantham

My lemon tree is flowering but I'm not holding out much hope of it fruiting

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By *idnight RamblerMan
over a year ago

Pershore

I'm an allotment grower. Every season brings new pests & diseases. Slugs are enemy No.1. Garlic and shallots already lifted and drying. First potatoes dug, strawberries and raspberries daily. Everything else growing like hell in this heat.

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By *usie pTV/TS
over a year ago

taunton

I don't really get the rhubarb thing just never liked it, my wife grows and eats it all the time but the amount of sweetener I see her pouring in don't think it can be too healthy.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I’ve got a greenhouse I’m growing a few varieties of tomato, cucumbers and cantaloupe melon peppers and jalapeños. I have an avocado tree and one about to start growing. About 8 sweet peas growing outside on the trellis

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I’m an expert at growing wEeds.

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By *etcplCouple
over a year ago

Gapping Fanny

The only thing I can grow is my waistline

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By *ickshawed OP Couple
over a year ago

Wolverhampton

"I don't really get the rhubarb thing just never liked it, my wife grows and eats it all the time but the amount of sweetener I see her pouring in don't think it can be too healthy."

It's delicious. I don't add any sweetener. Just cut it up, cover it in crumble mix and stick it in the oven for half an hour. Really nice with custard as it takes a bit of the tartness away. But I'll happily smother it in double cream instead. As in life, most things are better covered in cream

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By *andyfloss2000Woman
over a year ago

ashford

My runner beans have reached top of wigwam courgettes doing OK lettuce I've been croping only planted tomatoes out today x

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By *KG12Couple
over a year ago

Burnley

Plums in our garden. Last year we made plum gin with them. Was very nice. Made plum jam in the past too

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By *rambuie100Man
over a year ago

essex/suffolk border

Just harvested first 2 bags of new potatoes, first garlic, mange tout, lollo rosso and baby leaves have been munched.

Got lots this year in small space.

All in raised beds and planters. Made from recycled site waste by myself. Saved a fortune .

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I don't really get the rhubarb thing just never liked it, my wife grows and eats it all the time but the amount of sweetener I see her pouring in don't think it can be too healthy."

OMG. Pull, peel, eat. It;s the only way to go

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Plants and herbs are brought to this house to die. Better with pets thankfully

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By *ack688Man
over a year ago

abruzzo Italy (and UK)

I had an allotment when I still lived in the U.K. and had varying degrees of success and failure with all manner of fruit and veg, so then when I moved here to a house with lots of land it was great to have fruit trees and plant lots of current and berry bushes as well as all the veg that the Mediterranean climate was so good for, but again still lots of successes and failures over the years but now I live in a town house with no garden and mostly tend other peoples fruit trees!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Always green and natural

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Naaa its a lot of time needed i dont have

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Rhubarb is a bit of a let down this year. Maybe my fault as they love manure, I didn't feed any. Gooseberries are great this year as always. Chillis are coming along nicely. Cucumbers flowering, Lots of apples on the mini tree with lettuce below. Grapes are getting bigger. All looking good at the moment. Lots more seedlings to put out. Gonna be a good year me thinks

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By *ickshawed OP Couple
over a year ago

Wolverhampton

"I’ve got a greenhouse I’m growing a few varieties of tomato, cucumbers and cantaloupe melon peppers and jalapeños. I have an avocado tree and one about to start growing. About 8 sweet peas growing outside on the trellis

My dad always grew sweet peas for my mum when I was little as they're her favourite flowers, but they always ended up covered in greenfly so we couldn't bring them into the house. Do yours smell good?

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By *hesblokeMan
over a year ago

Derbyshire village

Finally got a greenhouse this year and currently have three types of tomato, mini cucumber, beans, carrots and peas growing! Yay!

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By *iddlesticksMan
over a year ago

My nan’s spare room.

Strawberries and tomatoes this years. Most years I grow courgettes and beans but haven’t this year.

I’ve tried to grow flowers from seeds this year.

Varying success with Cosmos, Lavendar, Lobelia, Candula and Nasturtium.

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By *iddlesticksMan
over a year ago

My nan’s spare room.

"Strawberries and tomatoes this years. Most years I grow courgettes and beans but haven’t this year.

I’ve tried to grow flowers from seeds this year.

Varying success with Cosmos, Lavendar, Lobelia, Candula and Nasturtium. "

I’ve also grown a walnut tree from a nut that I actually dug up in the garden, squirrels I guess. Anyway it’s two years in a pot and doing brilliant.

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By *urious-Switch81Man
over a year ago

Heanor

Last year I grew pumpkins, corn, peas, carrots, potatoes, tomatoes and some lemonbalm.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Strawberries and tomatoes this years. Most years I grow courgettes and beans but haven’t this year.

I’ve tried to grow flowers from seeds this year.

Varying success with Cosmos, Lavendar, Lobelia, Candula and Nasturtium. "

You can eat Nasturtium flowers, they go well in salads and are slightly spicy

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By * la carteCouple
over a year ago

Dublin

I seem to not have been able to kill off the raspberries - yet. Plants don't do well in my care hence the surprise - they might even bear fruit

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By *hrista BellendWoman
over a year ago

surrounded by twinkly lights

"Rhubarb is a bit of a let down this year. Maybe my fault as they love manure, I didn't feed any. Gooseberries are great this year as always. Chillis are coming along nicely. Cucumbers flowering, Lots of apples on the mini tree with lettuce below. Grapes are getting bigger. All looking good at the moment. Lots more seedlings to put out. Gonna be a good year me thinks

I feed my potted rhubarb with compost from a tomato bag instead of manure and it loves it

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I bought two packets of seed this week?

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By *tinerant scribeMan
over a year ago

County Durham

I have an enclosed terrace and do well until I leave for a week, as I often do. I over-water: roots rot: yuck. I am a gardening Sisyphus.

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By *valanche1001Man
over a year ago

Leeds

This year:

Carrots

Parsnips

Radishes

Strawberries

Cucumbers

Tomatoes

Peas

Last year I tried similar but forgot about them and they all rotted. I’ll let you know how the harvest goes in a couple of weeks.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I grew corn on the cob last year. When it was ready picked it cooked it covered it in proper anchor butter ( other butters are available ) and it bloomin marvellous best cob I’ve ever had. Can’t beat the freshest of fresh.

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