I planted some carrot seeds back in April and the other day I pulled a few just to see if they were ready and they were 🙂 A real success given the horrendous summer we have had.
The variety sown was Unwins Early Scarlet Horn, they taste fabulous too.
My neighbours must have thought I was mad dancing around the garden with a small bunch of carrots,….. do I care… not one bit 🙂
It is just the best feeling in the whole wide world harvesting vegetables planted from seed.
A bit of a mixed reaction with the growing season so far… it started out great, lovely and warm, then it kinda went downhill after that.. its not been that sunny and it has rained a fair bit, and I think this has had an impact on the veggies growing both in the greenhouse and in the garden.
Here is an up to date report on some of the veggies growing in my garden..
First of all the peas… I have some planted straight into the garden and also some growing in a trough on the high wall..
Both were sown inside the greenhouse then planted out about 2 weeks apart, the result for both is that they have grown about 10 – 12 inches tall (not really that big), they have produced pea pods, but not that many of them, I’d be lucky if there was enough to serve up onto one plate let along freeze a bag of them so we could enjoy them in winter.. so verdict on the peas 1/10 really disappointed.
Now on to the tomatoes in the greenhouse… I have around 10 plants all seemingly doing well but not a lot of fruits, in fact I had to take 2 off the plant this morning as they had blossom end rot, I always remember my dad moaning about it when I lived at home, cursing the blossom end rot lol, now i’ve got it!
The micro tom tomatoes… I dont think I will be growing these again, for me, its a bit of a messy looking plant and the fruits are too close to the soil.
The Potatoes are doing really well (I think)! Grown in big spud bags, they should be ready to harvest quite soon.
Next… the onions, I’m not sure if they are doing well or not to be honest, I would have expected them to be bigger than they are, but we shall wait and see what happens..
The Carrots seem to be doing ok, must get some weeding done this weekend before the weeds take over..
Courgettes… well they seem to be doing just grand, in full blom at the moment, here’s hoping I get fruit this year, last year they rotted away just after forming because it was soooo wet.
I have some flowers growing in the garden too, which are adding a lovely splash of colour….
This afternoon my daughter and I took a trip along to our local farm shop to buy our veggies for the coming week, the cows were outside today so we took a picture of them.
Inside the farm shop there was loads and loads of seasonal produce, we bought:-
Potatoes
Cabbage
Cauliflower
Carrots (normal ones)
Carrots (purple, yellow and light orange variety)
Green and Red Peppers
Ordinary Onions
Red Onions
Shallots
Flat Leafed Parsley
MacIntosh Red Apples
Purple Sprouting Brocolli
and my daughter wanted a pineapple so we bought one of those too :o)
We have friends coming round this evening so i’m heading into the kitchen to make a nice chicken curry, some pilaf rice and some naan bread.
I’m going to make some fresh tomato salsa too, its very yummy, recipe and pics to follow.
Anyway… if anyone reading my blog is local (fife) here is the details of my local farm shop… its well worth a visit. Nancy is really friendly, when I was chatting to her today she was telling me she cant believe how busy she is, the more people that buy local and boycott supermarkets the better… !!
Nancy Wishart
Bankhead Farm
Crombie
Fife.
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