Well, Freecycle may be getting a few tomato’s, so if you live in the Castleford area – beware! I have about 50 ’spare’ plants….oops! Me and my dad have gone a bit ‘crazy’ in our planting!
Glad to see that my sweetcorn has got about 6 heads poking through – pleased at least some have germinated. Only about another 9 to go…..then I’ll have a decent block to plant out, and grow the corgettes/pumpkins at the bottom….part of the 3 ladies growing plan. But with only 2. So we’ll call it the 2 ladies growing plan.
All my beans – mangetouts and sugar snaps are now planted out up canes, along with pole beans and also runners. The sugar snaps look a bit yellow and a bit washy already, so need to feed them and keep an eye out on them. The mangetouts are looking damn fine and green and healthy and have about 5 flowers on about 8 plants already…yum! They’ve both been planted the same and treated the same. Bad workmen blame thier tools, so I shall blame the seed!
I have planted sweet peas at the end of each run of peas, as last year I didn’t think I had enough flowers to draw the bees into the veg plot, so hoping that crops may be higher this year with some bees!
Also rhubarb – not only is it 6 ft tall and taking over a half of a bed, its started to flower. I’ve just Googled it, and Pippa Greenwood (her of the BBC, hence in my book, an expert) says that it can weaken the rhubarb, and even KILL it!!! Sugar - after I go home, I shall be cutting off said flower.
See we learn things every day….mostly from Google, I’ll be honest….what DID we do without t’internet?
I also went completely mad with tomatoes – I have recently given a whole load away on Freecycle too. In a reversal of the usual situation, I will probably have far more tomatores than cucumbers, the way these are going, I don’t think the remaining two cukes have grown at all in the last 3 weeks
I know what you mean about the rhubarb, ours has gone wild this year. We only have two crowns, but some weeks I’ve been cutting off 6 flowers stems at a time.
I’ve made crumble, jam, crumble, chutney and crumble again, and will try rhubarb schnapps tomorrow.
Hey Rachael – everyone at work has had them – I am slowly converting everyone! or rather forcing it down their neckls about green miles etc! I’ve never grown cucumber – must give that a bash!
Hello P&P – 6 flower stems – wowzer. I only had 2. They look pretty in our kitchen at the moment! If in doubt, stick them in a vase is my motto! Hope the rhubabrb snapps was nice…{hic}. Catx
I’ve got a greenhouse full of extra tomato plants as well – I hadn’t thought of freecycling them though. Good idea!
I am also firly new at gerdening and am learning lots. I have been agonizing about the true type of plant I’ve growing in my inherited garden, namely “rhubarb?”. My plant is 7-8 feet tall and has many berry tops which seem to be feeding all of the local birds. I would like to assume that I will be able to harvest some of the stalks for pies, etc…but am unsure if this is appropriate for this plant. The stalks are from 1-1.5″ in diameter. Most of the internet sources I have queried say the typical plants only grow to about two – three feet tall. Can this truly be a rhubarb plant?