Veg report 2016

Tomatoes - Bought two bush varieties -  Tumbling Tom & Tiny Tim - planted in hanging baskets. 

Both did very well producing lots of fruits still picking beginning October. 

Favourite - Tumbling Tom 

Aubergines - seed stared in shed - only one plant has made it but failed to get big enough to produce flowers/fruits. It's still looking healthy so will bring it in to see what happens. 

Rocket - from seed in pot.  Reasonable crop but need to sow more. Also about a month ago the whole pot got eaten by caterpillars and I thought that was that but on actually fact I now have a healthy new crop growing so thank you caterpillars. 

Lettuces - from seed in pot - good crop need to sow more. 

Courgettes - three plants from seed - two in veg plot, one in pot. Veg plot plants did better. 

Lots of fruits, still producing now. 

Sweetcorn - 9 healthy plants , 10 cobs but left then too long so over ripened... See prev post. 

Strawberries - wild strawberries allowed to grown in veg plot - very disappointing this year, hardly any fruits so they have been removed from veg plot. 

Bought one plant late in the season. Had a few very sweet and yummy strawberries. Hopefully this will produce again next year. 

French beans - from seed - started in shed in pots - hardened off and put in veg plot. 

Good crop 

Mange tout - from seed straight into veg plot 

Brilliant - lots of pods, just kept picking and picking. DEF GROW AGAIN NEXT YEAR

Carrots - from seed in deep pot 

Total disaster...  I have no idea what went wrong as I have grown them successfully in the same pot before. They just didn't come up....! 

Radishes - seeds 

Grew brilliantly and very quickly. But not really keen on them so didn't get eaten.... ! 

Sweetcorn flop again!

As you can see my sweetcorn plants look great.... 

BUT.... here are the cobs. Hard as nails...

The 9 plants produced 10 cobs in all but all were the same as above. 

In previous years I have been over eager to harvest them and ended up with under ripe cobs. This year I was determined to leave them alone for as long as possible not realising that they can over ripen and become inedible. So no homegrown sweetcorn for us again this year. Maybe next year (third time lucky) I might get it right. 

The Grape Vine is doing well this year, it's nearly at the third wrung up. No grapes of course but it's still hanging on in there. 

Surprisingly courgettes are still producing. It's been a good crop this year from my 3 plants. The two in the veg bed did do better that the pot bound one. 

See veg report 2016 for more details on all veg grown this year......