Today I Are Mostly.... Buying from the Shops

[veggiechicken]

I really feel for you Sarah and the other growers this year. Its been a really bum year. Hope we all have a good and prolonged Autumn to make up for it.

[binley100]

I'm quite lucky in the fact that I still have stuff in the freezer and there are only two of us eating some times. Am buying salad stuff as and when and have had our first ever bumper crop of peas and surprisingly still have a couple of spring cabbage growing . Have fingers crossed now that we all have a good run of decent weather so that we can get something to harvest this year.

[Aberdeenplotter]

It is so satisfying walking round the fruit and veg section of the supermarket thinking I'm self sufficient in this, I'm self sufficient in that in a normal year. At the moment, I'm self sufficient in onions(senchyu yellow over wintered) and spuds (red d o york). Sheesh its disappointing. If the supermarket that wants a bit of every one else's market still sold razor blades, I could well be investing. Only the strawbs and rasps keeping me cheery

[alldigging]

My spuds that have survived the slug attacks seem to be ok from what I've seen so far of them.

I've had more from a couple of plants than all of someone elses on our site.

[cardiffsteve]

Don't buy from the big supermarkets support your local greengrocer or local producer.
Like Sarz, rhymes with stairs?, they maybe having a bad year as well and need your support.

[CaroltheCarrot]

Crikey, despite my constant moaning I am not having to buy spuds,lettuce, peas or cucs. Never buy rasps or strawbs from the supermarket anyway so they are always a bonus.
Toms are dire, little green bullets and psb, well its not!
Still using last years garlic and am not holding my breath waiting for onions or beetroot

[chris]

I have bad blight on my plot, dug half my spuds up, and some of it has reached the tubers.

Then I walked around everyone else's plot, and seeing the state of them I didn't feel so bad.

1 person has a full wigwam of beans, that's it. The rest are all patchy. Glad I only decided to grow beans to save the seed this year, as there's definitely not enough to eat!

[Farmer_Gyles]

no sweetcorn, peas, peppers. cucumbers, tomatoes (and loads of other things) for me either .... very poor year ... have to buy quite a lot now ....

but i'm getting lettuce and spinach, just sown some more to keep us going .... had a bucket of new potatoes so far, several more sacks to empty .... loads of maincrops to dig up later ....

i'm planning to grow through the winter too .... have sown loads more brassicas which will go in the tomato pots in a few weeks time .... will have loads of leeks and broad beans to grow through winter too ....