Hello everyone - from the beautiful East Sussex.

[Silent Reader]

Hi everyone, just found this forum after searching on google regarding a pest problem and I thought I sign up and say hello.

This year is my 5th (or is it 6th?? might even be 7th actually) year gardening and from starting just growing a few tomato plants in a courtyard the size of a postage stamp I'm focusing on growing more and more year on year.

Making plenty on mistakes, but the importance of learning from them is what I most enjoy (unless of course is was a really stupid mistake of course)

Success and failures with a Chicken run (currently at 5)
Here's my planting list.

Runner Bean - Polestar (Currently harvesting)
Pea - Hurst Green Shaft (Total Failure)
Sweet Corn - Passion

Potato - Mais Bard (First Early) (Harvested - not a great yeild to be honest)
Potato - King Edward (Main Crop)
Beetroot - Bolthardy (Currently harvesting)
Tomato - Gardeners Delight
Tomato - Tigerella (Currently harvesting)

Cucumber - Socrates (Currently harvesting)
Courgette - Soleil (Currently harvesting)
Courgette - Romanesco (Currently harvesting)
Aubergine - Black Beauty
Squash - Butternut
Chillies/Peppers - Antohi Romanian (Sweet), Golden Bell (Sweet), Friggitello (Sweet), Jalapeno (Hot), Hungarian Hot Wax (Hot) Red Cherry (Hot)

Broccoli - (Spouting) Early Purple
Brussels Sprout - Evesham Special
Cabbage - Hispi
Parsnip - Gladiator

Spinach - Perpetual Spinach
Rocket - Wild Grazia (Currently harvesting)
Lettuce - Little Gem (Currently harvesting)

Leek - Mussleburgh
Onion - Stuttgarter Giant (Currently harvesting)

Also have about 25no Strawberry plants from the runners of last years 3 or 4 strawberry plants, these are now running so I'm hoping to get around 60 upwards for next year (I love strawberry's)


I intend to hopefully achieve my first year of "year round harvesting, never managed to be able to do this as I've always had trouble with brassicas but this year..... I have a net


All the best

SR

[Glutton4...]

Hello and welcome to the Madhouse!

Currently at five? Attempts, or Chickens?

[Silent Reader]

lol - 5 no. Chickens, 4th Set

New set that have gone in don't seem to be doing to well and out of the 5 I recently got 3 have sadly died, so currently running a dose of Flubenvet through them.

[Florence Fennel]

Hello SR and welcome to the Vine!

[Jeanied]

Welcome to the Vine SR - great to have you aboard!

[northepaul]

Hi Silent Reader and welcome to the vine!
Sounds like you have plenty advice to offer us!!
Good luck with everything.

[ginger ninger]

Hello and welcome to the vine SR, impressive range of veg there...why don't ya save your chilli seed then you can offer them for swaps later on in the year. There's a lot of chilli heads on here...me included .

[Nicos]

Hello- and welcome to the Vine!

[Silent Reader]

Thanks for the welcome folks

Sounds like you have plenty advice to offer us!!

I wouldn't trust it, I got a few years under the belt but I still consider myself to be at a novice level. For example this year I thought it'd be a good idea to harden off my Broccoli and Sprout seedlings after germinating them in the greenhouse, only to find 4 hours later something had come along and nearly destroyed them by munching them nigh on down to the root. I was VERY lucky to get away with it.

Hello and welcome to the vine SR, impressive range of veg there...why don't ya save your chilli seed then you can offer them for swaps later on in the year. There's a lot of chilli heads on here...me included .

Saving seeds is an art that I’ve not quite grasped yet, with the exception of runner beans of course. I germinated far too many as usual this year so a lot of them were given away. I'm always up for a seed swap so I'll see if I can get some saved.


All the best

SR