only 2 of us

[kittykat8]

I need to learn restraint, I have 60 peppers plants growing in the tunnel, 20 Cucumbers plants, 20Tomato plants, 7 corgettes plants 12 more plants , 18 drawf bean beans in 3 giants pots, 20 sweetcorncorn plants, 20 runner beans beans plants , carrots and grape vine, this is all in the tunnel.

Outside 3 wigwams, with 16 runner beans plants in each, 100 leaks to plants, carrots in different places , and 100 cabbage plug plants on the go , 50 beetroot, 20 celeric, 15 rows of potatoes plus onuion s sharlotts etc

Marion

[Garden_girlie21]

Whoah, where do you find the time!!

I mostly garden on my own - my sister hates it (and yet moans when I offer to relieve her of her small patch in the garden) and my mum is really busy.

I could just garden all day!

Unfortunately, school doesn't want to cooperate!!

Jennifer

[ricwiley]

Well done, but yep, it's a bit much.

Remember to freeze what you can and give the rest away. There maybe some homeless charities in your area who would love free veg.

Cheers

Richard

[Waffler]

That is rather a lot of produce for 2! Maybe you could give/sell some stuff to school for dinners?

[gojiberry]

I'm not so far behind you and we are only two. Only wish I had poly tunnel. I have gone for variety this year and am looking to go to town on pickles chutneys etc. Some of the things I have not grown before are gherkins, achocha, pepino, huckleberry, tomatillo, golden berry and gojiberry. Hope you find homes for your produce KK8.

Ian

[delnel]

I need to learn restraint,

I totally understand. I think I was a bit excessive this year also. My reasoning is though that, as it's my first year of seeing results, I got a bit too excited and planted out more, and more, and more, ...I'm not worried about it though, there are loads of people I can give veg to. They shall not go to waste.

[sez]

I wish I had the room to be excessive! Especially wish I had a polytunnel as the more 'tropical' veg (tomatoes, peppers, aubergines etc) cost a fortune to buy. There's only two of us but I'd love to be able to keep us in veg (both vegetarians).There's always someone you can give it away to though!

[Beki]

omg i TOTALLY know how you feel!!! For me and alan, and the two kids (who, let's face it, probably won't attempt much of the veg at all ) we have growing...

8 standard bush courgettes
7 'golfball' bush courgettes
30 runner beans
2 aubergines
19 tomatoes
25 chillies (various)
30 peppers (various)
12 cucumbers
3 'atlantic giant' pumpkins
4 butternut squash
32 sweetcorn
hundreds of carrots (standard and parmex)
a few radishes
a few beetroot
3ft by 4.5ft bed filled with 'cut and come again' mixed chinese leaves (yummy they are too!)
5 strawberries
56 onions
18 dwarf broad beans
12 summer cabbages
1 compost bag of potatoes
all manner of herbs

phew! i think that's it... i'm sure i'll remember more though! lol

my aim is to blanche and freeze a lot of it, make chutney with some of it, and cook basic sauces with a lot of it, which can then be frozen and added to all sorts of dinners during the winter months!

good luck with yours!!! great isn't it!

Edited to add :

Oops! lol. I forgot the gooseberry bush, the 3 rhubarb plants (which are mostly gone now, and been used for rhubarb chutney already) and the two HUGE victoria plum trees which should yield quite a few kilos of plums each this year!!

Oh, and lots of nasturtiums for eating too!

[HeyWayne]

Took me ages to realise that just because it says 200 seeds on the packet, it doesn't mean sow all of them...