How are your xmas veg doing?

[sallym]

Will have leeks, carrots, hopefully parsnips and spuds. Not bad as first try with xmas veg and only a tiny raised bed in front garden. Now I have my allotment hoping will be lots more next xmas.

[bobleponge]

Thats a new one on me Alice. How do you roast potatoes in the freezer?

[perkin]

I should have 2 big parsnips plus a couple of leeks to take to my sister's place for Christmas Day.

[Newbie]

The only veg i attempted for Xmas was spuds & they got blight as soon as they showed their heads above ground! Only stuff i have left in the ground is PSB (not ready), Yellow Chard (too small) and leeks (too small)! Ah well, there's always next year!

[rustylady]

Still to come off the plot, kale (red, green and italian black), leeks, parsley, chard, red cabbage, and one or two green ones. From store onions, garlic, butternut squash, potatoes, and lots of home-made chutneys and jams.

[Winged one]

I won't have anything of my own for Christmas dinner itself (I don't have enough to go around the mad mob! although I may bring some onions down to mum), but when we get back home afterwards, I will definitely have some things, and hope for others (most of them fresh but I have some beans in the freezer):
Definites:
Onions, garlic
Leeks
Brussels sprouts
PS Brocolli
Baby turnips
Beans (already frozen)

Hopes:
New potatoes
Baby carrots
Cabbage
Spring onions
Salad greens

And some green tomato chutney to go along with the cheese (from last year's glut - still going down well!!), and some Damson jelly from my pickings with a 6 month bump!! (I opened another jar last week and, 3 years on, it is still great!).

[Comfreyfan]

I'm excited this year, I've got more veg on the go than I've managed before at this time of year. Parsnips, Salsify, swede, carrots, psb and cabbage, beans in the freezer and squash and onions in storage - still picking red peppers and chillis!!

[kitchengardner]

xmas from the garden

I'll be having carrots, leeks, parsnips, herbs (stuffing), cabbage and (frozen) beans from the garden for Xmas dinner. Then for xmas tea I'll be having a variety of pickles & chutneys (all homemade) and a load of fresh mixed salad. Gardening using raised beds is so much better than in pots, although I still use those as space is at a premium

Regards

Kitchen gardener

[shirlthegirl43]

We will have home-grown shallots but that is about it. I have some celeriac in the ground but it hasn't come to much root-wise and the leaves are a bit scruffy with the weather we have been having. I had absolutely no success this year as it was so wet I couldn't plant anything out that I grew - ground just so boggy (and that with us having lovely loam too)

[kitchengardner]

unlikely coincidence

We will have home-grown shallots but that is about it. I have some celeriac in the ground but it hasn't come to much root-wise and the leaves are a bit scruffy with the weather we have been having. I had absolutely no success this year as it was so wet I couldn't plant anything out that I grew - ground just so boggy (and that with us having lovely loam too)

I must admit I am surprised you have had this problem, I lived in North Wales for 3 years and it only rained twice - 1989-1990 and 1991!

Kitchen Gardener

[pjh75]

Charlotte potatoes in compost bags in unheated greenhouse seem to be doing okay... Rooster foliage died off, before I moved then to the greenhouse but I managed to salvage a few portions of little ones, should have a few carrots, unless I've eaten them all by then, chillis are still producing so might have a couple of those and rocket.

[Mrs Dobby]

Deffo going to be having fresh from the plot sprouts, jerusalem fartichokes, swedes, leeks, onions (for the stuffing) and cabbage, possibly also some broccolli, parsnips and carrots, and from the freezer runner beans, broad beans, peas and sweetcorn, Looks like the only thing we're going to have to buy is the spuds and the meat!

[SlugLobber]

I might get some carrots if I'm lucky, but I've picked most of my veg, now. Got LOTS of onions on the go, but they're the overwintering kind! Kale has never really got going, even with the cloche on it. Got parsnips, but they will be eaten before Christmas. Just as well I don't 'do' Christmas dinner, eh?

[Professor Peabody]

I hopefully will have some late spuds left and also some sprouts - although so far most have blown. Loads of runner beans left in the freezer.

Next year my goal is to have all the veg on Christmas day come from my plot, together with homemade cranberry sauce (in the hope that the two bushes I planted earler this year actually bother to do something).

[BrideXIII]

my potato bucket as a ton of foliage on it, so we shall see, the charlottes are doing well but they wont be ready i time, other than that nothing grown cos it was my first year, and had no time, next year though hopefully you can ALL come to dinner.