what's left on your plot?

[jayjay giant]

You are all doing really well ! I have only got curly kale, leeks, swiss chard, 2 bunches of carrots and a handfull of raspberries.
Putting my greenhouse up next week so I will try and get some stuff grown in that using my experimental hot beds.
I have still got to try and crack the continuity thing this year and get crops every week of the year !

[SarzWix]

I have lots of empty space, but I'm blaming that on the dodgy year I've had this year However, I still have plenty of stuff growing;

Minicole cabbages (ready now)
Savoy cabbages (ready now)
'Giant' cabbages (almost ready)
Spring Hero cabbages (ready April-ish)
Dwarf Green Curly Kale (ready now)
Calabrese (ready now)
More Calabrese (ready April/May)
PSB (ready april-ish)

Rocket & mixed salad leaves (ready now)

Leeks (ready now)
More leeks (ready early spring)

Swedes (ready now)
Parsnips (ready now)
Carrots (ready now)

Red cross onions (just planted)
Troy onions (just planted)
3 types garlic (just planted)

Celery (still spindly, but will have to come up before hard frost)

[lottie dolly]

outside
beetroot
parsnips
courgetts
spring onions
redbore kale
white & purple sprouting
cauliflower for next spring
red cabbage
3 heads of white pointy cabbage
a few broard beans
red & white onions,garlic,and elephant garlic,in modules,just waiting for the ground to dry out a bit
leeks
spring cabbage & chines lettuce,in moduls,dito above
inside the chillies are just about finished,
3 pepper plants,
2 struggling cue's
leaves in a few pots,
more lettuce in moduals
spring cabbage in the border
not to forget a few marigolds
wow,i did'nt realise i had so much going on, big smile

[bubblewrap]

Winter Onions 460
Purple & White Sprouting broccoli
Winter cauliflower
Spring cabbage
Perpetual spinach
Carrots
Swede
Got last of butternut squashes on Saturday
Picked last of runner beans last Monday.

[solway cropper]

One of the reasons for originally posting this was that last week I drove past some local allotments and many had been completely stripped of anything growing and dug over. I wondered if this was common practice or whether the grapes had better ideas for using the land. I'm sure many of us have overwintering stuff coming along but you can't really count that as you won't be eating it till next year.

[vegnut]

I have.
Red Cabbage, ready to eat now
Celeriac, ready to eat now and through winter
Black Kale, ready to eat now
Parsnips, ready to eat now and through winter
Brussels Sprouts, ready in december
Broad beans, ready next year
Carrots, two types, ready to eat now
Butternut Squash, pulled the last one the other day, will last through to February at least
Florence Fennel, ready to eat now
Khol Rabbi, ready to eat now
Turnips, ready to eat now
Chinese Radish, ready to eat now
Beetroot, bolthardy, ready to eat now
Beetroot, Chioggia, ready to eat now
3 Types of Garlic, ready next year
Sweet Peppers, in the Greenhouse
This lot should keep me going for a while yet, i hope.

[kentvegplot]

I have

Pak Choi
Mizuna
Mibuna
Rocket
Mixed oriental leaves (can you see a pattern here??)
Leeks
PSB
Black Kale
Brussels
Winter lettuce
Winter radish
Chard
Beetroot
Parsnips

With the exception of the PSB and Kale, it is all available to eat now.

[SlugLobber]

I'm sure many of us have overwintering stuff coming along but you can't really count that as you won't be eating it till next year.

As far as I'm concerned, if it's growing and it's edible, it counts!

[zazen999]

I'm sure many of us have overwintering stuff coming along but you can't really count that as you won't be eating it till next year.

Counts as what?

I have a plot, I keep it full. When the crops come good in what particular year is irrelevant. My plan is to extend harvests for as long as possible, not to rush to clear a bed because someone says so.

[Pumpkin Becki]

One of the reasons for originally posting this was that last week I drove past some local allotments and many had been completely stripped of anything growing and dug over. I wondered if this was common practice or whether the grapes had better ideas for using the land. I'm sure many of us have overwintering stuff coming along but you can't really count that as you won't be eating it till next year.

Lots of overwintering stuff can be picked now and continually during winter, like kales, perpetual spinach, parsnips can be pulled as you need them 9just a small example). There is no real reason to have a totally empty plot if you plan carefully enough, and especially as our traditional growing season seem to be extending later into the year. Look at the weather we are enjoying today (in Kent).

Having said that, my elderly neighbour has offered me an area of his vegpatch as he is struggling to keep it going himself. He had let a local lad have a go, but he hasn't pulled out his bean poles and washed the ends yet, nor has he harvested his beetroot or parsnips yet...I have a feeling that if I do take on this plot, I'll have to garden it in a completely different way to what I'm used to. No anarchy allowed!!

[salilah]

It really must be a strange year, no?

I'm still digging potatoes (international kidney and mayan gold) from the bags; and still picking tomatoes outside (only a few ripening, but they still are! complete contrast from last year when blight hit in July)

First year of parsnips - they are enormous! I know you are supposed to wait for the first frost, but I though I'd dig (needs a full length fork, not a hand one, to get them up, that's in a soft raised bed)

Still got beetroot, and swiss chard (which I leave in for the winter as it gets all excited in the Spring!)

Lots of leaves - some late-sown summer lettuce, plus various mustards and oriental leaves. Some red pak choi growing (hope it gets big enough to eat before the slugs get it)

First year of sprouts - the sprout tops are shredded, as are all the leaves (I know, really must learn to cover!) - but there are real looking sprouts on the green ones (not the red ones yet)

Kale of various sorts that went in very late - experiment - and a few savoy cabbage (also ridiculously late)

Chillis still going - no greenhouse so don't expect these to last long (too big to come onto a windowsill). Parsley still going. Aubergine in a Morrison's bucket on the patio (floppy but still a couple fruit - but not too hopeful here!)

And a few borlotti beans to pick shell and plant next year (never seem to get enough to eat...)

Oh, and about 5 leeks in Morrison's buckets - still only pencil thick, so not optimistic!

It's been an experiment with a lot of stuff - one lesson I'm trying to learn is to do more of fewer things - its silly when I don't have enough beans for one meal, or enough pak choi for 2 people. But it's fun!!

S

[sewer rat]

Savoy Cabbage, Winter cabbage, greens, leeks, swedes, celeriac,parsnips and sprouts outside (and still tatties too)
In the tunnel - chard, spinach, chillies.
Toms, aubergines and cukes finished last week.

[Two_Sheds]

I drove past some local allotments and many had been completely stripped of anything growing and dug over.

Shhhh! Before Snadger hears about it. He'll come over all unnecessary

[Sue]

I've never understood this business of leaving ground uncultivated through the winter. Wonder if it has something to do with covering with mesh and fleece, a lot easier to do this on raised beds rather than rows?

Anyway have
greenhouse given over to winter salads
Chillis still ripening
Late potatoes in pots
Carrots
Beetroot
Sprouts
3 different kinds of cabbage
2 different kinds of kale
Celeriac
Swedes
Parsnips
Spinach
PSB
Leeks
Overwintering onions
Garlic
Chard
Winter turnips
Last of the raspberries
Still a few roses left and the limnanthi douglasii has seeded itself everywhere, even made it over to my hen plot on the other side of the allotments, lovely bright green foliage which is very welcome over winter ready for a late spring flowering.

Sue

[WeeGarden]

I don't have an extensive plot (only about 5m2) so not much, just some immature cabbage, pakchoi, chinese cabbage, leeks, mooli and carrots for next year.

However, I'm still getting courgette tromba d'albenga. It's coming up for mid Nov. It's not at the rate it was, but I'm still getting one a week from each plant. Surely, this isn't normal?!! The tips of the plant is still growing, and there are baby courgettes still coming. Don't think they get pollinated either... The only reason I can think of is that they're climbing up outside on the kitchen wall, right next to the window that I open when I'm cooking, so maybe that gives them some warmth? The small garden is surrounded on 3 sides by brick wall, so again.. .maybe I just have a very sheltered garden.

Not complaining though.