what's left on your plot?

[binley100]

We only got our plot this year so still on a pretty steep learning curve. On saying that we have garlic , spring cabbage , and PSB growing. Still waiting for the broad beans to show their face. A lot of the beds have at the moment been manured and covered ready for spring when we'll be a lot more organised (hopefully!) .

[ginger ninger]

I don't have a pot but in the garden I have
cabbage
sprouts
collies
curly kale
garlic
all my herbs
some alpine strawberries
spicy salad leafs
Beginning of October sown broad beans.
I'm all for extending my growing season too, if it'll grow over winter..stick it in.

[Snadger]

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.

Don't get me started........It's called the brown desert scenario!

[Snadger]

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

He has and he has!

[Rabidbun]

Only pulled up the last of the beans last weekend, other than that I have potatoes still to harvest, some sort of weird beetroot that might actually be edible in the end (it's been growing slowly all summer), leeks, celery, parsley, chillies, coriander. Just planted up some garlic as well so got fingers crossed with that (first time overwinter with those). In the greenhouse I have most of my herbs and some chillies, though the chillies have got black mould on the leaves, probably cause it's unheated and not ventilated given the winds we've had around here recently.

[Pumpkin Becki]

Don't get me started........It's called the brown desert scenario!

What I find strange is, its not even a traditional way of veg gardening. When I've seen programmes like 'Tales from the Green Valley' or 'Victorian Kitchen Garden', they are always talking about how to keep production up during the winter months, and how to get through the 'hungry gap' between the end of the overwintering crops and the start of the new produce. Not 'how to make empty beds'. Clearing beds and leaving them empty over winter seems to be a fairly recent introduction to me (70's??). I prefer the move we (on the vine) seem to be making, back to the traditional/smallholder way of planting plots.

[WeeGarden]

Can I ask, if all my growing area still has things growing in it and will through to Spring, when should I be putting down manure? I've read that you do it beginning of the year? Or should I be doing it in small pockets as and when they become free? And if I do, can I plant straight away into them?

[Pumpkin Becki]

Can I ask, if all my growing area still has things growing in it and will through to Spring, when should I be putting down manure? I've read that you do it beginning of the year? Or should I be doing it in small pockets as and when they become free? And if I do, can I plant straight away into them?

I'd do each area as it becomes free. You can plant straight away as long as it is really well rotted manure. Runner beans especially will love you for it. Don't manure where you are about to plant/sew root veg though, it can cause them to fork.

Also, I've just put a 3" mulch of well rotted manure around all my winter brassicas. It will help stop wind rock as they get taller.

Hope that helps

[solway cropper]

A bit cross-purposes here. By overwintering I meant those crops that will not be ready until next year. I have overwintering beans and onions but it would be a bit pointless trying to eat them now. I also have some big fat leeks which will stand through the winter but I still class them as this years crop. Probably me being a bit too pedantic.

[matthew2riches]

I've got cabbage, cabbage and more cabbage followed by 100's of sprouting broccoli plants :-)

I've also got a few beetroot left and lots of carrots still to use.

Then I've got some lettuce in the greenhouse and the last of the toms.

[Jillyreeves]

I have only been grow my own since March of this year but I am glad to say I have planned ahead a bit for winter, but will do better next year :-)

In the ground
JA's
Khol Rabi
Celeriac
Leeks
Turnip
Sprouts (planted late and still quite small so might never see a crop)
200 Autumn Onion Sets
12 Autumn Shallot Sets
50 Garlics
Spring Cabbage
Broad Beans
In the conservatory/greenhouse
Peppers (still a few left on)
Chillies
Buckets of late planted Carrots
Plum Tomatoes (last few still to ripen)

Oh yes, three buckets of Christmas Potatoes :-)

[StephenH]

Not a lot - recently-sown broad beans which have still to appear, a few cabbages, parsnips, and swedes - and that's it. I could probably have had more with better planning and a greenhouse, but I'll probably do the first and buy a miniature version of the second this year, so maybe in a year's time I'll have more.
(Oh - there are also my perennial herbs; purple sage, thyme, lemon thyme, mint, chives, rosemary and bronze fennel. However, I'm not taking anything from them until at least the summer, because I may have overdone it a bit recently, given that they're all fairly newly-planted and need to get established and grow a bit.)

[Flashheart]

I've still got:

Lettuce
Radish
Celery - tonnes of the stuff
Beetroot
Carrots
Sprouts
Cabbage
Broccoli
Kale
Turnips
Leeks
Raspberries
Jerusalem Artichokes
+
(just planted)
Broad Beans
Garlic
Peas

[StephenH]

Oh yes - and recently-planted garlic, which Flashheart's just reminded me of.

[Lovely Helen]

I still have

Pak Choi
A few autumn raspberries
Carrots
Mizuna
Rocket
Dwarf French Beans
Winter lettuce (attempting to grow but keeps being found by slugs!)
Garlic

Would have had leeks but got found by the leek moth and the whole lot were destroyed

Got some peppers and chillis on the window ledge in the kitchen which are ripening up a treat!

Thought I was doing well but everybody else seems to have loads - must try harder next year!