Goal achieved

[Germinater]

Well tonight for the first time since I started the gyo thing last year I have finally cooked a meal tonight completely with veg and herbs straight from our garden ..yay..
The menu..
Chicken fillets cooked in a cream and leek sauce
Steamed callbriese new potatos in chives and dill buttered sliced and sweetheart cabbage.so chuffed with my self and got lots of French beans and potatoes and courgettes for tomorrow night ..

[rustylady]

Well done you, it's a great feeling isn't it?

[bearded bloke]

Well done,can I come round & join you please,that's a better menu than mine

[bethduckie]

Delicious! We've got a grow your own tea tonight as well- amazing how everything is ready all at once at this time of year isn't it?

[Germinater]

Thank you all .really happy had a few bit from the garden over the last month but today s the first time I could do a whole meal..funny how I started of with a strawberry and tomato plants from b&q may last year and now iv almost taken over the whole garden .misses is liking it now to as she can see actual food

[Jelliebabe]

Well done Germinator! I've doing a stir fry (ish) with home made pak choi, swiss chard onion and carrot! mwah ha ha ha ha still havent done a) a whole salad or b) a whole dinner...

I will do it though!!!

[Gemmalaveen]

Well done you! The highlight of my growing year so far was my first salad 100% from my garden... it included steamed broad beans, red & yellow cherry toms, cucumber (my first time!), grated baby beetroot, spring onions, mixed salad leaves and a dressing made with home-grown garlic, basil and chilli. Delicious!

Dinner this eve was a Thai stir-fry with pak choi, runner beans, courgettes and coriander. Yum.

[Snadger]

I had cheese on toast!

[Gemmalaveen]

That sounds pretty good too!

[Bren In Pots]

Its a great feeling isn't it

[Germinater]

Gemma that sound lovely .well done on the salad too..I'm the same as you jellybabe only had cucumbers salad leafs spring onions and herbs .still waiting on the tomatoes and sweet peppers to finish there first set fruits .had good results with the potatos so far this year (my first year growing potatos .discounting growing them with my mum when I was 9 )today harvested my three smallest 25 gallon drums six seeds in total and got about 15 pounds of potatos from them .still have about 9large 50gallon planters to go news and king Edwards and replanted Xmas spuds straight in to the emptys with a good mix of growmore slowrealse and bfb to liven it back up ..Had mountains of calories so far to and still about 8plants to harvest and then the side shoots after that .will be growing lots with a second sowing iv got in modules in the green house and some red arrow psb to go in for spring still need to find room for the Brussels for Xmas ..

[Germinater]

Bren it's the best felling since growing my first toms and strawbs last year when I started ..can't wait for next year now ..planning how I'm gowing to use my space more efficiently next year want to grow more onions and leeks and garlic in the autum for spring ..hoping the rewards were getting from the garden will encourage the misses to let me have the other bed next to the one iv converted this year ..would double my growing space to about 18sqm ..if I can convince here before autum il be able to dig it over and treat it before spring

[Jono]

Congrats, its one of the best feelings in the world.

[endymion]

..would double my growing space to about 18sqm ..

That'll be a decent amount of space.

The other day we totted up our various bits of 'dedicated to veg' space and have about 200sq ft, which I think is about 18 sq m, and it's just about enough for us, with everything crammed in quite close together, and a lot of interplanting.

We don't grow potatoes because they take up so much space and because the neighbour's spuds always get blight. Our blackcurrants and almost all our herbs are amongst flowering perennials, where they look quite pretty - they're also very carefully labelled to avoid mistakes.

[Germinater]

I grow my spuds on top of a bike shed in the garden as it gets full sun .about 14 bags and some large plastic oil tubs from work. Thinking about planting fruit bushes between the shrubs in the garden too does it work well then?? Not to much compassion for nutrients ?? Good crops?