The 2015 One to Five a Week Challenge!

[Penellype]

So far this week I have eaten:
Tomatoes (Shirley, Sungold, Chocolate Cherry)
Runner beans (Stardust)
Calabrese (Sakura)
Potato (Pentland Javelin)
Onion (red baron)
Courgette (Green bush)
A very small number of fresh peas (Geisha)
Raspberry (Allgold)
Blueberry (Dixie, Bluecrop)
A couple of everbearer strawberries
Apple (James Grieve)

I've planted out 4 Lollo Rossa lettuces

Need to find 1 more thing to sow or plant before Saturday - hmmm. Gave some Vine Weevil nematodes a new home in my pots - does that count?!

[Penellype]

Potted up 3 Marshmellow strawberry runners. No idea where I am going to put them next year at this stage though...

[Penellype]

This week I have eaten:
Tomato Shirley, Sungold, Belle, Chocolate Cherry, Tumbling Tom
Potato Charlotte
Calabrese Sakura
Carrot nantes 2, Eskimo
Runner bean Stardust
Courgette Green Bush
Leek Albana (bolted)
Cucumber (small)
Lettuce Lollo Rossa
Mizuna
Pak Choi
Pea Geisha (a few)
Pepper Snackbite Orange, California Wonder
Onion Sturon
Spring onion Ramrod
Parsley
Nasturtium flower
Apple James Grieve
Raspberry Allgold
Blueberry bluecrop, Dixie
Strawberry everbearer (a few)

Sowing and planting has proved a tad more tricky.
Potted up a tower of strawberry runners
Sowed 3 small pots of lettuce (salad bowl).

[poly]

Eaten this week,
Highland Kale
Rocotto Manzano Orange chillies, hhhhhot!
Courgette, mixed
Carrots, saved mixed seed
Mixed salad leaves
Cucumber, I think Tiffany
Aubergine, Farmers Long
Potatoes; Charlotte, Elisabeth, PFA and Kifli.
A not very tasty uncured butternut with an iffy bottom!
Alderman peas, coming to the end of these
Tomatoes; Green Tiger, Sungold, Sun Sugar, Rosella, Ambrosia Gold, Ambrosia Red, Black Opal, Medovaya Kaplya, Rosada, Cherokee Black, Black and Pink Icicle
Bunches of Black grapes, yum, yum, yum!
Gala apples and mixed other types,
A few raspberries
Lots of cape Gooseberries


This week I've potted up some red cabbage plants (can't find the seed packet at the mo for the name), Also planted onion sets Radar.

[Penellype]

I thought I had a lot of tomatoes (50 portions in the freezer and counting!), but you seem to have even more varieties than I do.

[veggiechicken]

I was away last weekend so didn't post - sorry
Over 2 weeks I've eaten:-
Tomatoes - Rambling Red Stripe, Black Icicle, Smurfs, Luzias Oma (Thank you nellie-m), Marmande and others
Cucumbers - Bangkok, Ridge and Armenian
Onions
Shallots
Runner beans - Firestorm and Whitelady
Potatoes
Strawberries
Raspberries, yellow and red
Courgettes - Atena, green and round
Tromba d'Albenga
Beetroot
etc

Sown/planted
Week 2
Broccoli Raab seedlings in brassica cage
Pea - Twinkle for peashoots
Leafbeet - Lucullus
Spring cabbage - Precoce de Louviers
Winter Purslane

Week 3
Garlic cloves - saved from unknown variety - started in modules
Garlic bulbils from seed head - seed tray
Elephant garlic - modules
Broccoli raab planted out in GH bed
Bunching onions - Ishikura planted in GH bed

[poly]

I thought I had a lot of tomatoes (50 portions in the freezer and counting!), but you seem to have even more varieties than I do.

Total tomato junkie here
Lots of roasted tomato gloop in the freezer here too and bags of dehydrated, both are winter staples and keeps me going to the first picked of next season!

[veggiechicken]

What's Highland Kale, poly? Is it the Ethiopian one?

[poly]

Yes, that's the one, https://store.growartisan.com/product/highland-kale

[veggiechicken]

What's the verdict? is it worth growing?

[poly]

I like it, easy to grow and pretty trouble free, although you need to keep regularly picking leaves and sprouts or it runs to seed. I've found it's a fairly short term cropper, so won't suit everyone, but it produces well giving lots of feeds. Not in the category of an awesome veg, more a quite nice one!
I've seeds to spare if you fancy giving it a whirl.

I'm wondering whether it might give a small crop if sown now in the poly -tunnel?

[Penellype]

This week I have eaten:
Tomato Shirley, Sungold, Tumbling Tom, Belle, Chocolate Cherry
Potato Charlotte
Carrot Autumn King, Nantes Frubund
Calabrese Sakura
Runner Bean Stardust
Courgette Green Bush
Pea Geisha
Lettuce Lollo Rossa
Pepper Snackbite Orange
Apple James Grieve
Strawberry Everbearer
Raspberry Allgold
A few late blueberries

Planted out some spinach in the growhouse and some mizuna.

[poly]

Runner Bean Stardust

I've just been googling Stardust, it looks a lovely. Have you found it a good variety?

[veggiechicken]

I like it, easy to grow and pretty trouble free, although you need to keep regularly picking leaves and sprouts or it runs to seed. I've found it's a fairly short term cropper, so won't suit everyone, but it produces well giving lots of feeds. Not in the category of an awesome veg, more a quite nice one!
I've seeds to spare if you fancy giving it a whirl.

I'm wondering whether it might give a small crop if sown now in the poly -tunnel?

Yes please, poly I'm always keen to try something new PM me your address and I'll send you an SAE

[veggiechicken]

Last week:-
I've eaten:-
Tomatoes - Rambling Red Stripe, Black Icicle, Smurfs, Luzias Oma), Marmande. Yellow Stuffer and White Queen,
Cucumbers - Bangkok, Ridge and Armenian
Onions
Shallots
Potatoes - Rocket, Apache and King Edward
Strawberries
Raspberries, yellow and red
Courgettes - Atena, green and round
Tromba d'Albenga
Beetroot - Dobbie's purple

I've sown
Mangetout Bijou in modules
Planted Onion sets into beds
Senshyu
Radar
Electric
Snowball