The 2015 One to Five a Week Challenge!

[Penellype]

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

I really like it. It was rather slow to start setting beans - all the early flowers fell off. But once it started it produced plenty of lovely stringless beans which were quite large and often straight and blemish free. Even some of the older ones lacked the hardness you often get around the seeds with runner beans. I don't normally grow runner beans so I have no idea how they performed yield wise, but I had plenty for my needs from 6 plants. Highly recommended.

[Penellype]

Horrendously busy week has meant hardly any gardening and no time to visit this forum

This week I have eaten:
Tomato Shirley, Sungold, Belle, Chocolate Cherry
Potato Charlotte
Carrot Nantes Frubund
Calabrese Sakura
Courgette Green Bush
Pea Geisha (few)
Pepper Snackbite Orange
Red cabbage Kalibos
Onion Sturon
Apple James Grieve (last one)
Raspberry Allgold

Planted:
Garlic (a bulb bought from the local shop)
Calabrese Sakura, in greenhouse
Carrot Nantes Frubund in greenhouse (grown indoors in pots first)

[Penellype]

Another very busy week, with little time to garden.

This week I have eaten:
Tomato Shirley, Sungold, Chocolate Cherry
Potato Charlotte (last few)
Carrot Nantes Frubund
Calabrese Sakura
Courgette Green Bush (still a few little ones growing inthe cold frame)
Pea Geisha (about 6)
Pepper Snackbite Orange + unnamed yellow variety
Spinach beet
Onion Sturon
Parsley
Raspberry Allgold
A few small blueberries
1 strawberry (everbearer)

Planted:
A few more bits of garlic rescued from amongst the greenhouse potatoes (don't ask!)
3 cabbages (Duncan)

[noviceveggrower]

Sorry I am very behind. The stuff I managed to get planted has been trashed when the blow away blew away.
So need to get my act together and get stuff re planted.

[veggiechicken]

Oops, I'm behind as well but I was away from home last week.

Over the last 2 weeks, I've eaten

Tomatoes - Rambling Red Stripe, Black Icicle, Smurfs, Luzias Oma), Marmande. Yellow Stuffer and White Queen,
Cucumbers - Ridge
Onions
Shallots
Potatoes - King Edward and Osprey
Strawberries
Raspberries, yellow and red
Courgettes - Atena, green and round
Parsnips - White gem
Carrots - Paris Market (2 tiny ones)

I've planted seedlings of :-

Wild Rocket,
Dwarf Green kale
Red Russian kale
Mizuna
Mustard
Ishikura bunching onions
Kyoto bunching onions
Spinach - Giant Winter
Mangetout - Bijou

Potted up 12 Mount Everest strawberry runners.

Phew!!!

[Penellype]

Still very little time to do gardening


This week I have eaten:
Tomato Shirley, Sungold, Chocolate Cherry, Belle
Potato Sarpo Mira
Carrot Nantes Frubund
Courgette Green Bush
Pea Geisha (about 8) and Hurst Green Shaft (frozen)
Pepper Snackbite Orange + unnamed yellow variety
Rainbow chard
Onion Sturon
Parsley
Baby lettuce (Lollo Rossa, Salad bowl)
Raspberry Allgold
5 strawberries (everbearer) - looked nice but hard and tasteless.

Planted:
Transplanted a calabrese plant to save it from the excavations in the greenhouse.
Planted a stray strawberry runner

[Penellype]

Struggling this week - hardly seen the garden

This week I have eaten:
Tomato Shirley, Sungold, Chocolate Cherry
Potato Sarpo Mira, Desiree
Carrot Nantes Frubund
Courgette Green Bush (last 2 little ones)
Pepper Snackbite Orange + unnamed yellow variety
Onion Sturon
Parsley
Baby lettuce (Lollo Rossa, Salad bowl)
Mizuna
Spring onion
Nasturtium flower
Raspberry Allgold

Sowed seeds for grow light garden:
Namenia
Pea Kelvedon Wonder (for pea shoots)

[Bigmallly]

Good grief girl, you're gonna look like a veg...............

[veggiechicken]

I'm glad you're organised Penellype - and remember that its a new week

I've eaten

Tomatoes - Rambling Red Stripe, Black Icicle, Smurfs, Luzias Oma), Marmande. Yellow Stuffer and White Queen,
Cucumbers - Ridge
Onions
Shallots
Potatoes - King Edward and Osprey
Strawberries (just a few)
Raspberries - red
Courgettes - round
Parsnips - White gem

I've planted :-
Over wintering Onion sets - Radar, Electric and Snowball
Spring Onion sets Sturon and Stuttgarter (because I bought them cheap some months back and they were starting to sprout. Maybe they'll make it through the winter

[Martin H]

Good grief girl, you're gonna look like a veg...............

Could be good or bad, depending on which veg...

[Penellype]

Could be tomato, since I have eaten those every day since about the start of August and still have 17 punnets left...


Could be carrot though, since I had a HUGE bowl of carrot soup yesterday!

[Bigmallly]

Ok,Tomato it is.................if you end up a Carrot, there's only one place to put you......

[Penellype]

Ok,Tomato it is.................if you end up a Carrot, there's only one place to put you......

It looks a bit cold being a carrot! I'm definitely going to be a tomato.

[poly]

Sorry been awol
Been eating and sowing honest!

This week so far
Potted up an Advocado seedling - maybe wishful thinking with this one!
Sown more Coriander seeds, pesky vole had a nibble on last weeks seeds

Eaten
Rocoto chillies
Jalapeño
Blue Ballet squash
Small Butternut
Julliet potatoes
Blue Belle potatoes
Slightly squishy beefsteak tomatoes - grilled them
Apples mixed varieties
Pears, possibly Conference
1 orange and a clematine yum yum!

[Penellype]

This week I have eaten:
Tomato Shirley, Sungold, Chocolate Cherry
Potato Sarpo Mira
Carrot Nantes Frubund
Kohl Rabi Vienna Mix (this one was white)
Pepper California Wonder (red)
Onion Sturon
1 strawberry everbearer
Raspberry Allgold

From frozen (in a casserole):
French bean Tendercrop
Courgette Goldmine

Sowed:
Spinach Reddy in propagator for baby leaves grown in grow light garden
Started some alfalfa sprouts