Wow! What a giant pumpkin I was able to harvest the other day! When I harvested it and took it into the house to put it on the scales it came out at a full ONE STONE in weight! Have so far made four servings of soup, some baked pumpkin, some boiled pumpkin and the last of this is being boiled today, apart from the large slice I gave to my Mum. Yummy stuff pumpkin, especially with Vegan spread and black pepper! It is pictured here next to a lemon to show how large it is!
giant pumpkin
Aug 28
Raised Vegetable Beds
Jun 3
Dear All
This is the second time I have written this, as the upload would not take my photo as it said it was too big!!! My raised vegetable beds have been fantastic, easier to sow and to weed and also they deter slugs and snails, maybe they don’t like heights!!! I have been able to pack a lot into these beds, garlic, chives, shallots, tomatoes, peas, mangetout, beans, spinach, lettuce, beetroot, radishes, chamomile, lemon balm, thyme, turnips, chard, mini sweetcorn, rhubarb (apparently you should not harvest in the first year as it weakens the plant – so no rhubarb and custard for me this year!) – and even though I only have a small amount of each vegetable, I shall be planting new seedlings in my greenhouse so I can make successive sowings once I have harvested some of my crop. I will try again to upload a photo of a portion of my raised veggie beds. Happy growing and any useful growing tips would be welcomed!
Now that the sun has finally arrived to stay for a while – ‘glass full’ type thinking – we can all plant more out in our veggie beds. This weekend will be finding room for more veggie plants and then getting more seeds planted ready to replace veg when it is harvested!!!
Hello Everyone
Have some fab raised beds, courtesy of my Husband, so have been sowing madly in my greenhouse since Feb. Got some huge seedlings, very healthy and have planted loads out. Still have some perpetual spinach from last year that survived the cold winter and has come up afresh – the cut and come again nature of perpetual spinach is fantastic!!! Have any growers out there tried any different varieties of spinach?