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Tiresias
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Click for profile 		Who's growing shit this summer?

My household (three downstairs tenants, and the family of three upstairs) has got a few varieties of lettuce on some raised beds and some spinach growing out of a pot in the backyards. There are tomato plants in waiting as well. I'm sad to say I wasn't able to help out with any of the initial planting and such because I was gallivanting around Europe at the time, but uhhh I help out by harvesting and eating a lot of the greens each day so that more can grow.

There are also two pears trees, two apple trees, a blackberry bush, and a grapevine around a trellis -- looks like there's gonna be a HUGE haul from all of these next year. YUM.

If all you have is a windowsill in an apartment, you can always try herbs or miniature cukes and corn! As well as guerrilla gardening!
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ALittleOnTheLostSide
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Click for profile 		I am keeping some herbs that my mom gave me for a wedding gift.
The basil smells like heaven.
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kayte
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Click for profile 		I'm growing basil, chives, and tomatoes in my office at work.
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Click for profile 		It would appear I can't even grow weeds in my garden Sad!
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Click for profile 		Dear Ivan,

Come to Halifax, and bring me clippings from your Pear tree.

Thank you.
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Tiresias
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Click for profile 		I actually brought back some cherry pits from the tree that's in my grandparents' backyard in Belgrade... only to lose them all Sad! I am sad, it was a particularly sweet variety.
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RotaryKid
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Click for profile 		Ah yes, but pits from a Cherry tree apparently may not grow the same as the parent. The only way to ensure the same sweetness as the parent, is a root clipping. At least in the case of cherries. I've been trying to make a cherry tree from the one at work for a few weeks now. I think I might invest in a rooting hormone to increase my chances.
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Click for profile 		There are pear trees in the back of Alicia's old house Anthony..just go take some from there.
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Click for profile 		zucchini, spinach (not doing well at all), cauliflower, tomatoes, peppers, 3 varieties of basil, broccoli.
so much fun!
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RotaryKid
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quoting: -=DerTodesengel=-
There are pear trees in the back of Alicia's old house Anthony..just go take some from there.


lol I'm sure her family will enjoy having some random Asian dude clip parts of their tree...
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Click for profile 		That's why you go at night...=D
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Click for profile 		I have a few courgettes sitting next to me as we speak!

Right so in the allotment (I am an allotmenteer!).

Onion
Spring Onion
Courgettes (Zucchini)
Patty Pan Sunbeam and Moonbeam
Butternut Squash
Black Futsu
Spaghetti Squash
Sweetcorn
White Sprouting Broccoli
Purple Sprouting Broccoli
Calabrese
Tomato
Lettuce
Cucumber
Radish (for roots and for seed pods)
Peas/Mange Tout
Runner Beans
French Beans
Aubergine
Various Herbs
Parsnips
Chilli Peppers
Cabbages spring and winter
Carrots
Raspberries
Blackberries.
Potatoes
Apples
Bathuwa (not by choice)
Huckleberries (Not by choice)

Want to get in the autumn/spring some Gooseberries, blackcurrants, blueberries, rhubarb and asparagus planted for a couple of years time.
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kayte
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Click for profile 		Dude that's quite the garden.

I don't have any outdoor space but I'm getting a box of veggies weekly from a local organic farm. This week I got snow peas, snap peas, green peas, broccoli, carrots, potatoes, zucchini, cucumber, squash, and a bit of savory. It's like all the joy of gardening with none of the work.
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Click for profile 		I was til me and my bf split and I had to leave our house and my tomatoes behind. It's sad. I hope he's watering them! I tried to grow some other stuff but the soil was really bad and not much more than radishes were coming up.
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Dude that's quite the garden.


It's an allotment not a garden. Idon't know if you have them over there. Basically for £30 a year the council rents me a 250 sq m plot of land that I grow in. I maybe use 3/4 of it at the moment. I was lucky and only had to wait a month for mine. Waiting lists can reach 3 years in some parts of the country for one.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allotment_%28gardening%29#United_Kingdom

It does limit the things I grow which sucks. Cut and come agains are a no go because the damn things a 40 minute walk away but I move yearly especially now my house purchase has fallen through I wouldn't be able to grow anything without it.
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Tiresias
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Click for profile 		Mark... are you growing all that in your plot alone? Or is that all that's growing in the entire alotment garden thing where yours is? Because the list of stuff you're growing is so huge just in text that the real life version must be enormous.

Anyway, the lettuce and spinach in my tiny tiny little raised beds are growing like crazy, seriously more than this household of 6 people can handle. We'll harvest practically every leaf in one evening and they'll all grow back (and them some) by the next day. I bet you could sit there and watch and actually notice the stuff growing. Bah to all those naysayers that say organic small-scale urban agriculture can't feed the world!

Well. At least it can provide a good amount of produce during growing seasons. We don't even mind that the deer family living in the backyard ate a whole pot of lettuce the other day.
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Tiresias
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Click for profile 		GRAPESES!






TOMATERS!




How's everybody else's haul been?

[This post edited by Tiresias on 19 September 2010 ]

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Click for profile 		YUM
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Click for profile 		My haul was pretty awesome. Unfortunatly I was not informed of the first frost until it fell. I was working from 0600 to 2100 those days so I lost alot of my squashes to mould. Had some really nice ones though especially like the Uchiki Kuri squashes. Very sweet and didn't seem to mind the frost hitting them. Still have one in stores and a blue kuri for Christmas Dinner.

I had to go dig some parsnips out of the ground last night. They've done really well about twice the size of the supermarket ones but still tender inside. The first one I dug out I saw an inch diameter of white showing in the soil after the first frost and thought it looked good and big. Started uncovering soil by hand and it was about 4 inches in diameter all told and digging it out, well it kept on going. Eventually got a fork and pulled out a foot long parsnip. Very impressive, very sweet and perfectly tender.

I lost my PSB as it flowered and i wasn't there to pick it beforehand. My WSB looks good though. The brussels were tiny and started to unfurl early so I picked the majority of them and gave them to the housemate to fry.

The onions were amazing. So tasty and fairly hot we filled three pairs of tights with them (one in a leg, tie a knot add another etc then cut below the knot when you need one.) Had about 50 and they went in a month and a half. So I'm planting 350 for next year. I have 250 sets in the plot at the moment though how many after the pidgeons rape it I don't know. Leeks are going strong. I'm not a massive leek fan but they have been really nice eaten simply, fried in a little oil.
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sparkles
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Click for profile 		oh my goodness, i didn't see the updates on this thread or the photos. mark, that is realllly impressive. a massive garden. wow. i recently made an apple squash carrot soup with a red kuri and it was fantastic, it's a good little squash. ivan, how much of the grapes did you end up eating? did you bake with them or make jam or anything? wwwwowww.

i want to do a garden so bad. my life will be tres contente when i will live somewhere that i can have a kitten, and a garden patch. part of the problem is that i'm moving back home summers and not staying around my university... maybe next year though.
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