Bumping this in. Today I planted 20 Pentland Javelin new spuds in pots. When I bought my seed back in the Spring, I kept a bag back in the booze/bait fridge in my workshop. Before the cold weather sets in the pots will be moved into a greenhouse and fleeced.
Today at our local cattle market I picked up 20 purple sprouting broccoli plants and 20 kale plants for the princely sum of 2 quid! The ones I grew have been eaten alive! Got rose in the vacant beds this afternoon, and sowed Soring cabbage, Autumn and Winter lettuce, oriental greens,Winter radish and peas(for salad shoots).
Tomorrow I am making chutney. Rhubarb and tomato.
In three words I can sum up everything I have learned about life: It goes on.
Robert Frost.
Covid 19: After that level of weirdness ,any situation is certainly possible.
I dont eat potatoes parsnips etc ( health reasons) So having to rethink what I grow
I have loads of radish that when cooked make a great tata sub. So Mooli, Turnips and some swede. squash, lemon cue and melon cue plus normal cue. about 20 varieties of toms .
This year just seeing how things grow best , but hoping to get help building raised beds for the whole of my garden and can grow and preserve in ernest
Going to get it so my garden is year round ( with the help of the greenhouse) growing and preserving.
Its not easy on your own when you cannot do the DIY you used to do but I will get there. Do or die
I planted runner beans and what I expected to be dwarf bean bushes, which I expected to reach two foot high. I now have twenty feet of six foot high and four foot wide bean hedges They have gone mental! I have been eating beans for six weeks and I have enough frozen to last until christmas Makes up for last years disaster.
I'll be harvesting the squash soon. I got a dozen, including some Crown Prince-type. It's normally sold as an F1 hybrid but I am cultivating some F2 (second generations) to see whether I can get a true-breeding Crown Prince-type that I can then share, I'd be delighted if I can.
For winter, I have leeks, turnips, swedes, parsnips, kale and some other brassica that I can't remember, and one or two rows of dwarf french beans that I sowed as a catch crop after the spuds. If the weather is good we'll have fresh beans in October. I still have spuds to dig and I am very keen to see what has happened with the Oca that I grew this year - the plants are impressive, I hope the tubers are too, as it is no trouble to grow.
I'm working on clearing more of the allotment including the neglected raspberry bed which has turned into a huge mess of weeds. It needs cutting down, mattock-ing up, and a lot of cultivation. Plenty done, plenty still to do.
Ahastyatom wrote:I'm about to harvest my first every pepper and I'm so proud of it . I'm only growing peppers and tomatoes but I had to start somewhere .
And you should be proud of it. Congratulations. Next year, aubergines and courgettes, then you can make your own ratatouille.
Got rose in the vacant beds this afternoon, and sowed Soring cabbage, Autumn and Winter lettuce, oriental greens,Winter radish and peas(for salad shoots).
They have gone mental! I have been eating beans for six weeks and I have enough frozen to last until christmas 
Makes up for last years disaster.