The weather in the uk was a bust this year,really dry,really wet and cold - lost seeds I put out especially peas I think the slugs got pea soup,half the broad beans went west too,even spinach and radish barely broke ground,April was dry very dry and cold,then May was wet wet wet and amazingly we were glad to see it,so we’re farmers as they had been putting out water bowsers late April near us,the bees had a bad early start,only just looking to swarm now a month late,yesterday I put out sweet corn far too big but I could not put out earlier,a number of squash,2 butternut,3 nico round courgettes,4 collected courgette,courgettes already on plant,and like 50-80 beans - I buy mixed dried beans in the store and grow them so for a single packet I get masses,I still have hundreds to go out,usually we would not grow red kidney,pinto,black,haricot etc etc but i though hmmm less than 2 pounds for 500g I’ll have sone of that,did it 2 years ago not brilliant but ok last year I did well but did not pick until end of season this year I p,an to harvest regularly,cold weather plants mostly still alive this to regular watering but small because of cold and cloud,hopefully we will catch up,but we have managed to eat very little this year,although cherry tomatoes are coming through in the cobservatory,I’ll post pictures when I have something Hal as good as what is on show here but at present my efforts are nothing to shout home about,but I have hopes for the strawberry harvest.
I do loads of perennials too, asparagus, strawberries 9ok I refresh every 3 years) gooseberries,redcurrants,white currants,black currants,lovage,raspberry’s (dear eat the plants sighs) red sorrel - acquired taste and seedlings take over an area, sone spinach more biannual,New Zealand spinach,certain onion types, chives through self seeds,borage also self seeds...I think I am getting boring we have fruit trees a lot as well and sone nuts
asian pears one of two types these taste like alcohol when ripe
red hazelnuts,although only red on tree,with 48 hours of being taken off they look like normal ones
seabuckthorne tart cost a fortune in Michelin restaurants,but the thornes are killers a d hard to harvest,good taste though
medlars popular in the Middle Ages,you need a frost or for them to be very ripe and you spoon a brown mushy mess,unusual rather than connoisseur ok with icecream
king James 1 mulberry,the fruit is also nice with icecream but needs to be eaten after picking does not store and really marks clothes,mulberry are used for silk production and he bought a kings ranome - but he got done thsee mulberries don’t have the silk worm, that’s a different mulberry,but I always go feast when they come out
I have tried citrus fruit several times I grew like 30 from seed got them to a big size upto a dustbin, but 2 really cold winter killed them all,and the soil costs gave up
