So, Tell Us, What Are Ye All At In The Veg Garden?

[darbo 4,774]

Bumper harvest terry nice work. Do you string your onions up when dried for storage.

 

Some from last year.

 

Edited August 6, 2016 by darbo

[jok 3,254]

Terry pal. Do not bag your onions. Grade them size wise I've biggest to smallest. Tie a piece of twine to a short stick, 6 ins ish, start with the biggest onion, (you MUST let the green tops die off to brown,) take the onion and twist the neck round the twine a couple of times and pull down. Do again, opposite then fill in the gaps. As you go on you will create an onion string which believe me helps to store them a lot better and you will be using them well into March. The Kelseas, of which I've grown about 200 need different storage because they do tend to soften up by late January. However, that's another story. What a nice looking crop pal. I think,looking at the pics, we have all grown exactly the same main crops. Hope you are more successful with your brassicas than I have been. Flipping nightmare here and don't really know why. Some say wet, some say dry, some say not hard enough ground but to be honest, it's the same ground as in previous years and I have had great results. Goes to show. Never to old to learn. From down the allotment. Jok.

[Tiercel 6,986]

Terry pal. Do not bag your onions. Grade them size wise I've biggest to smallest. Tie a piece of twine to a short stick, 6 ins ish, start with the biggest onion, (you MUST let the green tops die off to brown,) take the onion and twist the neck round the twine a couple of times and pull down. Do again, opposite then fill in the gaps. As you go on you will create an onion string which believe me helps to store them a lot better and you will be using them well into March. The Kelseas, of which I've grown about 200 need different storage because they do tend to soften up by late January. However, that's another story. What a nice looking crop pal. I think,looking at the pics, we have all grown exactly the same main crops. Hope you are more successful with your brassicas than I have been. Flipping nightmare here and don't really know why. Some say wet, some say dry, some say not hard enough ground but to be honest, it's the same ground as in previous years and I have had great results. Goes to show. Never to old to learn. From down the allotment. Jok.

Jok, think what has been the difference between last year and this with your plot prep. Rotavator.

 

TC

[jok 3,254]

Flipping right on. Never gave it a thought. Next though I need to understand how that has made such a difference if indeed that is the cause. Are you suggesting the ground has been softened up too much I wonder? Jok

[jok 3,254]

Them ain't onions Darbo. Them's grapes. Jok.

[darbo 4,774]

Them ain't onions Darbo. Them's grapes. Jok.

i was standing a fair distance away with the camera

[terryd 8,415]

Thanks Allan that sounds like a plan I will get that sorted for the drying. Ok Jok that also sounds a good idea for storing and John I have never stored any before this is the first time I have managed any thing decent well chuffed. My only quibble was some were a bit flat. They looked big and round but when lifted the bottoms were flat. Then the other patch they were nice and rounds. I assume maybe the soil was too well packed

Edited August 6, 2016 by terryd

[Tiercel 6,986]

Flipping right on. Never gave it a thought. Next though I need to understand how that has made such a difference if indeed that is the cause. Are you suggesting the ground has been softened up too much I wonder? Jok

If it has caused a difference I am honestly at a loss to tell you why, but there was a difference to previous years, now whether it would be the same next year I could not tell you. That is one of the problems with gardening it can take years to find out why things are going wrong as there are so many variables. Next year maybe you could prepare your brassica beds early to give them time to settle and see if that makes a difference? Just a shot in the dark.

 

TC

[darbo 4,774]

Thanks Allan that sounds like a plan I will get that sorted for the drying. Ok Jok that also sounds a good idea for storing and John I have never stored any before this is the first time I have managed any thing decent well chuffed. My only quibble was some were a bit flat. They looked big and round but when lifted the bottoms were flat. Then the other patch they were nice and rounds. I assume maybe the soil was too well packed

Have a look on youtube terry a few vids on how to dry/string/store onions.

[terryd 8,415]

tad da see why i never became a builder

 

[Tiercel 6,986]

tad da see why i never became a builder

 

It will do the job, to me thats all that matters.

 

TC

[twobob 1,497]

Went down mine as hadn't been there for a week,my toms plants had withered and gone black, so pulled them up, weeded half the plot, pulled about 4 plastic trugs worth of bind weed off the fence between mine an next doors plot.

Anyone ever get disheartened ? I just not got the enthusiasm for it, I don't know if it's because the lack of time for it or as stuffs failed ,hopefully can get past it and try again next year.

yep smithie off here called in yesterday he doesnt believe i can walk i was on my hands n knees weeding up the leaks ive dug it about four times this year its still full of weeds it hasnt been looked after properly for years try not to let it get you down

[jok 3,254]

Know. What Terry. Them flat bottomed onions are a Dutch breed. Maybe they got mixed in. Good eater though. Jok.

[Rake aboot 4,935]

Well I`ve never grown a damn thing before, but here are a few pics of my harvest.

 

The poly tunnel is shared with a few folk.

 

[darbo 4,774]

Nice one poly tunnel looks spot on some good veg there.