Yaise I bought my black mulch from Harrods You dig cos you like it Ade. You wouldn't if you didn't

Signed
A Fluffer

And cos I ain't got a spare £300!!!

Arid I thought it was just down Saff

It's nice to read about first harvests Don't worry SQ, you'll get there ... Have you sown some salads and things, cos that doesn't take long

Dreading to have a look at plot after neglecting it just a few days Every time I go now the weeds have taken over, t'is annoying me

I have got some salad stuff sown, I am planning on radishes and beetroot once I have a bed to sow them in outside - correct me if I am wrong there

I have to admit that I do quite like the digging, it's just that there is sooo much of it, it would be nice to go to the plot and have something else to do I am trying to get things planted so that I can at least benefit from my labours in a few weeks

Ade 3 exclamation marks. That's almost vehement!!!

It didn't cost me owt like £300, it was £69 for a large roll. Which will last forever and makes great paths once the beds are cleared. So there!!!

That rain only lasted a half hour Ady and the showers they forecast for today never materialised, so it was out with the watering can again tonight. Everything's shrivelled up since the gales though and int looking too happy I think the combo of wind and sun is doing for em.

I'm doing exactly the same as you this first year SQ - dig a bit, plant a bit, weed the bit I planted , dig a bit more... and when all else fails chop the weeds down to make a lawn. The path I'm sposed to maintain gets a haircut with a pair of shears which is backbreaking but does the job, sort of

Finally made it to the plot and came back with loads and loads of strawberries 2 punnets of raspberries , new potatoes and my 1st 2 courgettes Weeded a bit, sorted out the pond Put a great bit fence round it cos the kids next door caused havoc
Got to go back in a mo to do more weeding
In spite of the pond fiasco, very happy bunny

Courgettes and spuds Well done, mine are miles off but hey they'll come soon enough. You'll be sick of yours way before me Dom

I know what you mean bout kids and ponds. All my cobbles got chucked in mine

My courgettes are still weeny but I have loads of weeny courgettes!!! I also have baby pumpkins, hubbards and buttercups. No potimarron yet though! My marrow plants are also producing baby marrows.

Today, I planted out sprouts. As my big ones always blow despite being put in rock hard ground, this year I have dug a trench and planted them in the bottom. When they are big enough, I shall fill in the trench in the hope that being so deep, they are more firmly anchored. Their bed was also dug a few months ago so they can spread their roots further (TG always digs his contrary to popular thought for this reason) I staked my tomatoes which are covered in flowers and disciplined a few naughty runners!

I have dug my first potatoes, harvested cabbage (pointy and round) and spring sown broadies (my winter ones finished last week - what a succession!) I also dug up my overwintering onions. One or two with rot which have come home to be used. The rest are sitting on weed covering as there is no rain forecast till tomorrow.

I shall be harvesting peas next week!!!!!

Yesterday we ate mainly from garden , so chuffed.
Lunch courgette soup. Dinner potatoes , spinach and french beans. Only needed a little fish. For dessert rhubarb. Really chuffed.
Got 3lb 12oz of Charlottes from one bag. From the 3 small seed pots I put in there was really impressed

just nipped to the plot to measure up to get the few last panes of glass for the greenhouse, came back with arms full of lavender and dyers chamomile and some courgettes, I guess courgette cake season is upon us...................the girls will be chuffed

That greenhouse'll be done in no time then

I've had 1st earlies, raspberries, broad beans and there's 2 courgettes and some asparagus peas just about ready. In the GH Mr L ate the 1 sungold tomato which had ripened and there are 5 cucumbers at various stages of development - one's about 8" long. Not sure what size to pick it, but somehow I don;t think it'll be there much longer... Oh, and there's a bumper crop of creeping thistles which have appeared from nowhere this week

I have three prospective championship marrows and loads of littlish courgettes but they all seem to have got stuck with the recent cold weather. Still eating broadies (French and Runners flowering nicely) new potatoes, kale (Red Russian, Cavalo Nero and Curly) and cabbage. Started harvesting peas and will soon be harvesting carrots. My winter squash are putting out loads of fruit and one of my pumpkis is tennis ball sized. If the weather warms up a bit, I can see this being a very good year. My sweetcorn is looking well healthy too.

Sooooo glad we have rain ... spuds were so dry, two rows did not fill a bucket

Maybe now I can get some stuff sown on the plot ????

I have three, teeny courgettes
first sack of spuds yielded enough to fill one cup
some weird, unidentified squash triffid thing from Dom sending up squillions of male flowers as it takes over the whole bed
Three butternut plants with no flowers yet
Two cucumber plants with no flowers yet
some runner bean plants with no flowers yet
some french beans with no flowers yet

are you noticing a pattern here?

Sowwy about the triffid Tara Those mixed packs seemed a good idea at the time
No plotting for me at the moment, just endlessly emptying the water from the saucers under the plants like Flo Oh and getting wet from going to the compost bin

don't apologise Dom!
it's the healthiest plant I've got......all my hopes for a big harvest are pinned on that triffid

I was late getting mine in so mine are all still too little to be doing anything, I do have a pumpkin with 2 baby pumpkins on tho

Not been near my plot for days Getting withdrawals. I had hoped to be getting ready for open day The glass over my cues, chillies and aubs has been over so hope they're not parched

Got 8lb of carrots from 12 of my squares,so quite pleased. OH was amused as it started to pour as I finished and proceeded to clean them up a little before bringing them inside

I've been for a couple of hours this afternoon. I'm ages behind all of you but I have got loads planted out

I remember feeling like this the 1st year SQ, don't worry, everything'll soon catch up I'm 'behind' with a lot of things this year, like the peas... First sowings got munched so the new lot is just flowering now And out of all my sweet peas, only 2 survived But they're very pwetty

Went to pick raspberries tonight, I think there's a glut this year But no strawbs left, the pigeons got'em And I've got 8 courgettes

Dom has got 8 courgettes everybody

I aint picked one yet. As for strawbs I ate two so far. Peas - none. Not checked me spuds yet. Oh well maybe tomorrow, weather permitting
I could get to the plot and find millions of courgettes

hope so, got a stall at the church fete on Sat'dy Might take some eggs, and type out a recipe for courgette omelette

My peas got munched too - 2 sowings, so the third lot are still only ickle and just thinking about flowers now Beans in the garden are flowering, beans at the plot are putting out new leaves after being munched. Ditto asparagus peas. Ditto sweetcorn (not flowering but three times the size of the plot ones Josh planted). I laid some of the thistles I weeded out, around his sweetcorn and peas (he's got his own bit of the plot) to try to stop thembeing munched any more and so far, it seems to be doing the trick. Brasicas are doing well and so's the fruit and GH stuff. Success wise, it's almost the opposite of last year