[growth] a list of plants
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kaberetttomatoes:
- ~10 Feo de Rio Gordo (beefsteak type): ~5 in the greenhouse bed + 2 on the side still waiting to be ready to plant out + ~3 in the tomato bed outside; one of the greenhouse plants is up to five trusses of flowers already (!) albeit mostly not open, due to the type's apparent habit of terminating short side-shoots with flower trusses
- ~6 'Purple Ukraine' (plum): 1 in the greenhouse bed + ~5 in the tomato bed outside
- ~6 'Chadwick Cherry': 1 in the greenhouse bed + 1 waiting to be ready to plant out + ~3 in the tomato bed + 1 in the growbag on the patio
other nightshades:
- 7 'Pretty in Purple' (chilli): all flowering, some of them starting to set fruit, v exciting
- 2 (or possibly 3?) 'Purple Beauty' (bell pepper): still in small pots in the greenhouse, but starting to flower
- 3 (or possibly 2?) 'Sweet Chocolate (bell pepper): ditto (exciting purple-striped stems on whichever of these it is I have 3 of!)
cucumbers:
- 11 'Chengelkoy': 1 in the growbag at home, 10 on the side in the greenhouse waiting to get big enough to do something with (and also for me to work out where to put them, ulp)
- 'Longfellow': failed to germinate presumably due to age; last four seeds now being babied slightly at home on the off-chance, but I'm not expecting great things
squash various:
- 1 'Alberello di Sarzana' courgette: a neighbour's spare, now in the ground
- 1 ?'Verde di Milano' courgette: in the ground, the only survivor of two that germinated; I think this was these, rather than...
- 3 'Pattison Blanc' (patty-pan summer squash): 2 fairly feeble in the ground, one continuing nursed along at home
- 2 'Tromboncini' (no idea of cultivar): currently in the greenhouse while I work out What To Do With Them; a bonus from some Freegle humans we picked up some pallets from in a socially-distanced fashion the other evening
- I'm possibly going to have a go at doing some late-started butternut squash but equally maybe I'll give up on those for this year on the grounds that I do not even remotely have space for more plants good grief
allium:
- lots of miscellaneous onion sets: from my mother, in the ground, growing away
- lots of misc garlic: from B&Q in the Before Times; in the ground, possibly succumbing to white rot, bah, maybe if I want to do this again I should grow them at home in New Soil
- lots of shallots: likewise from B&Q, in the ground at the allotment, not yet obviously dying
- 24-cell tray of 'Blue de Solaise' leek: thank youewt! At home, theoretically working on germinating.
grains:
- ... several... 'Double Red' sweetcorn: mostly in the ground at this point and bravely growing (with excellent red-striped foliage!), a few still getting established in the greenhouse
- ... some... (less than or equal to 6) 'Painted Mountain' hard corn: prettyyyyyy, ditto
- a 24-cell tray of quinoa 'Temuco' and 'Rainbow': at home, waiting to see if they germinate
beans & peas:
- 'Sugar Magnolia' (sugarsnap pea): definitely... one, might not make it, some more sown on the off-chance (got too old I think, sigh)
- 'Serpette Guilloteau' (pea): lots! starting to think about flowers! VERY EXCITING. This year's big success; not sure what I did differently, but last year they all got thoroughly slugged before getting established and now they are LARGE and BRAVE and THINKING ABOUT FLOWERS and to my utter astonishment I only lost one of them.
- 'Cosse Violette' (French bean): quite a few coming up around the 'Double Red', which they will hopefully eventually climb
- Greek 'Gigantes' (runner bean): several around the 'Pattison Blanc', which did much better planted direct than started off in loo roll tubes and then put out (the latter all got eaten by slugs; the former are growing away well)
- 'Aquadulce Longpod' (broad bean): only managed two surviving plants this year and haven't been as aggressive at the black aphid/ant situation as I might have been (ha), but the few beans we're getting off them are Tasty so maybe I will try again next year
herbs:
- Thai basil: growing away well in the greenhouse, weirdly much less purple than I thought it ought to be (have sowed another few of the definitely-ought-to-be-purple seeds in the warm plant box at home and they're also very much coming up green, to which I say: hmmmmmm)
- rescued-from-the-supermarket sweet basil & Greek basil doing remarkably well, this is definitely the longest I've ever successfully kept supermarket basil alive
- only one parsley plant survived to adulthood this year but it's producing flowers so hopefully if I'm a bit more aggressive in protecting seedlings from the wind and curtailing the mint I'll do better next year
- so. much. mint.
- thyme/chives/purple sage/lovage/lavender/rosemary all doing well in their pots on the patio
- ditto the bay, which is doing The Thing bay does in spring & early summer of tripling in size, oh dear
- We Do Not Acknowledge The Horseradish
trees:
- cherry (plot) actually coming ripe! A is very excited. weirdly the stockings seem to be acting as pretty effective bird-scarers even for the branches that aren't covered
- lemon (greenhouse) continues well! leaves Exuberant, fruit actually visibly starting to change colour, Hurrah That Greenhouse, Well Done That Lemon
- fig (patio) continues to have its fruit swell but gosh I wish I could shelter it from the wind a bit more
- tiny volunteer walnut & oak continue bravely putting forth new leaves
soft fruit:
- 1 sprawling redcurrant (plot): berries really making a go of accelerating toward ripening, aaaaaaah
- 1 even more sprawling jostaberry (plot): absolutely covered in fruit and today I spotted my first one visibly ripening up
- 1 tiny red dessert gooseberry (plot): gamely continuing with its tiny crop (but looks like it's doing lots better than last year; funny what regular weeding'll do)
- 1 grape: that nevertheless persists, and is industriously putting forth a lot of growth a lot more happily now I've propped it up on the outside of the fruit cage; many tiny flowers; I'm trying to tell myself that if it doesn't fruit convincingly this year I really will get rid of it buuut I said that last year too and then hadn't the heart, so, we'll see
- raspberries various (plot): the early canes are setting fruit!
- strawberry 'Cambridge Favourite' (patio): fruit set and starting to ripen but, but I sat and watched a magpie pick the first almost-ripe one and then fly off with it and was outraged. outraged!
- blueberry 'Patriot' (patio): fruit set and starting to ripen. I am going to build a tiny hecking patio fruit cage for this and the strawberry. It Is Decreed.
brassica:
- ~35 purple sprouting broccoli plants (WHERE am I going to PUT THEM), currently on the patio, need to get a bit bigger yet and then be transported to the plot
- 12 calabrese (in a cell tray) to see if they'll come up; direct-sown didn't
- to sow, maybe, I don't have space aaaaaaah: 'Tai Sai' white-stem pak choi (did very well for me last year); 'Rouge Tete Noir' red cabbage (probably too late to get going this year); 'Piacenza' savoy-type winter cabbage; 'Sanda' brussels sprout
root veg:
- speculatively sowed some 'Dragon Purple' carrots but the seed's old so I'm not super hopeful
- ditto 'Touchstone Gold' yellow beetroot
- working my way up to sowing 'Atika' root parsley and 'Tender & True' parsnip ditto
- my mother sent me some Charlotte potatoes that are stubbornly refusing to grow significant sprouts so maybe I just put them in the ground as they are???
misc.:
- I am playing chicken with artichoke-harvest and should probably just go ahead and cut the first few now and see if they're food or if I've left it too late
- 24-cell tray of salad: some rocket, some 'Red Iceberg', some 'Emerald Oak' (some of the 'Red Iceberg' I sowed at the plot is also, to be fair to it, coming up, unlike the rocket)
- 12 cells of French marigold (again because direct-sown don't seem to be doing much and I'm curious if they'll do any better here)
- there's another volunteer oak in the shallot bed
- at some point soon I'm going to want to (work out where to) sow some spinach and some fennel
- my first attempt at poppies (two varieties of breadseed, 'Sokol' white and 'After Midnight') did great up until the point at which they were developing true leaves, whereupon ???slugs???
- 'Velvet Queen' red sunflowers need sowing but I'm trying to coax A into having some Pet Flowers that aren't just "the birds drop sunflower seeds EVERYWHERE, guess we have sunflowers now"
- caraway?????? again this is a victim of "WHERE do I even PUT IT"
- and I know there's Yet More Stuff I'm pretty much just ignoring this year but, quite frankly, this is enough to be getting on with
- ~10 Feo de Rio Gordo (beefsteak type): ~5 in the greenhouse bed + 2 on the side still waiting to be ready to plant out + ~3 in the tomato bed outside; one of the greenhouse plants is up to five trusses of flowers already (!) albeit mostly not open, due to the type's apparent habit of terminating short side-shoots with flower trusses
- ~6 'Purple Ukraine' (plum): 1 in the greenhouse bed + ~5 in the tomato bed outside
- ~6 'Chadwick Cherry': 1 in the greenhouse bed + 1 waiting to be ready to plant out + ~3 in the tomato bed + 1 in the growbag on the patio
other nightshades:
- 7 'Pretty in Purple' (chilli): all flowering, some of them starting to set fruit, v exciting
- 2 (or possibly 3?) 'Purple Beauty' (bell pepper): still in small pots in the greenhouse, but starting to flower
- 3 (or possibly 2?) 'Sweet Chocolate (bell pepper): ditto (exciting purple-striped stems on whichever of these it is I have 3 of!)
cucumbers:
- 11 'Chengelkoy': 1 in the growbag at home, 10 on the side in the greenhouse waiting to get big enough to do something with (and also for me to work out where to put them, ulp)
- 'Longfellow': failed to germinate presumably due to age; last four seeds now being babied slightly at home on the off-chance, but I'm not expecting great things
squash various:
- 1 'Alberello di Sarzana' courgette: a neighbour's spare, now in the ground
- 1 ?'Verde di Milano' courgette: in the ground, the only survivor of two that germinated; I think this was these, rather than...
- 3 'Pattison Blanc' (patty-pan summer squash): 2 fairly feeble in the ground, one continuing nursed along at home
- 2 'Tromboncini' (no idea of cultivar): currently in the greenhouse while I work out What To Do With Them; a bonus from some Freegle humans we picked up some pallets from in a socially-distanced fashion the other evening
- I'm possibly going to have a go at doing some late-started butternut squash but equally maybe I'll give up on those for this year on the grounds that I do not even remotely have space for more plants good grief
allium:
- lots of miscellaneous onion sets: from my mother, in the ground, growing away
- lots of misc garlic: from B&Q in the Before Times; in the ground, possibly succumbing to white rot, bah, maybe if I want to do this again I should grow them at home in New Soil
- lots of shallots: likewise from B&Q, in the ground at the allotment, not yet obviously dying
- 24-cell tray of 'Blue de Solaise' leek: thank you
ewt! At home, theoretically working on germinating.grains:
- ... several... 'Double Red' sweetcorn: mostly in the ground at this point and bravely growing (with excellent red-striped foliage!), a few still getting established in the greenhouse
- ... some... (less than or equal to 6) 'Painted Mountain' hard corn: prettyyyyyy, ditto
- a 24-cell tray of quinoa 'Temuco' and 'Rainbow': at home, waiting to see if they germinate
beans & peas:
- 'Sugar Magnolia' (sugarsnap pea): definitely... one, might not make it, some more sown on the off-chance (got too old I think, sigh)
- 'Serpette Guilloteau' (pea): lots! starting to think about flowers! VERY EXCITING. This year's big success; not sure what I did differently, but last year they all got thoroughly slugged before getting established and now they are LARGE and BRAVE and THINKING ABOUT FLOWERS and to my utter astonishment I only lost one of them.
- 'Cosse Violette' (French bean): quite a few coming up around the 'Double Red', which they will hopefully eventually climb
- Greek 'Gigantes' (runner bean): several around the 'Pattison Blanc', which did much better planted direct than started off in loo roll tubes and then put out (the latter all got eaten by slugs; the former are growing away well)
- 'Aquadulce Longpod' (broad bean): only managed two surviving plants this year and haven't been as aggressive at the black aphid/ant situation as I might have been (ha), but the few beans we're getting off them are Tasty so maybe I will try again next year
herbs:
- Thai basil: growing away well in the greenhouse, weirdly much less purple than I thought it ought to be (have sowed another few of the definitely-ought-to-be-purple seeds in the warm plant box at home and they're also very much coming up green, to which I say: hmmmmmm)
- rescued-from-the-supermarket sweet basil & Greek basil doing remarkably well, this is definitely the longest I've ever successfully kept supermarket basil alive
- only one parsley plant survived to adulthood this year but it's producing flowers so hopefully if I'm a bit more aggressive in protecting seedlings from the wind and curtailing the mint I'll do better next year
- so. much. mint.
- thyme/chives/purple sage/lovage/lavender/rosemary all doing well in their pots on the patio
- ditto the bay, which is doing The Thing bay does in spring & early summer of tripling in size, oh dear
- We Do Not Acknowledge The Horseradish
trees:
- cherry (plot) actually coming ripe! A is very excited. weirdly the stockings seem to be acting as pretty effective bird-scarers even for the branches that aren't covered
- lemon (greenhouse) continues well! leaves Exuberant, fruit actually visibly starting to change colour, Hurrah That Greenhouse, Well Done That Lemon
- fig (patio) continues to have its fruit swell but gosh I wish I could shelter it from the wind a bit more
- tiny volunteer walnut & oak continue bravely putting forth new leaves
soft fruit:
- 1 sprawling redcurrant (plot): berries really making a go of accelerating toward ripening, aaaaaaah
- 1 even more sprawling jostaberry (plot): absolutely covered in fruit and today I spotted my first one visibly ripening up
- 1 tiny red dessert gooseberry (plot): gamely continuing with its tiny crop (but looks like it's doing lots better than last year; funny what regular weeding'll do)
- 1 grape: that nevertheless persists, and is industriously putting forth a lot of growth a lot more happily now I've propped it up on the outside of the fruit cage; many tiny flowers; I'm trying to tell myself that if it doesn't fruit convincingly this year I really will get rid of it buuut I said that last year too and then hadn't the heart, so, we'll see
- raspberries various (plot): the early canes are setting fruit!
- strawberry 'Cambridge Favourite' (patio): fruit set and starting to ripen but, but I sat and watched a magpie pick the first almost-ripe one and then fly off with it and was outraged. outraged!
- blueberry 'Patriot' (patio): fruit set and starting to ripen. I am going to build a tiny hecking patio fruit cage for this and the strawberry. It Is Decreed.
brassica:
- ~35 purple sprouting broccoli plants (WHERE am I going to PUT THEM), currently on the patio, need to get a bit bigger yet and then be transported to the plot
- 12 calabrese (in a cell tray) to see if they'll come up; direct-sown didn't
- to sow, maybe, I don't have space aaaaaaah: 'Tai Sai' white-stem pak choi (did very well for me last year); 'Rouge Tete Noir' red cabbage (probably too late to get going this year); 'Piacenza' savoy-type winter cabbage; 'Sanda' brussels sprout
root veg:
- speculatively sowed some 'Dragon Purple' carrots but the seed's old so I'm not super hopeful
- ditto 'Touchstone Gold' yellow beetroot
- working my way up to sowing 'Atika' root parsley and 'Tender & True' parsnip ditto
- my mother sent me some Charlotte potatoes that are stubbornly refusing to grow significant sprouts so maybe I just put them in the ground as they are???
misc.:
- I am playing chicken with artichoke-harvest and should probably just go ahead and cut the first few now and see if they're food or if I've left it too late
- 24-cell tray of salad: some rocket, some 'Red Iceberg', some 'Emerald Oak' (some of the 'Red Iceberg' I sowed at the plot is also, to be fair to it, coming up, unlike the rocket)
- 12 cells of French marigold (again because direct-sown don't seem to be doing much and I'm curious if they'll do any better here)
- there's another volunteer oak in the shallot bed
- at some point soon I'm going to want to (work out where to) sow some spinach and some fennel
- my first attempt at poppies (two varieties of breadseed, 'Sokol' white and 'After Midnight') did great up until the point at which they were developing true leaves, whereupon ???slugs???
- 'Velvet Queen' red sunflowers need sowing but I'm trying to coax A into having some Pet Flowers that aren't just "the birds drop sunflower seeds EVERYWHERE, guess we have sunflowers now"
- caraway?????? again this is a victim of "WHERE do I even PUT IT"
- and I know there's Yet More Stuff I'm pretty much just ignoring this year but, quite frankly, this is enough to be getting on with
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Date: 2020-06-07 02:27 am (UTC)I love marigolds.
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Date: 2020-06-07 03:17 am (UTC)I love plant variety names.
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Date: 2020-06-07 04:39 am (UTC)So bay doing that is a known thing? Mine has grown hugely in a few weeks.
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Date: 2020-06-07 05:43 pm (UTC)We shall see. I might be making a lot of passata. I am definitely excited to see how they turn out...!
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