Are there any backyard veggie gardeners here?

[Jude59]

It's a great time of year for getting excited about gardening.  Have even inspired two out of three of our kids to grow their own veg our garden at home is going well and the garden at the back of the office is going very well. Have got pots of plants all over the place too. Really want to grow as much as possible.  In the courtyard I have a zuchinni plant and I think it makes a very attractive pot plant haha! And not just pretty but food providing.

[Jude59]

Astarra, very jealous and admiring of your tomato success!!!
Chookie, those flowers are so vibrantly beautiful!

[obbie]

Jude photos look great. Our veges are coming up, we are picking radishes at the moment, herbs, also our nectarines and plums are on now.

[Halex]

Our first zuchinni, we have about 20 tiny ones atm

[Jude59]

Obbie, i just came in from the office garden with a handful of beautiful radishes and then read your post.  Gosh they look and smell divine!  Tonight I am going to make a lovely radish and lettuce salad starter for us.  I'm thinking a bit of mint and olive oil and white balsamic mixed through - making myself hungry!  And as to the nectarines and plums - sounds wonderful!!!  We only have young berry bushes no fruit trees.

Hally your zuchinni are lovely - so looking forward to those flowers of mine turning into fruit!

[astarra]

I now have 7/10 tomato plants with these on them...

[achookwoman]

Love the look of all the veggies.  very exciting. 
Hally,  all was not lost. 
Jude59,  I have posted a TMX recipe for a salad with radishes,  but yours would be too nice to mix up.  i think you have the right idea.

[Halex]

Yes chookie zuchini good.

Oh have chook poo on my citrus trees, put it on whn you said, loads of flowes, now nothing & but leaves are yellow again.

Any ideas?

H

[CreamPuff63]

Love those flowers chookie. All these veggies are making me hungry. So glad my mint and thyme have come back from the dead and there is new growth coming out from the dead twigs

[Cuilidh]

Picked the first of my broad beans last weekend - still very small and tender, we were eating them straight from the pod.  There's a good crop on them and loads of flowers as well so should keep us going for a while.

Refilled / prepared my raised garden bed a couple of weeks ago and have started planting in it.  My neighbour passed on a couple of extra zucchini and I transplanted a couple of mustard plants and chives - they all seem to be doing well (so far!)

I also planted coloured swiss chard / silver beet two weeks ago and will plant beetroot this weekend.  I have decided to try planting by the moon this year to see how it goes - I figure I've got nothing to lose and it will be an interesting experiment.

Got some more seedlings (tomatoes and chillies) to go in in the next week or two - hopefully we have seen the end of our frosts and they should be safe to go out into the big world of vege growing.

[achookwoman]

Hally, give the lemon plenty of water.  Can't think of anything else.  We also empty the coffee grounds out on to ours.

marina , you are a wonder.  As weekend farmers,  you are doing very well.

[Cuilidh]

Thanks, Chookie, that's very kind of you.  The main problem is keeping water up to our veges during the hot weather - but then, as our very lovely elderly Welsh neighbour said to us when we lived in Wales "... they've got two chances ..." and that's the way we view it.  They will either live or die. 

We try to keep our orchard watered as much as we can, but the cockies usually get to our harvest well before we do, the only thing that survives their onslaught are our crabapples and, to a lesser extent, our plums.  For some reason our local cockies don't like plums and we have so many crabapples they simply cannot eat them all before we can get to pick them!

[gertbysea]

Beautiful. Flowers chookie.

Lovely veggies everyone. I can't even grow parsley.

Gert

[Wonder]

All the food looks amazing. I've only got some herbs, kale, rainbow chard, spinach and rocket. The spinach and rocket have pretty much finished now and the herbs are just taking off.

[CreamPuff63]

You probably could grow bananas but Gert