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I like to be self sufficient in:
peas, potatoes, onions, garlic, drying beans, tomatoes, leeks, pumpkins and squash, chillies, broadbeans (drying)
raspberries, blackcurrants and redcurrants
and grow lots in season of:
parsnips, carrots, courgettes, cauli, sweet peppers, french beans, aubergines, sweetcorn, lettuce, beetroot, cucumber
apples (hopefully August to March) pears, plums
some:
cabbage, broccoli, brussels,
want but often fail:
strawberries and melons.
Too many pest like strawberries: birds, squirrels, mice, slugs... I saw 4 squirrels having a look around at the weekend.
melons can be growing strongly then just up and pop their clogs.
though with the state of the ground at the present not sure what I'll be able to grow, might have to rethink
growing rice.
peas, potatoes, onions, garlic, drying beans, tomatoes, leeks, pumpkins and squash, chillies, broadbeans (drying)
raspberries, blackcurrants and redcurrants
and grow lots in season of:
parsnips, carrots, courgettes, cauli, sweet peppers, french beans, aubergines, sweetcorn, lettuce, beetroot, cucumber
apples (hopefully August to March) pears, plums
some:
cabbage, broccoli, brussels,
want but often fail:
strawberries and melons.
Too many pest like strawberries: birds, squirrels, mice, slugs... I saw 4 squirrels having a look around at the weekend.
melons can be growing strongly then just up and pop their clogs.
though with the state of the ground at the present not sure what I'll be able to grow, might have to rethink
growing rice.