I’ve got French beans, so mine will be another month yet I would think. I’ve got 6 different varieties of courgettes dotted about in all sorts of weird and wonderful places - the ones not in the raised bed seem to betaking over, as usual I’ve put the rampant ones where I shouldn’t have put them!
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Courgettes always seem to grow bigger than you think they will 
. The flowers are pretty though. We have a couple of globe artichokes in the borders which are huge, but look great.
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I’d NEVER get him to eat artichokes, it’s bad enough with all the other greens - I have to resort to hiding courgettes in stews and other sneaky methods!
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not sure we’re going to eat the artichokes yet, definitely looking forward to the courgettes though.
All your gardens and veg are looking really lush - well done 
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All looking lovely. Love Cosmos, we’re growing them for the first year and they’ve done really well.
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Every year I end up with an experiment down the allotment, sometimes they work (tomatillos, new zealand yams), some times they don’t (quinoa, sweetcorn (bloomin’ dear), edamame beans (bloomin’ mice)). This year’s experiment was Japanese land seaweed - like samphire but not picky about whether the water is salty or not - I was given the seed by an uncle. This morning as i was cropping the other stuff i thought that some might go well in the prawn risotto I have planned for tea but realised I had no idea how to crop it! I went with snip the tips off.
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My sis in law grows her lettuce in window boxes which helps and in the past I’ve used crushed egg shells around some of my plants.
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Hi everyone
My little cuttings have come along well, some need potting on again, I’ll have to take a pic of them.
My I love overgrown gardens as you can see, what style of garden to you like/have?
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Hi everyone,
@DaisyWings your garden is so pretty! And yes, I love an overgrown garden and this is what I am trying to achieve with my allotment as well. Here are some cosmos flowers amongst tomato plants
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Lovely 
Hey everyone - what are you growing this year?
I’m trying little gem lettuces, cauliflowers and some tumbling tomatoes for a change. I was going to try some parsnips but I haven’t managed to get a bit of earth dug over for those yet.
I’ve also got some spring onions and carrots planted.
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(please remember I have a established allotment and have been at this for a while)
We’re in the middle of asparagus season and there is also a steady stream of rhubarb, radishes, pak choi and baby lettuce leaves. The first of the mange tout are setting pods and there are flower buds on the summer squash, toms, dwarf beans, broad beans and climbing beans. Also got cauliflowers, kale, carrots, beetroot, autumn planting onions and potatoes coming a long nicely. This year’s experiment is celeriac.
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I have been busy potting this week. the potoates were in a few weeks ago. I have just sewn leeks,carrots,cabbages,cauliflower,tomatoes,sprouts,kale,broccolli,peppers,onions,beetroot,radishes,lettuce,spring onions, courgettes, cucumber, runner beans, sweetcorn and french beans… We sold quite a lot of veg last year which paid for the seeds and compost.
I am trying rainbow chard this year, something we have never had before.
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I’m trying bell peppers for the first time this year. So far they seem to be going well. Just need the weather to warm up a bit. 
On the downside, the ******** slugs & snails have got at my half hardy seedlings in the cold frame & eaten all the tithonia & dahlia that were in there. 
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I’m doing mostly the same as the last few years except for the lettuce and the french climbing beans, which are struggling to get going, they really don’t want to show themselves - the peas on the other hand are rampant already! Also cougettes, beetroot, swiss chard, onions and my favourite - tromboncino. Still haven’t planted out the bedding plantss as it’s been so cold at night and raining ever since. Once they’re cleared out of the greehouse, I’ll transplant the toms, melon and gherkin in big pots in there. That’s the plan anyway.
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You all sound really busy!
I’ve ordered a plug pack of plants from suttons seeds (it was really reduced so I couldn’t say no) but I’m not sure why I’ve done it as I can’t really plant any flowers in the ground in the back garden as the rabbit eats them all and in the front garden I don’t have much room left in the borders. I’ll have to get some more pots and keep them up high!
Can I ask a question - I started lettuce seedlings and cauliflowers off in my studio as it’squite warm in there but as they were ready to put outside we had a week of hard frosts, so I kept them indoors but now they’ve got really tall and spindly. The ones I’ve put outside, I’ve buried deeper in the earth so they are not flopping around. What should I have done to have prevented them getting so gangly?
Did you put them out during the day and then bring them back indoors at night or did they just stay indoors? Normally gangly growth is from them being warm and moist (ie ideal conditions for rapid growth) and the indoor/ outdoor thing keeps them safe at night when its cold but being out in the cooler day time temps slows down growth and makes them a bit sturdier. Gangly growth can also occur if it is too shady but that’s not normally an issue on a windowsill.
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