Kedi-Gato's Veggie Patch

[Admin]

Bet you will be busy gardening when you come off holiday Kedi as i guess you have a lot to catch up on.I used to grow stringless beans and will do so again next year they dont take up much space..and the foliage is attractive.

[kedigato]

Yes, I have various packets of seeds to try out, and although we don't have much luck with seeds, I always buy some to try.

I have been collecting empty kitchen and toilet rolls to plant the bean and courgette seeds in. I've read about it several times in various places and it seems to be a good tip, makes planting them out so much easier and there is no damage to the little roots. So as soon as I have unpacked, the next thing to do will be getting the seeds in before it gets too late.

[Admin]

Well it sounds a good tip beans soon grow so you will soon catch up..

[tamarine]

I will put some new veg pics on for you kedigato. Made good progress on the allotment.

[kedigato]

I finally got my green beans in yesterday afternoon. The tip about planting seeds in empty toilet rolls was very good, it made planting them out so easy. I put 2 beans seeds in each roll.

[tamarine]

Kedi the certainly look good to me. I put more runner beans out today.

[kedigato]

I am only trying green beans this year, although the runner beans were good last year. Our neighbours said so too, they had to help us eat them.

You freeze a lot of your veggies, don't you, Tamarine?

[tamarine]

I am still using last years' broadbeans, only a few packets left. Got to make way for this years' produce.

[kedigato]

Our first yellow courgettes of the year will soon be ready for eating. These ones are in huge pots in the veggie patch -





I'm really no good at sowing and growing seeds but I do try a couple of things every year. This year some green striped courgettes took my fancy and I think every one in the pack sprouted! Even after treating several neighbours to well-grown plantlets, we were still left with some so had to find a place to put them - along with some pumpkin plants. The one compost box was also full so I thought that they would look very nice out front in the driveway. Here they are -

This is the large pumpkin -




- and this is the Hoikaido pumpkin on the left and a green striped courgette on the right -




The third pot with striped courgettes didn't turn out, shall take another pic tomorrow.

Mr Kedi has put planter brackets on the fence to support them.

[tamarine]

Well done Keddi it looks very very good. i took some pics of my yellow courgettes for you.

[kedigato]

The rest of the pics -

This is the whole view -




- and this is the pot in the middle that has the striped green courgettes, you can see how well two of them are doing.

[tamarine]

Georgous, beautiful and looking good.

[kedigato]

Thanks Tamarine.

Look - here is our first yellow courgette of the year. The other stuff is shop-bought.

[DAG]

That looks tasty, wonder if the yellow courgettes taste any different to the green?

[kedigato]

They are creamier and have a better texture, not so watery.