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Post by richardw on Jun 25, 2017 14:13:38 GMT -5
Looking good, whats the carrot in photo 1
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Post by taihaku on Jun 26, 2017 16:09:37 GMT -5
Looking good, whats the carrot in photo 1 Kuroda long 8 from Baker Creek Richard. I suspect they look longer and straighter than this if they're better grown. Ours were too thickly sown (I had a two year old helping) and not thinned effectively but they've still made nice little carrots. I used old seed so there is a mix of oxheart, a yellow french variety and atomic red in there too but I think these are all the Kuroda. Interestingly one of my carrot seed packets seems to have some queen anne's lace contamination in it (quite a low level) which is somehting I've never experienced before. |
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Post by richardw on Jun 28, 2017 1:22:20 GMT -5
Kuroda is a carrot i grew during the past summer, did really well, I'm adding it to my Benhorn for cross pollination, i'll pull some and post a photo.
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Post by taihaku on Oct 31, 2017 14:42:51 GMT -5
Wow - long time, utterly no update. So how'd we do?
We're currently at 513kg of squash harvested:
- really good harvest of Joseph's moschata;
- spectacular harvest from a single plant of "winter sweet" an f1 maxima - 25 plus fruit averaging 2-3kg!
- around 50 single serving pumpkins from a couple of plants;
- hopefully some seed from a black futsu; lofthouse moschata cross.
4 watermelons from 3 plants - not great but I increased my seed from joseph's kind start significantly and proved the concept (deliciously)
I have huge numbers of habaneros going to waste and a jar of freshly dehydrated "Trinidad Gold Dust"; my preferred Trinidad Perfume super mild caribbean chilli powder.
Good crops of beetroot, carrots, kale, pak choi, celeriac, psb, toms
66kg of tates (though a lot lost to blight) - hugely recommend Mayan Gold
My tomatillo grex planting sits largely unharvested.
All in all we went nearly 3 months over summer without buying veg in our first year of this garden and are now giving a lot of produce (squash) away. The perennial beds are settling nicely and it felt like a massive proof of concept whilst we learned a lot about how we can improve next year. COuple of failures (beans and corn).
Oh and I found a commercial dahlia variety with huge tubers!
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Post by richardw on Nov 1, 2017 12:19:38 GMT -5
Thats a lot of squash
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