Norman_Conquest
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How are your mushrooms going - this is something I have fancied doing.Has anyone had success with outdoor mushrooms?
How are your mushrooms going - this is something I have fancied doing.Has anyone had success with outdoor mushrooms?
Similar to us,the wetter weather has made a lot of difference this year everything is growing more vigorously,only disappointment was my second early Charlotte potatoes which are a bit floury and only good for mash,possibly left them in the ground too long.Good growing season so far, mixture of rain and sun.
Harvesting this week:
tomatoes indoor & outdoor
sweet peppers
dwarf beans
outdoor cucumber
beetroot
lettuce
courgette
spinach
Eating myself fitter
I'm a novice to this but have really enjoyed watching the plants grow.
The good news is that the fruit and veg fairy came out of hiding after lockdown.Where I live the last thing I need to do is grow fruit and veg on my terrace. There is no shortage of fresh stuff in the shops.
Also, in the past the fruit and veg fairy used to deliver stuff to me regularly. Via free handouts from friends. From greenhouses where they could not sell stuff because the quality was not quite good enough. Of sometimes where the wholesale price was so low they did not bother selling it all.
You get to be experts in making courgette or aubergine soup etc. Then freezing it.
When you get a full box of one type of veg you need to pass it around to other as there is too much for you. So I am a fruit and veg fairy myself sometimes. As well as a receiver.
That is not happening at the moment due to social distancing.
I think I might suffer from white bottom rot.I have had a terrible time growing onions and garlic at home, due to white bottom rot. At the allotment, amazing. I bunged in to garlic cloves is a different part of the garden this year. So far so goodie. Everything's else this year, best crop for a long time.