Veggie Garden Info

Matron's Flower Show

Original post from Down on the Allotment, May 19, 2008

The only flowers you will see this week in my garden are those which precede tasty vegetables! I've just finished watching the opening day of the RHS Chelsea flower show on TV.. not a veggie in sight.. shame on them. Regard my crimson flowered broad beans, flowering their little hearts out at the moment. Small beanlets are starting to appear at the base of each plant. Looks like it will be a bumper year for strawberries too. This is the third year I have found a permanent home for about a dozen plants. I just peg down the runners each year and try to remember which plants are past their best and whip them out. This week I will give them a feed and lay down some straw for the berries to rest on.. er.. that's why they call them straw-berries!

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Seed Stalks Parading Through the Veggie Garden

Original post from Veggie Gardening Tips, May 04, 2008

A recent article discussed a problem with lettuce and other vegetable plants bolting and going to seed prematurely, but flowering is just a part of the natural cycle of things out in the veggie patch. A look around the back yard revealed quite a few edible plants that are bolting and flowering, but for the most part it’s not a problem if it occurs at the proper time and shouldn’t be taken as a sigh of something gone wrong. Here’s just a sampling of all the vegetable seed factories currently in production out in the garden: Kale - This one is at the top of my list and I frequently refer to it as mock broccoli.

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First flowers

Original post from Fluffius Muppetus, April 19, 2008

Even though the weather is cold and overcast, the largest Gartenperle tomato plant (on the windowsill upstairs) has started to flower.The largest of the Whippersnapper plants isn’t far behind. I don’t think I’d ever realised before how hairy tomato plants are!

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spring vegetable flowers

Original post from Skippy's Vegetable Garden, June 20, 2007

 

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fava flowers

Original post from Skippy's Vegetable Garden, June 16, 2007

Fava beans (broad beans) are a new crop for me this year. I'm looking forward to grilling some tender fresh beans. I have one 3.5 foot row of about 10 plants back behind my pole beans. This week they've started to bloom. Big black and white flowers on plants that are about 2 or 2.5 feet tall.

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Fruit Set and Blossoms

Original post from All About Square Foot Gardening, June 14, 2007

 The blossoms are coming on all of the tomato plants.  The plants have only managed to set a few fruit though.  It doesen’t look like the weather will be getting better to help this.  The forecast calls for highs in the low 90’s and low’s around 70.  This is on the upper limits of tomato’s being able to pollinate.  Only time will tell.  I do feel lucky that I am getting sun though.  This Omega high pressure system is keeping all the rain and the front to the west.   My lawn is brown, but the tomatoes are doing great.

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