The veggie show – The Results!

Posted on 8 Sep 2010 | 5 comments

Back in the Spring, our favourite Lakeland Lovelies asked us if we were growing any veg with the children this year. We of course scoffed at the suggestion we might NOT be doing so… and then rapidly scrambled  to happily thank them for providing the tools with which to do so!

Well, harvest time is nearly done, so we thought we’d catch you up with what we got and how it did.

The Vegetable Garden in a grobox – remember us Gardening with a 3yr old? Well, the promised riches of 12mths of vegetable growth did not occur – we watered and watched impatiently, and got very excited when ‘things’ began to grow. A handy visit from a more knowledgeable Grown Up (thank you Gangy) informed us we had a nice crop of Broad Beans coming… but that was it.

The broad beans were in fact fantastic -

We’re still cropping them, and even the anti-green-beans brigade like them very much. But nothing else materialised from the GroBox, sadly.

The potatoes – oooh, yummo! We started them way back here, watered them occasionally looked after them so very carefully… and look what we got:

Not masses and masses, but an impressive enough haul for the children to be mighty happy, and very proud to be eating THEIR potatoes. Plus the digging them out was a brilliantly messy  and competitive procedure, which is always a bonus.

And so to the tomatoes.

Gosh oh crikey the tomatoes.

We planted them back at the start of the summer, and have to admit we haven’t treated them very well. We have fed them (very occasionally) and we have tried to keep them watered.

And then we got back from France to find ourselves faced with the Triffid Tomatoes.

So how did they go?

Well.

This is this mornings haul:

The plants in the Large Growpots are looking fine and dandy, and by far the biggest we have ever grown:

The triffid tomatoes have been just as productive, and it looks like we’ll be eating deliciously fresh tomatoes for some weeks yet…

Both the Large Growpots and the Mini Grow Bed & Cover are on sale at Lakeland at the moment. May I urge you in the strongest terms to get yourselves over there and snaffle up a couple? Your veg will be the envy of your neighbours next year, I promise.

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