Hi everyone, I used to post a lot in a previous Gardens etc until my wife was also diagnosed with cancer just over 2 years ago and she went through such a hard time so my time was taken up with not just Mrs Tvman but I was not good because of the rise and fall of red cells, white cells, neutrophils and platelets.
The good news is that I have a little bit more free time to garden. I never stopped because it's in my DNA to get working in the garden. I'm also a wheelchair user because of a serious back condition called spinal stenosis and the pain is so great that I'm only able to work in short bursts.
So let's see photos of your gardens or allotments, whether they be large or small or maybe you only have room for pots and troughs in a balcony or back yard.
My speciality for the last 40 years is vegetables and I have won hundreds of prizes over the last 20 years or so. I have had vegetables in show that have made me Northern Ireland champion for my sins. Unfortunately, since covid some shows have ceased therefore I haven't entered any for a few years.
I've a few photos below, that's if I can remember how to insert them! It's been a while.
Below is a photo of the contents of my greenhouse, there are tomato plants left and right of the pathway. Also just past the tomatoes are cucumber plants against that have frames for them to climb up. The cucumber variety is Mini Munch, they're a small variety that are sufficient for a few salads
The plants in the large pots below are aubergines, variety Black Beauty and inbetween the pots is a seed tray in which spring onion seeds have been sown which of course haven't germinated yet. Over here in Northern Ireland we call spring onions "scallions" and apart from in salads we have them with butter in mashed potatoes and that dish is called "champ". Believe it or not that was served as a stand alone dish that we had when I was small, some 60 years ago. Just mashed potatoes with small pieces of cut up scallions, cooked slowly in real butter then a dinner plate was loaded up with champ, a hole made in the top and filled with more butter then everything was mixed together and eaten. Along with an Ulster Fry in the morning, no wonder we had the highest rate of heart disease in Europe!
Last photo below for this post is a bed of garlic (on the left), shallots in the foreground and at the far end for those of you eagle-eyed is a few red and white onions that are just 2 or 3 inches high. They are grown from onion sets that are small immature onions and usually come in a net bag weighing 250g and there are about 70 in total.
You'll notice that I have wire netting around the beds, that's because 3 years ago I had a rabbit problem. 35 years without them, 1½ years of rabbits and none since! The wire netting is staying for a while yet!
What about some photos from anyone else?
Tvman
Hi Tvman, the sweetcorn looks fab, one of my favourites too, though I always ate mine on the allotment, immediately after picking
, our unwelcome furry visitors were keen on it as well, often you could see people's sweetcorn patch shaking on a calm day as the rats knew just when to move in. I grew mine in an unglazed greenhouse with just the bottom pains in.
Eddie xx
Pulled up my first parsnip today and it's been eaten already 
Tvman x
Mrs Tvman and I picked a few apples from my tree today, she's already made 1 apple pie and she'll be busy over the next few days making apple pies and crumbles as there are many, many more apples still on the tree. We have a chest freezer in the garage that'll gratefully receive a few pies and crumbles. I have a press too for some fresh apple juice.
Tvman x
Rats are a real nuisance at times, the biggest problem is with people with animals not using rat proof feeders, or worse just throwing food on the ground, then there are the idiots who trap the foxes even knowing their keeping rat numbers down.
Parsnip looks good my friend, would that have been honey roasted, and the apples are fab and good to hear you juice your apples too, isn't it amazing, and apple pie n crumble are the best, we like to put a few berries in ours.
Hi Tvman, this isn't too shabby having been grown outside in Yorkshire, can you tell what it is my friend?.
Eddie xx 
I definitely wouldn't have said sweet pepper but knowing you there's always a twist with your question of what something actually is. Nothing is ever what it seems lol 
I stopped growing sweet peppers years ago in the greenhouse because out of say, three plants I had very little reward for all the sowing, potting up and watering and checking daily.
What variety of sweet peppers are they? I think I can see a small red one or is it a leaf? Will they ripen indoors using the usual methods of ripening or can you eat them green?
Maybe as Killinchy Northern Ireland is a full degree north of Doncaster, that makes a difference in growing them lol
Tvman x
They are from seeds but we have had better years
Patrick xx
