{"id":286,"date":"2008-09-11T09:08:23","date_gmt":"2008-09-11T09:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/2008\/09\/11\/a-disappointing-year-ish\/"},"modified":"2008-09-11T09:08:23","modified_gmt":"2008-09-11T09:08:23","slug":"a-disappointing-year-ish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/?p=286","title":{"rendered":"A disappointing year – ish"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n
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I’ve just been out harvesting my onion crop.  Out of the 40 or 50 seeds I planted I only got a yield of 15 onions which was a little disappointing, but the onions I did get are fantastic.  The onion top-right in the picture is flipping enormous!!  To prevent such disappointments next year I have just ordered 300 sets from marshalls so next years onion haul will be needing a wide-angled lens.  Along with the onions I also ordered a pear tree, garlic, some Amelia strawberries [ well I had to really ] and various vegetable seeds.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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A few weeks ago I transplanted a load of strawberry runners from my outdoor plants into used Chinese take-away tubs.  I’ve got about 25 new plants above but I think a few of them wont take.  Still, between the strawberry plants pictured above and the 12 Amelia variety I just bought I think the family Steele will be having a bumper harvest of strawberries next year.  Which is fortunate since Amelia is pretty much addicted to them.<\/p>\n

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The pepper seedlings which my Dad gave me in March have matured well but I think they would have benefited from being in bigger pots, having the greenhouse at a higher temperature and not being grown in my home made compost.  My home made compost was lacking a little and in future will be added to the raised beds along with my leaf mulch.  I’ll stick to shop bought compost for seedlings until I get better at home composting…or get a wormery thingy \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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The one and only beef tomato that made it from the donations off Joan next door is ripening well.  It will be a treasured part of a salad and the seeds will be saved for next years attempt when I’ll consider feeding the flipping things \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n

So the conclusion to the 2008 growing season is definitely could do better.  Still, it’s been a pretty shitty year for growing stuff but I have high hopes for 2009 now that I have taken out a subscription to "Grow Your Own".<\/p>\n

P.S. Pictures of my homegrown sweetcorn still to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve just been out harvesting my onion crop.  Out of the 40 or 50 seeds I planted I only got a yield of 15 onions which was a little disappointing, but the onions I did get are fantastic.  The onion top-right in the picture is flipping enormous!!  To prevent such disappointments next year I have … <\/p>\n

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