May Update: What are you growing in 2006? (Tips here for Fruit, Veggies and Flowers!)

reverie · 2 May 2006 at 9:00PM

Hi everyone, can I join in please? :wave:

I am a bit of a late starter, but I enlisted the help of a friend (payment made in true old style of breakfast, lunch and dinner!) on Saturday and dug over about a third of the garden. I now have my fab blank canvas veg patch.

Yesterday I planted seeds of parsnips, betroot, sprouts, little gem lettuces, radishes, parsley, red onions and garlic bulbs. Also have started runner beans, sweetcorn, butternut squash and pumpkins inside.

I still have, purple sprouting, cabbages and tomatoes yet to start.

I am so excited I can barely contain myself :j

herbal · 2 May 2006 at 9:30PM

Also starting this year. Got given a 6x6 greenhouse and should be all up by tomorrow. I had to build a base and raise it from the floor as it was a little small inside for me. Just finished putting the frame together and some glass was put in today but as all the glass is very dirty taking a little time to clean them to new.

Anyway, got 6 moneymaker toms in pots already (outside in cold frame) and they have really come on since i planted them on. So they can go in straight in the next few days, also want to start sowing seeds for Spring onions and lettuce (both grown in greenhouse) have 20 or so Strawberry plants which are coming on very nice.

Also got a few flowers (about 60) for my hanging baskets and about 60 other plants waiting to go in as my garden has got NO plants at all as i cleared the lot out last year (about 50 tons or so).

But here is hoping my first year is going to be ok! Good thing i have an ex gardener as a neighbour (about 80 ish) and all he mainly grew were Toms, Cucumbers and lettuce.

bluemoon_3 · 2 May 2006 at 10:27PM

ellas9602 wrote:

I started by sowing lots of tomatoe seeds in a trays (money maker and tumbler) and they grew really well in a little cheap propagotor on my windowsill. When they were about 2" and had about 4 leaves I put the strongest ones in thier own little pots on the windowsill in the kitchen. This was two weeks ago and they haven't grown since then. the seed leaves appear to be dying and the leaves seem to shrivelling and they just aren't flourishing. Im in Yorks so maybe its the weather or could it be because they are in the kitchen? grease from cooking etc? I also have courgettes on the window sill and green beans and they are doing fine. any advice???

Have a look at the base of the stems where they meet the soil - is it as healthy, thick and green as the upper stem, or is it a bit thinner and brown? This happened to one of my tumbler tomato plants - I checked after the leaves started looking a bit brown and shrivelly, like you describe. I think this is called 'damping off' disease, but I'm a newbie too so I can't say for certain, or why it happens.

Writing my earlier post prompted me to sow some lettuce, rocket, perpetual spinach and mixed salad leaves in a cell tray. I also started a tray of cress .

annie-c · 2 May 2006 at 10:37PM

reverie wrote:

Hi everyone, can I join in please? :wave:

I am a bit of a late starter, but I enlisted the help of a friend (payment made in true old style of breakfast, lunch and dinner!) on Saturday and dug over about a third of the garden. I now have my fab blank canvas veg patch.

Yesterday I planted seeds of parsnips, betroot, sprouts, little gem lettuces, radishes, parsley, red onions and garlic bulbs. Also have started runner beans, sweetcorn, butternut squash and pumpkins inside.

I still have, purple sprouting, cabbages and tomatoes yet to start.

I am so excited I can barely contain myself :j

Welcome to the thread reverie - it's lovely to have someone else to share our excitement!

I went out to check on my mini greenhouse today and ~I'm pleased to say that the spinach and chillis that I potted on yesterday are now holding their heads high! Phew - I didn't want to lose any more!!

Also I made a fleecy 'jacket' for my geraniums to wear at night now I have planted them out in pots - and it worked a treat on a very cold night last night!!!

frannyscho · 2 May 2006 at 10:50PM

Strepsy wrote:

Here's a pic of my best Gartenperle tomato - got the seeds free with Grow Your Own magazine.

See that little branch growing inbetween each main one at its inner elbow next to the main stem...well pinch each one out and pop them in water until they root...the top of an old milk bottle is ideal....takes a few days. Each one of those makes a new plant and staggers your crop for the gathering stage.

NO NEED TO BUY MORE THAN ABOUT 6 NEW PLANTS you get tons after that for free. :T I posted this last year under top tips.

moggins · 3 May 2006 at 7:36AM

Still nothing with my tomato seeds but I do have 3 peppers poking through slightly.

Looks like I should have bought tomato plants after all

Nothing doing with the pumpkins either, although I have found snail poo on top of them, could they have come up overnight and been eaten? Or would they have eaten the seeds themselves, it looks like someone has poked a little finger in each pot but I know DD hasn't been out there with me.

Strepsy · 3 May 2006 at 9:25AM

frannyscho wrote:

See that little branch growing inbetween each main one at its inner elbow next to the main stem...well pinch each one out and pop them in water until they root...the top of an old milk bottle is ideal....takes a few days. Each one of those makes a new plant and staggers your crop for the gathering stage.

NO NEED TO BUY MORE THAN ABOUT 6 NEW PLANTS you get tons after that for free. :T I posted this last year under top tips.

Thanks frannyscho I shall try that. And as I didn't even buy the seeds, they were free off Grow Your Own magazine, even more of a bargain.

I'm going to take a picture of my spuds in a bit as there's been lots of talk about how to grow them.

Want to finish staining my fences today... have only done 3 so far, 15 to go :eek: Still, lovely day for it.

Strepsy · 3 May 2006 at 12:17PM

Here are my first spuds! They've just reached the top of the bucket so I've filled them up and put some weedfree material over to help keep out the light. I planted two in this bucket that I got from Morrison's when they were selling off the black flower buckets 10 for 99p. They should be ready in June so I'm really excited as it doesn't seem far away now it's May.

nicki_2 · 3 May 2006 at 1:10PM

I've just been out to move all my pots/seed trays into the sun (trying to encourage them to sprout) and I have about 12 broccoli seedlings poking through which have come up since this morning when I opened my mini-green house :j Now if I can just get the other things to start sprouting I'll be a very happy bunny. Just wish I could move my huge pot where I am growing lettuce (its one of these here but only one shell) might try and move it at the weekend with OH's help to a sunnier spot. :shhh:

bluemoon_3 · 3 May 2006 at 2:45PM

Strepsy wrote:

Here are my first spuds! They've just reached the top of the bucket so I've filled them up and put some weedfree material over to help keep out the light. I planted two in this bucket that I got from Morrison's when they were selling off the black flower buckets 10 for 99p. They should be ready in June so I'm really excited as it doesn't seem far away now it's May.

Oh, that's a really good idea Strepsy - I think I'll try to get some of that material myself!

I'm surprised by how fast my spuds are growing actually - I think I only put them out two weeks ago and I topped up the compost for the first time this morning because they've already grown so much.

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