Help MBE grow his dinner 2013.

annie123 wrote: »

No!!!!!!!! I'll have no where to witter on and grumble

annie123's grow your dinner thread?;)

In other news, I am finally eating my own red tomatoes!!!!:D

I also gave a friend chilli plants for their birthday months ago. I felt envious when I went round & there were chilli's on their plants.

They'd had a few, & gave me 2. Next day I pottered into the garden & noticed a chilli! I tink I have a couple more too.:)

Cucumber plants have been pulled up as they were on the way out anyway.

Now planning the great carrot harvest, and monitoring my tomatoes for regular consumption.

I'm also planning digging up my lily which hasn't flowered for 2 years & moving it into a pot & a sunnier spot for next year. I'm also planning using a load of the compost for the soil, & plan putting a load of daffodil bulbs down the bottom of the garden under a couple of trees for spring colour.:)

queen_of_cheap wrote: »

The base for the greenhouse in my other garden is done

Weather permitting, it'll be going up this weekend

Shame the soil around it is clay that treble trebles the amount of work I've got to do

I'm torn between digging about 2-3 ft of it out and replacing it with topsoil/compost and digging it over and mixing all sorts in with it to try and break it up *sigh*

If you dig out clay soil and replace with something else, you will create a soggy area as clay soil holds water very well and when it gets an opportunity to release that water into a nice drained area it will!
It needs to be slowly improved each year, or plant something that will like, or I'd use the area as a low compost heap over winter and spring covered in carpet, then next June plant squashes in it.

Today I harvested the carrots. I have a ridiculous number of bright orange carrots. Some are HUUUUUGE! A few small. many are odd shapes, but the smell from them is really something else. The colour also really stands out - I was in the greengrocers yesterday & in comparison their carrots seem really pale!

I've pulled up the cucumber plants. Picked various tomatoes (these beauties are now being eaten! ) & on the window sill there is a regular conveyor belt of ripening toms. Lovely!

Chilli's will be harvested this week, as it appears the weather is dropping off, so it'll be too cool for them. One or 2 of the tomato plants are now next to the composter ready to go in - though there are numerous tomato plants full of fruits still.

I repotted the lily I have into 2 seperate pots, as it wasn't doing so well where it was. I've used compost from my composter.

I also planted a few daffodils around a tree for the spring. Hopefully they'll be a marker & encouragement early next year!

I've also mixed most of the contents of one of my composters into the soil. Planning on using a fair bit more next week, & also emptying out some of the other composter to re-fuel the ground, as well as to create a bit of space in the composters for all the stuff from this year I need to put in there!

So, I'm already thinking about what to grow next year. Leeks is one thing I'm planning on. Toms & beetroot are certainties. Carrots likely. Not sure what else yet though...

I'm impressed you've netted the pond MBE

Garden looks very empty now
I've picked the last of the toms as the blight moved fast, so no tom buckets any more. Picked the last of the squash as they look pretty ripe to me and up rooted plants, pruned out the old blackberry canes, cut some parsley, and moved the lawn. This along with the raspberry thinning the other day has left lots of empty space.
So I found myself standing there planning next years planting also earthed up leeks a bit and mowed the lawn too.
I couldn't resist a quick nosey at the parsnips, well just one, and yes just below the surface is a wonderful looking parsnip top :j If these turn out well could be a whole garden full of cones next year.