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June Update: What are you growing in 2006? Tips here for Fruit, Veggies and Flowers!
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annie-c
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:T Here is the June thread to continue the discussion about what Oldstylers are growing in 2006.
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I can't believe it's June already! Everything in the garden is growing at a pace now, though much of it is still at a relatively early stage of growth because of all the cold weather we've had.
Still, it's a lovely day down South today - I hope it's sunny where you are...
Happy gardening, Oldstylers!!!
Annie
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I can't believe it's June already! Everything in the garden is growing at a pace now, though much of it is still at a relatively early stage of growth because of all the cold weather we've had.Still, it's a lovely day down South today - I hope it's sunny where you are...
Happy gardening, Oldstylers!!!
Annie
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Morning o/s growers
A kind freecycler gave me some cardoons today. I have looked up recipes but does anyone have any experience of Cardoons ?
Best Wishes
Anastacia....another happy bug.........sorry,blogger embracing the simple life0 -
Morning,
My perpetual spinach, little Gems and mixed salad bowl are all almost an inch high. I think I may need to thin them out as there will prob be too many in one tub once they've grown a bit more! Tubs have thick strip of Vaseline round them to prevent slugs which seems to work so far.
Four tomato plants from my friend have grown a bit. I'm not sure if I should be using a fertiliser, as I'm not at the moment (apart from rinsing out milk bottles)? I didn't want to use chemicals if possible.
Little herb plants (parsley, coriander, mint, tarragon)all quite happy, mint looked a bit wilty last night but perked up after watering. Also have one Alpine strawberry plant
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Went out last night and watered all my plants with Miraclegrow, I know it's not OS but last years crops (apart from the lettuce which went to seed! ) were a bit pathetic even though they were fed with tomato feed
I also took pictures of everything so that I can make up a basic webpage and send the link to my grandad-in-law as he grows his own veg as well, but has a good size garden to do it in.
Really impressed with how big my strawberry plants have gotten. They're in a hanging basket (5 in a big one) and they're a really good size with still green flowers on On the other hand, a snail got into my mini-greenhouse and started munching on my broccoli seedlings :mad: It got rehomed last night into a bucket of boiling water 
Creeping back in for accountability after falling off the wagon in 2016.Need to get back to old style in modern ways, watching the pennies and getting stuff done!0 -
Well all my tomatoes and bedding plants have been hardened off and are ready to go into the garden in the next few days or so. In the greenhouse, I have chillis (about 9 varieties, but we're chilli fiends), aubergine, sweet peppers, cucumber and a few tomatoes. Outside, I have swiss chard, spinach, sweetcorn, 2 varieties of runner beans, 2 varieties of french beans, 3 varieties of courgette, beefstaek tomatoes, sungold cherry tomatoes, plum tomatoes, tumbler tomatoes, strawberries, summer and autumn raspberries, morello cherries, blueberries, blackcurrants, carrots, radish, mixed lettuce, pak choi, choi sum, peas, mange tout, broad beans, rhubarb, basil, coriander, rosemary, thyme, oregano, mint, lemon balm, lavender, chives and thai basil, phew!
This year, rather than have veg and flower beds, I've decided to grow everything together, so I have runner and french beans at the base of my sunflowers - I'm hoping they'll grow at a similar rate (sunflowers have had a head start) so the flower stems will support the beans.
The brocolli, purple sprouting brocolli, cabbage and sprouts seedlings are coming along nicely too.
Flower wise - the tulips are coming to an end but I can see the gladioli and lillies starting to come thorugh nicely. There's marigolds, petunia, busy lizzes, lobelia, sweet peas, lupins, geraniums, fushcias and a few other trays of bedding plants waiting to go into the ground.
The hanging baskets have been hardening off too and this year, I've planted up strawberries with trailing flowers and tumbling tomatoes with flowers in the baskets.
It's all systems go here as I'm planning on removing all the stone chips from the front garden and making lots of flower beds!I have the mind of a criminal genius. I keep it in the freezer next to Mother....0 -
I've sewn some purple sprouting brocolli in the greenhouse - about a hundred seedlings have popped up!!
Not got a veg plot - just pots and troughs.
What should I do with them>
Another thought is to put them under hedge in front garden, lol.
Or, pot them up and sell at car booty.
What do you think?gone0 -
Lol, you'll be eating it until it oozes out of all your pores! They do get fairly big, I still have 3 plants left from last year and they're about 24 inches tall. 6 plants was more than enough to keep two of us in brocolli, we ate it about 3 times a week, fed lots to the chickens and gave lots away too!
Pot them up and sell them on or try and swap then with a fellow gardener for something they might have a surplus of.I have the mind of a criminal genius. I keep it in the freezer next to Mother....0 -
I currently have growing:
- 2 types of tomatoes
- Swiss chard
- Runner beans
- Dwarf beans
- 2 apple trees (one stepover, one minarette)
- Tayberry
- Whitecurrants
- Redcurrants
- Strawberries & alpine strawberries
- Summer and autumn raspberries
- Chives, basil, parsley, coriander, dill, bergamot, 3 types of mint, 2 types of thyme, borage, hops, basil, comfrey, marjoram
- Cut-and-come-again salad tub
- Grapevine
We also have tulips, irises, Spanish bluebells, bear's breeches, ceanothus, hibiscus, wallflowers, fuchsias, petunias, coreopsis, dierama, various types of lavender, sweet dame's rocket, allium, hardy geraniums, lungwort, diascia, hellebores, ferns, heuchera, tradescantias, solanum, jasmine, sweet peas, various hanging baskets, stocks, begonias, bergenias, hollyhocks, aquilegia, 8 types of pansies, wild violets, 5 hazels, a huge tub of ivy, a flowering quince, argyranthemum, euphorbia, weigela, a rose, phlox, lupins, dicentra, scabious, alyssum, lamb's ears, a magnolia tree, lobelia, carnations/pinks, a rock rose, agapanthus, Miss Wilmott's Ghost, tiarella, foxgloves, potentilla, santolina and chrysanthemums.The ability of skinny old ladies to carry huge loads is phenomenal. An ant can carry one hundred times its own weight, but there is no known limit to the lifting power of the average tiny eighty-year-old Spanish peasant grandmother.0 -
Noozan wrote:Lol, you'll be eating it until it oozes out of all your pores! They do get fairly big, I still have 3 plants left from last year and they're about 24 inches tall. 6 plants was more than enough to keep two of us in brocolli, we ate it about 3 times a week, fed lots to the chickens and gave lots away too!
Pot them up and sell them on or try and swap then with a fellow gardener for something they might have a surplus of.
Thanks for giving me an idea of how big they get and how far it stretches.
Think I'm gonna make some use of the area under my front hedge for these- maybe stick in 3 plants ( there is only DD and myself)
And, in MSE stylee - pot them up and make some cash at car booty.
I've got a few surplus corianders too - so will pot them and sell them.
How much per plant d'ya all think?gone0 -
Maybe 50p each?The ability of skinny old ladies to carry huge loads is phenomenal. An ant can carry one hundred times its own weight, but there is no known limit to the lifting power of the average tiny eighty-year-old Spanish peasant grandmother.0
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magic, thanks for that wigginsmum.
A day in the greenhouse for me, lolgone0
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