Help MBE grow his dinner 2012

madmum33 · 29 April 2012 at 11:49AM

Sambucus_Nigra wrote: »

I ran out of pots weeks ago - paper pots is the answer.

Use this design, with A5 paper and you can fit 12 pots to each half sized seed tray when they are filled with compost.

Use recycled printer paper and make the folds really crisp and you get a fantastic pot that is strong enough to hold it's own alone, but still disintegrates when planted out or potted on.

That was fun, thanks! I tried with scrap A4 paper and the pot is tiny, 1.5 inches square and 2.25 inches deep, ideal for small seeds but pretty useless for larger ones. I'll try again with newspaper later!

annie123 · 29 April 2012 at 1:27PM

Afternoon all
Due to the kindness of a certain someone on here, I'm now the owner of 50 morrisons flower buckets :j:j:j:j:j:j:j:j:j:j:j

hubby said 'thanks!' by the way as he looked at the pile, got out the drill and started putting holes in them for me:D
Not that they're going outside yet as its still raining only with high winds too just for a change........starting to wonder if I should be building an ark.

Yesterday I tried to put a bird feeding station in mums sand dune back garden thinking there must be some soil under there........nope there's none. I'd sunk 30" of it in and could still move it several inches either way, going to lash it to the metal fence posts next visit.
She can have tubs with flowers in, surrounded by sand dunes, my version of an oasis:D

My rhubarb in large pot looks unhappy, I'm assuming drainage problem as I only thought it would be in there for a few weeks when I had to move it so the new fence could go in. Must get it back in the ground on the next dry day I'm here.

Now what can I grow in morrisons flower buckets

my growing is usually done directly in the ground.

aliasojo · 29 April 2012 at 1:40PM

annie123 wrote: »

Afternoon all
Due to the kindness of a certain someone on here, I'm now the owner of 50 morrisons flower buckets :j:j:j:j:j:j:j:j:j:j:j

Aw that's great annie and really nice of whoever helped you. :T

All of our Morrisons have the square fixed type of buckets now, I think someone else here said their Morrisons said they were moving to this kind too?

Tesco's have big square things but they get sent back to get reused apparently.

hazzie123 · 29 April 2012 at 1:49PM

I grow tomatoes,beetroot,green beans,onions in Morrisons buckets last year and they did fantastically.

This year I'm doing carrots and parsnips too (if those blooming parsnips ever germinate)

Angelfeathers · 29 April 2012 at 4:28PM

Phew! It finally stopped raining long enough for me to pot up my fuchsia plugs and sow the remaining beans plus a few extra sunflowers and sweet peas. Rearranged everything in the tiny greenhouse so I could get those in too as well as the Brussels and leeks to start them hardening off (and because our new kittens keep eating the damn leeks).

Just need the ground to dry out enough to sow the things that need sowing direct now!

pink_poppy · 29 April 2012 at 5:05PM

annie123 wrote: »

Afternoon all
Due to the kindness of a certain someone on here, I'm now the owner of 50 morrisons flower buckets :j:j:j:j:j:j:j:j:j:j:j

Now what can I grow in morrisons flower buckets my growing is usually done directly in the ground.

Brilliant, that should keep you busy!! :T

I'm going to try mixed salad leaves, spring onions & radish in mine. Also Charlotte potatoes although mbe has warned me I'll get a smaller crop. Not sure what else yet??

Not doing anything though until this horrible weather improves

Sambucus_Nigra · 29 April 2012 at 8:12PM

madmum33 wrote: »

That was fun, thanks! I tried with scrap A4 paper and the pot is tiny, 1.5 inches square and 2.25 inches deep, ideal for small seeds but pretty useless for larger ones. I'll try again with newspaper later!

They are just right for one tomato plant. Or one squash plant.

I'm going through my stash of recycling paper as I type - making loads for schools this week as I suspect there will be little else to do this week.

mrbadexample · 29 April 2012 at 8:58PM

annie123 wrote: »

Afternoon all
Due to the kindness of a certain someone on here, I'm now the owner of 50 morrisons flower buckets :j:j:j:j:j:j:j:j:j:j:j

That's lucky. :beer:

I've acquired a butternut squash plant.

Apparently, all the stuff I'm growing is too easy, so I'm looking forward to the challenge. It's a wee bit battered from all the travelling it's done, but I'm sure it'll be fine.

I have also got lots of plants for my pond:

Water hawthorn, water soldiers, a water lily and some pond weed stuff from my dad's pond (couldn't take too much because he's got some nasty invasive pond weed that I don't want to inherit).

From the garden centre, under instruction, I got horsetail, a chameleon plant, water mint, variegated water dropwort, white Himalayan marigold, brooklime and bushy horsetail. Pics later when it's not so wet.

Got a couple of buckets of water and sludge from his pond, plus some snails and leeches. That should get it off to a decent start. I need to get some oxygenating plants like elodea and hornwort, which I should be able to do tomorrow, plus some zebra rushes which looked nice on Gardeners' World on Friday.

93 year old grandma pleased with flowers.

mrbadexample · 29 April 2012 at 9:01PM

Either we've had the heaviest rain in the world over the weekend, or my pond is not leaking, as it was just about overflowing when I got back.

diddly74 · 29 April 2012 at 9:41PM

O woe is me! My mini greenhouse has blown over and spilled all my seedlings, pots and other paraphinalia all over the garden. :eek: Weather is 'orrible so I have tried to salvage what I can and have left the rest. Is it gonna be nicer tomorrow??????

Help MBE grow his dinner 2012

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