Becoming self sufficient from scratch-my diary

mummyleads

well i think my tomato plants are dying ???
they have gone all brown
what could be wronge with them??
everything else is coming on well
hope everyone else is getting on ok

Melonade

mummyleads - shame about your tomato's, hopefully someone will be able to give you advice, there's plenty of tomato experts on here

I put my tomato's in pots today and put them outside for the first time. I think it was too windy because some of the leaves were damaged by the time I got home.

The lettuce are showing now, and the beetroot, carrot and some more peas :T But I've noticed that some of the lettuce are getting a bit thin and reckon it's slugs!! I'll have to read up on how to sort it safely without harming the dog

Also I topped up my potato tub to the top this morning :T

I'm not sure we'll end up with a lot from our first year but I'm hoping it'll be good practice for next year

Moozle_2

Hi everyone, Well the growing seems to be coming on well. I have been too busy in my garden centre job to do my own growing but my seeds are coming along nicely. My hens are lovely but we had a major disaster last night. One completely dissappered. We searched high and low but not a trace. Once darkness fell the others went and huddled in the coop, but no sign of her? Still no trace this morning or today...

Hope everyone is enjoying the weather XXX

bevan840

I think I killed my lettuce and carrot seedlings yesterday oops
I keep getting told to expect strong winds, so didn't open my mini GH yesterday while at work just in case the winds came and blew all my seeds out, instead we had glorious sunshine with the gentlest breeze!!! When I got home I opened the GH (before I even went in the house) to open it as knew it was going to be warm and the lettuce's and carrots were 'lieing down', very limp. Gave them a drink and left them open till it cooled down, closed it up again overnight. I've watered them again this morning and left the GH open while at work today and hoping that maybe the lettuce's have survived, I don't think the carrots will. Better luck next time Will check on them when I get home.
Blackberry plant is doing well, got little green tufts on the twig, strawberries enjoyed the heat yesterday I think, pea's are still going strong as well so will definitely need to plant them up at wkend :T

*Update* The carrots are still lieing down, about 2 of the lettuce's are starting to stand again, I'm going to give it a few more days and if still down by weekend I'll assume they are definitely dead need to plant up the ones that need moving by weekend so can start some more if they are dead. Never mind Hope you find your hen soon Moozle xx

Melonade

Moozle - I hope your hen turns up soon

Well the wind has been totally crazy today :mad: I got home to find bits snapped off all my tomato plants and my peas have took a bit of a battering too!! I've put the toms in the shed for an early night because the wind is getting stronger :mad:

Everything else is growing fine so far :T I'm keeping an eye on the watering though... all this sun and wind is drying everything reeeeally fast :eek: I'll have to buy the proper attachment for my outside tap/hose pipe soon... rain forecast from now until saturday so maybe I'll wait

rowsew

Moozle wrote: »

Hi everyone, Well the growing seems to be coming on well. I have been too busy in my garden centre job to do my own growing but my seeds are coming along nicely. My hens are lovely but we had a major disaster last night. One completely dissappered. We searched high and low but not a trace. Once darkness fell the others went and huddled in the coop, but no sign of her? Still no trace this morning or today...

Hope everyone is enjoying the weather XXX

Hi Moozle

My hens used to go and sit in someone else's garden overnight :rolleyes: because obviously their own roost was not good enough for them. They did it when my Mum and Dad were chicken sitting and almost caused a national incident (my parents really freaked out when they could only count 2 out of 4 chickens!). But they just wandered back of their own accord when they needed to do their eggs. Cheeky blighters. And I have to say that when MR FOX visited, he left the bodies strewn around the garden, so hopefully yours has just gone visiting..

Best wishes!

ALIBOBSY

Moozle has your chickie turned up yet, I hope so.

Well my Norfolk greenhouse is up and working hurrah :j.
Was it easy to put up, well no because the instructions aren't the clearest, but it wasn't nearly as bad as other reviews I read would suggest.
Top tips
1)Get someone calm (probably female) to help with the instructions, I directed and OH buildt, as he got annoyed with the instructions and lost patience with them lol.
2)Sometimes it appear some holes don't line up, but the frame especially whilst being buildt is fairly flexible. Sometimes losening or tightening the other bolts on a joint helps or a bit of gentle pushing/pulling sorts things out.
3)The instructions aren't always that clear, but in a few cases we found getting the peices out and attempting to put them together makes the diagrams more clear, in most cases it is obvious when you see the peices "in 3d" as it were which way they went together.

All in all I think for the money its pretty good, obviously would love to have a solid Gh such as a Rhino, but can't justify the cost even if we had the cash going spare lol.

Sat in mine for ages yesterday afternoon listening to the rain and peace (I have 3 kids lol).

Off to continue filling my GH and finish off my fruit cage

ali x

Gigervamp

Thanks for the review Ali. I've been looking at those cheap greenhouses that are just plastic that slips over a tubular frame, but looking at the Norfolk site, I've seen a couple that don't cost much more yet have solid plastic *glass* and sturdier frames. So I'll probably go for one of those.

choille

Moozle wrote: »

Oh well, good luck alibobs with the greenhouse building! Hope you get some decent weather soon! Its like winter again up here in scotland, cold wind and lashing rain!

I'm in the NW of Scotland & it's been glorious if a tad windy. Lambs are coming thick & fast now. Nice to see them gamboling around & the fields are starting to dry out - was a mud bath last week.

It was torrential rain until Last Friday - really non-stop, but it's truly lovely now.

genki_gardener

Hi everyone - loving this thread, very inspirational!

Moozle - hope your wee chickie turned up? You mentioned back in the first few posts that you were going to have a blog, was this referring to your posts here on MSE or do you have website blog? Would love to read it!

I have only been rearing little seedlings on my windosil in Glasgow but hope to turn a small-ish balcony into a bit of a veg/herb garden! We have a comunal garden out the back but it is factored (and therefore tended to by a "professional" gardener ) so will have to make do with my balcony for now!