April Update: What are you growing in 2006?

Addicted2Chocolate

i am growing a baby...should be ready in about 3 months!!

annie-c

Addicted2Chocolate wrote:

i am growing a baby...should be ready in about 3 months!!

How exciting! If you get some late spuds planted in the autumn, you'll be able to wean it on home grown mash!!!

katyk_2

Linda32 wrote:

May I ask, are they in ericasious compost, they do need to be planted in that. Sorry if you know and best of luck.

Hi, Linda32,

Yep I did plant them in ericaceous compost - it cost more than they did!
Still have fairly high hopes for the big one though.

DD found a recipe for blueberry mufins which was super but ended up costing me about £5 for a batch of 20 because of the price of shopbought blueberries. Not one for the BB's sale this Saturday, methinks. Might stick to plainer fare.

Thanks for the tip though.

Katyk

PS at the risk of really showing up how computer illiterate I am, hw do you manage to get all the wee funny faces in the middle of your text, folks? I can only choose one and it appears at the top.

And what does LOL stand for?

katyk_2

Addicted2Chocolate wrote:

i am growing a baby...should be ready in about 3 months!!

Good luck - I have tried that crop in the past and the bad news is they just don't stop growing!

bargainqueen_2

katyk wrote:

Hi
PS at the risk of really showing up how computer illiterate I am, hw do you manage to get all the wee funny faces in the middle of your text, folks? I can only choose one and it appears at the top.

And what does LOL stand for?

Don't worry we all started like that!! LOL stands for Laughing out loud. For the smilies, above where you are typing for a post should be a little menu that enables you to change font etc, and one of the options on it is a smiley face with a drop down arrow on it. All the different smileys appear under that.

As for growing veg: My courgettes all died on me last time I grew them, they went yellow, brown and dead, whatever happened there??? Anyone any ideas????

rubix_76

xueta wrote:

The cardboard tube of a toilet roll can be used instead of a peat pot or a plastic plant pot. Just fill it with compost and plant as normal. When it comes to planting out in the ground, put the whole module (cardboard as well) into the ground. The cardboard will bio-degrade. This method avoids having to disrupt the roots when planting out.



An alternative to using cardboard rolls is to make your own pots out of newspaper.



HTH

I have two questions:

1/ Like a sucker I just bought some of these pots that bio-degrade in B&Q, is using loo-rolls essentislly the same ? - and soooooo much cheaper - FREE !!!

2/ If I were to try the newspaper trick, would they not collapse when they get wet, even if I do fill a tray with them to "support them"

Thanks for any help - great thread

rubix_76

aimeelister wrote:

I dont have anywhere to plant, so I went to the local pool and asked for some empty chlorine containers turned them on their side, chopped the side off and drilled some drainage holes in and planted things in them.

What does a chlorine container look like and how big is it ?

also will the chlorine not kill the plants, even if you do wash it out ?

Thanks

Rubix

rubix_76

battybird wrote:

b&q have terracota pots about a foot across for about a pound i have loads but be warned they are porus and dry out quickly so need more water

I saw on gardeners world last week that if you put a plastic bag (still with holes in for drainage) it helps it from "sucking" the moisture out. - coming from the experts, it muct be right -

Rubix

rubix_76

Rage_in_Eden wrote:

the re-placed rockery is going to provide the backdrop for an " 'erb garden" <<french accent necessary>>

Americans say that too, don't they, as well as oh-reg-a-no (oregano) - NO It's or-ee-gar-no !!! :rotfl:

rushing to read my xenophobics guide !!

xueta

rubix_76 wrote:

I have two questions:

1/ Like a sucker I just bought some of these pots that bio-degrade in B&Q, is using loo-rolls essentislly the same ? - and soooooo much cheaper - FREE !!!

2/ If I were to try the newspaper trick, would they not collapse when they get wet, even if I do fill a tray with them to "support them"

Hi rubix_76,

1) Yes, loo rolls will do the same job as shop-bought bio-degradable pots.
2) You need a tray or cardboard box to hold the pots, then you don't need to move them until they're ready to plant out. By that time, they will have formed a good root system which binds the compost together. Here are some sweetpeas growing in this way - I should add that these are the smaller ones, as the faster growers have already been planted outside!