April Update: What are you growing in 2006?

**purpleprincess**

Where can I buy cress?????

annie-c

Purpleprincess

Cress can be bought in the vegetable seed section of any garden centre/wilkinsons/lidl/aldi/tesco/asda/woolworths and probably loads more.


Sweet Pea

I put a 'wanted' request for plant pots on my local freecycle website and have had loads of offers. I have collected 4 black bags of various sized used plant pots and turned loads more down: you might want to give it a try. The people I took them from were really pleased to be rid of them too!

NEgirl

Just checked on them this morning and we have lots of cress starting to grow and one little brussel sprout shoot - the kids are looking forward to checking now that they see something is actually under the soil! :rotfl:

annie-c

My recently planted nasturtiums are coming up much quicker and stronger than the ones I planted impatiently in early Feb!!

Although now I have the mini greenhouse set up and have a stash of pots I am getting even more impatient waiting for my seedlings to grow!

Rachie_B

hi there

i want to start growing something ,anything lol this year
my youngest is very interested in gardening so he will want to "help" !

we dont have grass in the back garden though ,its all patioed so something easy (that i cant kill !!) that can be grown (and kept) in pots would be great

any ideas ?

aimeelister

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. So far.....
Potatos - left over sprouted ones
Onions
Shallots
Garlic - left over sprouted ones
Mini pot suitable carrots
and i'm propogating some peppers and chillis and calabrase.
And im also having another bash at growing some herbs, after my dearest kitty cat knocked the pots off the windowsill last time and killed them all. not a happy bunny then.

annie-c

Hi Rachie B

Welcome!!

Most of my growing is in pots and I have started/am planning to grow:

tomatoes
spinach
rocket
peppers
chillis
herbs - various
charlotte potatoes (in large tubs/buckets)
strawberries

Let us know how you get on!

squeaky

Rachie_B wrote:

hi there

i want to start growing something ,anything lol this year
my youngest is very interested in gardening so he will want to "help" !

we dont have grass in the back garden though ,its all patioed so something easy (that i cant kill !!) that can be grown (and kept) in pots would be great

any ideas ?

There's a thread with useful tips on container gardening in the link below:-

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=141472

HTH

Curry_Queen

annie-c wrote:

My recently planted nasturtiums are coming up much quicker and stronger than the ones I planted impatiently in early Feb!!

Although now I have the mini greenhouse set up and have a stash of pots I am getting even more impatient waiting for my seedlings to grow!

I know what you mean! I check them all several times a day for signs of growth and my beetrrot and spinach are now just popping through the surface :j

You should have seen me last night though, at the mention of a possible ground frost on the weather report, I was hunting out old blankets to cover the mini-greenhouses and nasturtium pot, and dragging the tub of rocket indoors for the night

annie-c

Curry_Queen wrote:

I know what you mean! I check them all several times a day for signs of growth and my beetrrot and spinach are now just popping through the surface :j

You should have seen me last night though, at the mention of a possible ground frost on the weather report, I was hunting out old blankets to cover the mini-greenhouses and nasturtium pot, and dragging the tub of rocket indoors for the night

LOL, yes I was alarmed by the cold this morning and went straight out to the back garden to check everthing was still alive!!! :rotfl: