May Update: What are you growing in 2006? (Tips here for Fruit, Veggies and Flowers!)

Kazonline

Just a quickie - can someone please tell me if it's ok to just plant my lettuce seedlings into a gro-bag and if so how many can I put per gro-bag? Thanks ;-)
Kaz

Strepsy

Kazonline wrote:

Just a quickie - can someone please tell me if it's ok to just plant my lettuce seedlings into a gro-bag and if so how many can I put per gro-bag? Thanks ;-)
Kaz

What sort of lettuce have you got? If it's little gems or something then quite a lot but if it's full grown icebergs you're after, maybe only 6ish?

sarah0404

Can anyone tell me when I might see some action from my carrots! I planted them at least 6 weeks ago, and so far I can see nothing. Is this normal? I'm a bit worried as I think the seeds were maybe out of date.

Today I hope to plant out some beans that are starting to take over the kitchen. They're growing up the blinds! Also got some other little seedlings to plant out. I need to thin my lettuces and rocket too. My fruit trees all have leaves on them again! My apple and plum trees have blossoms.

annie-c

hostie wrote:

Just a little note of caution to anyone who later in the summer wants to protect their berries. I did this one year with threads tied above my blackberry bush as described in a few gardening books. When I went back a couple of days later, to my horror there was a bird caught in the thread which I freed. I took most of the thread down and decided to share my berries but the next day when I went back there was a dead bird hanging upside down by the last bit of thread. I thought I would post this here so that no-one else makes the same mistake as me.

Really, really sorry to hear this. It must have been horrible.

I was going to use some plastic netting from Asda to protect mine - would this be likely to cause the saqme problem? If so, I'll leave it and 'share' too...

Ms_Notalotofmoney_2

:rolleyes2 :j All these threads are all new to me...keep finding new and interesting ones. I try and grow veg and things in my garden...not always successfully!

At the moment I have: -

Rhubarb (2 plants but it still takes about three or four crops to make a crumble!!)
Potatoes (done in dustbins with holes drilled at the bottom)
Runner Beans (done in a MASSIVE pot with holes drilled at the bottom)
Brussel Sprouts
Cabbages (if the bloomin' catapillars don't get them first like usual!)
Peas
Garlic
Tomatoes

Here's hoping!

x

nicki_2

I've just bought a blackcurrent and a raspberry bush (both on clearance from Asda at £1.50 each ) and was wondering whether I can grow them in large pots (50cm diameter ones I'm thinking of)?

doddsy

sarah0404 wrote:

Can anyone tell me when I might see some action from my carrots! I planted them at least 6 weeks ago, and so far I can see nothing. Is this normal? I'm a bit worried as I think the seeds were maybe out of date.
.

I think you can give up on these Sarah, should ony take a couple of weeks. It might be that they were dud seeds. They do like to be sown very shallow as well. hth
doddsy

Lulubells

well, the nibbled tomatoes have had a worse blow - 2 in the growbags have been totally kidnapped !!, the sweetcorn has been attacked now and the cabbages and radishes have taken a hammering too - no wonder organic food is more expensive with the failure rate!!.

On the plus side I won a blackcurrent cutting today on a ribena carton I bought for my 3 year old on a day out - so thats a bonus

Love reading your tips and seeing your photos


Lulubells x

sarah0404

Sorry to hear about your plants Lulubells. I nearly cried the other day as I dropped a box onto the tray I was growing my beans in. Half of them got broken Hoping they'll grow back, but I doubt it.

Thanks doddsy for the advice. I'll try again with another packet of carrot seeds. I put spring onions in at the same time and they haven't come up either. Wonder if they're dud too? As far as I remember they were in date. Maybe it's my soil?

doddsy

Sarah,
Is your soil clay, or stony? If so, make your seed drill, sprinkle the seeds in and then cover with compost rather than backfill with the soil. That should make it easier for the seeds to push their way through.

Doddsy