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

Lemon_Tree

Hi
I have just topped up the soil in my potato pot, unfortunately i don't think the pot is deep enough as i am now at the top!. Gonna have to now find a way to keep the light out!. Everything else is going well, my little seedlings have stalled but i think it's the weather! Are we ever gonna get any sunshine? being in East Anglia all we seem to be getting is rain!
Lem

Whoosher

Wow, there's some green-fingered folk on this thread!

I only have four tomato plants this year - 2 x gardener's delight & 2 x golden surprise. Can't wait for the toms to start coming through, just love the smell of them. It reminds me of my old grandpa and his greenhouse absolutely crowded out with hundreds of tomato plants. He had so many, even after giving them away to friends & family/selling selling them at the church bazaar, that he used to leave them on the front garden wall for passers-by to take away! ((((Grandpa))))

Debt_Free_Chick

Lemon_Tree wrote:

Hi
I have just topped up the soil in my potato pot, unfortunately i don't think the pot is deep enough as i am now at the top!. Gonna have to now find a way to keep the light out!. Everything else is going well, my little seedlings have stalled but i think it's the weather! Are we ever gonna get any sunshine? being in East Anglia all we seem to be getting is rain!
Lem

Put the whole pot into a black bin liner, with holes punched in the bottom (stab it with a garden fork). Then treat the bin liner like a pot and continue to earth up.

You could do the same thing with a black dustbin, if you have one spare.

Are these earlies i.e. ready for harvesting "soon" or maincrop, which you'll harvest roughly in September?

Debt_Free_Chick

wigginsmum wrote:

We also have tulips, irises, Spanish bluebells, bear's breeches, ceanothus, hibiscus, wallflowers, fuchsias, petunias, coreopsis, dierama, various types of lavender, sweet dame's rocket, allium, hardy geraniums, lungwort, diascia, hellebores, ferns, heuchera, tradescantias, solanum, jasmine, sweet peas, various hanging baskets, stocks, begonias, bergenias, hollyhocks, aquilegia, 8 types of pansies, wild violets, 5 hazels, a huge tub of ivy, a flowering quince, argyranthemum, euphorbia, weigela, a rose, phlox, lupins, dicentra, scabious, alyssum, lamb's ears, a magnolia tree, lobelia, carnations/pinks, a rock rose, agapanthus, Miss Wilmott's Ghost, tiarella, foxgloves, potentilla, santolina and chrysanthemums.

And will you serve them with cream or custard?

:rotfl:

wigginsmum

Lol! I was thinking hollandaise

GreenFingers_2

Hello Annie,

Hooray… Junes arrived and it’s getting warmer and sunnier at long last – whooo hoo… Thought I would post a piccy of some of the vegetables – how wonderful. As you can see all are really Happy Bunnies – whey hay…. Already been eating some of the spinach and very tasty it is too.

bluemoon_3

Greenfingers, that looks gorgeous! You must be so proud.

I've planted out quite a lot today, and I want to get the rest planted out over the next few days. It finally feels as though everything's coming together!

Whoosher

Ooh Greenfingers, that looks lovely!! Will you come & sort out my garden please!

bumpybecky

I'm so impressed by all your greenfingeredness!

I have all these good ideas and plans about fuits and veg, but life always seems to get in the way

Anyway, today we cheated a bit, bought some runner bean plants at the market, and a couple of tomato plants and herbs. All now planted out / potted up in the back garden

not sure if the basil will survive as my youngest assistant (dd3 15 months) pulled it out of the new pot twice! looks a bit limp now

eta - we also sowed some lettuce seeds and some old flower seeds that have been hanging about for years. not sure if any will come up or not, will be a bonus if they do!

and I meant to ask, is there anything else I could be sowing now that will crop this summer? I'm sure it's too late for most things. I've not got much space - just one thin bed that's now full of runner beans! and lots of pots

Whoosher

Somebody mentioned purple sprouting broccoli earlier - yum! Is it too late to sow it now? I don't have a greenhouse, so it would go straight into a big pot in the garden.

Also has anybody tried growing romanesco? (Is it a cauliflower or a broccoli - looks like the offspring of both!) I bought some from the market last summer and it was delish. When I went back to get some more, they didn't have any