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

GreenFingers_2

Hello Annie,

Here’s a piccy of some of the plants in the greenhouse. All the plants are growing in general purpose compost – hooray… I’ve just one tomato plant (Money Maker) in the greenhouse to provide an abundance… perhaps even more than that… of really scrummy, yummy, tasty, home grown, early ripening tomatoes. There are another four plants in the main veggie patch…. How wonderful…. As you can see she’s doing quite well and has lots of flowers.

The middle pot contains three cucumber plants (Superbel), all of which will grow up the bamboo poles…or else…hee hee...:rolleyes: They already have flowers developing even though they’re not a foot high yet.

The nearest plants are a group of seven Jalapeno Peppers…..wey hey… Each plant is in an eight inch pot. This is the first time I’ve tried growing them so keeping fingers crossed. The aim is to pickle them later in the year….lucky little pepper thingys… lol.:p I think they’re really tasty and they’re also good on pizzas.

annie-c

Wow, fantastic, Greenfingers!

If I was as enthusiastic within the house as I am in the garden, I might be able to find my digital camera and share some pics too....!

Gingham_Ribbon

I don't have any experience as this year is my first proper attempt at this, so I can't answer any of the questions, but did want to join in.

I have flat leaved parsley, coriander, basil, chives, rosemary, sage, marjoram, peppers, 2 types of tomato and courgettes growing. I've also grown flowers for the first time and they're doing really well. I've ordered a camera so will send some pics soon.

Didn't have any luck with my garlic or my ordinary parsley, but the tomatoes seem to be doing okay and the marjoram has gone crazy! And I've seen diddy little courgettes starting to grow today!

Happy gardening everyone!

annie-c

Wow, that's loads for starters Gingham Ribbon!

I'm not doing as well with herbs and salad as I'd hoped. 2 lots of spinach bolted, my rocket never took off and my radishes never got bulbous - I just ended up picking little red/white roots where it was time for full radishes to have grown! But I'm trying all 3 again now the warmer weather is here....

On the salad front, I have some basil and coriander coming along nicely, but I would need about a dozen pots of each on the go to produce anything like the amount I use in pasta and curry recipes. And I am patiently nurturing the tiniest sage seedling imaginable - hopefully it will be producing in time to make sage and onion stuffing for Christmas dinner!

Mrs_A.

hi everyone i would like to join too please if i may
mr A has planted cabbages, carrotts onions all of which are doing very well i dont need to plant potatoes as i live on farm and mr a gets a potato allowence as part of his pay.
What i need to know is what can i plant in my patch. i fancy herbs but where do i start
thank you all in advance
regards
mrs a

nicki_2

I'm expecting an invasion of caterpillers soon. Just been looking some I found up and these are the ones I found :

cinnabar caterpillar - these were all over the garden last year. Now I've read up on them and realised they come from these butterflies I know I'm going to have loads of them again this year :mad:

There is also loads of cabbage white caterpillars :mad:

Going to be a long summer of picking caterpillars off my plants I can see it coming :rolleyes:

needmoney

annie-c wrote:

my radishes never got bulbous - I just ended up picking little red/white roots where it was time for full radishes to have grown! quote]

Think mine are going to be the same they have lots of leaves but nothing else yet:o

I've grown some lettuce from seed but haven't got room to put them in the ground now, peas and radish have taken all the space.

wigginsmum

Hi Mrs. A - you could start with rosemary, sage, chives and thyme. Rosemary can get huge over the years (we had bush that was 2ft tall but about 5ft across) but you can keep it pruned. Oregano is another good choice, as is lavender. These can all be bought from somewhere like Homebase and will keep going. For something just for this year, try basil.

Mrs_A.

have just came home from garden centre (blimey they are expensive) bought some parsley, sage, chives etc in little pots to plant out into long planters that have been lying redundant behind the shed. will plant them out tonight and update on the progress, needless to say mr a is not best pleased hehe
regards
mrs a

Chell

I bought some Thai basil seeds, am I best to plant them indoors or out?

I have been reading this thread and am inspired to try to grow a few bits. I have corriander growing on my window sill. Yesterday I planted some seeds for climbing beans. I out them in a seed tray which DS dropped today. I had to scoop the compost and seeds back in. Any tips for protecting your garden from pesky toddlers? The little devil pulled the one and only flower off of my clematis today.

I am going to give him his own little section of garden to dig, hopefully he will then leave mine alone.