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

troll35

I forgot the peppers on the windowsill with the tomatoes. The peppers will need staking but wil be quite happy in a large plantpot on a windowsill/greenhouse somewhere and usually can go outside if you want them to.

The cucumbers and melon will need plenty of organic matter. My courgettes and squashes are romping away in tubs with a good layer of manure at the bottom. They can grow really big. Melons are usually left to trail along the ground. Cucumbers are often supported. Last year we grew 1 cucumber plant up a long cane and then along the wooden curtain rail on our dining room windowsill. Again it's probably up to you whether you want to put them in the green house at this time of year.

I've got 4 pea plants to a large tub and I've used 4 canes with garden twine running around them in a spiral. The peas are happily climbing up this and are now flowering. Peas are probably best outdoors.

Happy gardening

Oh..we've been eating our own homegrown spinach and chard for the last few days and today I harvested the first of the rocket and lambs leaf lettuce. Yummy yummy:)

culpepper

herbal wrote:

Ok guys need a little help/advice.

I bought today

2 Female cucmubers
1 Red Pepper
1 Green Pepper
1 Melon
Tray of Peas

Now i have a greenhouse so can they all go in there and what tips do i need to help them all grow, will they all need staking? Do i need to nips bits of here and there like tomatoes etc

Any help will be great.

For the cucumbers ,peppers and melon ,they like it humid so spray water into the air in your greenhouse or and wet the floor. Im just doing mine with water from a spray bottle that I leave sitting in the greenhouse all day to keep it the same temperature as the air in there.
My neighbour tells me melons must be hand fertilised ,you take one of the male flowers and use it to fertilise the female flowers. Mine havent any flowers yet so I dont know what they look like

wigginsmum

Chives - I bought a supermarket pot a couple of years ago, planted them out earlier this spring and they're doing fine. As I don't really use them for cooking, I let them flower - they've very pretty.

loopyloulou_3

I have planted 2 x artichoke plants (which are growing rapidly by the day)
cherry tomatoes in hanging baskets
gourds
pumpkins
and sunflowers

thats all for the moment!! any tips would be appreciated - they are just all getting a good drink every nite at the moment!

thanks

Lou

loopyloulou_3

also is it too late to plant sweet peas?

wigginsmum

I shouldn't think so, Loopy. I only sowed my sweet pea seeds outside 5 weeks ago and they're flowering now.

You might want to give the rest of your stuff a weekly feed of diluted seaweed extract.

GreenFingers_2

It’s that time of the season and up until September when we have to be Vigilant and Alert… hooray… and Watchful of our vegetables, especially the Sprouts and Cabbages…. How wonderful… whoo hoo..

The culprit in question is the …the… Beast, a fiend so terrible…so destructive… it’s the dreaded Large White Butterfly’s Caterpillar – oh no…woe, woe and thrice woe… sob… :rolleyes: Nature does not provide a compromise solution here… its either the Caterpillars go or the Cabbages go – it's as clear cut as that - hee hee.:D

My own solution is this…. :rolleyes: ... I prefer to be Judge and Jury but not Hangman so every couple of days or so I have a quick browse about the vegetable leaves…the Beast is easily spotted....like a Brazen Hussy or a Cockerel...hee hee. See the wonderful piccy below – hooray…

I brush them off onto my hand… they don’t tickle…lol… then I put them on the lawn well away from the veggie patch…how clever is that… whooo hooo.:T In a matter of minutes the Blackbirds, Robins and Blue Tits make short work of them … everyone’s happy and joyful…er… except the caterpillars...:p

loopyloulou_3

oooooh seaweed extract - sounds interesting - i suppose i get that from garden centre?

wigginsmum

Yup we get ours from Homebase but it's standard stuff and easily available.

culpepper

I just use nettle tea (nettles soaked for a couple of weeks then dilute juice),its very smelly but free.