veg growing Newbies- Feb 2010! lets learn together!

seraphina

elantan wrote: »

a wee question if i may ... i planted my carrots out in tubs a few weeks ago now and i still havnt even seen a hint of a green shoot is this normal? also my other plants aint doing too good either ... i am watering them (but not too much) and making sure they aint out in the too cold weather but they seem short my peppers and chilli's arnt even an inch high yet ... and i have had them for over a month now ..bought them at an inch high ...

Before I read the instructions, I planted a load of carrots in March - and we've had frosts and snow since! My carrots took absolutely ages to come through but most of them have come through - they're little feathery things but they're doing okay. I daresay that I could have had them all come through had I waited to plant them but they've done okay.

However, I have put some more in a fortnight ago and there's nothing doing yet, but am not worried given how long the first lot came through.

misskool

seraphina wrote: »

My tomatoes have FLOWERS!!!! Surely it's far too early for flowers? They've been in the greenhouse which is toasty warm during the day, and it's only on the "Red Cherry" and Tigerellas, which are supposed to produce fruit in the season but how exciting! They look far too small for flowers!

I've had that too. Not really sure what to do except that I've been giving them a bit of seaweed feed to keep them boosted. May have to plant some in their final growing spaces in the greenhouse and cross my fingers for the rest

Maybe we'll have the first tomatoes of the season!

Bitsy_Beans

Hi everyone, new to this thread. I don't hang out on the Greenfingered board very often but I really ought to.

I am growing peas (sowed back in October/November and they've struggled due to the bad winter but now coming back to life ), carrots (lots of seedlings which I am trying to thin out), Lollo Rossa lettuce, spring onions, cauliflowers, broccoli, sweet peppers, chilli peppers, tomatoes, courgettes, garlic and leeks Have also bought some raspberry canes but don't expect anything from them this year. It's my second year doing it and I LOVE it. Sadly I don't have the time for an allotment so all this produce is crammed into my veggie plot in the garden and in containers. I am really enjoying the spring weather and watching it all come to life. Happy days

katholicos

elantan wrote: »

nonpol hate to say it but this is sadly old news ... there's alot of other info out there that would scare the living daylights out of you if you looked hard enough ... but it is always good to see these things highlighted everynow and then


shelvis am loving the pics ... your plants are doing so well ...

a wee question if i may ... i planted my carrots out in tubs a few weeks ago now and i still havnt even seen a hint of a green shoot is this normal? also my other plants aint doing too good either ... i am watering them (but not too much) and making sure they aint out in the too cold weather but they seem short my peppers and chilli's arnt even an inch high yet ... and i have had them for over a month now ..bought them at an inch high ...

think i have alot more learning to do ... back to the books it is for me then

I planted my carrot seed in a large 70 litre tub weeks ago and had it covered with fleece until this week, hardly any signs of life in it. To cover my bases i sowed a load more seed into one of my raised beds this week to (hopefully) ensure that at least one lot of carrots grow!

Refund_Queen

Hi!

Can someone help me with these 2 questions please?!

Most of my tomato and cucumber seeds have germinated but only 4 out of around 25 pepper seeds have and so I have taken the lids off of all the propagators and they are still on a sunny windowsill. Do I leave them all there until they need potting on? If thats ok can I then put them into my greenhouse outside (wilko, tube frame thing covered in plastic)? Im in the south but last night was bit frosty i think.

Also, my lovely hubbie made me a raised bed last weekend and I need to know what to put in it!! Is it best to use a 50:50 mix of compost and topsoil with a little manure in?? Looking at Alan Titchmarshs book, its best to make a bed in winter so that its ready for spring planting but hey-ho it will have to do!!

THANKS FOR HELP!
x

scotsaver

Refund_Queen wrote: »

Hi!

Can someone help me with these 2 questions please?!

Most of my tomato and cucumber seeds have germinated but only 4 out of around 25 pepper seeds have and so I have taken the lids off of all the propagators and they are still on a sunny windowsill. Do I leave them all there until they need potting on? If thats ok can I then put them into my greenhouse outside (wilko, tube frame thing covered in plastic)? Im in the south but last night was bit frosty i think.

Also, my lovely hubbie made me a raised bed last weekend and I need to know what to put in it!! Is it best to use a 50:50 mix of compost and topsoil with a little manure in?? Looking at Alan Titchmarshs book, its best to make a bed in winter so that its ready for spring planting but hey-ho it will have to do!!

THANKS FOR HELP!
x

Hi - only half of the Peppers, aubergines etc that I have sown have germinated, some already been potted on as they have got a few leaves on now and the rest I have left in case they spring into life but I think you will find that not all seeds germinate so always best to sow more than you need.

Have a good day everyone.;)

kimmee

Refund_Queen wrote: »

Hi!

Can someone help me with these 2 questions please?!

Most of my tomato and cucumber seeds have germinated but only 4 out of around 25 pepper seeds have and so I have taken the lids off of all the propagators and they are still on a sunny windowsill. Do I leave them all there until they need potting on? If thats ok can I then put them into my greenhouse outside (wilko, tube frame thing covered in plastic)? Im in the south but last night was bit frosty i think.

Also, my lovely hubbie made me a raised bed last weekend and I need to know what to put in it!! Is it best to use a 50:50 mix of compost and topsoil with a little manure in?? Looking at Alan Titchmarshs book, its best to make a bed in winter so that its ready for spring planting but hey-ho it will have to do!!

THANKS FOR HELP!
x

Hi Refund Queen, I think most of my pepper seeds germinated and I left them until they had their first set of true leaves (something I learned on here!) and then potted on into small individual pots. They've now got about 4 or 5 sets of leaves and I've potted them on again BUT there's no way they're going outside (I've got a wilko plastic covered greenhouse too) for at least a month as the nights here are still forecast to be hovering around the zero degrees for a while yet. I'm in Cambridgeshire so probably a bit colder than you but not much - I would leave them where they are if I was you. Good luck

lovelife_3

Just found this forum last night and tried to read from the beginning, got to page 15, then had to go to bed but felt so excited to have found it. This is the first year i have tried to grow our own food and i am totally clueless, but already learned lots last night lol! Thanks for all the tips and great to be on board

savingmummy

Well yesterday late morning i done my organic cress seeds and this morning they have opened and have small white tails The smell of cress is lovely too!
I can`t believe how quickly that works!!

My salad leaves have really grown now, poking over the top ot the trough

Herbs and moneymaker toms nothing yet but i`m guessing these take quite a while?! Only started therm last week.

Youthworkers_Wife

Hello,

Is it too late to join in the veggie fun? We've recently moved to a new house - which has a garden!! It's my first ever garden so I'm really excited (and also know nothing - not a good mix).

Anyway, we're currently digging through the soil (horrible clay/stone stuff) with the intention of creating a veggie patch. I've got seeds from the BBC Dig In giveaway as well as some herbs we transported from the windowsills of the old flat.

I hope we're not leaving it too late to get started, but I figure that sunny days have to give me a better chance of doing anything in the garden at all!

Regards,

Youthworker's Wife