veg growing Newbies- Feb 2010! lets learn together!

savingmummy

OK can someone tell me what the salad leaves are supposed to look like after a week?
My mother in law says mine dont look right I actually did think they looked a bit cress like and then asked her to look at my pics http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=580693455&ref=profile#!/photo.php?pid=4038964&id=580693455 and she called to say yes they looked `unlike hers` :rotfl:

These were my first ever project and i`m hoping they are ok, IF they dont look right what could of gone wrong?

kimmee

savingmummy wrote: »

OK can someone tell me what the salad leaves are supposed to look like after a week?
My mother in law says mine dont look right I actually did think they looked a bit cress like and then asked her to look at my pics http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=580693455&ref=profile#!/photo.php?pid=4038964&id=580693455 and she called to say yes they looked `unlike hers` :rotfl:

These were my first ever project and i`m hoping they are ok, IF they dont look right what could of gone wrong?

I don't think anything could have gone wrong as they look healthy enough but to be honest they don't look like mine (I thought they did look a little like cress too!!). What variety are they? Mine are organic mixed leaves from Unwins. Thats not to say they are perfectly ok - time will tell

Chimera

What a good day I've had... OH and I cleared all the ivy back off the wall, and brambles and dead rose bush behind kennel, and moved kennel.. I now have a bigger garden.. yippeee
Man with a van coming to collect all our junk tomorrow from garden and shed - I'm really excited.

Also whilst we were talking to neighbor in flats, they said we could use the end of their garden to plant some staff too - and share the veg They want potatoes, which should be easy enough, and thinking the rest of space I'll take up with plug plants from farm shop for stuff I didn't have space for.. so.. most happy right now. Will post pics when rubbish has been moved! Now I don't know what to do with the space, but will enjoy planning

Youthworkers_Wife

Right ... I've got the morning off tomorrow so I'm intending to get a bit done.

I want to be sowing some French Beans and some Courgettes in pots inside. Silly question: but is there a 'right' way to do this? Do the seeds have to go a certain way up? How deep in the compost do they need to be? I don't want to kill them before I've even started!!

Any ideas gratefully accepted

Regards,

Youthworker's Wife

365days

I have blossom for the very first time on my peach tree grown from a stone about 4 years ago. Happy days

heynonnynonny

Courgettes go in vertically, mine went in about an inch under compost in 9cm pots and 5 of 6 have come through strong! Not done french beans yet, think they sow inside end april/early may??

heynonnynonny

Chimera your pics are fab, the salad is looking delicious I must say!! Did you need to thin them out much? Mine are pretty cramped atm.

annie12

Is everybody watching BBC2?

elantan

oh oh oh oh what an exciting day ... my sweetcorn has poked it's wee head through ... only about a mm but it has burst through the soil ...

then i noticed my courgettes had popped out again (this seems to be happening with my runner beans alot for some reason) so i pushed one back in then went to push the other back in ... only to find it had grown and what i was seeing was the start of the plant with the shell on top of it ... kinda like a wee chick or something ... with this being the case ... i think i may have killed the other one that i pushed in yikes ... but happy days for the wee shoots ...

we also have a frame up and two doors on the polytunnel now it is slow slow work but getting there ...

right i'm off to see if anything else wants to show me what they look lilke ... the carrots would be nice to meet i think

heynonnynonny

Argh am in the middle of Wii golf....I will have to BBc Iplayer Alys!!