veg growing Newbies- Feb 2010! lets learn together!

macma

LilacPixie wrote: »

I am biting my nails. signing for the allotment proper on Monday

My oldest child is 3 and she has said she wants to grow pumpkins and carrots because they are orange like her

Good luck with your lottie the kids will love it!:j

Plasticman

blushingbride wrote: »

i'm gonna grow my potatoes in tubs, like this

http://www.flickr.com/photos/visionthing64/2409393139/

looks nice & colourful & they are £3 in asda at the moment! guess where i'm off to at lunch

I'm growing carrots in these this year. I may need to stand them on something though, to make sure that the water can drain from the holes I've drilled in the bottom.

Plasticman

Mrs_Monkey_Boy wrote: »

Potatoes seems like an excellent place to start as we get through loads
Love the idea of the tubs - sorry for the silly question - but do you plant them with seed potatoes? How many would you put in an what happens then?? Do you have to do much with them?

Told you I was a novice!!

Thankyou

Be warned, you won't get a massive crop of potatoes from a couple of tubs. I grew some last year. It was good to do, but they were all used very quickly!

alliwantistosave

OOOOH I love the idea of the toilet roll tubes and Thanks WestonDave that was also a great idea of the 4 pint milk funnel :T Genius!!

How soon should we start sweetcorn? Is it a little too soon yet ?

Shame I live so far from Ikea as I would love some of those stripey bags they would really brighten up my balcony
Might have to sweet talk OH to go up on sunday but Ikea on a sunday is hell :eek:

Wiggletots

Evening All,

I am going to try growing my own this year. I'm off out this weekend for seeds (local farmers market ) and am hoping to grow:
carrots
lettuce
tomatoes
potatoes
parsley
thyme
and see how we go from there. Everything will have to be done in pots so will be keeping an eye on everyones tips and what does and doesn't work on here

lynzpower

For anyone on the look out there are 3 packs of peas and 3-pack of beans in £land.

The beans include borlotti, runner and broad. I mainly bought for the borlotti but might do a couple of the others as well to try

Peas - early onward, a sugar snap, and something else i probably wont bother with.

brians_daughter

oohh my son and I are newbies to growing! can we join you all please?

We are attempting

potatoes
carrots
chillis
peppers
toms
cabbages
cauliflowers

Maybe we are starting with too much, i dunno lol

Megansmum

mardatha wrote: »

wilkinson must be english, I've never heard of them. You can grow old sprouted potatoes if you stick them separately in a tub or bag, I did that last year.:D

Wilkos is like an institution for some of us! Lol. :rotfl: It has been around forever, and is the most popular shop here in Derby.

If you look on the website Mardatha, i think you can order from them to have home delivered, even in Scotland.

Well worth a look, they are really good value and often the stuff is good quality - unlike some cheaper shops where as soon as you get the stuff home it breaks!:mad:

asquiths_2

Hi all,
I too am new to this growing lark and have been reading this forum for the past few weeks.

Last friday me and the kids sowed some seeds in a propergater. We sowed

cress (2 inch high)
peas (1 cm shoots coming up)
chillis (no sign of anything yet!)???
peppers (no sign of anything yet!)???
radish (2 inch high)
tomatoes (just starting to sprout)
leaf salad lettuce (2 inch high)
potatoes (chitting)

ok well all seems to be going well, however the cress, radish and lettuce have gone wild they are now touching the top of the propergater!

What do i do? Should i repot them into the containers i'm planning on putting outside and just keep the on the kitchen windowsill till it warms up?

Thanks in advance xx

Heres hoping the sun comes soon!!!!!

treepotato1

LilacPixie wrote: »

I am biting my nails. signing for the allotment proper on Monday

My oldest child is 3 and she has said she wants to grow pumpkins and carrots because they are orange like her

ahahaha! :rotfl:Is she, by any chance a Tartrazine casualty?