veg growing Newbies- Feb 2010! lets learn together!

dom300186

Hi i am new to growing my own veg because money has been slightly ight i am growing all of our favs and regularly starting new batches to keep them going.

I am growing
Toms
Courgettes
Garlic
Herbs
Lettuce Lots of
Onions Lots of
Radishes
Peppers
not alot but im only growing what we get through lolthis is my first time and i hope i have non die on me cause its great watching your own stuff grow im out there everyday seeing how they are coming on.

misskool

elantan wrote: »

ive just been burgled ... im sitting here in shock thinking !!!!!!

OH NO

have you got a police report and started the insurance claim? Hope the little beggahs get caught and done for

kimmee

elantan wrote: »

kimme thats strange i was just thinking about this today .. they arnt growing like mad unfortunatley but they are slowly recovering ...

ive just been burgled ... im sitting here in shock thinking !!!!!!

OMG :eek: you poor thing. Hope they didn't take much and hope even more that they didn't mess your place up. I bet you are in shock. ((elantan)) Hugs for you.

kimmee

misskool wrote: »

OH NO

have you got a police report and started the insurance claim? Hope the little beggahs get caught and done for

Well said misskool - I'll second that.

elantan

Weve had the police out and I have phoned the insurance but need to figure out what exactly is gone then take it from there ... I'm starting to get annoyed now about it all

katholicos

elantan wrote: »

kimme thats strange i was just thinking about this today .. they arnt growing like mad unfortunatley but they are slowly recovering ...

ive just been burgled ... im sitting here in shock thinking !!!!!!

Oh my goodness. I am so sorry to read this. Burglary is a terrible crime and can leave the victim feeling terribly violated. (((hugs)))

elaina79

This is my first time of growing veg. We have got a greenhouse and have planted herbs and veg.
We are growing Thyme, Basil, Cress. As well as Carrots, Cauliflower, Sprouts.
I'm new to all this so any tips would be great.

janibrown

Oh my God so sorry you have been burgled hope they did not take much, but someone coming into your home without being invited and stealing your stuff stinks.
I was burgled and they took my video camera with all footage of daughter when she was 1st born and great grandparents were on it I was devestated, I really feel for you its dreadfull hope you are ok
It really (swears) me off when people go out to work and work really hard then other people think its acceptable to come in to your house and steal from you, it really stinks
Sorry 4 the rant I am really upset 4 you
Hugs Hugs Hugs xxxxx

sarymclary

Oh eletan, I'm really sorry to hear you were burgled. That's just dreadful. I hope they haven't taken anything too precious, and that your insurance will cover anything else. Feeling angry is natural, and rightly so. Try to bear in mind that whoever took it didn't do it 'personally' to you, it was more than likely opportunistic, and your house was selected at random. Did they force entry, and has there been a spate of incidents locally? We usually find in my quiet little town that as the weather warms up, there's a spate of burglaries. Usually a small window will get left open, and because we have such a low crime rate here, we are more trusting. I was listening to an article on Radio4 yesterday, and a guy on there acted as a good samaritan one evening to a young lad, who said his dad had beaten him up and he had nowhere to go. He took him home with him, offered him a kip on the sofa that night, and when he woke up, the lad had stolen his money, wallet, and car.

All my stuff seems to be surviving these recently colder nights, although I'm protecting them at sunset just in case. The forecast for here in sunny south Lincs is for much warmer daytimes, up to 20C by early next week, and temps well above freezing at night. If it stays like that for the next couple of weeks, we should be well clear of the threat from frosts. I read somewhere that May 15th was about the safe cut-off point for frosts, and guess what date it is today?!

The sun is gloriously shining today, so I'm off out into the garden to dig a new bed. I got some free gravel last night from a builder friend, who is lifting a client's gravel driveway, to lay a concrete one, so I got his old gravel - hurrah! It's nicely filled in a dead patch of garden where we lifted a patio to make a large shed base at the end of the garden. It is nowlooking much more respectable out there.

Chimera

Everything thriving here!! And sun is out - good times!
I'm not in work much next week so hoping to start planting outdoors!! Exciteables!!

Quick Question, I'll be planting tumbling toms in hanging baskets (35cm) how many in each one?