veg growing Newbies- Feb 2010! lets learn together!

Orange_King

Have you been giving them too much water and watering from the top down?

Do you just have 1 - always best to have a few so that the stronger ones can be kept and the weaker let go.

antonia1

Also on cucumber plants, my fave question - what size pots? Do they need to be as big as the courgettes?

Also, I have managed to get 6 out of 8 French bean plants. As I am only growing for myself should I leave it at that, or try another set?

Had an attack of little green bugs over the weekend and they managed to do lots of damange to the tomatoes in just two days! Bought some bug spray and they all seem to have died. Hopefully my plants will be able to recover.

Other than that, my lettuces are growing well, and they should be outside to replace the pigeon-eaten ones in the next week or two. Also 4 out of 6 cauliflower and 4 out of 6 cabbages have germinated, but they are still really tiny. Peppers are very mixed, some small and some growing rapidly. Not seen any life in the parsnips planted 10 days ago, but I still have hope!

I keep clearing out the windowsill of plants into the mini greenhouse, but when I see all the space I keep sowing more seeds!

soullessfire

As I mentioned before I managed to get a load of the Morrison's flower buckets but they're the smaller ones (8-9%" diameter and 8" deep).

Was wondering if anyone had any successful crops growing in them? I'm guessing they're too small for potatoes and pumpkins etc and that I'll have to try my luck at getting some of the bigger buckets for those.

mutley74

Been busy all day!
Sorting out replanting runner beans in a separate patch outside raised bed so they can get room to grow!
Got more seeds from Netto at 19p a pack...loads to choose from!
I bought some rocket and broccoli seeds, and it says sow outdoors. But i was wondering can they be done indoors to initiate a quicker sprouting?

Also bought a nice Fucshsia from Lidl at £5 plus a free bucket, and loads of Japanese Acers at £2 from Netto.

Soubrette

I've been a bit fed up with my alpine strawberries as some of them are showing red leaves. These are all seedlings (although they are big ones ones ) sown from seeds from a reputable seed seller (I can't remember which one but it's one of the big ones).

I had thought that red leaves meant the plant had a virus but now I've read that alpine strawberries can have a variety of colour leaves including green, red or burnt orange.

Does this mean they're ok after all :j

Sou

lynzpower

mutley74 wrote: »

Been busy all day!
Sorting out replanting runner beans in a separate patch outside raised bed so they can get room to grow!
Got more seeds from Netto at 19p a pack...loads to choose from!
I bought some rocket and broccoli seeds, and it says sow outdoors. But i was wondering can they be done indoors to initiate a quicker sprouting?

Also bought a nice Fucshsia from Lidl at £5 plus a free bucket, and loads of Japanese Acers at £2 from Netto.

No idea about brocolli8 but rocket can def be done indoors probably best anyhow so the birds dont get to the seed.

vatic

Can anyone help me out? My courgettes and butternut squashes are all developing these brown/dry spots on the leaves. I water them once a day (twice a day today because they were very dry when I got home). I have been hardening them off (in the conservatory at night) for the past 8 days.






I have a few theories:
a) water splashed onto the leaves and burned them
b) being next to the mini greenhouse means the rays are reflecting off of the mini greenhouse cover and are burning them.

Any help? Thanks!

izzwizz_2

vatic - the newer leaves on your courgettes look really healthy so I wouldn't worry too much. It's probably as you say (burned from lensing water droplets), but the older leaves on courgettes do die off as the new ones get going. Also, prone to mildew so if they start to go white then that will be the problem and they need more air.

mutley74 - definitely can start both rocket & broccoli off indoors, but will need to both outside when it gets warmer (at the moment we have been cropping rocket in the greenhouse for 4 weeks and it's fine, but the first lot has just started flowering and this problem gets worse as the weather warms up).

soullessfire - we've grown runner beans, peas & toms in Morrisons buckets. Hope that helps (you need to add bamboo canes for support)

some other people (sorry can't remember who it was!) - aubergines & cucumbers are two of the most tender veg crops and it's far too early to put either outdoors yet - they'll die of cold very quickly. No-one has mentioned basil, but that's the other crop I'll be keeping in the greenhouse all Summer.

lynzpower

This is whata hapened to mine

I cut the dead crispy leaves off at the bottom, and watered.

Check whether the compost has edged away leaving a gap around the pot as it dried out

Mine looked quite burnt to be honest I dont know if your are the same?

izzwizz_2

lolly5648 wrote: »

Four out of six of mine have started growing after 10 days, they look really good and healthy. Does anyone know how tall they grow - is it as high as runners and do you make a wigwam in the same way?

Yes! Just as tall and you make a wigwam in the same way.