veg growing Newbies- Feb 2010! lets learn together!

Orange_King

Welcome along

If you have the strawberry plants in containers still I'm sure they won't mind being put into the ground. If thay are already in the ground just make sure you dig up the roots and all. I have just recently moved last years strawbs from the pots into a plot and they seem to be doing well, even if I didn't make the hole big enough for them.

You might want to start the beans off in trays and plant out once germinated but I'd risk the peas in their growing spot now.

smithyjules

Thanks orange king!Thought I'd better ask as I'll cry if my strawbs die!!right off to plant some seeds with my DD!

Bitsy_Beans

heynonnynonny wrote: »

Mine are pretty floppy from the base, have squodged some more soil around to keep them upright, it's almost like they are broke

If they're not well heeled in they don't form a good root base - this is how I lost mine last year. I hope yours survive.

misskool

you should move plants when they are dormant. If your strawberries are flowering and you move them you might lose the crop as they will be shocked.

You can grow peas, runners and beans straight into the ground but mine always get eaten by something so I start them off in roottrainers or larger newspaper pots.
Don't start them off in a small cell tray!!

Greenbynature

Hi all :hello:

Have been lurking for ages on this thread and picking up some great tips from you all :T This is my first year of growing veg, I usually just grow flowers/shrubs.:D

So far I've got tomatos, 3 different kinds of lettuce/salad leaves, carrots, parsnips, potatoes, courgettes, chillies, peppers, cauliflowers and spinach.


Unfortunately I have an 11 month old boxer puppy who likes to dig! :mad: I've got the carrots and pots in bags outside and she's dug the carrot seeds that I carefully planted 3 times now!! some have managed to germinate in one pot but the others no sign yet!! Anyway yesterday she saw a fly or something hovering over one of the potato sacks and she dived on one of the sacks and has snapped all the stems off 2 plants am not quite sure what to do with them now! am so annoyed lol Can any one tell me what I can do with them and will they grow now that the stems have snapped??

many thanks

izzwizz_2

mutley74 wrote: »

Compost update:

welcome any views if any one has tried the B&Q 3 bags for £10 offer.

We use it all the time and it's great. I sieve it for sowing seeds. Not too lumpy and it's very good at holding the water. Also easy to rewet when it dries out.

izzwizz_2

woo hoo! we have the first flowers on three tomatoes today

Orange_King

When were these planted izzwizz? My early ones are really slow at getting going it seems.

heynonnynonny

Bitsy_Beans wrote: »

If they're not well heeled in they don't form a good root base - this is how I lost mine last year. I hope yours survive.

Thanks BB. Will build up a bit more compost around them try and keep them going - the next set of leaves are coming through so far so good.

First french bean coming through after days of moaning about not seeing anything!!:T

soullessfire

Thanks Izzwizz, wasn't sure if they'd be big enough for tomatoes so will definately use them for beans and tomatoes.

I've tried a few composts this year. Asda one was full of lumps of straw or grass. Cheap one from poundland and strangely the Morrisons one were just a mass of coconut fibre, stones, lumps of clay and twigs. I've recently started to buy the Wickes stuff (4 x 75L for £12 - Bargain really). They sell multipurpose and peat-free versions too. I've found it to be nice and open textured, but like has been mentioned it maybe dries out a little quick.

My french beans rotted too Fortunately I read about an alternate way to germinate corn, so I tried it with the beans too and it seems to work. Basically line the bottom of a small tub with kitchen roll and soak the paper in warm water. Place the seeds onto the damp paper and leave them in a warm dark place. Mine have all started growing roots within 2 days.