veg growing Newbies- Feb 2010! lets learn together!

pink_numbers

alliwantistosave wrote: »

Glad to be of help to someone To be honest with parsnips neither did we that is why we planted them in the middle :rotfl:
your idea of daikon, leek then parsnip sounds a good idea, Checked with OH too and he agreed.
We are going to do purple carrots, spring onions, cos lettuce, parsnips, radishes, onions, mustard, cucumber, hopefully a melon, pepper, beetroot and we will include some more marigolds to help with pest control. I have lots more plans but where I am planting where I have no idea yet. Spuds in sacks, tomatoes in bags, sweetcorn in buckets and garlic in blue Ikea bags. Hope to do lots of lettuce though as I love it
Another tip is we have ours on legs and have brought some of the copper strip to put round the legs to stop the slugs crawling up them.

I will move those little veggies around, thank you so much and thank you for checking with your OH too! I have rolls of copper tape waiting to be put all the way round the three beds, we're slug and snail magnet in our garden. Our neighbour told us that they'll come back, climbing the high walls, even if we release them at the end of the road, so now OH has to take them far far away.

I never thought of using the blue Ikea bags for planting with!

CHARLIE

Hi I am a newbee
I have been delving for a few years, mainly with runners and tomato's, I have always had a good crop of runners not so good with the toms, last year tried peas had success with them but didn't plant that many so will do double this year, I tried rubburb but for some reason they started to develope then the next day there wasn't any thing there??? toms were better, onions they never grew much turned out like spring onions?? but my main bug bear was my potatoes they had scab?? reading up on it, it seems to be a problem with the soil, my strawberries not very good I think the birds had a field day. I want to try brussels this year. and carrots.
Any advise will be welcomed.

lunar

Pink_numbers, I have started using one of the ikea bags for composting, or at least I have collected lots of garden rubbish in one and as I dont have a compost bin that is where it is staying for now! Hopefuly it will work out OK.

Hi charlie, no advice unfortunatly as I am a complete novice, all I did last year was potatoes, which did turn out well but I think that was prob more luck than anything else.

When I went out this morning the garden temperature was 2 degrees and inside my greenhouse it was 9 degrees, with lots of condendation building up in there.

Any advice on what I can put in there now that wont die when we have further frosts?

I hope nobody minds me posting the pictures above. I am a bit worried I may have overcrowded the strawberries, I will have to make sure they get lots of water and plant food. What do you all think, will they be too overcrowded?

mardatha

Maybe we can go into the Greenfingers forum for more detailed advice on specific plants ?

niclon26

Hi everyone,I'm a newbie too.Only things I've grown/attempted before is Runner beans which I forgot to water and tomato's with varying success over the years.
Hubby's going to have a go at building a raised bed,any tips will be very greatfully apreciated.
Went out today and got a propagator,compost and seeds.

This year we are hoping to grow
Potatoes
Carrots
Savoy Cabbage
Onions
Cherry Tomato's
Runner Beans

turbo5019

LUNAR I love the photos I can't give you advice on the strawberrys as I've only grew them once didn't many off then so got rid then found out they get better as the years go on so might try again this year.

Still havn't planted a thing we've got a big green house but some one broke the glass 4 big pains so DH ordered some plastic sheets but they turned up after he when back off shore so waiting for him to come home on sat. He doesn't know it yet but thats his first job sun morning.

lunar

Turbo, Im sure you hubby will look forward to that. will you tell him in advance or will it just be a lovely suprise for him? I marched my OH out in the rain to help me sort our greenhouse out!!! Well done on your weight loss, working in the garden seems to be helping me loose weight.

Niclon, forgetting to water things seems to be a habit of mine too, I will do better this year.

I really need to invest in a water but, the problem is getting it home, we dont have a car at the moment and delivery just makes it so expensive.

pink_numbers

lunar wrote: »

Pink_numbers, I have started using one of the ikea bags for composting, or at least I have collected lots of garden rubbish in one and as I dont have a compost bin that is where it is staying for now! Hopefuly it will work out OK.

I hope nobody minds me posting the pictures above. I am a bit worried I may have overcrowded the strawberries, I will have to make sure they get lots of water and plant food. What do you all think, will they be too overcrowded?

How do you keep the Ikea bag covered? See if you council offers free compost bins, we got ours paid for

I have green house envy seeing your green house!

lunar

I just tie up the handles to cover it and have some bulldog clips for the side!

I doubt our council will give a compost bins as we have a pink bin for garden waste that they empty every other saturday. Ill still ring though, thanks.

pink_numbers

treepotato1 wrote: »

Where I live there is a scheme whereby one can get a compost bin for as cheap as £8. I bought the £10/3330litre one and it's too big so I'll be giving it away on Freebay soon.

Don't you have such a scheme where you live?

you're not in the North West by any chance? We're after a second bin