veg growing Newbies- Feb 2010! lets learn together!

Chimera

Progress update...

Still having difficultly filling raised bed, so not up and running yet

On neighbours patch have:
autumn bliss raspberries - looking good
Peas galore
French beans (unfortunately I broke the growing tips off the two more established ones!!)
Potatoes - sprouting up nicely

My Neighbour the other side of the wall has put trellis up - I am very happy, we were going to do this, for privacy but didn't want to lose the shelf ontop... so now I have a shelf the length of the graden with no worries pots will be blown into neighbours garden

I bought some more plants today from car boot and farm shop
10 x runner beans
6 x broad beans
2 varieties of squah
1 x aubergine
1 x chilli pepper
All for the huge sum of £3.20

Was given 4 different varieties of tomato plants and two peppers

In various pots around the garden, either to stay in pots or be transplanted I have:

Chives - flowering at moment - lovely
Coriander - going mental
Italian Giant Parsley - going mental again
Curly Parsley ( as above)
Sage - looks really healthy
Basil - had a couple of disasters, but appear to be going ok with new sowing
Red Basil - poking through

3 x hanging baskets of strawberries
4 x pots of strawberries
2 x pots wild strawberries
3 x pots of autumn bliss raspberries (need to go in ground but can't find space away from doggies at moment )
4 x corgettes - 2 healthy, 2 not so healthy
1 x cucumber - other two died
3 x sweetcorn
4 x tumbling toms
Spring Onions - finally fattening up
Radishes - all over the place - soooo easy to grow
5 x half baskets salad leaves
1 x large tub salad leaves
Carrots - took ages to germinate but coming up now
1 x bluejay blueberry - grown really bushy
1 x gooseberry, fruiting
1 x Aronia Viking - only arrived the other day, but looking healthy
1 x Japanese Wine Berry - Very bushy - thing dogs taking a few bites has helped bush out

Have Loads of salad leaves seedlings ready for transplanting (we ahve already saved a fortune on salad leaves and radishes)
Sowed Beetroot, Purple sprouting broccolli, black kale and endive the other day and all coming up well (think I will have to give some away)

Have sowed more cucumbers, french beans, courgettes and sweetcorn and they are popping through nicely

J Parker bulbs coming through out front of flat and have remainder in pots as back up ready to transplant where others have failed or give away as pressies

Will Flower seeds germinated nicely - gonna pop them out front and round the garden when a bit bigger

Sorry for long old post.. very exciting really.. most of it is grown from seed
The only thing I've really had problems with is the cucumbers but I'm not giving up..

Going to plant some stuff in ground later when heat has died down

Will endevour to take some pics too

Quick question.. have a couple of peas doing really well in a largish pot.. they are ontop of the wall at moment.. if I leave them will they cascade down the wall?

Chimera

argghh.. I have greenfly all over one of my hanging baskets of strawberries.. Can I use washing up liquid and water? if so, what ratio?

lynzpower

Quick question.. have a couple of peas doing really well in a largish pot.. they are ontop of the wall at moment.. if I leave them will they cascade down the wall

I dont think so love, i think if you put the pot at the bottom with some sticks in, they will climb up but i dont think they like to climb down

No expert though!

aplaceinthesun

Chimera I remembered last year reading about someone who had grow peas in a hanging basket , know thats not the same as you are asking but not far off ! Cant find a link to what I originally - have searched on google though and ound these links which relate to the same thing :

http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/grapevine/vegging-out/peas-hanging-baskets_20792.html

http://kitchen-gardens.suite101.com/article.cfm/growing_snow_and_snap_peas_in_hanging_baskets

Might give some a go in a hanging basket myself !

Right offback to the garden , not sure what I am doing indoors on such a lovely day with loads to do , am very behind on sowing quite a few things ....

Have a lovely rest of the day everyone.

mutley74

I thinned out some of my radishes yesterday when some were the thickness of a pencil size. The ones i take out i replanted, but they wilted a little while later

ausmummy

My sweet peas have started to flower - a lovely yellow. :j

Vampgirl

Looking for some advice please.... this is the first year that we have a mini greenhouse which we plan to use to grow tomatoes and its getting to the time that we need to build it and plant the tomatoes out. My problem is that despite various google searches I'm still not sure where to site it! Does it need direct sunlight, or will that make it too hot?
Options are:
1) against a SSW facing brick wall - direct sun from about midday until early evening
2) against a WNW facing brick wall - direct sun from early afternoon until evening
3) against a NNE facing wooden fence - no direct sun, but the other side of the fence gets sun midday-evening

katholicos

Vampgirl wrote: »

Looking for some advice please.... this is the first year that we have a mini greenhouse which we plan to use to grow tomatoes and its getting to the time that we need to build it and plant the tomatoes out. My problem is that despite various google searches I'm still not sure where to site it! Does it need direct sunlight, or will that make it too hot?
Options are:
1) against a SSW facing brick wall - direct sun from about midday until early evening
2) against a WNW facing brick wall - direct sun from early afternoon until evening
3) against a NNE facing wooden fence - no direct sun, but the other side of the fence gets sun midday-evening

I would go for number 1.

You open the mini greenhouse 'door' in the day and close it in the evening...but if it is very warm at night, you may opt to leave the door unzipped. (though i read online the other day, that night temps are to go lower later in the week).

I sited one of my plastic greenhouses in number 2 position and things did not grow as well in it, they grew much better in direct sunlight. You may want to experiment and if it is one like mine, your greenhouse can easily be moved should you think it best positioned elsewhere.

lynzpower

i hope temps do drop a bit lowr, worryingly lots of my stuff is geting frazzled :eek: including my courgette which is outside, I have to try and move it somewhere else a bit more shaded but the roof is v exposed nad my hand is such I cant really lift :eek:

GarnetLady

Not such a nice day here as it has been, about 18 and cloudy. Shame, the plants were loving the heat for a change! (Even if I did spend lots of time watering.)

My tomatoes are looking much better lots of new growth and first of trusses on a couple! :j Spraying twice for the mite seems to have done the trick and I've also stuck some marigolds in beside them. It looks like slugs have been climbing the stems, but thankfully they don't seem to be eating very much at all.

Mission Impossible style slug found its way to the top shelf of my plastic greenhouse. :eek: 10/10 for effort, but it was rehomed out the front!

Broad beans have been growing majorly and lettuces are starting to look more like lettuces lol.

Chimera - well done on getting all those plants so cheaply, impressed.

Katholicos - As I've said before, I can't believe how much you're doing! But I understand the all or nothing bit, when I get into something I have to do it well and truly.