veg growing Newbies- Feb 2010! lets learn together!

savingmummy

GarnetLady wrote: »

Grr, just lost my post...

Hi savingmummy, are you settled in? My toms stayed about that height for a while then shot up, maybe root forming? Anyway, I wouldn't worry.

Hello
Settling in really well thank you.
Loving my garden and we have now started to create a flowerbed down one side which is going to be a rose garden!
I have 2 flowering standard roses in pots at the moment which are gorgeous.

Fingers crossed my toms do the same, they have grown 1" since i re potted them a week ago, i also noticed small lower leaves so will clip them off and add some compost around the stem.

katholicos

Hey folks, thought i would share with you some pics of my veg growing progress. Here is a link to my photobucket photos i took on my phone today.

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Hope you are all enjoying your gardening this weekend!

wssla00

Katholicos your garden looks lovely! It's been so nice getting out in the sun today!

lolly5648

katholicos wrote: »

Hey folks, thought i would share with you some pics of my veg growing progress. Here is a link to my photobucket photos i took on my phone today.

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Hope you are all enjoying your gardening this weekend!

Thanks for posting your fab pictures. I can't believe how much you have planted, it must have cost you a fortune! This is my first year with veg and I am learning so much by looking at other people's pictures and what they are growing things in - love the recycling bags!

katholicos

lolly5648 wrote: »

Thanks for posting your fab pictures. I can't believe how much you have planted, it must have cost you a fortune! This is my first year with veg and I am learning so much by looking at other people's pictures and what they are growing things in - love the recycling bags!

I have grown it all from seed (with the exception of the fruit bushes which were cheap as chips from Focus - the Payless brand)....the raised beds were reduced , as were the two growhouses and all of em were bought with leftover Christmas gift vouchers/money and my recent birthday gift vouchers/money.

The compost wasn't cheap though...but as you may have seen in one of the photos, i've made a huge compost pile (it is covered with plastic now and i have started another pile off) and hopefully won't have to buy any next year, except for a bag to sow seeds in little modules. My chldren treated me to a B and Q gift ard last week for my birthday and i bought 4 growbags and 3 x 100litres of wood bark. Bless 'em.

My maxim is to only purchase (wherever possible) at half price or less....so all my seeds have been exactly that. I've even bought next years seeds at half price.

This is my first year veg growing too and i am kind of OCD about gardening....it has definately become a compulsion :rotfl:I'm not always well enough to do stuff in the garden, but i those days i just sit and enjoy it all. Also, it is for health reasons that i have the pots and raised beds, i can't dig, so the raised beds make it more comfortable for me to grow stuff.

I am a very visually orientated person and i realy enjoy looking at other gardeners photos too and i thank you very much for your compliment on mine:)

ETA: Forgot to mention, all the black buckets are the 8 for 99p ones from Morrisons and the larger parts were from £land and also buy one get one free from Morries!

izzwizz_2

beckiem wrote: »

thanks for the advice on my cat problem, i am very much a dog person and it makes me wonder how the cat owners would feel if i let my 3 dogs roam free so they can take there morning poo on there veg!! i deliberately planted it out the front to avoid my dogs doing this and digging it!! anyway rant over, THANKS x i will be off to tesco in the morning to try the chilli, i tried brambles but i caught 1 of the bloomin cats asleep on it, after i went through alot of pricks (hehe izzwizz) to get it in the right place!

Sorry it didn't work - hope you didn't hurt yourself I have to agree about cats, but our hens have scared all the cats here away! Hey, maybe you could try hens... but then you'd just have the same problem with hen poo instead of cats. There's hen dung all over the place...

kimmee

Absolutley wonderful kathalicos - really enjoyed looking at them, you have worked sooo hard, it all looks fantastic.

Must get round to posting some pics of my garden on here, but yours puts mine to shame but I still love it . Like you, my garden is now my compulsion but I love it and it's a healthier compulsion than many :rotfl:

I've has such a lovely day - went to the nursery this morning and bought some plants (even though I said I wanted to grow all my plants from seed I've now cleared most of my beds and there so many gaps to fill!) one of which was an eccinachea (sp?) which I thought was called 'Kims Knee' - don't know if anyone remembers a few months ago I dislocated my knee so I had to have that one (turns out it's called Kims Knee High!). So spent the rest of the day in the garden, planting, weeding, inspecting all my veg: flowers on all toms, tiny buds on peppers and chillis, American Land Cress going bananas as are the potatoes - probably around 3.5 - 4 feet high and what looks like the beginnings of flowers on one or two of them, second lot of spinach and beets have germinated and are doing well, cucs are fine in the morning then they wilt during the day and revive again early evening! carrots are doing well, courgettes are sulking cos I finally planted them out, salad leaves are doing so well - I'm getting a colander full every day, and peas have got lots of flowers on them, got loads of small tayberries, blueberry bushes have finally sprung into life, garlic (planted in November) seems to be still growing, basil doing well - I've got both pots of them in the conservatory - not sure if I'm going to put one outside, my one lonesome french bean is twined really high up the wigwam - must be at least 5 feet tall now, I've harvested lots of radishes - must sow some more tomorrow as well as carrots & spring onions which are also doing well. My onions don't seem to be doing much but I think they are growing albeit slowly. I'm also harvesting rocket nearly every day.

Ahh this is the life - why isn't there a 'bliss' smiley?!

helen_roberts_2

My French beans are now hanging off the canes about 20cm growth from
yesterday. I must have done something wrong. I just originally planted them in morrisons buckets and popped a 2m cane in them. So I have 3 separate buckets with 3 seperate plants all really tall winding up the cane. Somebody mentioned above about pinching the top, I don't know what this means sorry to be thick. One of them has also got 2 new long bits from the first set of leaves, should I put 2 more canes in for those????

Chimera

misskool wrote: »

sweetcorn, not really. the tassels at the top get blown from the wind and pollinate the cobs below/around it. hence why you plant them close together in a block.

why not just wait for the strawberries to ripen? I have about 2 dozen looking plump but still green

I've only got 3 sweetcorn at the moment though, so don't know if they'll pollinate..

Sorry - my rambles weren't very clear - was talking about gooseberries.. There are lots the right size but still hard, I've heard it's good to pick them to elongate their season..

kimmee

Was just looking out of the conservatory windows and noticed what I thought was a pod on one of my pea plants, rushed outside and I've got 3 :j

They look like mangetout at the moment so I'm guessing they will grow fatter of the next few days, weeks??