veg growing Newbies- Feb 2010! lets learn together!

izzwizz_2

Meant to ask, has anyone bought this month's "Kitchen Garden"? I saw on the cover there was an offer for summer sow vegetable seeds for £1.99 P&P but I can't find it on their website.

GarnetLady

izzwizz wrote: »

:rotfl:I didn't even have that excuse - mil wanted me to get her "womens" magazines and I just couldn't resist the pretty garden pictures - I'm really tempted to take out a subscription (there was an offer somewhere to subscribe and get a free blueberry!).

Can't remember all the seeds I wanted because as they've gone out of stock T&M have just removed them from my basket (gone down from 18 to 3!!!). There was asparagus & globe artichockes, some japanese veg for the winter, and some aquilegias & hardy geraniums. It's probably just as well, there really isn't any space now until the autumn anyway, and who knows there may be some sales at some of the other seed companies yet :j

I fancy a gardening mag subscription too, don't know which one to go for though. (I'm cancelling Simply Knitting and Cross Stitch Collection so that makes up for it .) The free seeds are always so tempting too.

Oooh, more seed and plant sales.... What a lovely thought!

I have Magic FM on the tv and am having a flashback moment - Take That's A Million Love Songs is on! Probably time I went to sleep and stopped rambling really.

janibrown

Really very windy here today :eek: (Manchester area) was hoping for a nice warm day as a need to reorganise my raised beds and do some potting on. It is suppose to get better weather towards the end of the week :D:D here's hoping
oh i have just started up my first batch of elderflower champagne yesterday hope it turns out ok yum yum

SallyForth_2

I quite like that Grow your Own mag, bought it a few times recently, especially when there are free seeds stuck on the front of it.

heynonnynonny

GarnetLady wrote: »

You run? I'm impressed, I can just about manage a fast walk, but not uphill. Husband runs quite a bit though. I have one set of neighbours who are great and two sets who are verging on odd. :rotfl:

Me and my friend randomly decided to do race for life so started taking up running a few weeks ago...don't be too impressed I only ran a mile and walked back again on the flat road. I can't even walk uphill without getting out of breath, it kills you doesn't it!! I love it though it's so MSE, doesn't cost a thing. The neighbours burnt their bonfire for hours, they have one all the time, they just burn old junk I think. Had to close the windows and doors though yuk they keep cutting the hedge dead low as well when all I want is privacy in the garden, they are ok though some people have awful neighbours don't they.

heynonnynonny

izzwizz wrote: »

lost all the hanging baskets when we moved, so I've no idea what to pot the basket plants into! Will have to try and find some nice tall pots instead I'm really looking forward to these plants turning up, talk about obsession! :rotfl:

That's a shame, I didn't bring any from my old house either. I didn't know anything about plants or gardening then so I threw most away over winter thinking they were dead anyway. Now I actually have a garden I won't be binning fuschias and the like (didn't realise they came back so chucked a load). I can't wait for this flipping pack to turn up either it's making me bad :rotfl:

heynonnynonny

On my courgette plants there are a load of buds gathered around sort of the stems and bases...could these be the flowers? I'm guessing so but not sure what to look for.

ausmummy

Yes they will be. I noticed mine around 2 week ago and they are now starting to flower heynonnynonny. I can't see yet whether they are m or f though.

On a gardening note, the most I've been doing is bug hunts. Currently doing 3 a day thanks to all the rain. At least the marigolds are keeping them away from my veg. I did fancy having marigold flowers but I'll settle for them working as a diversion. I'm starting to run out now though lol. I did manage to cut back some wall flowers in my front garden yesturday all be it in the rain.
Oh just a curious question, does anyone know if it is worms that shoot back in to their holes when you shine a torch on them? They look like worms but I didn't think they did that.

soullessfire

This really is a rubbish year to start gardening, isn't it? We've had a bad winter, so spring started late for most people, about 2 weeks of sunshine interspersed with really rubbish rainy cloudy weather. No wonder my plants never seem to be doing anything, poor things are cold and wet

Lotus-eater

ausmummy wrote: »

Oh just a curious question, does anyone know if it is worms that shoot back in to their holes when you shine a torch on them? They look like worms but I didn't think they did that.

Yes it's worms, they are light sensitive.