veg growing Newbies- Feb 2010! lets learn together!

savingmummy

My tomato plants have really picked up despite being thrown from their home in the nasty wind the other evening!

This morning i went and bought 2 strawberry plants (look really healthy) and 2 nice pots for them. Any thing i need to know before i go potting them? Do they need a support or anything like that? Any care tips?

GarnetLady

savingmummy wrote: »

My tomato plants have really picked up despite being thrown from their home in the nasty wind the other evening!

This morning i went and bought 2 strawberry plants (look really healthy) and 2 nice pots for them. Any thing i need to know before i go potting them? Do they need a support or anything like that? Any care tips?

Glad your toms are recovering.

From what I've seen of my strawberries so far, they're pretty tough little plants. Pot them up, feed when they flower and fruit and water. About it really. (Well that's all I've done and they're busy fruiting like mad. )

savingmummy

Oh Lovely! Can`t wait to get them flowering and fruiting
I do like the easy tough plants lol! x

GarnetLady

savingmummy - Yes, easy tough plants are my faves too! How is the new garden coming along?

I think I'm going to have to earth up my potatoes again today. They're shooting up so fast! Next door's cat was very cute after I did it last week, he wanted to see what I was doing, so he put his paws on the top of the bag and ended up with his head in the bag, when the side pushed down with his weight. He also investigated all the tubs of seedlings then had a wander round the shed and then the greenhouse. Think he's checking I'm doing everything right! :rotfl:

heynonnynonny

janibrown wrote: »

Hi really sorry to hear about all the weather, we have had some rail here and have to keep going out to my plastic greenhouse to drain the rain off the plastic cover incase it rips it.
Where in the country do you live ???

Staffordshire, it didn't stop for hours. It doesn't seem to have affected any of my veg plants, was concerned about the young tom plants in grow bags but they are fine, so glad!

heynonnynonny

kimmee wrote: »

On another point which is nothing to do with veg growing - I got one of those peony trees from garden bargains (the T&M one) and although it had lots of shoots on it when I planted it, it didn't seem to do anything for a while. I went out in the garden yesterday morning and there were absolutely lots of tiny leaves coming from the shoots :j
BTW: after sending off for the citrus trees I haven't succumbed to anything else :rotfl:

Yay mine too, not sure if I've planted them right or not but they seem to be sprouting a little bit.

Hmmm are you sure about the not ordering anything else bit :rotfl:well done you!

savingmummy

GarnetLady wrote: »

savingmummy - Yes, easy tough plants are my faves too! How is the new garden coming along?

I think I'm going to have to earth up my potatoes again today. They're shooting up so fast! Next door's cat was very cute after I did it last week, he wanted to see what I was doing, so he put his paws on the top of the bag and ended up with his head in the bag, when the side pushed down with his weight. He also investigated all the tubs of seedlings then had a wander round the shed and then the greenhouse. Think he's checking I'm doing everything right! :rotfl:

The garden is coming along nicely, Have painted the shed and all the fencing, Lawn is nice and short and green :A Edges filled with bark with solar lights.
We just need to start sorting out the flowerbeds down one side and getting some structure started - I want a rose garden down one side.
Rain and wind seems to be stuck here in essex and we have not yet got around to doing it. We have made a start on the flowerbed (which consists of approx 1 metre in length), LONG process as underneath is clay, bricks, tiles you name it it is full of it, so have to clear then top up with compost!

I have 2 standard roses in pots on my patio which are in flower and doing really well, Today i placed some willow trellis behind them And obviously i have my `delicious` salad leaves, butternut squash, toms and strawberries are all doing well.
I have chives, basil and oregano which have not been doing much but they seem to be picking up since i moved them to a more sheltered spot.

Tomorrow i`m putting up some hanging baskets on the fence posts and hoping to either use these for flowers OR my tomato plants.

Can`t wait for next year to throw myself in and get cracking on more things. Potatoes i`m keen on doing along with cucumber, beetroot etc.
Wish i had a cat to keep me in ship shape LOL x

elsien

kimmee wrote: »

A couple of worries/queries: I planted my garlic last November and they have grown really well, a couple of plants seem to have leaves going brown but no signs of any flowers? Anyone know if I should just leave them be for a while?

I don't think I got flowers on my garlic last year, I just hoiked them up when the foliage started dying off, and they seemed to have done ok. Still a bit early for mine this year I think, still all green and perky.

No flowers on my courgettes either at the moment - they look healthy just no signs of actually growing anything.

BTW still after suggestions from my earlier post as to what I can grow and plant in containers once my pototoes are out of the way (see pos6t 2318). Would carrots be any use?
Thanks

GarnetLady

elsien wrote: »

I don't think I got flowers on my garlic last year, I just hoiked them up when the foliage started dying off, and they seemed to have done ok. Still a bit early for mine this year I think, still all green and perky.

No flowers on my courgettes either at the moment - they look healthy just no signs of actually growing anything.

BTW still after suggestions from my earlier post as to what I can grow and plant in containers once my pototoes are out of the way (see pos6t 2318). Would carrots be any use?
Thanks

I think carrots would be fine. I have 2 lots in Morrisons buckets and they seem quite happy. Just remember to sow direct.

elsien

Just wondering why I need to sow direct? (Got my seed trays out and ready to go!) I was thinking I could start them off now as the pots aren't ready to come out yet, and plant them out in a few weeks time.