veg growing Newbies- Feb 2010! lets learn together!

ausmummy

savingmummy wrote: »

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

You don't have to wait. July - sep is the time to get sowing for early spring flowers. So if you can over winter them somewhere you can start preparing for next years already. Some veg can be done aswell - can't remember off hand, but definatley read about them.

GarnetLady

elsien wrote: »

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.

They don't like having their roots disturbed. More chance of ending up with weirdly shaped and unusable carrots too. :rotfl:

Failing that, do what I've been known to do, go and have a look at the packs of seed and see what can be sown now. Most things can be container grown.

GarnetLady

savingmummy wrote: »

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

You've been keeping busy then!

It's amazing what you find after the builders have dumped everything isn't it? My dad bent our fork on a huge rock in our garden.

It's lovely having the cat about. Next best thing to having our own! He loves having a nose at what I'm doing. He also likes coming into the house for a nap.

You can still plant potatoes. Have a look at T&M, they have varieties that will crop autumn/winter. (I'm sure you'd get them elsewhere as well.) I'm hoping for homegrown potatoes for Christmas dinner.

I've actually just planted some more. Found a bag that I'd forgotten about in the garage, so I've planted them in poundland pop-up bags, just have to wait and see if they do anything. They'd definitely chitted!

ausmummy

GarnetLady wrote: »

They don't like having their roots disturbed. More chance of ending up with weirdly shaped and unusable carrots too. :rotfl:

I keep hearing this more and more. I have a question - how the heck did mine survive? They were first put into seed trays. Then into their final pot. Then dug up about 5 times by DD. They are now forming carrots. I must have been luckier than I thought. Can't wait to see what shapes they grow into. :rotfl:

savingmummy

GarnetLady wrote: »

You've been keeping busy then!

It's amazing what you find after the builders have dumped everything isn't it? My dad bent our fork on a huge rock in our garden.

It's lovely having the cat about. Next best thing to having our own! He loves having a nose at what I'm doing. He also likes coming into the house for a nap.

You can still plant potatoes. Have a look at T&M, they have varieties that will crop autumn/winter. (I'm sure you'd get them elsewhere as well.) I'm hoping for homegrown potatoes for Christmas dinner.

I've actually just planted some more. Found a bag that I'd forgotten about in the garage, so I've planted them in poundland pop-up bags, just have to wait and see if they do anything. They'd definitely chitted!

Been really busy indoors and now have the summer (when it comes) to concentrate in the garden!
We certainly have rocks and full size bricks, along with pebbles and plastic! Out of a 1 metre long flower bed we had 4 x 180L wheelie bins full!!:eek:

We have a cat but she is an indoor cat and dont venture out at all, 11 yrs of being in a top floor flat probably keeps her in, we have tried her in the garden and she runs back in crying LOL!
Interesting about the potatoes will have a look, only down side i have is the garden is small, i`d love a bigger space but will have to make do with what i have for now x

savingmummy

ausmummy wrote: »

I keep hearing this more and more. I have a question - how the heck did mine survive? They were first put into seed trays. Then into their final pot. Then dug up about 5 times by DD. They are now forming carrots. I must have been luckier than I thought. Can't wait to see what shapes they grow into. :rotfl:

Doughnut shaped:rotfl:You will have to let us know!x

janibrown

heynonnynonny wrote: »

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!

Soooo Pleased all your plants are doing :j:j:j fine cant believe all the rain :mad::mad::mad: hopefully its going to be fine for the rest of the week:D:D:D
Janice xxxxx

kimmee

heynonnynonny wrote: »

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!

Yeah, I'm sure but really only because I haven't really had time in the last week or so :rotfl:

I wasn't really sure if I'd planted mine right either, but must have cos they really are sprouting like crazy - glad yours are doing well too

kimmee

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

Thanks elsien - might pluck up the courage to lift them at the weekend then.

I second what Garnettlady said about carrots - they need depth and you can sow some every 2 weeks or so for a continual crop. Carrots are one of the few veg that I grew last year and I harvested quite a few last year but I left some in the pots that they had grown in and then pulled them up early this year and they were still edible

I would second

LilacPixie

growing carrots in flowerbuckets is good. nice depth