veg growing Newbies- Feb 2010! lets learn together!

heynonnynonny

I'm sorry to keep on...and on....and on...about strawberry runners, but er, the long tendril has a leafy bit halfway up it and at the end. Is it just the end bit I need to peg down? Hope that makes sense!

annie123

heynonnynonny wrote: »

I'm sorry to keep on...and on....and on...about strawberry runners, but er, the long tendril has a leafy bit halfway up it and at the end. Is it just the end bit I need to peg down? Hope that makes sense!

This may help you
http://www.gardenhive.com/fruit/strawberries/grow/runners/

hth

guccigoo

hi im getting excited now as my carrot seeds have started to sprout :j i sowed spring onions yesterday so they will be next. the swede seeds are going to be planted soon. Cant wait to eat my own veg

frazzbo

wssla00 wrote: »

I ordered a load of seeds today from a really great ebay shop 100% feedback and free postage for six or over packets of seeds

What was the name of the shop? I am always tempted by a bargain!

wssla00

Something with the name seed in..... Er hold on I will take a look!


ETA- It's called Just Seed. Got everything I wanted from next year for about twenty quid! That included the flowers I wanted to try too!

Oh btw, in Gardeners world this month you get twelve strawberry plants for free (but you pay the p and p £4.50 I think) or a load of perennials in the same offer!

Also, thinking of spring onions, does anyone elses spring onions fall over? Am I sewing them too high up in the soil?

Lots of things sprouting in the garden- MUST remember to mark what is sewing rather than relying on my rubbish memory!

It's very weird weather here! Sunny...but raining too! Oh well suppose the ground could use it!

katholicos

wssla00 wrote: »

Something with the name seed in..... Er hold on I will take a look!


ETA- It's called Just Seed. Got everything I wanted from next year for about twenty quid! That included the flowers I wanted to try too!

Oh btw, in Gardeners world this month you get twelve strawberry plants for free (but you pay the p and p £4.50 I think) or a load of perennials in the same offer!

Also, thinking of spring onions, does anyone elses spring onions fall over? Am I sewing them too high up in the soil?

Lots of things sprouting in the garden- MUST remember to mark what is sewing rather than relying on my rubbish memory!

It's very weird weather here! Sunny...but raining too! Oh well suppose the ground could use it!

Is this the gardeners world offer you mention? Just putting it here so people can take advantage of the offer. Click this

wssla00

That's it

savingmummy

Well i popped out to peg down my strawberry runners as they were just trailing on my patio and to my surprise one of them has roots on them!! I have pegged them all down now and hopefully i will get 4 more plants

It is so rewarding doing this, never did i think i would enjoy it all so much!!

You greenfingered people really are the ones to thank though:beer:

lizzyb1812

Most runners are long stalks that come out of the main plant and end in a leafy mini plant that you need to push/peg down into a small pot of compost - or gently curve it back to the pot the parent plant is in so it can root.

But some runners have a stalk, then a mini plant, then another stalk, then another mini plant. In which case you can push/peg down both mini plants into small pots of compost or back into the main pot.

Don't cut the mini plants off the stalks for a few weeks so they have time to establish themselves as proper plants in their own right.

Did this last year with 2 bought plants - got 14 rooted runners, 10 survived winter and have had loads of strawbs off them all. Now starting to put pots under runners to increase stock of plants - hoping to have a strawberry bed with 50+ plants next year :T;;

Lizzy

smithyjules

janibrown wrote: »

Has anyone got any advise for purple sprouting broccoli? Please, mine is now 2 and a half foot tall and looks like it is going to flower if it is going to flower is this the bit you harvest? sorry to sound dumb :o:o

Holy Crimeny 2 and a half foot tall?!My FIL gave me some tiny seedlings for our new allotment and i put them in about 6 inches apart!big oops me thinks!help anyone??or have i ruined them?they are about 3 inches high now.:eek: