veg growing Newbies- Feb 2010! lets learn together!

heynonnynonny

This thread is very quiet of late, how is everybody doing? I've had some good progress recently.

4 courgette plants producing small fruits but often - I'm still waiting for the glut to come I love courges!
Pepper plant covered in flowers, some pollinated!!
Chilli plant same, got 6 - 7 small green chillies a couple of cm long
Tom tumbler taking ages to ripen but covered in large green toms
Sweetcorn looks as though stopped growing, some of the outer leaves browning a little
Small crop from 5 strawb plants, am doing a few runners from them
Gardeners delight toms in growbags are doing ok, the ones in the more expensive tomato growbag have grown the most compared to the cheap growbag
Salad still coming thick and fast
Raspberry in pot is doing really well
Dwarf apple and pear trees putting on new growth

How's everybody else getting along?

Principia_2

We had stir fry yesterday with our first crop of french beans (courtesy of dig-in, or was it dig-it?? :huh:)

I might have to start freezing them though as they are coming thick and fast and we would only eat them about once a week.

Cayenne Chili Peppers are looking good - long but still green, waiting for them to turn red before harvesting and the razzamatazz chilis are full of flower and one or two squat fruit.

The older alpine strawberries are fruiting like mad - when I have enough I'm going to make some icecream (yumyum) and the new crop sown this year have flowers.

The ordinary size strawberries not so successful due to slug attacks - I need to harden up next year and actually steel myself to damage them :mad: I also want to increase my crop using runners and maybe greenhouse staging along the side of the garden to make walls of strawberries (might be able to copper tape to discourage the slugs too).

Tomatoes looking good but green (a bit worried about blight - I tried growing tomatoes about 3 years ago but the summer was so damp that they all went moldy )

Pumpkins - 3 or 4 looking as if they are potentially pollenated with definitely 2 actually pollenated, they are a small pumpkin so I'm possibly looking at 5 per vine, fingers crossed.

Blueberries - harvested half and eaten fresh - another half to go. I bought another two bushes this year but don't expect them to actually crop until 2 years time.

Potatoes - need earthing up again:eek: I hadn't anticipated how much soil this would take although I want to build at least one raised bed this year and intend to use half used compost and half top soil to grow herbs in next year, so the compost will not go to waste.

Windowsill oregano needs repotting and outside rosemary has doubled in size (from about 3 inches to 6 inches :rotfl:)

All in all very good but a bit disappointed I've not been able to do much due to the wet and windy weather.

soullessfire

My corn finally bit the dust, I've been keeping it behind some courgettes as a makeshift anti-dog fence but he's nibbled them too much and they were brown and bent over today.

Had to pickup some blackfly spray since they're eating my courgettes and pumpkin like nobody's business so I popped into the garden center.

Picked up some swedes and pak choi for when my maincrops die off so I can keep growing stuff. Also spotted a 6 container tray (4 plants per container) of corn so I'm going to give those a try as a replacement for my own ones. Would dearly love some corn and I'm hoping that my courgette fence is enough to keep him away and give them a chance.

Mrs_Veg_Plot

soullessfire wrote: »

Don't say that!! You'll give the poor girl body issues!! lol

That must be why she is not growing as well as she should. I'll tell her how good she looks tomorrow and maybe I'll get a few more courgettes from her :rotfl:

wssla00

izzwizz wrote: »

Tell me about it! I've never known weather like it, but everyone here tells me it was unusual to be THAT cold. The weather's really weird at the moment. When the Sun's out, it's roasting - then the clouds come over and it get's really cold (yoyoing between 23C & 14C). It's hard work keeping on top of the mould in the greenhouse in the damp weather. I'd rather have the problem of watering in the Sun!!!

I have been up here ten years and have to say they are all pretty rubbish but that has to be one of the worst!

I have ordered some nice seeds so will sew them next week!

Have a good gardening weekend all

Minnie26

Hi All

Have just finished reading through all the posts on here and wow what a great thread!!!

Total newbie and live in a flat so all balcony and windowsill growing for me.

So far I've got 3 tom plants and most of those are starting to turn red yay! They are about 5 foot 8 at the minute though :eek:

I've also got a Basil plant which is doing well, a pepper plant (not sure what sort as I bought it from a fete) I think its doing ok but we will see. I have also planted some carrots from seed and some lettuce from seed, so we will see how they do.

I have no idea what I'm doing but I am absolutely LOVING planting and looking after my plants. My husband keeps saying he wishes I paid him as much attention lol! He said he wasnt interested in them and now I catch him rushing to get out and water them before me, cheeky monkey, not interested my a**e!!!

Great post!

xx

wssla00

Welcome Minnie

WELL...... I've done it again! I have just spent £25 from the hairy pot company for some herbs, a perennial and some coir plant pots! I thought (mistakenly) that when I'm in London if I go to a garden centre I can't buy anything as then I have to get it home.... not if you write the name of the companies down then order online D'OH!!!

Oh well.... The plants looked amazing in the centre- really healthy and nice! Oh and you bury the pot too which is good! So got 40 modules for starting off and 20 big pots for bigger plants! Oh and a bay bush, A chamomile plant, and a pretty blue cottage garden plant.......MUST STOP LOOKING!

Have a good day all

izzwizz_2

Welcome Minnie - my goodness, that's dedication reading through the whole thread :eek::rotfl:
With all the bad weather over the last few days, the jobs have really piled up on me. Have loads of potting-up to do and need to plant some things out just so I can get some pots

wssla - naughty! (I keep doing the same thing though, wish some of the things I've ordered would hurry up & come :rotfl:)

soullessfire

Got those tomato plants I grew from seed ready for potting on and also my new corn plants need bigger pots themselves, however it's nasty outside and I can't really do much

The tomatoes I grew from seed that I was thinking about getting rid of are starting to produce fruit already and the flowers have only been on them maybe a week or so, everything moves so much faster when the temperatures are right. Looks like I was wise to take people's advice and hold onto them lol

Minnie26

Ha ha it did take about a week to read it all lol!

I also have some onions and radishes to plant from seed as well. I am thoroughly addicted!!

My strawberry plant doesnt seem very happy at the moment, do they like a sunny spot or a part shady spot?

Thanks x