veg growing Newbies- Feb 2010! lets learn together!

Minnie26

annie123 wrote: »

Most likely Jalapeño peppers. They are often later and mine indoors keep producing into January, then the leaves drop off, new ones grow and you get a head start next year;)
Dont over water in the winter months.

Oooh thanks, I hope it does keep producing into January that would be great!!! Eeeek exciting best 50p I've spent in ages

I'll keep an eye on it to make sure that between me and OH dont over water it.
Thanks again

I think my toms plants are coming to the end of their life got a few small toms that just need to ripen but no more flowers coming through at the moment.

First year of growing my own and I'm ruddy addicted!! :j

izzwizz_2

shandypants5 wrote: »

I think scaffold netting mesh size is too big, the butterlies fold their wings and crawl through.

My cabbages got attacked last year so I used very fine 0.6mm enviromesh this year,
It was a bit expensive, but I have had no problem at all with butterflies or catterpilars this year.

This is the stuff CLICKY but I only paid about £10 from a garden center.

Same here, £10 from a local hardware store for 6m x 2m. Hubby made some frames from 2" x 1" wood, and we used a staple gun to put the mesh on. Has worked brilliantly, and the plants have also benefitted from the added wind & rain protection.

kerrypoppy

I'm having mixed success with my crops. My aubergine had a lovely fruit on it and another started to come but then the plant was smothered by white and green fly and looked quite ill and dropped the youngest fruit. I've now put it outside, removed all the diseased leaves and cut and ate the good fruit. There seems to be new growth so fingers crossed. Courgettes appear to be doing something at last and there are about 5 on the way. Sweetcorn are also looking pretty good. One of the plants appears to have 2 cobs forming!! Butternut squash is starting to flower after a sickly start and there are lots of tomatoes to come. Onions and beetroot aren't looking too good but I think I may just be rather impatient. I pulled my chantenay carrots and have sown some nantes. My pixie potatoes should be ready but when I had a feel in the bag, I only pulled out a couple of marble sized spuds. Any ideas?? I also have arran victory pots growing, which are still in flower. Just sown some perpetual spinach. I found a great seed website called moreveg and they're cheap, no fancy packaging but good service. I'd like to grow more over the winter and have a conservatory that I can use. Can anyone suggest anything that won't take up too much space please?

wssla00

Went in the garden today and WOOHOO! I have one orange tomato! Hurrah Still no joy on the allotment front but the wait has now gone down from 25 years, to ten years, to two years so here's hoping Word on the street is a new community allotment project is opening with plots so have put my name down for that too. I will get an allotment- yes I will!

I use a place for my seed called just seed. Again no fancy packaging but really good and DEFRA regulated which is good.

Kerry, you could do a lot of winter salad!

have a good garden day all

katholicos

shandypants5 wrote: »

I think scaffold netting mesh size is too big, the butterlies fold their wings and crawl through.

My cabbages got attacked last year so I used very fine 0.6mm enviromesh this year,
It was a bit expensive, but I have had no problem at all with butterflies or catterpilars this year.

This is the stuff CLICKY but I only paid about £10 from a garden center.

aaaaaaah, that's where i be going wrong then! Thanks for the advice, i will certainly invest in some environmesh or something similar for next time :beer:

GarnetLady

Went out to water the greenhouse earlier and pick some more toms.

I'm never going to win any prizes for having the biggest veg, but I might win one for having the smallest...



:rotfl:

lolly5648

GarnetLady wrote: »

I'm never going to win any prizes for having the biggest veg, but I might win one for having the smallest...



:rotfl:

Looks like a lovely sweet cherry tomato.

mrbadexample

GarnetLady wrote: »

I'm never going to win any prizes for having the biggest veg, but I might win one for having the smallest...


:rotfl:

Oooh...I do like a competition. Here's my tomato (although I'm sure I'll have smaller by the end of the season if I remember not to munch it standing in the greenhouse):



But I think my fully-ripe chilli will take some beating:



:j

katholicos

GarnetLady wrote: »

Went out to water the greenhouse earlier and pick some more toms.

I'm never going to win any prizes for having the biggest veg, but I might win one for having the smallest...



:rotfl:

How cute is that tomato! Did you share it

GarnetLady

It's 14mm lol.

katholicos, we don't want to eat it all at once! :rotfl:

MBE that chilli is fab! Looks like a little button.

Not sure how much gardening I'm going to get done for the next wee while, because of this -

Maisie the kitten!