veg growing Newbies- Feb 2010! lets learn together!

Megansmum

Optimisticpair wrote: »

No, you are ok, you can keep them. The chits should be purple/green and an fat not pale and thin that's all.

Thanks for that - they are purple and fat! Just need them to stop growing for 3 weeks then i can get them out!

charliee_3

Megansmum wrote: »

Thanks for that - they are purple and fat! Just need them to stop growing for 3 weeks then i can get them out!

my potatoes have chitted nicely but i cant plant them out yet as still too cold. they are on the windowsill in the kitchen, would i be better moving them to the (unheated) greenhouse until April, leave them where they are and hope they dont shrivel and die or put them in the dark and cool -somewhere like the shed?

lynzpower

charliee wrote: »

my potatoes have chitted nicely but i cant plant them out yet as still too cold. they are on the windowsill in the kitchen, would i be better moving them to the (unheated) greenhouse until April, leave them where they are and hope they dont shrivel and die or put them in the dark and cool -somewhere like the shed?

You can start growing them now under fleece in your green house if you are using containers?

See titchmarsh "very earlies"

lynzpower

Just had a long overdue session in the roof-room. Its pretty cold in there.

However, I have the poking through of 2 of the 4 of my peas I potted 2 weeks ago. I think i can see a tiny poke-through of a spring onion.

We potted up seeds today- tomatoes, green patty pan, courgette - bush, and perpetual spinach and a successional of spring onions- living in hope on these! These are tucked up under a bit of fleece, snuggled in some bits ogf bubble wrap

Was a bit too dark to take any pics but I hope to get up there tomorrow to see whats there.

dawnfuller

All looking good on the allotment

dawnfuller

janiebaby29 wrote: »

What can i use instead of eggboxes for chitting pototoes ,
I havent got any egg boxes and wont need any eggs either !!!

Use the carry out tray for drinks from Macdonalds

Furny

I didn't have any egg boxes left either, got mine chitting away stood up in celluar seed trays, seem to be chitting fine!.

charliee_3

lynzpower wrote: »

You can start growing them now under fleece in your green house if you are using containers?

See titchmarsh "very earlies"

i was going to plant straight into the ground.. i am very retro!

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Right I have taken my seed potatoes out of the packet now and stood them in an eggbox. How long should I expect to leave em like that till? I am thinking I will plant them Easter Monday does that sounds about right? We are hoping to build a couple more raised beds this weekend and will be ordering a load of topsoil and compost so might have it delivered for Easter to take advantage of the long weekend.

misskool

shelvis wrote: »

Right I have taken my seed potatoes out of the packet now and stood them in an eggbox. How long should I expect to leave em like that till? I am thinking I will plant them Easter Monday does that sounds about right? We are hoping to build a couple more raised beds this weekend and will be ordering a load of topsoil and compost so might have it delivered for Easter to take advantage of the long weekend.

you leave them until they have started sprouting. You want thick chunky green/purple stems, not the thin skinny pale ones.


We're not planting till Easter anyways, but even then still hoping the frosts will be over by then. Have you worked out the costs of building the raised beds and ordering in the soil and compost? For the first year, OH dug up the turf and turned the soil over, we dug in a bit of fish, blood and bone and then planted. You don't need raised beds to grow vegetables.