veg growing Newbies- Feb 2010! lets learn together!

heynonnynonny

annie12 wrote: »

At the moment she sits on one of the grow bags in the outside greenhouse
She is totally spoilt & has her own shed!!

I think the 4 tier greenhouse from Wilko's is really good value for £12.99, very neat. They have long planters (troughs) in Wilko's aswell & they fit perfectly on the shelves

Ahh bless her, I love them.

Just took the plunge and got one of those 4 tier plastic covered greenhouses, excellent value, I really can not be bothered to put it up though, maybe if the sun was shining woul be a different story!!

B and M had no garden fleece but Wilkos was £2.98 for an 8m x 1.5m roll.

B and Ms hanging baskets with plastic liner are also £1.99 which were a quid cheaper than the cheapest ones I've come across which were at Wilko so grabbed a couple.

Chimera

oh and one of my hanging baskets with strawberries is quite low down.. puppy has managed to pull all leaves off - little menace - luckily i have two more baskets of them .. lol

And GOOD NEWS!!! Have been trying to convince OH to do a small raised bed for out tiny garden.. high enough to be doggie proof - he's been dismissing the idea all year and has just come in and said he thinks it would be good!! hooray!!

heynonnynonny

Chimera glad you managed to talk him round, he knows it makes sense

And the list of herbs is making me hungry :rotfl:

Chimera

heynonnynonny wrote: »

Chimera glad you managed to talk him round, he knows it makes sense

He's really sweet really.. he's getting fed up of puppy destroying 'all my hard work' (his words).. He's more bothered than me.. I'll just be happy if I get a few things to grow!!

lynzpower

EDitm, it made the screen massive, they are on blog

Just trying to see if the new camera works?

Megansmum

Oh and re carrot fly:

Grow them anyway! If you are doing Onions put them near the carrots - the smell distracts the fly. It is true they only fly 30cm above the ground. It is the thinning of them that gives off the aroma that attracts them .... so, either - sow very thinly and grow them all without thinning, or when you thin, do it very quickly and in the evening when the flies are less active and destroy the thinnings.

The first attack comes in late May or early June and the second in August and September. Delaying sowing until late May, can help to avoid this first generation. Alternatively, sow very thinly or use pelleted seed, thus eliminating the need for thinning.

The BBC says:

Treatment

• Regular checks for damage or infestation.
• Crop containment, for example, covering plants with a fleece barrier.
• Choose growing sites that are fairly open and exposed.
• Remove damaged plants to reduce the smell of carrot which attracts the flies.
• Companion plant with strong smelling plants to mask the carrot smell, such as onions.
• Avoid sowing susceptible plant seed during the early spring and late summer when carrot flies will be laying eggs.
• Thin seedlings in the evening when adult flies are less active and then destroy all thinned plants.
• Firm the soil around the plants after thinning as this deters the flies from laying eggs.

Prevention

• Check the crop regularly for signs of infestation and promptly remove any affected plants.
• Grow less susceptible varieties, such as 'Fly Away' and 'Resistafly', which are low in phenolic acid.
• During the winter, thoroughly fork through the soil where susceptible plants will be grown. This should expose overwintering carrot flies to frosts and predators.

Hope that helps someone. (I'm growing them again this year as they did well last year even though I didn't thin them and they were small. Mine will be in flexitubs above ground level, covered in fleece).:D

lynzpower

GUess what OH found on the road?

A full size water butt :j

I never thought i would get excited about a water butt. Slightly sad lol

Just have to work out how to clean it as it has the smell of some sort of fertilizer in it.....?!?

heynonnynonny

It's amazing what people just dump isn't it, their loss is your gain!

lynzpower

heynonnynonny wrote: »

It's amazing what people just dump isn't it, their loss is your gain!

listen most of my belongings are other peoples waste

Our house is a cross between steptoes yard and a magpies nest

annie12

heynonnynonny wrote: »

Ahh bless her, I love them.

Just took the plunge and got one of those 4 tier plastic covered greenhouses, excellent value, I really can not be bothered to put it up though, maybe if the sun was shining woul be a different story!!

B and M had no garden fleece but Wilkos was £2.98 for an 8m x 1.5m roll.

B and Ms hanging baskets with plastic liner are also £1.99 which were a quid cheaper than the cheapest ones I've come across which were at Wilko so grabbed a couple.

Me too....I'd love more
Hubby put ours up & the shelves were a little unstable so he fed it under the middle pole & on top of poles at either end (that's probably totally confusing).