veg growing Newbies- Feb 2010! lets learn together!

flis21

My chives have sprouted, yippeee!! Also think I can start seeing something on the rosemary as well. Still no sign of the mint, parsley or parsnips. Am sooo excited this morning. The first thing I have grown!

kimmee

flis21 wrote: »

My chives have sprouted, yippeee!! Also think I can start seeing something on the rosemary as well. Still no sign of the mint, parsley or parsnips. Am sooo excited this morning. The first thing I have grown!

I grew chives last year flis21, in a pot in the garden & I was very happily surprised to find that they'd sprung back into life a week or so ago, and are now growing like mad

lynzpower

elantan wrote: »

looks like i might have a bit of a problem ...not sure yet ...but i might ... as previously said i got the seeds out of the shed and noticed the roof was leaking ...well looked up felt etc so will get that this week

however thought i would make a start on the seed classification when to sow what part of the polytunnel to sow in etc (crop rotation thingy) and i pulled them outa the tub i had them in ... they were all soaking wet ...splunging to put it mildly ... have laid them all out in the living room (i'm sure you can imagine how happy hubby is at that) hoping they will dry ...but am concerned they may now become mouldy/rot etc ... didnt want to put them on the radiator either incase that caused them to germinate ( i am pretending i think i know what i am talking about)

so... it looks like it might be a very small crop if any for me this year ...but lessons have to be learned somehow

Step 1- get yourself a large tin- I have a large roses tin

Step 2, line it with brown paper and kitchen roll

Step 3 - get some banking coin bags

Thats how to be over-protective like moi!

I have a few spares, will PM you xx

lynzpower

kimmee wrote: »

I grew chives last year flis21, in a pot in the garden & I was very happily surprised to find that they'd sprung back into life a week or so ago, and are now growing like mad

Did I see Masterchef making a salad ( or jamie?) recently using the whole chive flowers?

Looked nice :drool:

seraphina

Phew! Weather here been upgraded to just a bit chilly, so no need to go mad with bubble wrap and fleeces. Am glad for the rain though, will do things the power of good. Mind you the slugs are beginning to make an appearance...

elantan

lynzpower wrote: »

Step 1- get yourself a large tin- I have a large roses tin

Step 2, line it with brown paper and kitchen roll

Step 3 - get some banking coin bags

Thats how to be over-protective like moi!

I have a few spares, will PM you xx

that will deff be put into play if i can salvage anything ... if i cant salvage anything it will be put into play with the new lot



will i have to open the seed packets to see if they are ok? or should drying them out work? anyone

Chimera

elantan wrote: »

that will deff be put into play if i can salvage anything ... if i cant salvage anything it will be put into play with the new lot



will i have to open the seed packets to see if they are ok? or should drying them out work? anyone

Are they new seed packets? may well be foil lined packets so won't have got wet.. fingers crossed for you x

misskool

as chimera says if the foil packets haven't got wet through they might be ok. If they have been opened and are wet inside then they're no good, sorry

beckstrous

Hi All,

Well, we have a little more sprouting going on in our house now so my fears about non-germination have been allayed slightly. We have various tomatoes, a little bit of basil, some leeks, radish and broad beans popping up. No sign of parsnip but I understand they take ages. The lettuces I have given up on.

My husband planted a trough of salad at the weekend and I did more broad beans and some peas. We also bought some lovely looking, locally-grown herb plants to start us off: parsley, mint, sage and thyme, and my sister brought round some rosemary.

I think after Easter we will start putting stuff in the ground. We are lucky enough to have four veg patches but I am so very tempted to turn them into raised beds. I think the earliest we could do this, if we could get the timber, would be the weekend after Easter. I'm assuming we can't really plant stuff and then raise the beds?

I am trying to see if we can get some old scaffolding or gravel boards. I don't really know what gravel boards are but have heard lots of people mention them :-)

Do you guys think we're too late to consider this? I have pink fir apple potatoes chitting and they need to go in the ground at some point soon...

misskool

beckstrous wrote: »

Hi All,

Well, we have a little more sprouting going on in our house now so my fears about non-germination have been allayed slightly. We have various tomatoes, a little bit of basil, some leeks, radish and broad beans popping up. No sign of parsnip but I understand they take ages. The lettuces I have given up on.

My husband planted a trough of salad at the weekend and I did more broad beans and some peas. We also bought some lovely looking, locally-grown herb plants to start us off: parsley, mint, sage and thyme, and my sister brought round some rosemary.

I think after Easter we will start putting stuff in the ground. We are lucky enough to have four veg patches but I am so very tempted to turn them into raised beds. I think the earliest we could do this, if we could get the timber, would be the weekend after Easter. I'm assuming we can't really plant stuff and then raise the beds?

I am trying to see if we can get some old scaffolding or gravel boards. I don't really know what gravel boards are but have heard lots of people mention them :-)

Do you guys think we're too late to consider this? I have pink fir apple potatoes chitting and they need to go in the ground at some point soon...

:T nice to see you've got more stuff popping up!

As to making the raised beds, as you're planting in, you could create a raised area without edging and then raise it later. Raised beds (as you're finding out) cost quite a bit of money and if you have space in the ground, why not grow with those for this year and then if you're still itching to grow more next year, make them then.

There is also the fact that you have to fill the beds with soil/compost/manure and unless you've got a lot of those lying around, it's going to take a lot of compost to fill them up.

We didn't have raised beds last year and still haven't quite got round to it this year but I've made beds for veg patch slightly raised (adding manure and spent compost) and maybe I'll put some edging on it so it looks a bit neater.

Raised beds are useful in lots of instances but you don't need to make them to plant veg in the ground!