Living in the midlands and wondering what you're doing now!!

heynonnynonny

Oh zarazara gutted for you, I hope you manage to carry on.

Lutink good about the tomatoes, mine are doing great as well on the windowsill very pleased so far.

radiohelen

I have just got some jerusalem artichokes in the post today. I know it's late but they cost a pound so I'll not be too upset if they dont' grow. I'm going to stick them in and see what happens. Fartichokes rock!

katholicos

radiohelen wrote: »

I have just got some jerusalem artichokes in the post today. I know it's late but they cost a pound so I'll not be too upset if they dont' grow. I'm going to stick them in and see what happens. Fartichokes rock!

D'you mind me asking whre you got them from? At that price if they have any left i might give them a go myself.

thifty

Did loads yesterday, set cauli plants and onion seed plants which I have been dying to do for about a week, also sowed cabbage(jan king) and broc(purple sprouting) seed in seed bed, more salad and radishes, beetroot (cylindra) , carrots (flyaway) , bought a load of fish blood and bone, some growmore (no more organic for me now ) and put some around raspberries and other fruit.

Then came home, potted toms up, finally sowed courgettes and butternut squash and some sweetcorn, which I have never grown before, No idea how they will fair

Kohl rabi, carrots, salad, chard, beetroot, spring onions and ....... drum roll please......... parsnips !!:D:j:beer:! are all through. Am thoroughly chuffed they have come as they can be tricker apparently, have never tried them before.

And the best thing I heard today was when the 2 secretaries came past my plot and said to each other "that looks well" as they looked at my plot- I am a very boastful and proud lady today! :rotfl:Will go and knock the chip off my shoulder now and coax my pathetic looking tom plants to grow or I will be buying some at the plant fair next week at this rate.:o

Has anyone set their bedding out yet?
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First time grower here, sort of, I did some experimenting last year but only a little success lol. I live in Wolverhampton.

This year I'm being more organised. My OH is making me some wooden planters (about £8 each for the wood plus some crate bits .,and they're big). I have no windowsills left lol.., they're bulging with stuff I am hoping to put outside in the next week or two.

Bit disappointed, I bought some stuff off a supposed reputable nursery (plug plants etc) and found 14 pea plants (I ordered 10) positively squeezed into a medium sized plastic plug thing. Where the leaves hadn't died, the stems broke, but am trying very very hard to nurse back into health with some success. I also received 3 courgette plants, very loosely planted in pots (root bound) so nursing work required there & everything repotted of course. It was quite funny really, after all they are only plants but I felt like a crime against plants had been committed. If there had been an RSPP I'd have phoned them lol. I received them, and had them repotted within the hour lol, I was so concerned!!!! All the other jobs I had to do were put on hold til this very important job was completed lol.

I have a tiny back yard and bigger front garden (but need most of it to be grass for children to play on, so back yard is favoured growing area right now even if tiny) and am intending to grow some flowers and lots of veg. I'm trying to grow lavender from seed, plus the usual french beans, lettuce, tomatoes, chilli, sweet peppers (growing them on the windowsill as bit of a disappointing crop last year) etc.

I will put my seed potatoes into compost bags for earthing up if they ever actually start growing shoots (they've been moved from my freezing brick 'shed' to the airing cupboard now). Last year I grew potatoes in tyres, just kept adding another one and more compost as they grew but it was a bit expensive on the compost for what i got out of them.

I am going out to collect longish twigs to make a support for the pea plants that survive, they need it quite badly (they're about 10 cm high). I need to find a copse somewhere here where I can collect really long twigs and make some proper obelisks. Not sure how I'll get them back on the bike tho (broomstick's not flying yet) lol.

I'm not sure how everyone else finds it but I really enjoy getting out there and finding ways around problems and making things grow. My life is fairly stressful and being out there for a few hours really makes me feel peaceful and productive somehow. I regard this as training for if I ever get an allotment lol.

I've ordered a large tayberry plant as I adore them (they're a raspberry blackberry hybrid) and taste delicious. But following one of the posts above I shall go to Focus and get some smaller ones.

CandyB101_2

Im sooooo excited, I can see blackcurrents forming

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Feel so stupid.., paid £3.50 for an onion set on ebay including postage. Went to HomeBargains today (haven't been there for about three weeks is my only excuse) and they were selling the same thing for £1.

Grrrr lol! Long time since I've made that mistake lol.

I received some of the free seeds from the Beeb but my French beans aren't coming thru at all.., so I think I'll have to give in and buy some French bean plants from Sainsbury's. My OH is being wonderful.., he's building me some wooden troughs (various sizes) so I can grow more in the back yard rather than having loads of pots and tyres making it all look a bit strange lol. They're surprisingly reasonable in cost to build compared to buying them already made.

covlass

Cut the new lawn and patch a bit up where it looks a bit dead ! Moved my Acer which is in a pot as I think it may be getting a little too much sun! Thinned out spring onions and re potted chilli plants. very pleased as my sweetcorn has popped it head out wasn't sure if they would grow. Decided to hang my baskets up in the back garden as weather seems to be ok for now, left the baskets for the front though as if the weather changes they are far to large for me to lift down so they at present sitting on pots just outside the green house.
It would be so nice if it stays nice and warm in the day but rained at night !!!!
Almost forgot need to pot my new Hosta which I got from Morrisons for £2.50 and in much better condition than those in B&Q for over twice the price !

elsien

CandyB101 wrote: »

Im sooooo excited, I can see blackcurrents forming

:rotfl: Some things are best kept to yourself if you don't want the men in white coats turning up on the doorstep. It is good though, isn't it.

katholicos

Took some photies this evening of my veggie growing progress so far, hopefully you can see the pics by clicking this link...

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