Veg growing newbies 2nd year common room 2010-2011

loucroft

ignore my last post!

GarnetLady

Hey everyone! Hope you're all well and not too cold.

I've been a bit AWOL from the board lately. My gardening plans for next year and the rest of this year have changed a bit, I've been growing something else you see...



Baby is due in June. I'm having problems with my back and pelvis, so it's going to be a reduced growing shedule next year I think. But it's all very exciting. I have the patiogro, which I think may be my limit if my mobility stays the same, but that's okay.

So, just vaguely thinking of formulating a plan now.

loucroft

Awww congratulations!!! Thats so lovely and exciting!!

Take care, I think the garden can wait!

wssla00

Congratulations Garnetlady

Happy new year everyone! Sorry I have been AWOL, my dad sadly passed away at the end of November so it has been a tough few weeks. However I know how much my dad liked my gardening so it's back to work

I have just started up my difficult to grow chillies so that they have a head start. Will start chitting my potatoes too at the end of this month. I am only doing rocket this year as they were the best for me last year and they also gave me a crop in October once I planted them in August.

Other than that I will be organising my garden ready for spring. I have ordered a pear tree, a fig tree and some blueberries for the garden from Blackmoors for my birthday present from my mum and my OH is getting me a greengage tree which I am looking forward to. So, now, including the weeping cherry, magnolia and birch trees in my garden, I think I am all treed out! LOL

Anyway hope you are all well and enjoying nosying through the seed catalogues!

loucroft

Hi wssla sorry to hear that, we had similar Jan 2010 so I know it must have been a horrid time for you.

As for the garden, sounds like you're throwing yourself into it - great stuff! Haven't been near a trowel or spade for about 6 weeks so look forward to getting busy again. Had lots of visitors which meant lots of being indoors looking out at my shoddy gardens so will get to that this year too!

All the best and HAPPY NEW YEAR to all!

wssla00

Thanks Lou. It's rubbish isn't it? I am however making part of the garden dedicated to dad with some of his ashes in a rose bush too so I have somewhere I can go and see him close by. I have a mock orange and a good few bush roses ready plus a rose named "My dad" which is being delivered soon. My brothers and sisters have the same rose and they have got theirs already and they say they are putting on loads of new growth so looking forward to getting mine in it's pot!

I know the feeling of a shoddy garden- mine looks rubbish at the mo! I back onto trees which is good for leaf mould but rubbish if you don't have time to rake the leaves and they just turn to mush after the snow- I really must be better at getting all season stuff in the garden!

loucroft

We have trees surrounding our garden but not in it so we can't even get the planning to cut them back slightly - the village was build around the woods so not a lot gets cut down so we have the obsession with leaves every year too! They're piled up at the gate and I'm more than tempted to open the gate and put them all on the side for the highways to deal with, after all they own them and won't look after the bloomin things!!!

The 'My Dad' rose sounds fantastic, is that from Blackmoors?

Our garden just looks awful - shady and not a great deal of flowering occurs so I have to plan properly this year so that we can at least have something to look out to, it's just brown and muddy looking right now but great in summer for the kids, minus any colour apart from green though!!

wssla00

I got the rose from style roses: https://www.styleroses.co.uk/index.php?proId=288&MyDad and it looks lovely!

sparrer

Wishing a fruitful and productive New Year to everyone.

So sorry to hear your sad news wssla, but pleased you'll have something growing with which to remember your Dad. My sister died when she was 16, a very long time ago now, and my parents had a Peace rose planted at the crem in her memory. To this day I plant a Peace rose wherever I live.

On to today, I've made some progress with the mini fruit patio since my last post. I have 7 Autumn Bliss raspberries standing in their pots like sentries all in a row along one side, a blackberry being trained along a fence on another side and the loganberry by the back wall. I now also have a huge pot with the Victoria plum but that's going to be planted out shortly as I have some miniature trees (cherry, pear) on order so the patio will be very full! Oh, and the tub of domestic garlic as well as the wild garlic in a small bed alongside the path. The strawberries seem to have survived the horrid winter but I have a dozen in little pots in the shed as backup should any fail. Amazing what I've managed to get on a patio 9' square.

Sadly the white lilac has to go so I'll have space to plant out the plum but a very nice man has offered to take it, so I know it's going to a good home.

I've finished the paving which has made the lawn a much neater shape but with a couple interesting little corners, which won't cause too much trouble for the new lawn mower - when I get it! I was fortunate to be given enough money for Christmas to replace the old one which has gone to rest by that great lawn in the sky.

So pleased the horrid white stuff has gone and it's milder so I can go out and move a pot here, pick up some leaves there, and general get pleasure from just being in the garden again

Looking forward to reading how your gardens are progressing toward Spring
S

jaxx46

I too would like to wish everyone a productive new year.
Not sure how much I will be doing this year, as our local health authority have cancelled a lot of ops, including the one I am waiting on was meant to have had it in Dec (knee replacement) which would have fitted in nicely with the growing season, should have been up & pottering at seedling stage & well on the mend for the real work, ah well I too shall join Katholicos at the little bursts of gardening school
Think I shall have a go at chilli's this year, thought I might start them off on top of the aquarium as it has a constant temp & faces a large window so has plenty of light. Seems to have worked for the ginger I inadvertently started growing last year.
Have still got some leeks in the garden but will be lifting them this week, & yesterday I found some carrots that we were meant to have at Christmas but were hidden under snow & ice. Must admit I can't wait to be able to get outside for more than just a few mins.

jaxx

ETA congrats to Garnetlady & condolences to wssla00