Veg growing newbies 2nd year common room 2010-2011

wssla00

Hiya top drawer, I grow coriander but it never seems to grow after my first cutting however it should do so long as you don't over cut it. I successional sow things I use a lot like coriander, basil etc. But the soft herbs like that need to be inside now so bring them in so they don't get attacked by the frosts coming.

Pinky purple small parsnips could be either turnips or radishes depending on the taste. If they taste hot and spicy then it will be radishes.

I have also found that slugs can climb a LONG way if they find food they like. They go right up the shelving unit in my greenhouse!

izzwizz_2

Over the Summer, I found coriander grew much better in the open ground than in pots and can then take a couple of cuttings, but when I grow it in pots it just bolts really quickly. Even so, it still bolts and it's hard growing enough (I use lots to cook with).

RebekahR

Hello People

I'm actually in my 3rd year of owning a gardening and havign a veggie patch. Am I too "old" too post here?

misskool

wssla00 wrote: »

Misskool- did you buy sweet potato slips or make your own? They seemed SO expensive but I know there is a way of making your own slips from a sweet potato?

I cheated and bought pot-ready plants as it was on sale from some place or another. It was still £7.50 for 5 plants. No idea if it's worth it but I can propagate from this one so if it keeps for many years then it'll be ok. sweet potatoes are perennials in the tropics so I might try to overwinter it. Got to be more worth it as they are more expensive than potatoes.

wssla00

RebekahR wrote: »

Hello People

I'm actually in my 3rd year of owning a gardening and havign a veggie patch. Am I too "old" too post here?

Hee hee! You can always come and "repeat" a year with us younger folk!

I have now gone down from 50th on the waiting list for an allotment to 4th so hopefully I will get one next year.

Miss Kool- That sounds good. Perhaps I will take a look at them for next year- I absolutely LOVE them!

I wonder whether to ask for some new garden stuff for the said Allotment for christmas or is it too early?

katholicos

Just had a little furtle in one of the 'Christas spud' bags and i found a rathger large tattie...thought all my Christmas potatoes were done for as the foliage looked manky and horrid so i cut it off thinking it were blight...maybe i saved my tatties? I don't want to eat any till December or so, i think i will leave them to it and we'll see what we see!

I have notes and diagrams on scrap of paper all over the house....plans for the beds next year and the many, many things i will differently. When i get them all together i will try to post them on this thread so i can look over them in the next 12 months and see how i am getting on with what i had planned for end of year 2010 and all of the growing season of 2011.

loucroft

Well I love this new thread, nice one guys

I've still got cucumber coming out of my ears, spuds still in the ground and some pak choi which came through evenutally without being eaten! Carrots and beets still in ready to eat, think I'll pop to the allotment tomorrow to get some for sunday dinner!

Going to try some leeks and onions over winter, garlic goes in tomorrow too. I think I'm going to try next year some asparagus, celery, white turnip and white beets ( so tasty and don't turn everything purple so can be put into stew!).

Definitely going to try the Hungarian or red rye to put some nutrient into the soil (see last two pages of the old thread) and out in my own garden after going to the cinema with the kids today, its a bit messy out there whilst I've been sorting out everyone elses garden!

Did you read I saw a hummingbird!! Had to share it with you, couldn't quite believe our eyes when it hovered arounda french lavender!!

Good going everyone, will be looking out for some new ideas on what to plant.

Oh, flowers, winter bedding and a load of crocuses, daffs and tulips and bluebells should be going in now I believe plus cyclamen for my pots. I think my summer bedding has just about had it, though my sweet peas are still blooming !!

TizerCat

Have been helping my friend on her allotment for past 6 months as a co-worker and have just been handed the keys to my own! am very pleased.:T

It is very overgrown, some beds were dug last year and were left covered but otherwise it is knee high in grass. I am on a probationary period of 3 months to get it tidied. It is alot more daunting than when I started on my friends in the spring, she had already been on it for years so all raised beds, shed greenhouse and paths put in.

I don't even own a fork of my own!!

am going back later to take photos and have a poke about...there is already rhubarb and strawberry plants I've seen hidden in the grass :T

loucroft

TizerCat wrote: »

I don't even own a fork of my own!!

Hi

Have you tried your local freecycle ( Yahoo groups formed all over the country i believe )

You can post things that you want, view things that people have to give away and if you hang on in there, you might just find that someone has old tools in their shed. More about timing I suppose, I've given tonnes of stuff away on my local one.

TizerCat

Thank you Loucroft for the idea! am now registered with Freecycle and I have now put an advert in for gardening tools........and a shed !!! Well if you don't ask .......

Have got some I can borrow in the meantime....and can put them on my xmas list...