Help MBE grow his dinner 2011

witchwoopiggy

ooo very nice djohn
the only thing ive pulled out is my back all the digging i have been doing fine , then today lifted a watering can and that was it back went twang :rotfl::rotfl:

mrbadexample

djohn2002uk wrote: »

Just pulled my 3rd bunch of carrots ready for dinner, Pulled 10, all around 5ins long, enough for the 2 of us. Then pulled the 1st half dozen beetroot, 10 mins in the microwave and they smell delicious. Could have some peas towards the end of next week.

I've had a few carrot and beetroot "thinnings", but nowhere near a proper size yet.

djohn2002uk

Carrots were good but the beetroot were only just bigger than golf balls.

Little_Vics

I appear to have garlic growing in my garden. I'm pretty sure I planted some a couple of years ago, had no success, and it's now randomly appeared. When do I know it's ready, and what do I do?! Just pull it out?

I really am useless at this.

emiff6

witchwoopiggy wrote: »

ooo very nice djohn
the only thing ive pulled out is my back all the digging i have been doing fine , then today lifted a watering can and that was it back went twang :rotfl::rotfl:

I know the feeling well. You lift and carry fertiliser sacks/compost/feed sacks/straw bales all day long, no problem, then you bend to pick up a sweet wrapper and you're crippled for the rest of the week.

Little_Vics

MBE - don't thank me for my post, tell me what to do!!

lizzyb1812

Hi Little Vics

Let your garlic stand until the green bits go brown - like raffia. Mine will be ready to pull about the middle/end of July. Then you need to dry them out like onions.

However, if you have a decent supply of garlic you can probably start pulling it one at a time now for immediate use. This is known as wet garlic. Doing this also enables you to check on the development of your bulbs.

HTH

Lizzy

psychopathbabble

Have decided to wait on growing anything else as my strawberry plant is a bit dead, and we aren't getting much sunshine!!

Hope you are all growing brilliantly!

mrbadexample

Little_Vics wrote: »

MBE - don't thank me for my post, tell me what to do!!

I don't know! I've never grown garlic!

lemonjelly

Lovely weather here at the mo. Shame the forecasters are predicting rain for when we play bowls tonight. They've been wrong every day for the past 7, so here's hoping...

Meanwhile, question ... I have pea pods on my pea plants!:j

How do I know when to pick them?:o

Peas are absolutely my favourite vegetable.

I also have tomato flowers!:j

B&Q also returned (eventually) with the right shed. I put it up yesterday & took the old one apart. I plan to use bits of the old one for raised beds or similar. I also spent most of yesterday repotting a lot of my tomato plants. Greenhouse space is getting low...

Pepper plants appear healthy, but are very slow to grow!