Help MBE grow his dinner 2011

Sambucus_Nigra

And yes, you could pop comfrey in places, but bear in mind you have to get to it to cut it.

mrbadexample

lemonjelly wrote: »

I have got 3 toms sprouting - finally!

Friday I spent planting onion seeds, beetroot and carrots. Wasn't going to do onions, but heard they compliment carrots, as well as keeping carrotfly away, so why not?

Beans and Peas are in pots in the greenhouse. So all my seeds are now done (except for second tomato batch, & lettuce throughout the summer).

Big job this weekend was tree pruning. Big job through the week will be cutting up the trees for the refuse collection!

Have I still got time for some onions? Sets rather than seed, I think.

I haven't sown my prize-winning beans yet, so I need to do that this evening if I get chance.

And cutting trees? What you need is an evening bonfire, accompanied by a few :beer:.

mrbadexample

Sambucus_Nigra wrote: »

And yes, you could pop comfrey in places, but bear in mind you have to get to it to cut it.

Well, I can get to the middle bit and behind the greenhouse. And as long as I stay off the rhubarb pie, I can just squeeze in behind the shed.

mrbadexample

I took this at about 0930.



As you can see, the veg side gets the sun much, much earlier than the other side. I successfully grew tomatoes against the shaded fence last year, so will be repeating that, but I'm starting to think about what I can do with the rest of that side of the garden.

Suggestions please?

aliasojo

mrbadexample wrote: »

Suggestions please?

:D

Strapped

mrbadexample wrote: »

Also known as knitbone, I believe, just in case you have a truly disastrous day in the garden.

Yes, I use it after I've been breaking (boards - martial arts). Great stuff. Worth losing the back garden (which is admittedly only one bed and an oil tank) for.

mrbadexample

aliasojo wrote: »

:D

Oh behave! Clearly that needs to go on the sunny side!

lemonjelly

mrbadexample wrote: »

Also known as knitbone, I believe, just in case you have a truly disastrous day in the garden.

There's a joke in this somewhere...:whistle:

lemonjelly

mrbadexample wrote: »

Have I still got time for some onions? Sets rather than seed, I think.

I haven't sown my prize-winning beans yet, so I need to do that this evening if I get chance.

And cutting trees? What you need is an evening bonfire, accompanied by a few :beer:.

The ones I planted are sets. The beetroot and carrots are seeds.

My thinking is that although I'm a bit late, they'll most likely grow...:o

& if they don't, ah well.

Shouldn't be too late I'd have thought.

nopot2pin

Sambucus_Nigra wrote: »

Good tip - wherever you have weeds somewhere where you are not going to use the actual ground, hoe them off [dig out any bindweed etc] and sow creeping thyme or the chammomile that you can walk over. Or, hoe them off and [having previously sown the two above in plug plants] dot them around the place and they should soon acclimatise themselves and take over that part of the garden. You will still have greenery, but it will smell nice and you can say it is meant to be there....

I would love to do this... I heard about the chammomile lawn a while back.
Maybe one day....

Yesterday, I managed to plant on all my little plugs. I will get them into the coldframe tomorrow... hopefully.