Help MBE grow his dinner 2011

djohn2002uk

One half of beans



Other half


Peas covered against the sparrows and the dreaded pea moth.



From the back:- Beetroot, Carrots, second sowing of beetroot, Spring Onions and Little Gem Lettuce.



Red Onion sets and Radishes



My 6 bags of Charlotte potatoes and a bucket of carrots. It's the Clematis flowering not the potatoes....:p



Another 18 for a freind



My 3 Sweetie Seedless and 2 Marigolds



Some Lettuce and Sweet Peas off the cover of Gardeners World magazine and some late Parsnips in toilet roll and kitchen roll sleeves only because I thought I saw some on here but can't find it now.

mrbadexample

Aww...gee whizz, you know how to make a bloke look amateur, don't ya?

That lot looks fabulous mate. :T

mrbadexample

It was 6°C in the greenhouse last night, so probably would have been around 4°C outside. The non-fleeced beans look fine though.

djohn2002uk

Mine have to fend for themselves now. I just keep convincing myself there will be no more frosts. :cool:

mrbadexample

As the non-fleeced beans appear ok, that's the last mollycoddling I'll be doing, even though there are a few cold nights to come over the next week. I don't think we'll see frost.

lisa26_2

I have flowers on my 'red currant' tomatoes....they appeared while they were still in TINY 1.5-2" pots as i didn't have time to pot them on before the wedding!! Most have been moved now but have some for other people that they can pot on themselves lol!

lemonjelly

mrbadexample wrote: »

You've just said that to wind me up, haven't you? :mad:

This is the first year I've grown onions. In the last picture, they really make it look like a proper, grown-up vegetable patch, don't they? :j

I think I'll grow onions every year from now on.

My first year with onions too.:) Apparently onions are great for keeping carrot fly away (because of the strong smell), which is the only reason I planted them. have also been told that onions are great for cleaning soil - even if you spill stuff like oil or creosote on soil, plant onions & apparently they'll collect all the muck out of the soil. ot sure how true that is though.

I planted almost everything late this year. Part of me looks at my garden & worries, as all your pics have far advanced growth compared with mine. At the same time, I'd be worried with some of the stuff flowering too early (imo of course...).

Most of my planting was mid april. Nothing is anywhere near flowering, even the flowers!:eek:

I do finally have signs of life from the peppers though!:j

lemonjelly

mrbadexample wrote: »

As the non-fleeced beans appear ok, that's the last mollycoddling I'll be doing, even though there are a few cold nights to come over the next week. I don't think we'll see frost.

I don't have time to do all the fleecing business. Plants have survived for millenia in harsher conditions than frosts. imo they can stand a lot more than we give them credit for.

I tend to go with djohn2002uk's philosophy:D

djohn2002uk wrote: »

Mine have to fend for themselves now. I just keep convincing myself there will be no more frosts. :cool:

Lotus-eater

lemonjelly wrote: »

I don't have time to do all the fleecing business. Plants have survived for millenia in harsher conditions than frosts. imo they can stand a lot more than we give them credit for.

Not the ones that we choose to grow in our veg plots. They have evolved over many generations to need human help to survive and produce a decent crop.
Not all, but alot.
You won't bother fleecing until you lose alot one night, then you'll see the benefit of it

I fleeced last night, late on, as it suddenly dropped to 3c outside, it didn't freeze, only dropped to 1.5, but it was close.

Hopefully I won't have to do any more covering up now. But I'm ready to if needed. No point wasting all the hard work up to date.

John, your beans look well advanced.

I was walking round a local allotment this morning. Some sweetcorn out, but no cucurbits I could see and the only beans I saw, were mostly dead from frost. Apart from broad beans, loads of those.
All the plots I saw looked well behind my cold garden as well, which made me feel better. Although it doesn't help that I have about 5 apples growing on 4 apples trees! Damn frost. Was to be a bumper year as well.

mrbadexample

lemonjelly wrote: »

I don't have time to do all the fleecing business. Plants have survived for millenia in harsher conditions than frosts. imo they can stand a lot more than we give them credit for.

I tend to go with djohn2002uk's philosophy:D

I agree...BUT...these are competition beans. If I lose, it will cost me £5. Not very MSE, losing.

And if I can take the opportunity to remind you what happened to my beans last year:



That's why I fleeced.