Help MBE grow his dinner 2011

mrbadexample

djohn2002uk wrote: »

Don't forget, most experienced gardeners don't even put their beans out for another 10 days so you're well ahead.

Pah! What do they know? :whistle:

djohn2002uk

lolly5648 wrote: »

What plants should you net? I have a strawberry bed, a runner/French beans bed plus various other veg in a raised bed (peas, cucumbers, radishes, carrots, spring onions). The carrots have a fleece over them to stop carrot fly but thats it.

Anything that you think the birds will eat or damage. Strawberries could be a prime candidate for the birds. I have to net my peas or the sparrows rip them to bits as soon as they are through the ground. They are now over 5ft tall and they are still at it.

djohn2002uk

mrbadexample wrote: »

Either this is another wind-up or your netting's 4' high.

What Me? Wind up? The beans are winding up the canes.

Little_Vics

put my tomatoes back outside tonight in their reconstructed home. Am hoping for miracles here!

Lotus-eater

djohn2002uk wrote: »

Anything that you think the birds will eat or damage. Strawberries could be a prime candidate for the birds. I have to net my peas or the sparrows rip them to bits as soon as they are through the ground. They are now over 5ft tall and they are still at it.

Strange isn't it, the sparrows leave my peas alone, but rip every last leaf off the perpetual spinach.

djohn2002uk

Lotus-eater wrote: »

Strange isn't it, the sparrows leave my peas alone, but rip every last leaf off the perpetual spinach.

They attack my Beetroot too and the blossom on the runner beans they just peck it off and drop it.

mrbadexample

My dad's just lost his beetroot to sparrows. He's not pleased.

Scotsbride

Fay wrote: »

Here are the pics I promised (sorry MBE I've added 3...hope you don't mind too much!).
Firstly my veg I have in containers...in the cream buckets and black pot are peas, the three flower buckets each contain 3 dwarf french bean plants, the terracotta chimney pots contain blueberry plants, then in the background there is another large terracotta pot with parsnips in (only have about 4 of these, more did come up but I know not where they have gone??) At the very front of the pics you can just see some foliage from a bag of potatoes


Now my tomato's, firstly a shot of the over full greenhouse-some flowers and different bits are ready to be moved out this weekend. And then what I think are tomato flowers, but could some kind soul confirm whether I've got this right or if it's just more leaves coming on.



The 'flowers' are on my gardeners delight, I've also got 4 premium suncherry plants but these are not showing any signs of flowering at all

yes they'r flowers on the left of the shot on the right hand side almost opposite it looks like a side shoot

glodh1973

some of the things i have grown in pots in my back yard http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150189660811891.307465.597461890 :-)

Lotus-eater

Fay wrote: »

And then what I think are tomato flowers, but could some kind soul confirm whether I've got this right or if it's just more leaves coming on.



The 'flowers' are on my gardeners delight, I've also got 4 premium suncherry plants but these are not showing any signs of flowering at all

As confirmed by others, the immature flower buds are the things dead in the middle of the photo.
Your biggest problem is what looks like a huge sideshoot just to the left of the flowers, take it off unless you are growing them like a bush.