Veg to plant in April and things to do.

dizziblonde

Furny wrote: »

In our family Sunflower Competition 2011 which consists of me, hubby, the 2 boys, cat & a spare all sowed last friday, all have now germinated over the course of today EXCEPT for my hubbys!:D
Since he got in from work & my son broke the news to him 'gloatingly' I have now been accused of sabortarging the experiment, not watering his, angeling his pot away from the sun or not actually putting a seed in at all!:eek: I mean really! what faith! tut!;):rotfl::)

On a semi-related note... final teaching practice and I got given the plants topic (also known as "torturing seeds in the name of science") and the kids sat and planned investigations involving the contents of my mother's garden shed seed stock... the usual no light/no water/no soil/everthing as normal malarky... few weeks later the "no water" plants are looking remarkably healthy and I'm dreading the uni woman coming in and telling me I've ruined a generation's scientific knowledge till the cleaner chirpily tells me "You've been a bad girl, you've been forgetting to water that tray of plants so I've been doing it for you."

Furny

dizziblonde wrote: »

On a semi-related note... final teaching practice and I got given the plants topic (also known as "torturing seeds in the name of science") and the kids sat and planned investigations involving the contents of my mother's garden shed seed stock... the usual no light/no water/no soil/everthing as normal malarky... few weeks later the "no water" plants are looking remarkably healthy and I'm dreading the uni woman coming in and telling me I've ruined a generation's scientific knowledge till the cleaner chirpily tells me "You've been a bad girl, you've been forgetting to water that tray of plants so I've been doing it for you."

Oh my, that did make me chuckle!:rotfl:

CommitedToChange

ha ha love it - bet she thought she was doing you a huge favour as well.

scotsaver

Any wrote: »

Right, I am chitting my carrots via the paper towel method. Any ideas how long before they show any signs of life?

Any - I gave up sowing Carrots straight into the Ground a couple of years ago, soil was never fine enough for them no matter what I did so for the last couple of years I sow them in a large black bin - Council replaced our Bins years ago and I grow little Chanteray in large black Flower buckets - thin out when you need and you get lots of lovely long straight Carrots.

I'm trying the wet paper towel with my parsnips seeds.

Lotus-eater wrote: »

You've actually done it :rotfl: I can't believe someones really doing this

Parsnips are bad enough, how on earth are you going to move all the carrot seeds?

Rather you than me, lets put it that way

A few days, to answer your question.

Lotus-eater - some people like a Challenge and also there's nothing nicer than homegrown Carrots, they are so sweet and crunchy, so much nicer than any you buy in the Shops and also the satisfaction that you've grown them yourselves is amazing - can you tell I'm a bit addicted to this Grow your own.:o

Lotus-eater

scotsaver wrote: »

Lotus-eater - some people like a Challenge and also there's nothing nicer than homegrown Carrots, they are so sweet and crunchy, so much nicer than any you buy in the Shops and also the satisfaction that you've grown them yourselves is amazing - can you tell I'm a bit addicted to this Grow your own.:o

To be fair, I didn't say anything about growing carrots, I said it about pre germinating carrot seed on kitchen roll then moving the seed with tweezers to the soil or compost.
I think it's a bit bonkers, seeing how the seed is so tiny and carrots germinate pretty easily. As I said, rather you than me

CommitedToChange

well I've finally started on my plot I planted my strawberry plants into grow bags - well compost bags really - 3 to a bag, each bag is 55l so I figure that will give them plenty of room.

I've discover that my new plot floods quite badly in winter so I will be sowing over winter stuff in containers for now I plant to make raised beds to solve the problem. But that will take time and money! Any suggestions as to what won't grow in pots?

r.a.i.n.b.o.w

Sally_A wrote: »

Kittie - don't open up each one, that will spoil the whole meaning of mangetout. Just hold each one up to the light as you top and tail them, you can see any invaders through the light pods.

Can you see them...moving?:eek:

r.a.i.n.b.o.w

Jesthar wrote: »

Didn't managed to get the stakes in to the raspberry canes though. Couldn't hammer them in hard enough with the hammer I had, and my big mallet seems to have embarked for another dimension. However, I now have a shiny new trowel and will try the dig-a-hole-and-bury-them method...

Oh, are you supposed to stake raspberry canes?

lolly5648

r.a.i.n.b.o.w wrote: »

Oh, are you supposed to stake raspberry canes?

I have never staked raspberries. Mine didn't seem to need staking but then last year was my first year and I didn't get that many fruit. Hopefully they will bear more fruit this year.

wallbash

Depends on the variety, we grow Autumn Bliss , no staking required.