Help MBE grow his dinner 2012

annie123

mrbadexample wrote: »

No, not flowers. Not any more:



Now that's showing off.

Yes it is! but with good reason.
Are those the ones grown in your homemade compost?
I'm very impressed MBE.

mrbadexample

annie123 wrote: »

Yes it is! but with good reason.
Are those the ones grown in your homemade compost?
I'm very impressed MBE.

Yes, homemade compost! Must have something good in it. I've never known chillies to progress so quickly - it's still in a tiny pot. I must have at least half a dozen others with flowers on too.

aliasojo

Do you feed them MBE?

diddly74

I had a potter in the garden today after a morning at work. Cleared some rubbish away and then peeked in the battered plastic greenhouse. Lettuice is doing well, as well as the sweetcorn. Some toms are up with the morning glory and nasturtiums and the marigolds. Sweet peas are just starting to appear and my big pot of parsnips have germinated! Beetroot is still surviving despite the dogs knocking it over when they were playing the other day.

No cucumbers, no corgettes or strawberrys have decided to grace me with a leaf, but then ALL of the above have only been sown outside in the past couple of weeks. I haven't sown anything inside this year.

My garden needs a makeover as it is full of bindweed, and none of the borders are useable at the moment so I was not pushing for much. We are living in a rented house, with the majority of the back garden slabbed over (which is great for the dogs!) I want to create raised beds around the edges of the garden using sleepers (or like) so that the dogs are less likely to run on them and it will mean I can stop half the soil from slipping onto my slabs!

diddly74

On the flip side - Wilkos have some good little plants at our local store. Might have to nip down there tomorrow morning!!!!

mrbadexample

aliasojo wrote: »

Do you feed them MBE?

Yes. When they're grown up, in big pots and fruiting! A little tomorite, or comfrey tea. Nothing's been fed this year yet.

mrbadexample

diddly74 wrote: »

and my big pot of parsnips have germinated!

None of mine have yet.

Little_Vics

hang on - should you feed peppers and chillis? With what? I've got so much to learn....

pink_poppy

Little_Vics wrote: »

hang on - should you feed peppers and chillis? With what? I've got so much to learn....

Lol, apparently strawberries need feeding too!!

Btw, did you ever find out what MG stood for??

RedLass

Good to see you're all moving forward despite the "damp" weather we're having... I've got lots to read back on!

Home from hols now and trying to work out what I can do while the rain falls for the next few weekends. Finishing the soil prep is looking unlikely for another couple of weeks so I'm working on the layout and trying to pick some varieties.

Have already picked up some runner bean seeds for container 1 and have got the wigwam ready for sowing outside in a couple of weeks (it's too soon right now isn't it?)... although, wouldn't all this rain do them good?

So I'm deliberating over container 2... I want to grow some cherry tomatoes in there and have been settling on the idea of Garden Pearl. From what I'm reading the bush types are easier to grow/manage and since it's my first time, straight forward is a priority. But I'm not sure how many plants to put in my pot. It's 50cm wide and 39cm deep, taking approx 76 litres if my calc is correct. I have been trying to find plant spacings for it on the net but am coming across conflicting information. Does anybody have experience growing these or similar and could advise on whether I should put in one or two plants?

Now I'm back home and looking out of the window, I fully expect those strange vegetable related dreams I was having to return with gusto.