Help MBE grow his dinner 2012

annie123

hazzie123 wrote: »

Is it really too late to sow my Leeks outside now,I live Middlesbrough way so it's poo cold and wet weather.If its too late I'll just save my seeds till next year,if it's fine I can pop them in tomorrow if the rain ever stops.

No not too late to sow. You won't get prize winning ones but you'll get big enough ones for leek and potato soup in the winter;)
Mine are kept in deep supermarket meat trays where they are sown usually, till I plant them out in Julyish, has been as late as august, and I harvest from Xmas to April.

Little_Vics wrote: »

chilli looking a bit sorry for itself

Check it over for red spider mite, really tiny under the leaves and is that soil very wet?

mrbadexample wrote: »

I bought a pot of Musselburgh leeks from the garden centre because I'd left mine too late. Must be easily 50 in there. I've sowed a few too, but they look just like my spring onions.

Spring onions take around 3 weeks to pop up, and if you sowed them outside may have been a bit cold then? try some more indoors, 3 weeks from now they should be up.

mrbadexample

Aria`s_Tail wrote: »

I have planted the wrong pack of peas.

Can't you pop out and dig them up again? They're big enough, surely?

annie123

Fay wrote: »

I managed to weed half of a large border and hubby staked the lupins that seem to be growing really well this year-looks like we have a few seedlings too, so might try moving some. Lots of foxglove babies too.
Then we got to potting on-loads of osteopernum, chinese asters and cosmos re-potted.

And now I have lupin and cosmos envy too............over 50 babies all eaten by snails:mad:

mrbadexample

annie123 wrote: »

Mine are kept in deep supermarket meat trays where they are sown usually, till I plant them out in Julyish, has been as late as august, and I harvest from Xmas to April.

The ones I bought are in a little 3" square pot. Where should I move them to next? They're about chive size at the moment.

Little_Vics

annie123 wrote: »

Check it over for red spider mite, really tiny under the leaves and is that soil very wet?

nope - no spiders and the soil isn't wet. Haven't watered it for a good few days. It's a bit slimy, for want of a better word.

Think I'd better repot it.

annie123

mrbadexample wrote: »

I have achocha seedlings. Whatever they are:



How closely can you plant kohl rabi?

had to look up achocha and found this:
http://www.realseeds.co.uk/cucumbers.html
scroll down to find them and I love the exploding cucumber underneath them!:
We know this sounds silly,
but we recommend that
YOU WEAR EYE PROTECTION WHILE HARVESTING AND PROCESSING FRUIT. :rotfl:

Kohl rabi.......new to me this year too. I'm not a fan of it but thought if I grew some I would like it better, so I'll try close cropping first as I'm short on space.


Gardening today for me has been put out toms in morning and bring in in evening, same as yesterday,...... in between went to see friend run the London marathon. Never been before and won't be going again, way to busy for me.
So if we could have a dry day on Thursday please that would be great as I'm really behind now.

RedLass

Fay wrote: »

But petunia seeds...argh, I've tried them for the first time this year. Such a beautiful petinuia we picked but out of a whole packed of seed about 6 have germinated :mad:

I don't really know where they landed in the pot in the end, so I'll be surprised if any of them germinate. I have used the whole packet, half in the pots, and half on the kitchen floor, so no second chances. I hope at least that your 6 will go on to be uber-strong

Aria`s_Tail wrote: »

I also have shelves in the garden, black plastic stackable ones (I think Keter?) from B & Q. They are great for stashing things and will happily grow plants on the top shelf. Were quite expensive but have lasted years and been taken down and put back up several times.

Sounds good, I'll look those up too. The house we live in is rented so anything that can survive being torn down and thrown back up again is priceless! I don't mind spending a bit if it's something that will last, and we can take with us.

mrbadexample wrote: »

The tiniest veg seed I have come across thus far is celery. Some flowers are properly weeny.

But celery gets so big! How does that happen from such a squitty little thing... Made a deliberate decision not to attempt to grow celery, not because I'd read about seed size, just because I'd read that it is "difficult".

hazzie123

Thanks MrBE and Annie,I shall have a bash with the Leeks.Would you recommend sowing indoors or planting seeds straight into the prepared/deweeded bed?

mrbadexample

hazzie123 wrote: »

Thanks MrBE and Annie,I shall have a bash with the Leeks.Would you recommend sowing indoors or planting seeds straight into the prepared/deweeded bed?

I think traditionally with leeks you keep them in a pot or corner somewhere until you've had your spuds out, and then they go there.

I need to know if I have to separate the clump I have into individual leeklets. :undecided

oldtractor

my leeks are like tiny blades of gras and some seed I put in hasnt geminated yet.