Help MBE grow his dinner 2012

mrbadexample

aliasojo wrote: »

Did I tell you all I have no money?

Good effort. :beer:

mrbadexample

Trip to ALDI on Thursday methinks, for another 100l water butt.

hazzie123

I'm still waiting for those blooming Parsnips to do something,I hate waiting with a passion.Need to sow another winning lot of Competion Carrots,sow my Leeks,pot on my tomatoes and pepper seedling tomorrow.Also i need plan where I'm gunna put stuff so I can get beds ready for those things.Wanna start some Beetroot off soon too.

annie123

pink_poppy wrote: »

It's lovely & sunny today so I'd best go & check on my seeds & seedlings

You have the big yellow thing in the sky?:( send it down south please I've not seen it since March, and it's rained every so**ing day since.

mrbadexample wrote: »

Trip to ALDI on Thursday methinks, for another 100l water butt.

Now Aldi is not that near me but.....those self watering plant pots/troughs are 1/2 the price of the homebase ones I was going to get for mums place so worth a trip just for them.
And wish I had some gutters to collect rain water from, thats the trouble with being 1st floor, it would have to be suspended mid air:eek:

mrbadexample

hazzie123 wrote: »

I'm still waiting for those blooming Parsnips to do something,I hate waiting with a passion.Need to sow another winning lot of Competion Carrots,sow my Leeks,pot on my tomatoes and pepper seedling tomorrow.Also i need plan where I'm gunna put stuff so I can get beds ready for those things.Wanna start some Beetroot off soon too.

Also still waiting for parsnips. Also need to attend to the carrot winning. Also need to pot on tomatoes and peppers.

I'm ahead on the beetroot stakes though - I've got about 7 different varieties going well.

I ordered some snowball turnips and candela di fuoco radishes from eBay - should be here tomorrow all being well.

I went and had a look at some local allotments today. Pretty overgrown but no waiting list as far as I can tell. I'm half tempted, even though I am only trying to feed me and there really is enough room in the garden.

hazzie123

Are they full size allotments or half? In theory I'd love an allotment but practically I doubt I'd have the time to attend one at the moment.

mrbadexample

hazzie123 wrote: »

Are they full size allotments or half? In theory I'd love an allotment but practically I doubt I'd have the time to attend one at the moment.

Either, from what I could gather. Had a good old chat to one of the plot holders. They're not council allotments, but an association. Full plots are £47 per year - second year is free.

pink_poppy

mrbadexample wrote: »

That's from a flower bucket. You could probably do a little bit better, as they were quite neglected, and not a particularly great variety of potato.

They were really weird looking potatoes, mbe, I thought they were beans when I first saw the pic

Tbh, if I get any crop of anything in my first year I'll be over the moon!! I'm taking the view that I'm just learning this year.

annie123 wrote: »

You have the big yellow thing in the sky?:( send it down south please I've not seen it since March, and it's rained every so**ing day since.

Past tense ~ it's gone now & it's drizzling again with more rain forecast We had 3 weeks of rain & general coldness before yesterday's brief interlude of the big yellow thing. I want warm, sunny days!!

Update on seedlings:

7 mint
1 basil
8 marigolds (6 definite, 2 just poking their heads up)
1 nasturtium (although it looks like a little pink worm at the moment)
2 sweet peas

Still waiting on peppers, chillis (only just planted them & instructions said can take up to 30 days to pop up!!), rosemary, chives, parsley & more nasturtiums...

Still have mixed salad leaves, spring onions, radish, potatoes & raspberry cane to plant.

pink_poppy

mrbadexample wrote: »

I went and had a look at some local allotments today. Pretty overgrown but no waiting list as far as I can tell. I'm half tempted, even though I am only trying to feed me and there really is enough room in the garden.

Sounds exciting. My neighbour has an allotment & she comes home with barrow loads of stuff (there's 3 of them though). I've been wondering whether to put my name down, because by the time my name comes up I should know what I'm doing.

Is the allotment nearby?? Your back garden is very handy If you did get one is it possible that you could trade any surplus with other people for other stuff, not just fruit & veg??

Badrick

mrbadexample wrote: »

I knew it would work.

Yesterday I complained that I had no spring onions.

Today I have spring onions. :rotfl:

Today I have walking onion seedlings, anybody know if they could be walking this year?