Help MBE grow his dinner 2012

Aria`s_Tail

My transplanted peas are all looking happy and the second sewing up the fence are all through. Loads of flowers on the strawbs and have radish nearly ready, loads of different salady things coming along well.
Have put cucs and courgettes out in their pots, they can come back in if need be.

Sun cream on today everybody!

mrbadexample

Drea wrote: »

You guys WANT bees?!

Of course! And so do you!

We wouldn't grow much without them.

mrbadexample

My mum's just emailed me a couple of photos she took when I moved in:





Bit better now...

annie123

Gosh, goes to show how much hard work you've put in and you've come a long way from growing pumpkins

I would be without my bees, I'd have no raspberries:eek:

Those flower buckets take a lot of compost so went to homebase to get some more and came back with 24 plants @ 25p:D Ok some are half dead but will pull through but others were fine. And some tired looking turf at 20p a roll so got 1 for me (last years purple spud foliage come out so far over the lawn it killed it off) and 3 for DS for round the back of his pond which has brambles trying to get in from next doors garden and a New Zealand flax at present
By time I got that in the car no room for compost so will need to go again tomorrow.

Also got 10 ltrs of cream (had other colours if anyone needs it) masonry paint at £2.50 per 5 ltrs reduced from £25:D That's hubbys job for the summer.


Question.......I have 1 self watering long tub left over as it wasn't needed at mums, so what veg would benefit from the self watering bit the most and not mind being in a long thin tub and getting sun from sunrise till 11.30 only? which is around 6 hours, still not bad.

Angelfeathers

Wow, you have come a long way, haven't you, MBE!

Annie, I'd have thought something leafy would like the self-watering trough and relative shade - lettuce/rocket/spinach/chard, something like that?

Spent a couple of lovely hot hours in the garden yesterday digging up and weeding the beds ready for the first lot of beans and setting up the wigwams for them, then another half-hour later on when it was cooler planting the beans out, along with some sweetpeas for prettiness, and a spaghetti squash plant in the middle of each. Very pleased with my hard work!

Still have loads of beans left, though. Need to buy some more poles!

Mad-Frog

Loving this weather, still very jealous of pictures of tomato plants :mad: mine have grown a millimetre or so

On the plus side my aubergine, sweet peppers and lettuce are storming on, my runner beans are about 25 inches tall now is it okay to plant out now weather is good?

Also I have two raised beds, one used to be a flower bed, it is a metre by say 4 metres, I went to thin out my radish and got a handfull of gloveless slugs :mad: I have some copper tape would it be any use to put some round the outside or are they coming up from below? Going to try the beer method but there were around 5 in a space of about twenty centimetres I would take a photo but don't know how, can anyone explain how?

My mini pumpkins haven't germinated, I took the advice and put them on a radiator but now the weather is warmer heating is off so my question now is would it be worth buying some more? and how would I get them to germinate? No doubt this warm weather won't last

greenbee

Drea wrote: »

20 degrees already, I'm going to need to cover up today!

You guys WANT bees?!

Bees are pollinators, so you need them. People think I'm mad for leaving wasps nests if they aren't bothering me, but I like my wasps, as apart from eating garden furniture/fences/gates they also eat bugs

mrbadexample

annie123 wrote: »

Gosh, goes to show how much hard work you've put in and you've come a long way from growing pumpkins

This is about the oldest photo of my garden I have. Pre-pumpkins, pre-greenhouse - must have been about 7/8 years ago. I've only been taking it seriously for the last 3/4.

annie123 wrote: »

Those flower buckets take a lot of compost so went to homebase to get some more and came back with 24 plants @ 25p:D Ok some are half dead but will pull through but others were fine.

I rescued a tomato from B&Q yesterday, but only because it's a grafted one. Worth a punt for £1 I reckon.

mrbadexample

I'm taking a bit of a chance and getting my tomatoes out into their final position as fast as I can. No hardening off, but if this weather just lasts for a week it should be long enough. It's as warm at night now as it was during the day last week, so I think I'll get away with it.



I'm going from a 3" pot to a flower bucket in some cases though, so I hope they can cope with that too. Most of them are flowering.

I had to buy a bale of compost today - I've got too many flower buckets to fill. I haven't got much home made compost left, so I need a bit to bulk it out. 120l for £6.83, and I won't need all of that so this year's expenditure is minimal.

djohn2002uk

mrbadexample wrote: »

Bees! Bees I tell you! And mud!:j

What's with the mud?. I know nowt about these solitary bees.