Help MBE grow his dinner 2012

mrbadexample

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Pre-war_babe_33

Hello MBE
"Which war?" - the war of the roses maybe! I`ve fought that one many a time.

I have been reading about some of you repotting your tomatoes into bigger pots or into the garden. I too have been transferring my tomatoes into larger pots and recently, while doing so I accidentally broke one which ended up hanging onto its roots by the skin of its teeth - so what did I do? I merely got a strip of masking tape and bandaged up the stem and now, about two weeks later it is thriving and producing mini tomatoes.

This is the second time I have done this, the first being several years ago when I used parcel tape and a lolly stick after a gust of wind broke the stem of the plant off at it`s base.

Bluegreen143

Hi, I have been lurking for a few weeks, and I hope no-one minds if I join this thread on my very first forum post!

This is my first year of growing anything and I'm growing everything in pots because my teeny tiny garden is all covered over in stones. So far have planted spinach, lots of lovely herbs (some indoors), mixed salad leaves, courgettes, chantenay carrots, radishes, chillies (indoors) and strawberries. Mostly doing well except my three strawberry plants haven't come up at all.

I bought them as root ball kind of things from wilkinsons (actually meant to put the pack back, got home and I'd bought them by accident lol) and I wonder if they've been planted at the wrong time of year? The instructions just said to plant straight away. People have told me just to leave them and see if anything comes up later on/next year but they are taking up three pots... What do you think? I planted the root ball bit with the wee stick at the top pointing up as advised and it just looks dead and hasn't grown at all in two months.

Thanks for any advice you can give!

Lotus-eater

mrbadexample wrote: »

Welcome. You're in the right place because I don't let anyone mean join my thread. Tell us what you're growing!



:think: Which war? :whistle:

I've got a Dig for Victory poster on my wall above the PC. I'm only a kid at 43, but I'm sure I've inherited a wartime mentality from somewhere. Grow as much as I can, waste nothing. :money:

I have a couple of reproduced Abram Games WW2 posters in frames in my house, I love them as well as a Canadian one next to my growing calendar on a door.


Today I got in the PSB and cabbages, other parts of my plot still need the undergrowth hacking back to enable me to plant the rest of the stuff still hanging about. But the beans should go in tomorrow, although I think I've ran out of canes again.

annie123

Lotus-eater wrote: »

I've often wondered, the wartime posters and growing guides told all about how to grow the basic stuff, but gave no indication of the pests you would encounter.
This seems a major failing and I wonder what the result was?

My grandparents said it was basically organic gardening across the whole country so there were lots more natural predators and any problems were spread thinly across gardens because everyone had gardens, no paved areas etc

annie123

Mad-Frog wrote: »

My nectarine tree has curl leaf, it is on every leaf so I think that will have to go where the pumpkins went

My nectarine gets it every year, but this year was worse, I assume due to the very wet April. I do cover it with a copper fungicide and it helps, well it would probably help a lot of I did it diligently
Takes off all the affected leaves, even if it strips it bare and it will grow new leaves that aren't affected.
You can cover it up too but mines too big for that.

http://apps.rhs.org.uk/advicesearch/profile.aspx?pid=232

annie123

Bluegreen143 wrote: »

Mostly doing well except my three strawberry plants haven't come up at all.

I bought a pack of 2 white strawberries from them earlier this year and they were dead as a dodo I decided after 4 weeks. Called them and they refunded me immediately.

annie123

Lotus-eater wrote: »

But the beans should go in tomorrow, although I think I've ran out of canes again.

I am out of canes, I can see them in my neighbours gardens from last weekend.

Do you have a cheap sauce of 6' canes? my local garden centre want £1.20 per cane :eek: and I'm not paying that.


The non germinating squash seeds have, after what must be 6 weeks of trying all sorts of ways to get them to wake up, have germinated only I pinched the labels last weekend for neighbours thinking they were going to compost heap and now I have no idea what they are. So they will get plonked in the ground available and have to put up with the growing conditions.

My first tatties will be eaten tonight:j what ever size they are, always have first new ones on 1st June:D

Mad-Frog

annie123 wrote: »

My nectarine gets it every year, but this year was worse, I assume due to the very wet April. I do cover it with a copper fungicide and it helps, well it would probably help a lot of I did it diligently
Takes off all the affected leaves, even if it strips it bare and it will grow new leaves that aren't affected.
You can cover it up too but mines too big for that.

http://apps.rhs.org.uk/advicesearch/profile.aspx?pid=232

Annie I read I need a copper thingy but can you advise me what I should buy from the shops?
I have wilkos, homebase and B & Q near me sort of, thanks

mrbadexample

Bluegreen143 wrote: »

Hi, I have been lurking for a few weeks, and I hope no-one minds if I join this thread on my very first forum post!

Hello and welcome.

Hate to post and dash but I'm off to Norfolk until Sunday, so just popped in to find someone to water my thread while I'm gone. I haven't seen lemonjelly around for a while. John's probably got enough on his plate recuperating. Lotus is too busy catching up with his own stuff.

Annie? I say, Annie!

Would you mind doing the honours please?