Help MBE grow his dinner 2012

Angelfeathers

lisakay wrote: »

tonight me and the squiddlies put down an old shower curtain in the living room and sowed red alert tomatoes, sage, rosemary, thyme, orange thyme, basil and a few snowball turnip.

we've used the aldi compost and it's lovely, nice and fine. think i'll pick up a couple more bags this weekend.

You know, it took me a while here to work out that you weren't actually planting things just on the shower curtain. I was trying to figure out how that would work! Too early in the morning yet, clearly!:rotfl:

kara7758

Well Lisakay it does all dpened on what this flamin' governemnt do to my public sector pension, but I refuse to even go there.......

mrbadexample

kara7758 wrote: »

Well Lisakay it does all dpened on what this flamin' governemnt do to my public sector pension, but I refuse to even go there.......

I think you'll get to keep yours as it is because you're within 10 years of retirement (albeit with higher contributions). I, on the other hand, am not.

*cough* Back to the gardening...:p

adelight

Oh dear, the last lot of seeds I planted almost refused to grow! It's been about three weeks and I have two tiny, tiny tomato shoots and a bunch of spring onions for my window sil garden. Oh well, patience and all that.

I've just given the garden another weed and a dig and there are SO MANY ROCKS!!! I started picking out everything over about 1cm and it just got crazy there were so many, how bad will rocks be for growing root veg? I've removed everything over an inch but there are still lots of small ones.

I'll join the virtual carrot comp Is it too early to sow carrot seeds in the west mids? Hmm.

mrbadexample

adelight wrote: »

I'll join the virtual carrot comp Is it too early to sow carrot seeds in the west mids? Hmm.

I couldn't possibly say. :whistle:

And with regard to the rocks, I feel your pain. I'm winning though. Just keep picking them out. Count yourself lucky you're not pulling out whole paving slabs, as I was when I started.

mrbadexample

Oh, and for anyone joining in with the heaviest carrot challenge, the seed to be used should be 'Flyaway'. If we can't all use the same batch of seed, we should at least use the same variety.

mrbadexample

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Dave, you can have your pressure-washer back now, thanks.

emiff6

annie123 wrote: »

I have super snails I'm sure they eat the slugs! birds, frogs etc all leave them alone. I collect literately hundreds every year and rehome them in the local woods 1 mile away.

And snails are hermaphrodites - so each one of those hundreds has laid up to 80 eggs in your soil....

emiff6

mrbadexample wrote: »

Well, for better or worse, I've pruned the gooseberries.

I sort of think I've got a rough idea of approximately what I should be doing. It would appear that most of their branches were growing in the wrong direction, so they've taken a bit of a pasting. I think I've left enough to get a reasonable, if not enormous crop though. Time will tell.

Oops! Did I do wrong? I pruned my red gooseberry in the autumn 'cos I wanted to shove the prunings in a pot to see if they will root. Even if only one cutting roots I will have doubled the number of bushes I have (Too early to tell yet).

mrbadexample

emiff6 wrote: »

Oops! Did I do wrong? I pruned my red gooseberry in the autumn 'cos I wanted to shove the prunings in a pot to see if they will root. Even if only one cutting roots I will have doubled the number of bushes I have (Too early to tell yet).

I don't think so. If anything, I left it a bit late. I usually wait for branches to root where they touch the ground, then separate it from the parent to get a new plant. I would imagine that your cuttings will root fairly easily.