Help MBE grow his dinner 2012

Drea

The sunshine is back! Probably temporarily.

Made a wigwam type structure for my runner beans and got them planted yesterday, one of the plants had gone the wrong way and buried itself in the soil, I planted it out anyway and pulling it free but not sure it'll survive.

I'll be eating my first strawberry very soon! Exciting!

Chillies are going well, lots of chillies on them. Courgette seedlings growing nicely but too many germinated!

annie123

aliasojo wrote: »

I'm toying with the idea of planting one of the bushy type F1 plants in a bigger pot and taking it back inside the porch and just growing it there as a houseplant in the hope I get some chillies from it.

Not sure how big a pot I would need though. :undecided They are supposed to reach 30-45cm tall. Would an ordinary B&Q bucket do?

My oldest chilli........3 years this year is now has just been repotted into a 9" pot my other useful ones are in 6" pots and they seem fine in that every year, it's the unproductive, slow growing ones that are getting plonked in the ground. So I guess a b and q bucket will be more than big enough for yours.

Drea wrote: »

The sunshine is back! Probably temporarily.

Where? send it to me please

Yesterday had to do an emergency new TV run to mum's on the coast and was amazed in the difference between her plants and mine. Only flowers but considering I grew them all from seed and we both had them hers are twice the size of mine and she's done nothing but look at them daily, but she has had more sun and less rain than me.
Popped to the local garden centre to get her another tub and some compost and the only one they had was Humax, expensive but..............if compost could be sexy this would win.
It's lovely stuff, fine and crumbly and a wonderful colour. I tried explaining this to hubby last night who started to worry that I found compost sexy :rotfl:
Made my homebase multipurpose compost look like cheap carp, I just might treat myself to a bag to see if it make a difference in yeild.

Lotus-eater

annie123 wrote: »

Show off

Well done you, best I've got is 2 dead ones from the night lows of 7c in spite of fleece over them and 1 left that looks sulky.

Mine have survived nights of 2c outside, so I don't think it's that that killed them. Maybe they weren't hardened off properly?

Lotus-eater

aliasojo wrote: »

Help please guys....found a wee girl in the village who is trying to grow (2!) potatoes for the first time (bless ).

She's got them in a big bag and when they started growing, she knew to put more earth over the top of them to earth them up BUT she didn't know she had to keep doing it, so they've been earthed up once and the stems and foliage are now at least a foot tall, (maybe a bit more) above the soil level. It's been maybe 3 or 4 weeks she thinks, since she did it last.

Is it too late to earth them up again?

Sorry I know Misskool has already answered this.

I would say as long as no tubers are showing then it will be fine. If she gets tubers showing, then they need covering up.

annie123

Lotus-eater wrote: »

Mine have survived nights of 2c outside, so I don't think it's that that killed them. Maybe they weren't hardened off properly?

Blimey that's cold for them, could be because I have softy southerner ones, just like me:D

They had only just stopped sulking from seeing the sun for 10 days prior to that, up to then they'd been OK outside in my makeshift cold frame of potting bench with fleece over. Too much of a sudden temp drop I think, they'd had upper 20's only a days before.
I've found some more seeds, not my nice crystal lemon ones though, that was the last of them, so just marketmore this year, and will sow a few under cloche, or thinking on it, I might just go to the garden centre and see if they have any, price of 1 plant should still outweigh the cost of supermarket ones.

mrbadexample

I didn't do as much this weekend as I wanted to.

Nice trip to see my mates left me feeling a bit jaded* and the weather was cold and wet so not much incentive to get out there. I did a wee bit of pottering - weeded the tomato buckets (I've got tiny tomato plants everywhere from the home made compost which, incidentally, is much sexier than Humax because I made it and it was free) and removed all the side shoots.

Spotted that one of my asparagus is through - no sign of the other 6 yet but makes me more hopeful. Planted out 6 celery plants in a small block. They weren't very happy in the greenhouse. Thinned a few beetroot seedlings and planted up the extras. Weeded one of the beds. That's about it really - might take a few pics later.

Today I managed to negotiate the supply of a few more scaffold boards. All the beds are edged, but I want to go up a layer on the one nearest the greenhouse as all the beds are quite full: there's not much room to empty the tubs into them at the end of the season.


*hungover

aliasojo

mrbadexample wrote: »

*hungover

OH THAT'S A SHAME MBE...I HOPE YOU FEEL BETTER SOON!

:rotfl:

Sorry.

mrbadexample

aliasojo wrote: »

OH THAT'S A SHAME MBE...I HOPE YOU FEEL BETTER SOON!

:rotfl:

Sorry.

That was on Sunday / Monday. Today's Wednesday.

Drea

I want an allotment... someone PLEASE tell me it's too much work and a bad idea!

aliasojo

It's too much work and a bad idea Drea.

I want one too.