Help MBE grow his dinner 2012

kizkiz

Pre-war_babe_33 wrote: »

He told me he was 43. You can easily work out how old I am - the clue is in my user-name.

33 :cool:.......

aliasojo

I took a trip to the garden centre this morning, with a view to buying a tomato plant. I wanted to use it as a 'test' subject if you like, a plant which I had not grown from seed and was free form all the ails that my plants seemed to have suffered from. I wanted to see whether it would also end up with leaf issues as that might signify some sort of airbourne disease.

Anyway, it became quickly apparent that the garden centre's toms were not much better than mine. And they wanted £3.99 per plant for them. :eek:

I came home with bug spray instead.

I'll work out Plan B later.

Drea

aliasojo wrote: »

I took a trip to the garden centre this morning, with a view to buying a tomato plant. I wanted to use it as a 'test' subject if you like, a plant which I had not grown from seed and was free form all the ails that my plants seemed to have suffered from. I wanted to see whether it would also end up with leaf issues as that might signify some sort of airbourne disease.

Anyway, it became quickly apparent that the garden centre's toms were not much better than mine. And they wanted £3.99 per plant for them. :eek:

I came home with bug spray instead.

I'll work out Plan B later.

Hmm that's funny, I got a text from the OH today saying he just got ripped off for starbs, which I'm assuming was supposed to be strawbs

I hope he hasn't gone and spent too much on them!

aliasojo

OMG! I am a mass murderer. _pale_

I started off my gardening exploits in this house not wanting to kill anything and I painfully removed every snail and slug I could, by hand.

After seeing the state of some of my plants now...it's no more mr nice guy I'm afraid. Chemical warfare abounds!

Was eyeing up slug pellets when customer chappie standing next to me recommended Eraza slug killer. I bought some and today I have dozens of slimey dead bodies lying in amongst my toms and cucs.

I feel slightly bad. But not bad enough to not use it again.

Very effective stuff.

Drea

Right, I have already planted out my new strawberry plants, they were desperate for more room so will see how they go.

I'm going to sow some lettuce, carrots, radishes, beetroot, coriander and spinach within the next couple of days. Most of which I got from a magazine

New tomato plants should be arriving at the weekend too. Things WILL get back in order!

Little_Vics

Other than waiting for things to grow, what can I be doing now? I've got a spare shallow bed where my cold frame was - any ideas for what I can plant in it?

I've also done nothing with my 'compost' (aka big bin of weeds and other junk that isn't rotting down).

Is it too early to be thinking about next year, or things I can plant in the autumn for early next year, or how to best look after my plot over the winter??

annie123

Little_Vics wrote: »

Other than waiting for things to grow, what can I be doing now? I've got a spare shallow bed where my cold frame was - any ideas for what I can plant in it?

How much sun does it get?

Little_Vics wrote: »

I've also done nothing with my 'compost' (aka big bin of weeds and other junk that isn't rotting down).

empty it all out and shovel it back in

Little_Vics wrote: »

Is it too early to be thinking about next year, or things I can plant in the autumn for early next year, or how to best look after my plot over the winter??

If you leave it over winter with nothing in then sow a green manure, it will do your soil the world of good and cut down on weeds too.

PSP could be put in now for next year but others like garlic, onions etc it's a bit too soon.

Little_Vics

lots of sun.....t'is quite shallow though.

Er - green manure? PSP?? eh??

mrbadexample

Little_Vics wrote: »

lots of sun.....t'is quite shallow though.

Er - green manure? PSP?? eh??

PSP is purple sprouting broccoli. Most of us would call it PSB but Annie likes to be different. :rotfl:

A green manure is a crop that is grown and then dug into the soil to add nutrients and organic matter.

annie123

PSB = purple sprouting broccoli: http://www.vegetable-garden-guide.com/growing-broccoli.html

green manure: http://www.gardenorganic.org.uk/factsheets/gs3.php seeds even available in places like homebase.

MBE should grow some green manure too;)

you could use the bed for spring onions, radishes, lettuce but shade from strong sun, seed bed for winter cabbage, pop your strawberry runners in there next month when they've rooted as a holding bed till you're ready to put them in their final home, must be more but can't thing of any at the moment.

Hasn't stopped raining since yesterday afternoon, roads flooded in places this morning and like this for at least another 10 days
Wednesday should be dry, it's my sons birthday and it doesn't usually rain on it, well according to him, he's had too many birthdays now for me to remember each one!