Help MBE grow his dinner 2012

mrbadexample

lilyjune wrote: »

Plus I'm not sure you could consider what I'll be growing dinner, definitely a half decent salad

Welcome aboard. Dinner's whatever you want to eat.

I've managed to grow chips but the fish I plant never seem to do very well.

lilyjune

the fish I plant never seem to do very well.

Tee hee, that would be handy though, wouldn't it? Save having to go to the supermarket so much!

Little_Vics

Just on the rugby, I think the future is very very promising for both Wales and England. Am secretly hoping we can do the grand slam....

I'm off out to the garden today (even if it does keep raining) so I will update later with progress. I WILL DO IT.

radiohelen

Hello folks. I've got a question for you. Last year I had a bit of a garlic disaster. It just didn't do anything and then got shaded by weeds and generally didn't do much. Due to time pressure (me being a bit slack) that bit of the lottie got left and lo, suddenly it's all started shooting up again. Now though, it's in the wrong place! The bit question is do you think it will transplant if I dig it up and put it in my all things onion bed?

mrbadexample

radiohelen wrote: »

The bit question is do you think it will transplant if I dig it up and put it in my all things onion bed?

The short answer is I don't know, as I've never grown it before.

However, I suspect it would be fine, as most other members of the allium family are quite robust and don't object to being moved about.

hornetgirl

Thanks for the photos MBE, it's nice to see how your garden is developing over time. Still not much action here other than chitting potatoes still chitting and a bit of cleaning/tidying done this morning. There's no point me entering the carrot competition, I don't think I've ever managed to grow one more than about an inch long. Our soil is far too stony to have them in the ground but even in containers they don't seem to do well for me.
Does chard keep coming back? I planted some Bright Lights last year and found quite a large clump of it this morning. No sign of the rhubarb though, I'm sure it's usually showing by now.
I'm off to Paris-Nice in early March, but promise I'll get sowing and planting in earnest after that.

emiff6

mrbadexample wrote: »

... the fish I plant never seem to do very well.

That's because fish need planting in water, MBE. Have you got a pond yet....?

Little_Vics

update from murky Yorkshire:

Had a good fettle in the garden today and removed an awful lot of dead stuff. A top chum came round to see what space I've got because she's got an awful lot of cuttings to pass on, and has got very very excited about my little garden and the potential. She's promised me a damson tree for starters!

Have managed to persuade OH to build me a little poly tunnel from some bits and pieces he has, and also to pressure wash the paths and steps.

The strawberry runners I cut last autumn aren't dead (hoorah!), and my herbs appear to have survived too.

Top Chum wrote things down in a notebook and will meet me in the pub later tonight to tell me what to do next. Am officially excited, but also have vague memories of growing stuff being rather traumatic. Am investing in a new bottle of gin for the nerves.

xLV

emiff6

I'm going to have a rowan tree cut down next month, and was thinking of keeping a log to make a bee log, so I have a question about your bee log MrBE - when the bees emerge, will the holes be re-used, or do you have to start over with a fresh log?

kazire

Hey all yesterday I pulled my finger out and planted my first set of seeds for the year peppers normal and banana, cucumber white nd masterpiece tomatoes marmande tigerella pearl moneymaker and grdeners delight still need to plant chillies then look at the next lot now I need to sit and wait hope everyone else's plans are going well x

Loved the comment about the fish btw!