Help MBE grow his dinner 2012

dogstarheaven

finally, managed to get some pix up. it's my 2nd yr on the lotti so hence the scruffiness...here's some of the garlic i lifted the other day
my beautiful Anthyllis and Scabious which the bees love

Ozark blueberry
new brassica cage
onion and garlic beds
comfrey b14 and broad beans
parsnip about to flower for saved seed. jerusalem artichokes at the back.

thanks for helping me with the photobucket link, aliasjo.

Pre-war_babe_33

Yes,I have over-wintered tomatoes a couple of times thinking of it as a money-saving idea but to be honest I didn`t feel it was worth all the effort looking after them and don`t remember them fruiting any earlier either. I also had the disadvantage of them cluttering up my windowledges until about the middle of May because they couldn`t go outside until after the last frost day had past.

Fay

Dogstar heaven I think your lottie looks great. I've never heard of Anthyllis before but they're lovely, might look into getting some. I am trying to make the garden (front and back) as bee friendly as possible. I like that most of the nurseries are now displaying labels to tell you which plants are recommended for bees.I lifted one of my remaining 6 garlic at the weekend-I got rust on them and took advice from one website and took all the leaves off. Obviously not the done thing (wish Monty had covered that on GW before I did it!) as the one I lifted was tiny-but that's obvious it would be isn't it as I took its source of providing its food away

Sambucus_Nigra

mumof3plusoh wrote: »

I didn't pull the whole flower head off I still have the toms on, I only pulled the petals off. Looking forward to eating them. x

There really is no need to do that at all. I have too many to even contemplate looking at the flowers let alone pull any off. :eek:

aliasojo

Our forecast is seriously bad.

It's been awful this morning but this afternoon is 'batten down the hatches' weather apparently.

I'm beginning to wonder if our plants will ever see sun again. :undecided

lemonjelly

lemonjelly wrote: »

Well, everything has survived thus far....

we even had sunshine today!

Well today we have had torrential rain and a thunderstorm.

I hope my peas & carrots & beetroot have survived!:eek:

Little_Vics

not great weather here today either, but I have just eaten my first thingy-wot-I-grew - a sugar snap! Hoorah.

Lotus-eater

Just picked 3kg of strawberries, not including the punnet given to next door.

Never had so many strawberries and had to throw alot away due to mould and being eaten by lickle animals.

My DS has just decided he doesn't like strawberries after all............ obviously :doh:

Lotus-eater

It's gone a bit quiet in here......in here.....in here



More strawberries today and a tayberry, things are starting to pick up a little, as it's been warmer, still lots of wind annoying my french beans though.

cootambear

cos I should be picking up strawbs by the armful and the s.....y weather is doing my head in.

and the slugs, for whom this is party time