Help MBE grow his dinner 2012

Mad-Frog

I have loads of strawberries, tomatoes have flowers.
Courgette plants have no flowers yet, my squash and pumpkin plants both flowered then they fell off

My back garden is flooded, all my flower plants I planted out yesterday are now swimming in a pond like soil :mad:
Hopefully the veg and salad will be okay as they are mostly in pots

I hate this weather

mrbadexample

Mad-Frog wrote: »

I hate this weather

I'm not overly impressed myself. I think my pond might flood. Talking of which, anyone know where I can get a job lot of gopher wood at a decent price? :wall:

djohn2002uk

mrbadexample wrote: »

I'm not overly impressed myself. I think my pond might flood. Talking of which, anyone know where I can get a job lot of gopher wood at a decent price? :wall:

Why? You gonna build a raft?:rotfl:
By the way, I've got 2 flowers on my first ever Sweet Pepper. Pics to follow if the rain eases off.

mrbadexample

djohn2002uk wrote: »

Why? You gonna build a raft?:rotfl:

I had something a bit bigger in mind.

djohn2002uk wrote: »

By the way, I've got 2 flowers on my first ever Sweet Pepper. Pics to follow if the rain eases off.

I won't hold my breath then. :rotfl:

mrbadexample

mrbadexample wrote: »

I'm not overly impressed myself. I think my pond might flood. Talking of which, anyone know where I can get a job lot of gopher wood at a decent price? :wall:

Sam Oglethwaite's the man for wood, apparently.

Little_Vics

It's raining and will probably flood again tonight.

I've made the following decisions:

I've decided to decapitate my triffid-esq pepper plant and see if it will turn into a bush.

I've also decided to drink a lot of cocktails tonight.

annie123

mrbadexample wrote: »

I'm not overly impressed myself. I think my pond might flood.

Mine already has this year, twice so far, makes for a very soggy garden

djohn2002uk wrote: »

By the way, I've got 2 flowers on my first ever Sweet Pepper. Pics to follow if the rain eases off.

Please tell me they're in a greenhouse, if not I want to move to where you live.

Little_Vics wrote: »

I've also decided to drink a lot of cocktails tonight.

That's a good plan. I have wine now :beer:

I finally did it, I put an umbrella over the courgette plant with flowers first thing this morning, yes it looks daft and so did I doing it but it's the best I could come up with in the absence of a greenhouse to give it a chance to dry out. Hubby burst out laughing for some reason when he saw it, can't think why

aliasojo

Little_Vics wrote: »

I've also decided to drink a lot of cocktails tonight.

annie123 wrote: »

That's a good plan. I have wine now :beer:

I finally did it, I put an umbrella over the courgette plant with flowers first thing this morning, yes it looks daft and so did I doing it but it's the best I could come up with in the absence of a greenhouse to give it a chance to dry out. Hubby burst out laughing for some reason when he saw it, can't think why

I have wine too. Just drinking it in support, you understand.

Like the brolly idea. :rotfl:

Well I came back after being out for most of the day to find a collapsed tomato plant. I have no idea what the cause is, it's literally just collapsed, no other way to describe it.

I have to say, I'm getting kinda fed up with all the garden 'issues' now, there does seem to be too many of them to make gardening enjoyable for me this year.

djohn2002uk

annie123 wrote: »

Please tell me they're in a greenhouse, if not I want to move to where you live.

Yes they are in a cold greenhouse and I'm sat here trying to upload the pics but I've got them on Photobucket and can't remember how to make them smaller.:mad:

aliasojo

djohn2002uk wrote: »

Here we go.

Or not.....as the case may be.