Help MBE grow his dinner 2012

annie123

djohn2002uk wrote: »

Real thunder or the look on your face....:cool: I gave you your 13000 and 1st thanks....Whoo Hoo..AMAZING

:rotfl: both, no lightening though. Do not know where all that thanks comes from, can only be because I've been on here for 8 years.

Had to go out last night but it continued to rain and this morning was drizzle but just to provide you all with pics I put a Tupperware box over the top of the camera to keep it dry and took some more from my windows.
Learned how to use photo bucket this morning, I think!, and will now bore you all with assorted garden pics. You will then understand why I am jealous of neat and tidy gardens, wide gardens, bright and sunny gardens, as I have the shadiest south facing garden these days as the trees in other gardens weren't that big or even planted, 20 years ago:mad:
Off to have a go at posting pics...............



EDIT: pics appear massive in preview, how do I make them smaller?

mrbadexample

annie123 wrote: »

EDIT: pics appear massive in preview, how do I make them smaller?

I used to know but they kept "improving" the Photobucket experience, so I can't work it any more. Seems to do mine automatically.

annie123

think I found a resize option, off to try that

This is going to be a very slow process! but I'll get it done eventually.

I've done one now can't work out what I did!

annie123

after removal of fence, really nice more light in.


Above is the only picture I've worked out how to do and I've got to go out now, so here's a link to various pics, including my neighbours trees and brolly over courgettes

I've taken the link out now so you don't have to look at so many:o

mrbadexample

annie123 wrote: »

http://s1059.photobucket.com/albums/t433/bunniesrfab/mse/

Pond! Pond! You never said you had a pond!

I like your garden. It looks busy.

aliasojo

You know that saying about simple things and all that?

Well it applies here.......:D

My one single solitary tomato......





My one single solitary strawberry (tasted seriously strawberryish)......



My one single solitary chilli flower (well, about to be anyway).....



And my only surviving courgette plant seems happy. Ironic really...I don't like courgettes much. :rotfl:





I have loads of flowers on my toms, I just need sun now. :undecided

lemonjelly

I repotted my first lot of toms yesterday. That is their last repotting. The plants have flowers on now, so we're in a waiting game. There are 11 plants.
I have another 16 which need repotting for the penultimate time. I ran out of compost, so will get some on the way home.
Slugs have been nibbling my first lot of carrts 2nd batch of carrots appear ok for now.
I have pea pods on the pea plants, & the beetroot appear to have taken well in the ground.

I need to plant more lettuce seeds, as I keep eating it!

John! How on earth do you do that with your peas? What am I doing wrong? I start off my peas in trays, & plant them out at approx 2-3 months (approx 6-8 inches in height). They never get any bigger when planted out. I have one or 2 pea pods on each plant, but that is it. & they're only knee high!:(

elsien

My veg had been useless this year. Courgettes ok but gathering a lot of slugs (copper tape washed off the pot in the rain), potatoes pretty much non-existent, carrots taking forever to do anything, garlic and onions going uurgh, strawberries (in pots) going mouldy, tomatoes and peppers yet to see a solitary flower, salad leaves noticeable by their absence. The only thing that's going ok is the mangetout.
I hate this weather - everything just seems soooo slow to get going.

And my waterlily is sulking with a vengeance - nary a bud to be seen.

annie123

Courgette with brolly



you can see the brolly bottom right hand corner. I do wish downstairs would replace that bit of fence, my tomatoes are behind it and could do with something stronger to be tied onto

Would be nice if I had the garden on the right too, they never do anything except get a company in to weed it before parents arrive each spring and autumn.



Pond taken back in spring


Be no stopping me (once it stops raining) now I've got the hang of it, you'll wish you'd never asked for pics of the brolly and courgette :rotfl:

annie123

mrbadexample wrote: »

Pond! Pond! You never said you had a pond!

I like your garden. It looks busy.

Thank you.
Only a little pond, and yes, busy could be another word for messy, especially since the shed died when the fence went over, no where to put anything and a new one's not going up till the autumn.

I have a Victorian stumpery too, well it's more a pile of logs these days as many fell over over the years but the ferns are still there, get lots of stag beetles in it, it's hidden behind the foxgloves, which I dug up from behind it and moved to the front so they didn't get trampled when next door put up the fence.