Help MBE grow his dinner 2012

djohn2002uk

lemonjelly wrote: »

Mental note - next year, plant the peas out early!
(Bet I forget!!!!)

Note for your diary. Peas need to go out before the green opens.

djohn2002uk

Lotus-eater wrote: »

Even better, sow them straight outside.

Not round here. The mice would have them.

mrbadexample

Pre-war_babe_33 wrote: »

MBE I too have the ingredients to make a Victorian stumpery but just haven`t the mobility to collect them all from various parts of the garden - it would mean climbing round the back of the pond to reach the ferns, somehow dive into the old coal bunker to reach the logs and then the easy part would be getting hold of the moss - seem to have plenty of that around right now, probably due to all the rain we`ve been having.

Do you live close enough to Walsall for me to pop round and do it for you?

I would only require tea. And cake.

Little_Vics

fancy popping up to help me out? I've given up (again). And it's raining (still).

mrbadexample

Little_Vics wrote: »

fancy popping up to help me out? I've given up (again). And it's raining (still).

What sort of cake do you have?

pink_poppy

Aldi had some fruit bushes (trellis trained) yesterday ~ £4.99. They had red gooseberry, blackberry, green grape & fig in my local. Looked nice & healthy & info said they would fruit this year. Thought I would post just in case anyone interested, especially after what Sambucus said the other day about investing in fruit

lemonjelly

Went & got a bag of compost last night.
Got home & after the showers finished, repotted the last 16 of my tomatoes.
Also planted a new batch of carrots, & also a last batch of beetroot (basically because I had a big tub & spare time!)
2 more batches of lettuce planted as stocks are getting low.

>>>>> goes back to playing the waiting game...

lemonjelly

djohn2002uk wrote: »

Note for your diary. Peas need to go out before the green opens.

:rotfl:

Speaking of which, how's your recovery going? Been playing at all?
We're over acheiving this year! So much so we're in with a chance of winning our monday night league, & if we hadn't lost a couple of players on holiday for a winnable away game, could have been in with a chance for the saturday league!

Sambucus_Nigra wrote: »

I'm just about to sow a late crop today. Will do now the rain has stopped.

We still have time? I planted some peas in pots a few weeks ago, but nothing has sprouted. I may try again...

Lotus-eater wrote: »

Even better, sow them straight outside.

As john says, they'd be gone...:(

annie123

One of my tomatoes has stem rot= Didymella

http://apps.rhs.org.uk/advicesearch/profile.aspx?pid=394 incase anyone wants to read up on it. This is a first for me, but so was blight 2 years ago.
Hadn't been out for a couple of days to check things over and just noticed it. It was one of the beef toms so not too worried but it had lots of little green toms already. It is now bagged and in the wheelie bin.

Today I've had thunder and lightening of biblical proportions, tropical rain, cloudy and breezy and sun for 10 mins, just missing hail and snow!

The brolly is working the soil in the tub is very slowly drying out.

Pleased to see stumperies are/maybe in more gardens. They are great for wildlife, if it stops raining over the next hour I'll get a pic of mine.

Whilst wearing raincoat, hoodie and boots I picked the last of the summer raspberries and started cutting down the canes. I'm trying to find the rest of the rhododendron, I know it's there somewhere.
A lot of the new canes will be being moved in the autumn, as much as I love raspberries they are taking over anything nearby. Still got the autumn ones to fruit yet:D

My thorn less blackberry has lots of little green berries on it:D and I've now got just one borlotti bean left in the tub so I've stuck some bedding plants in there instead.
That just leaves the runner beans, obviously not meant to be a good bean year for me.

lolly5648

annie123 wrote: »

Today I've had thunder and lightening of biblical proportions, tropical rain, cloudy and breezy and sun for 10 mins, just missing hail and snow!


That just leaves the runner beans, obviously not meant to be a good bean year for me.

What part of London are you - I'm in North London and didn't have thunder or lightening and very little rain. My first lot of beans either died or got eaten, second lot of seeds were washed away. Current runners are just climbing, as are French; dwarf beans and borlotti aren't doing anything and I got 10 broad beans off 3 plants. Don't even start me on the brassicas!