Help MBE grow his dinner 2012

mrbadexample

lemonjelly wrote: »

Be grateful man! I have a small number of flowers on a couple of plants. That is it!

Finally some sunshine! Hopefully the rays will do my plants a little bit of good!

I've always wondered what you look like lemon, so thanks for sharing.

And I am grateful. Just jealous too.

aliasojo

annie123 wrote: »

Best I can come up with so far for Scotland is

http://www.weatherstations.co.uk/aws_map.htm

Click on one of the markers and it takes you to the local weather station but each one produce it differently, some are good like this one http://www.drumriach.plus.com/Current_Vantage_Pro.htm but others are more basic.

Whilst pulling weeds I stepped on and broke a large courgette leaf, this one is in the ground but the leaf stem that broke is now an open funnel, worried about water getting in and rotting it, there's only so many umbrellas I can put in the garden.
Should I cover it with a plastic bag maybe?

If you really cared, you'd go out and buy them a waterproof gazebo. :whistle: :rotfl:

Btw, before I found out I wasn't supposed to do this....I cut off some of the male flowers on my courgette plant. It left a funnel as you described. It's been rained on constantly for yonks now and hasn't shown any signs of rot or any other nasties.

I personally wouldn't put plastic on it, I think that would increase the chances of rot tbh.

Will go look at the link now, thanks.

Angelfeathers

I have my first very tiny green tomatoes showing on my Gardener's Delight plants!!!! The actual plants are going bonkers, growing like mad and loads of flowers. So nice to finally see some tomatoes too!

And I have one little pepper growing on one of my outdoor peppers. :-)

Spent this morning in the garden in the sunshine (though not as hot as it could have been), weeding around the calabrese and Brussels sprouts and then planting out my three remaining caulis in the gaps and then interweaving a line of leeks between them. All very satisfying. :-)

Oh, we have also had three of the most massive strawberries imaginable. Yummy! Not loads of fruit, by any means, but some really big ones!

lolly5648

annie123 wrote: »

I'm not posh enough to live in North London, I down south, not far from Crystal Palace but not as far as Croydon.
Have a look at http://www.raintoday.co.uk/ once you get pink squares, it's fairly heavy rain, and blue to white squares over you it's heavy/very heavy rain and often thunder, speaking of which it's just rumbled again.

EDIT: http://weather.lgfl.org.uk/default.aspx this is a good site for comparing weather (I'm a weather nerd, on weather forums too:o)
Rainham had 9mm, greenwich 5mm, westminister and enfield 0mm

Thanks for this, what fascinating sites, I know I am going to spend a lot of time checking them. When I was in the States I spent hours watching the weather channel, I had no idea where the places were they were talking about but just loved it - much to my husband's disgust.

lolly5648

What do I do with my raspberry canes? There seem to be lots of new canes developing like triffids all over the garden in completely the wrong places. I started with three canes about 4 years ago and now there must be at least 30, 20 of which have got to go!

lolly5648

mrbadexample wrote: »

Annie, Lolly, can you pop round and help?

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I wish I could but with RSI in my right hand I am useless at lifting anything.

djohn2002uk

annie123 wrote: »

Whilst pulling weeds I stepped on and broke a large courgette leaf, this one is in the ground but the leaf stem that broke is now an open funnel, worried about water getting in and rotting it, there's only so many umbrellas I can put in the garden.
Should I cover it with a plastic bag maybe? wouldn't have given it a seconds thought other years, it's only because of the amount of rain I'm worried.

aliasojo is absolutely right, a plastic bag is about the worst you could do. There's probably some anti-fungal product about that you could put on it after drying it off but I wouldn't know what.

Little_Vics

mrbadexample wrote: »

What sort of cake do you have?

I make a mean chocolate brownie, lemon meringue pie, coffee cake, self-saucing chocolate pud, scones, flapjacks - you name it, I'll bake it.

In other news - you may join me in a victory dance. I have stuff growing!!!

I got home last night to find hubby and best mate in the garden with the bbq going and a bottle of red open, so took advantage to have a potter around.

I harvested (yes, harvested!!) a good handful of sugar snap peas, lots of herbs for salads, and 2 teeeny tiny potatoes that were lying on the top of the earth. We also munched a couple of peppers that had ripened.

I found a lot of straws that have been munched, so am keeping a close eye on them. I also found....wait for it.....tomatoes and loganberries waiting to ripen.

My hopes have been raised yet again.

I won't tell you what I've failed to grow though....sigh.

annie123

lolly5648 wrote: »

What do I do with my raspberry canes? There seem to be lots of new canes developing like triffids all over the garden in completely the wrong places. I started with three canes about 4 years ago and now there must be at least 30, 20 of which have got to go!

Cut to the ground any thin spindly ones, then decide how many you do want to keep, pick the strongest looking ones and any others chop down at ground level.
Come autumn time, dig up those that need moving and replant at the same depth where you do want them.

djohn2002uk wrote: »

aliasojo is absolutely right, a plastic bag is about the worst you could do. There's probably some anti-fungal product about that you could put on it after drying it off but I wouldn't know what.

Yes, thats what I thought too, so I've stuck another brolly over it as the leaf stem is 1" wide and filled up with water quickly when it started to rain.

I'm down to 1 celery now, forgot to top up the slug pellets, but I'm getting more flowers on the runner beans.

lemonjelly

mrbadexample wrote: »

I've always wondered what you look like lemon, so thanks for sharing.

And I am grateful. Just jealous too.

Just don't make me angry...:p