Help MBE grow his dinner 2012

ellebee1986

I really wanted to crack on with getting my garden sorted this weekend, weeding, preparing soil, mowing grass, levelling lawn and then it decides to spend all night raining

But on the plus side most of my tomatoes have started germinating as well as a couple of my leeks so very chuffed

Lotus-eater

KazLA wrote: »

My grandma offered me an envelope of French Marigold seeds, which I accepted having read on here! Are 'we' planting in little modules?

Haven't seen the full forecast but looks like its going to be wet over the weekend & getting colder next week, what a shame, really thought spring was.here!

Marigolds do well in modules, I use the x24 size.

alixandrea

KazLA wrote: »

I have heard of chitting potatoes but never seeds! Is that just warming them (for how long?) before planting? I don't hv an airing cupboard, but could find.somewhere. Do they then hv to be planted in the warm too?

OK, I put the seeds on a damp kitchen towel in a takeaway (Chinese, plastic) tray, then put the whole thing in a plastic freezer bag and bung that in the airing cupboard. I wait until the seeds have started sprouting, then pr1ck them out into modules. I've got them in cooler conditions right now, but still inside near a window so they get as much light/heat as they can (not much given than the heating in our house is rubbish and the sun refuses to come out from behind the clouds!)

They mostly seem to be doing OK, some of the tomatoes are a bit leggy and one chili is refusing to grow any further, but everything else is good.

Alixandrea

Fay

Well I thought today was going to be a no go day for the garden as it had rained all night and was still raining this morning. However, it picked up and we were able to get some jobs done including potting on my early tomato's and sowing some herbs and salad leaves.
I've also managed in the last week to sow some broad beans and runner beans in modules (we have mice in the garden and although the cat works hard, they still manage to eat tender seedlings!) and lots of flower seeds ready for hanging baskets and pots.
So, so far I have chillis, peppers, tomato's, herbs (coriander, basil and chives), and broad & runner beans sown. The onions and garlic appear to be doing ok and the raspberry, blackberry and blackcurrent are all springing into life. We also re-potted the 2 blueberry bushes today and they're looking lovely and healthy so fingers crossed. I managed to get lots of weeding done last weekend and gave the garden a general tidy up, it needs more but at least I got a fair bit done.
An updated chilli pic-I buried them nice and deep to try and get good roots going...I planted 21 seeds and 20 have germinated and were potted on. I've got early jalapenos and albertos locoto and have recently sown some winks yellow seeds but they've been over a week now with no signs of life
Chillis:

kazire

Yay I have some seedlings!!! Not many but enough to make me happy x

Little_Vics

I am less than impressed with the weather today. No gardening for me today. Boo.

mrbadexample

Little_Vics wrote: »

I am less than impressed with the weather today. No gardening for me today. Boo.

Likewise. Cold and persisting down. Happily, I'd signed up to work overtime today, so a wasted gardening day has become a nice little earner. :money: :beer:

emiff6

By 9am today I had dug up and moved several clumps of miniature daffs that were in the wrong place (round a tree that is coming down on Tues, fingers crossed) and replanted them elsewhere, cut down a clematis likewise (cuttings in pots, taken in autumn, are sprouting buds already), pruned 3 roses and spread compost round them, and finally, dug up as many grape hyacynths as possible. They are impossible to get rid of, once you've got them.

All in the drizzly rain.

Then went indoors and sat down with a well-earned peppermint coffee, satisfied with a job well done.

kara7758

Just wanted to announce that 10 tomato seedlings have appeared and it looks like 3 pimentos de padron ( seeds from Galicia where me and my family are from) are poking their little heads out! Very chuffed!

Lotus-eater

I'm so annoyed with myself, that I only put my chilli seeds in a week ago. If I'd been on the ball and sorted them out in Jan as I promised myself I would do, I'd have nice little plants by now, like some of you!

Every year it's the same LOL