Help MBE grow his dinner 2012

annie123

Well not the biggest weighing in at 650gms :rotfl: but it looks good




and 3 more little ones to follow



strawberries in flower


last of the toms, a few iffy ones there so will have to bin a few

mrbadexample

Pre-war_babe_33 wrote: »

Thanks for your help MBE. I did write down my pass-word - on a bit of paper and then lost it - so having found it again I have written it down in my diary. I think I am getting a bit old for all this technical stuff (eighty next birthday) but know quite a few people younger than me who can`t even switch on a computer so I can`t be doing too bad.

I do enjoy looking at all the photos which show it all, warts and all, not like the magazines and TV programmes where everything is perfect! You have all done so well despite the weather and I am totally amazed at all your achievements.

No photos from me - sorry, and I can`t do quotes either, so please forgive me for keeping stuff plain and simple. I am one of those idiots that has to wait for my daughter to come over and transfer my pictures from my digital camera onto the computer so posting them in a forum would be totally impossible for me. I am just grateful that I can at least operate a camera!

You're welcome, and don't worry about pictures, that bit comes in your next training course.

Happy to have your input in whatever form suits you, so don't worry on that score. Just keep posting the much needed advice!

mrbadexample

annie123 wrote: »

Well not the biggest weighing in at 650gms :rotfl: but it looks good

What's it doing up there? :eek:

I think mine would have been a similar weight, although I think I forgot to get it on the scales. Did me two roast dinners though - I was well pleased with it. It has given me the encouragement to attempt more squashes next year. As always, I think I can do better.

And there's a lot of people about that would be well pleased with a pile of tomatoes like that - me for one!

annie123

mrbadexample wrote: »

Oh jolly good. Are they ok?

They're fine, but their gutters could do with clearing out

mrbadexample wrote: »

What's it doing up there? :eek:

:rotfl: Ran out of space on the ground.
It put out a very long vine that was getting trod on when I entered the garden so I thought I'd tie it onto next doors trellis and it got more sun there too.
In fact it would have got a lot more sun but for the Jerusalem artichokes behind in their garden but from tubers in mine. Could have sworn blind I got them all out last year.
I was a bit worried about the weight but it seemed fine so next year I'm going to plant them in the same deep bag and trail them over trellis, vertical gardening lets me have more space on the ground.

mrbadexample

annie123 wrote: »

I was a bit worried about the weight but it seemed fine so next year I'm going to plant them in the same deep bag and trail them over trellis, vertical gardening lets me have more space on the ground.

I might have a bash at that meself.

Tonight the cabbage got eaten. Took the HFW recipe for panade, added 33p worth of bacon offcuts from Morrisons (140g) just to perk it up a bit, and it was fabulous. Really pleased with it. :drool:

annie123

I've just been out to check on the other BNS but they're still not quite yellow enough. Could really do with a few days of sun but looks unlikely. The first one was sooooooo tasty, always tastes nicer if you grow your own.

My peppers have stopped looking so ill since I bought them in, still pale but the feed should kick in soon. Not only got lots of chillis to pick they're still flowering. I have picked them fresh at xmas before but it needs to be a mild winter for that.

Thornless blackberry still producing berries :T whole load of red ones on there shouldn't be long before they turn.
It is without doubt the best value 99p I have ever spent.
Going to have a go at propagating it, I assume the same as wild blackberries, stick the tip in the ground and wait for it to root.

That should be enough waffle to keep BME happy and the thread on the first page ;)

Little_Vics

so, once my loganberry has stopped producing, do I cut it back?

mrbadexample

Little_Vics wrote: »

so, once my loganberry has stopped producing, do I cut it back?

Presumably it's the same as raspberries, so I need to know the same thing. Do I cut my Poundland raspberries back? They haven't fruited this year.

mrbadexample

annie123 wrote: »

That should be enough waffle to keep BME happy and the thread on the first page ;)

Who? :whistle: :rotfl:

annie123

Little_Vics wrote: »

so, once my loganberry has stopped producing, do I cut it back?

Yep, http://apps.rhs.org.uk/advicesearch/profile.aspx?pid=93

mrbadexample wrote: »

Presumably it's the same as raspberries, so I need to know the same thing. Do I cut my Poundland raspberries back? They haven't fruited this year.

Nope, they are summer fruiting and will fruit on the canes next year. Unless of course it's a slow to start producing autumn one, which I've never had happen even if it's a small crop, but with the way this year's been anything could happen!