Help MBE grow his dinner 2012

Lotus-eater

Sambucus_Nigra wrote: »

No - I can't stand any sport. What's the point? You can't eat it.

:rotfl: Exactly

Fay

djohn2002uk wrote: »

You are only just over an hour from me so anytime after the middle of April. After putting the plants out, on the inside of the canes, I usually pull some 3' wide bubblewrap around my canes and hold it on with clothes pegs which will guard against any late frosts and keep them just a bit warmer.

Thanks John & Sambucus for the advice.

I had read about planting beans inside the canes to add protection, but I will use your bubble wrap and clothes peg tip :beer:

Been out into the greenhouse this morning and 3 broad beans have germinated and are about half an inch high, so slow going but getting there. It's gone rather overcast here so not sure I will get out in the garden today-I've got carrot cupcakes to make for tomorrow!

Lotus-eater

djohn2002uk wrote: »

You are only just over an hour from me so anytime after the middle of April. After putting the plants out, on the inside of the canes, I usually pull some 3' wide bubblewrap around my canes and hold it on with clothes pegs which will guard against any late frosts and keep them just a bit warmer.

Have you got your beans going yet John? What else have you already sown?

furball

Mentioning rhubarb, i have just bought a one from a local market. Never grown one before so any special planting requirements i should know about. Thankyou

Little_Vics

I'm getting some rhubarb too - forgot about that. The only advice I've been given is not to eat it in the first season because it makes the plant stronger - or something. The leaves are also poisonous.

oooh - just realised I can make rhubarb and damson crumble!! That'll be good.

annie123

furball wrote: »

Mentioning rhubarb, i have just bought a one from a local market. Never grown one before so any special planting requirements i should know about. Thankyou

Remember it's going to be where ever you put it for a long time and it won't like you digging up anything either side of it too closely.
When you've decided where it's going to live, dig a hole add some rotted manure or home made compost if possible, plant and water:D
Then leave it alone for this year and next year you can have rhubarb crumble:D:D:D

When you've finished clearing your garden, feel free to pop down here and do mine

Little_Vics

do you think it's sensible to plant it in a container rather than the ground then? Am slightly nervous of it taking over the garden.

I've got a vague recollection of the parents planting theirs in a sunken pot in the ground - would that work?

annie123

LV it doesn't take over like mint does, it just grows big with big leaves.
I have one in a pot and 1 in the ground. The pot one's only there because I was given it like that and had nowhere to put at the time. Since the fence blew down it's staying in the pot again this year. It seems happy enough but it's in a 30" wide and its a deep pot too.
It always does best in the ground as it won't want to dry out. If in a few years you thinks it's too big, dig it up in the winter, split it and replant or give the other bit away.

Sambucus_Nigra

mrbadexample wrote: »

The point is, you get some of your mates round. They bring beer. You cook a great big rhubarb pie. You watch sport, drink beer, eat pie and have a jolly pleasant afternoon.

So that's why there is nowhere to park outside my house, the neighbour's house is full of chuntering giggling blokeys and they were cleaning the house from top to bottom this morning.

I'm off to the allotment. With my 6 music dab radio. To plant the rest of my spuds.

furball

Thankyou for the rhubarb reply. Didn't know the leaves were poisonous will my chooks be ok, do they know to leave poisonous plants alone:o Absolutely gutted, just missed out on 16 double sided palin fence panels 6x5 for £160. Need to replace the fence but its not mine it belongs to 2 neighbours that side onto my garden and its falling down. One lady is lovely but the other has grown conifers so close to the fence, 50ft tall :eek: never maintained either the fence or the conifers. When i mentioned doing the fence last year she asked if i would put the lats on her side as well. I said no. She then gave me a business card so i could price up for having her trees topped cheeky moo. She is very snotty and put the conifers in so she couldn't see the council estate, er our houses are 90 years old, they were here when she bought the house. Sorry rant over. I will post a pic of the fence. Couldn't fit a pic of all the fence, but this is the worst bit.