Help MBE grow his dinner 2012

mrbadexample

This could be an interesting year for tomatoes. I've got these that I've grown before:

Orange Banana
Red Cluster Pear
Millefleur
Gardener's Delight
Purple Ukraine
Galina
Amish Paste
Kumato

I'm going to sow some Galina, as they are the earliest variety, and really tasty. I might lose them, but on the other hand I might be eating them in May. I'm probably not going to bother with the Purple Ukraine, as they've been a little disappointing over the last couple of years.

The varieties I have that are new to me this season are as follows:

Moneymaker (a freebie, and no, I really haven't grown them before!)
Cherokee Purple
Cream Sausage
Dark Southern Nights
Black Cherry (one from England, one from Australia, so will be interesting to compare)
Green Sausage
Caro Rich
Chocolate Cherry
Chocolate Stripes
Sara Black
Yellow Kotlas

I can't wait. :j

Little_Vics

I despair - you're talking 10+ varieties of tomatoes when I can barely manage 1. Secrets please.

Angelfeathers

May I join in please? I mainly just lurked last year, but it's so much more fun to actually share how you're doing!

I got my spring seed order from !!!!!!!!!!! the other day and adding that to the list of those I've already got from last year I've got something like 40 different things to be growing!!! (Some of them are flowers/shrubs. I'm expanding from just fruit and veg this year, and hoping the pests will visit the flowers instead!)

In the ground currently I have garlic (two varieties), spring cabbages (looking good except the couple that have definitely been nibbled), strawberry plants I planted in the autumn, grape vines (one white, one red) ditto, some chard that I think is supposed to die down over winter but is still putting out new growth, some herbs and some honeyberry shrubs in pots waiting for the new bed I made in the autumn to be ready.

Oh, and a whole lot of weeds. Where's the cold weather that's supposed to kill the damnt things off?

I did my first lot of sowing three weeks ago and currently have a lovely tray of seedlings on my windowsill waiting to be pricked out: Winter Gem lettuce (for the blowaway greenhouse, which has blow away twice; I got wise after the second time I had to repot my sweetpeas and moved it), Musselburgh leeks, Ailsa Craig onions, and All the Year Round cauliflower. Might get some of them done tomorrow, otherwise they'll have to wait till next weekend - and then I guess it'll be time to sow the second lot of lettuces!

djohn2002uk

mrbadexample wrote: »

Cheers! You're just sulking because I beat your best bean.

I have to say I think it's a great choice, as it levels the field very well. None of us will have a clue where we're at until digging-up time.

Wanna bet?:p

mrbadexample

djohn2002uk wrote: »

Wanna bet?:p

What, the bean bit or the digging up carrots bit?

If it was about the bean, I certainly didn't see any pictures. :whistle:

mrbadexample

Little_Vics wrote: »

I despair - you're talking 10+ varieties of tomatoes when I can barely manage 1. Secrets please.

Well, I've got 20 there if I count the two Black Cherry. I think I had 17 plants (11 varieties) last year, so I'm looking for even more room. I just haven't got the space - something will have to give.

I'll probably ditch the Millefleur, Purple Ukraine, Moneymaker & Gardener's Delight. Only room for one of each though.

Secrets? I used to be in the school choir. How's that for a secret?

mrbadexample

Angelfeathers wrote: »

May I join in please? I mainly just lurked last year, but it's so much more fun to actually share how you're doing!

You may. But like the other lurkers and new posters (all of whom are very welcome!), I shall expect you to hang around and keep posting right until the end of the year. Otherwise it'll be me, John, Lemonjelly (when he eventually shows his face), and that lovely annie123 who sticks with me right to the end. Oh, and Little Vics when her tomatoes are flying across the garden. :rotfl: We like pictures too please.

Angelfeathers wrote: »

I did my first lot of sowing three weeks ago and currently have a lovely tray of seedlings on my windowsill waiting to be pricked out: Winter Gem lettuce (for the blowaway greenhouse, which has blow away twice; I got wise after the second time I had to repot my sweetpeas and moved it), Musselburgh leeks, Ailsa Craig onions, and All the Year Round cauliflower. Might get some of them done tomorrow, otherwise they'll have to wait till next weekend - and then I guess it'll be time to sow the second lot of lettuces!

Flippin' 'eck, you've been busy! Puts me to shame. Is now the right time to be sowing cauliflower then? I've got some All Year Round. And leeks too, also Musselburgh. I've got some leeks in from last year but it doesn't look like they're doing too well. I'll post a picture tomorrow if I remember.

At least my season is now underway - I've sown 35 chillies and 5 tomatoes this evening.

LilacPixie

Welcome back for another year. No sowing for me so far, Last year was dire and alot of my crops failed. wet humid and not much sun.

Angelfeathers

mrbadexample wrote: »

You may. But like the other lurkers and new posters (all of whom are very welcome!), I shall expect you to hang around and keep posting right until the end of the year. Otherwise it'll be me, John and Lemonjelly (when he eventually shows his face). Oh, and Little Vics when her tomatoes are flying across the garden. :rotfl: We like pictures too please.

Flippin' 'eck, you've been busy! Puts me to shame. Is now the right time to be sowing cauliflower then? I've got some All Year Round. And leeks too, also Musselburgh. I've got some leeks in from last year but it doesn't look like they're doing too well. I'll post a picture tomorrow if I remember.

At least my season is now underway - I've sown 35 chillies and 5 tomatoes this evening.

Well, I'll do my best to stick around - and I really want to do photos this year as I kept forgetting last year, so I'm hoping this will remind me!

Cauliflowers: My packet says to sow indoors Jan to March so I thought it was worth a try to get some going. Who knows if they'll actually get anywhere? The few I sowed outside in the autumn didn't do a blooming thing, despite the mildness of the weather!

Leeks: Last year I sowed them mid-Feb but they never got very big, though admittedly nothing went into the ground until late May last year because we were having new fences done (like everyone else, apparently!) so that might be the reason.

annie123

mrbadexample wrote: »

Otherwise it'll be me, John and Lemonjelly (when he eventually shows his face). Oh, and Little Vics when her tomatoes are flying across the garden. :rotfl: We like pictures too please.

Oh I see, I don't count just because I don't post about my own gardening much.
Will have to change that then :cool:

Good job I'm not easily offended