Help MBE grow his dinner 2012

TallGirl

Evening all hope you are all ok after the frost we had it right here on the South Coast of England.

I had to move my sprouting purple broccoli that was planted last Autumn and put it in some large bags. I decided not to put it back in the beds but it's just not doing anything. I have fed it with feed suitable for it but it's just loads of leaves. Cannot remember when they were ready last year.

Angelfeathers

No frosts here, thank goodness! It's supposed to get close tomorrow night, though, so I shall for the first time ever have to cover up some stuff to protect it. (Last year, I didn't get to plant anything out at all till late May due to having new fences put in.)

emiff6

mrbadexample wrote: »

I went out this morning to put the seedlings in the greenhouse before going to work, and got soaked by the cat-scarer again. I sense a recurring theme here! :rotfl:

Nice to know it works so well, though, eh? You'll just have to keep a brolly by the back door and remember to take it with you each time you go into the garden.

Don't worry about the neighbours thinking you're strange......

:rotfl:

mrbadexample

hazzie123 wrote: »

I have just put MY Winning Carrots in the greenhouse with a little bubble wrap jacket on for when the snow finally shows up?

Little bit behind aren't we?

mrbadexample

emiff6 wrote: »

Nice to know it works so well, though, eh? You'll just have to keep a brolly by the back door and remember to take it with you each time you go into the garden.

Don't worry about the neighbours thinking you're strange......

:rotfl:

Or I could just turn the tap off... :doh:

emiff6

mrbadexample wrote: »

Or I could just turn the tap off... :doh:

But after pottering around the garden would you remember to turn it back on? Besides, you'd do the neighbours out of a good laugh.

cheekyweegit

.....sneaks in the back door after being prodded by mbe for a looksie.:o


Ok so I'm a little bit late (ok very late) starting, but finally a weeks holiday from work after 6 months, and had plans to tackle the jungle called a garden. With the beautiful weather last week I had high hopes. Unfortunately mother nature has other ideas.

Anyway, I went to Poundland today and bought some stuff raspberry and blueberry plants, and some seeds (forgot lettuce though) and they have a leaflet where if you buy 3 items from their gardening range you get to chose a packet of seeds for free. Well all your talk of peas, guess what I've got?

Not a lot I can do just now, due to rain, (at least no frost of snow but it is cold here up North).

Now what can I start off and where bearing in mind it's raining, cold and dark outside just now?

emiff6

As we rapidly approach the thousandth post on this years "Help MBE Grow His Dinner" thread, I'd just like to say that IMHO it's the very best, and most generally informative thread on the Greenfingered forum.

Thanks MrBE

cheekyweegit

Oh and B & Q have black bags by their till, aimed for sticking in the boot of your car for purchases, which I reckon would be ideal for growing tatties in, perhaps other veggies.

They I think are made of the same stuff Ikea blue bags are made from if that helps and are about 2ft long by 1ft high by 1.5ft wide. Now I'm not sure if this is a national deal, but still would be good looking for portable planters as they have handles on too.

Oh and they are only 25p each so definitely worth a try, even just for using for weeding.

Oh and finally that comfrey stuff from last year is reappearing in abundance - does anyone need any?

aliasojo

mrbadexample wrote: »

Little bit worried about some of the tomato seedlings, like this one:



It's been watered from underneath, so it's nothing to do with that.

I've just noticed some of mine look like this tonight.

I've moved them away from the others but if it's coming from the soil then I daresay they'll all end up the same regardless.

So far that's the cucs, the peas and now the tomatoes that seem to have the same or very similar problem. And they weren't kept in the same place originally so weren't in contact with each other and the soil was the common denominator.

Might have nothing to do with it but I think I'll dump the bag of compost I used for them, just in case. It was a John Innes one so I wouldn't have thought there was an issue with it but you never know.