The 2013 'Growing' Chat Thread

katholicos

This evening, while the snow flurried thickly down from the sky, i sat inside, warm as toast and sowed the following:

2 x chadwick cherry toms
2 x latah toms
2 x lipstick sweet pepper
2 x orange bell sweet pepper
2 x chocolate beauty sweet pepper
2 x ailsa craig toms
2 x amish paste toms
2 x black russian toms
2 x urbikany toms

I also potted on some purple lilia spring onion seedlings and some bedfordshire onion seedlings and some mussleborough leek seedlings.

Nice to see things coming to life beneath the backdrop of sever winter weather. All of these are now back on windowsills in pots or propogators.

Oh happy day.

sarah222

Well you all spurred me into action. We had nice day here in wales today so I cleaned greenhouse and sown some toms, broad beans, early peas and leeks. Thanks folks for the kick up the butt I needed lol

TallGirl

Its still too early for me to put any seeds in (they get leggy on my window ledge if I start too early) but I have ordered my greenhouse and is having the base laid this week. Scary stuff having to build the actual house myself but cannot wait to have a greenhouse.

katholicos

TallGirl wrote: »

Its still too early for me to put any seeds in (they get leggy on my window ledge if I start too early) but I have ordered my greenhouse and is having the base laid this week. Scary stuff having to build the actual house myself but cannot wait to have a greenhouse.

Good luck with the greenhouse erection. I would love one but couldn't manage to erect one and couldn't afford to have it done professionally.

I have a plastic growing tunnel, a cheapie polytunnel type thing, which i have had a lot of enjoyment using. I hope you have lots of good times using your greenhouse once you get it up and running.

TallGirl

Thanks Katholicos they wanted £500 to fit it and the house cost £710 so we are giving it a go ourselves. We do have a friend who fits double glazing and is a chippy so I assume he can help if we get stuck.

It is a good greenhouse though my mums still looks as good 7years later. Polly tunnels are fab too and cold frames or even lean to greenhouses as well as window sills. I think the main thing is just get on and grow something however small.

Gardening plans for today is to check I am happy with the layout of the base from the greenhouse and organise my seeds no idea what I have and what I need.

Sambucus_Nigra

Morning all

I received about 100 bags of seed over the last few weeks from various seed circles; and my students sowed all the tomatoes and peppers on Friday.

I have the heated prop on, and 2 very large trays in the kitchen and dining room now full of those tiny pots all with their heritage seeds in.

Excellent!!!

sarah222

I bought a second hand greenhouse out of a local freead for £50. We took the glass out and we have a large van we loaded it fully erected into the van and moved it built lol It was 8' x 6' so not a huge one but certainly enough for me and I more than happy. We dug a base area ourselves and put blocks set in grown and bolted frame to that. I then used weed suppress down and gravel very easy alot cheaper etc fab been there for 5-6 years now :-)

mansars

katholicos wrote: »

Good on you for getting sowing. Are you growing the comfrey from seeds or did you plant comfrey roots?

I have never had much success with comfrey by seed.

Is it bocking 14 that you are sowing/growing ?

Hi Kat,

Its yhe hybrid Rusdian comfrey, however im not sute if its blocking 14. I am giving seeds a try as I only need/have room for two/three plants.

I'm growing them in different containers ie some in coirs some in deep root propigators.... Just have too see how we get on.

I have made one school boy error, I wrote the labels on sticks & put them inside the growers.... Blooming condensation has ruined them lol.

katholicos

sarah222 wrote: »

I bought a second hand greenhouse out of a local freead for £50. We took the glass out and we have a large van we loaded it fully erected into the van and moved it built lol It was 8' x 6' so not a huge one but certainly enough for me and I more than happy. We dug a base area ourselves and put blocks set in grown and bolted frame to that. I then used weed suppress down and gravel very easy alot cheaper etc fab been there for 5-6 years now :-)

I think that is probably the best way to do it if it can be moved fully erected. Well done on doing it yourselves. I know a lot of people manage, but for health reasons and also because i am easily muddled, it isn't an option for me.

Fact is, my recently deceased uncle has a greenhouse in the garden of the house we are selling and i could have that if i could get it here and get it put up, but i just can't. I am reasonably pleased with my 'polytunnel' though so can't complain. Well i can, and i do, but i shall try not too

TallGirl wrote: »

Thanks Katholicos they wanted £500 to fit it and the house cost £710 so we are giving it a go ourselves. We do have a friend who fits double glazing and is a chippy so I assume he can help if we get stuck.

It is a good greenhouse though my mums still looks as good 7years later. Polly tunnels are fab too and cold frames or even lean to greenhouses as well as window sills. I think the main thing is just get on and grow something however small.

Gardening plans for today is to check I am happy with the layout of the base from the greenhouse and organise my seeds no idea what I have and what I need.

Hellsbluddybells. That is a heck of a lot of money to pay for them to erect it. I understand they may have to travel a fair distance etc maybe, but crikey :eek:

Sambucus_Nigra wrote: »

Morning all

I received about 100 bags of seed over the last few weeks from various seed circles; and my students sowed all the tomatoes and peppers on Friday.

I have the heated prop on, and 2 very large trays in the kitchen and dining room now full of those tiny pots all with their heritage seeds in.

Excellent!!!

You must have to be really organised! Exciting times sowing seed. :beer:

Hope your students have great success with their sowings and growings. Would love to hear how things progress, for them and for you, as time goes on.

mansars wrote: »

Hi Kat,

Its yhe hybrid Rusdian comfrey, however im not sute if its blocking 14. I am giving seeds a try as I only need/have room for two/three plants.

I'm growing them in different containers ie some in coirs some in deep root propigators.... Just have too see how we get on.

I have made one school boy error, I wrote the labels on sticks & put them inside the growers.... Blooming condensation has ruined them lol.

Hope you have nice well behaved compact comfrey plants then

I can't tell you how many times i have had the same thing happen with my plant labels.

I've found it useful to jot sowings down on a notepad or in a diary, or even on here, so that i can at least have some idea of what it could possibly be that i have sown. I always have some surprises come spring or summer....things i thought were one veg or flower, turning out to be something quite different. It's all good fun :rotfl:

mansars

katholicos wrote: »

Hope you have nice well behaved compact comfrey plants then

I can't tell you how many times i have had the same thing happen with my plant labels.

I've found it useful to jot sowings down on a notepad or in a diary, or even on here, so that i can at least have some idea of what it could possibly be that i have sown. I always have some surprises come spring or summer....things i thought were one veg or flower, turning out to be something quite different. It's all good fun :rotfl:

I hope so too, however I plann to keep them well pruned and build a Comfrey Juice collector, similar to one I saw on the internet...it involves a bit of ducting, a jam jar filled with stones, a funnel, some mesh and an old 20l container....I am just looking for a funnel that would work and the decent weather.