Help MBE grow his dinner 2013.

djohn2002uk

Great! Now full steam ahead with the 2013 thread.:beer:

oldtractor

I like Pink Fir apple potatoes.

annie123

Sambucus_Nigra wrote: »

..glad you like Kohl Rabi - it's an excellent crop to grow and so much nicer than Turnip!

And impossible to grow higher than 1" in my garden before it gets eaten :mad: I'm going to try again this year but in a pot so I can put copper tape around it. Don't suppose you can get many in a morrisons flower bucket

esmf73

Hi can I join in please? Have onions over wintering in garden, have raspberries, 1 gooseberry, 3 blueberries, 1 cranberry bushes, rhubarb and 2 apple trees and strawberry patch. Am growing potatoes, tomatoes, lettuce, cucumber and cabbage, caulis and carrots - or will when it gets warmer. Treated self to a greenhouse for our mini garden which OH will put up when weather improves. Need to get co post so I can start the seeds off...... Off to rummage.

mrbadexample

Ok, so where am I at the moment?

The Timperley Early rhubarb's having a good go at growing thanks to the relatively mild weather over Christmas. I've covered it in a good layer of straw to try and give it a bit of protection against this cold snap, although I'm sure it'll be fine. Not much action from the Stockbridge Arrow yet but that's a later variety.

The new potatoes I put in for Christmas didn't grow.

I still have parsnips to pull, although I'm not confident what state they'll be in.

The leeks still look like spring onions. Talking of onions, the overwintering ones I put in are looking ok.

The "All Year Round" cauliflower clearly isn't, and needs pulling up.

The PSB is looking ok. When does it start to produce please?

I've got lots of tidying up to do.

My pear tree is in need of a good prune.

I need to mend the compost bin.

Everything's so wet that the inside of the shed's going mouldy. Looks like I'll have to treat the inside as soon as it dries out a bit.

I've wrapped the bog garden in bubble wrap, and put a layer of straw over the top to insulate it. I just hope it doesn't go all soggy and rot.

I need to choose some spuds, and think about sowing chillies. I'm trying to overwinter the Big Jim, but it looks pretty sorry for itself. Hopefully Little Vics will be along to tell me how to do it. :whistle:

Surprisingly lots to do...

TallGirl

esmf73 wrote: »

Hi can I join in please? Have onions over wintering in garden, have raspberries, 1 gooseberry, 3 blueberries, 1 cranberry bushes, rhubarb and 2 apple trees and strawberry patch. Am growing potatoes, tomatoes, lettuce, cucumber and cabbage, caulis and carrots - or will when it gets warmer. Treated self to a greenhouse for our mini garden which OH will put up when weather improves. Need to get co post so I can start the seeds off...... Off to rummage.

Welcome on board esmf73 sounds like you are going great guns I would love a greenhouse but I am convinced my garden is too small. Please do post a picture of yours when it's in situ.

Got rid of all my weeds in the veg patch on Sunday the manure seems to have a lot of seeds in it but hopefully it will be beneficial as well.

Went of a,azon this morning and treated myself to these :

"Vegetable, Fruit and Herb Growing in Small Spaces"
John Harrison; Paperback

"Vegetable Growing Month-by-Month: The down-to-earth guide that takes you through the vegetable year"
Harrison, John; Paperback;

I don't have any gardening books and I like his newsletter. Also ordered 20 copper plant labels I buy new ones each year as I like my patch to look good. Also I do square foot gardening so need a lot.

mrbadexample my purple sprouting broccoli had to get moved last year in January and although it survived and grew beutifully it never got any heads even small ones just leaves. I think they were suspose to be eatable in march but I chucked them in June as still nothing. Not bothered with them this winter but I will grew them in spring as I love them and they are expensive.

My neighbour is emigrating and has a lovely rubarb I have to move it in the next few weeks or the tenants move in. Would it survive we are in the sunny south. I thought maybe just put it in a large pot until I can big a hole for it.

mrbadexample

TallGirl wrote: »

My neighbour is emigrating and has a lovely rubarb I have to move it in the next few weeks or the tenants move in. Would it survive we are in the sunny south. I thought maybe just put it in a large pot until I can big a hole for it.

Perfect time to shift it, if you can dig the iron-hard ground! :beer:

mansars

A friend told me that to keep slugs at bay he strips out the copper from old electrical appliances and wraps it round the pots that he uses...as he doesnt like a big strip of copper round his pots.

He says that it has worked so far and looks far less intrusive than the copper tape.

Hope this helps

mrbadexample

mansars wrote: »

A friend told me that to keep slugs at bay he strips out the copper from old electrical appliances and wraps it round the pots that he uses...as he doesnt like a big strip of copper round his pots.

He says that it has worked so far and looks far less intrusive than the copper tape.

Hope this helps

I've never tried copper barriers before, but I do quite like this idea. You could start at the bottom and spiral it up to the top and it'd look quite decorative I reckon. I might try that round my liquorice pot if I can lay my hands on a bit of cable. That's if the TGBs don't nick it first. :rotfl:

juliettet

I will follow this with interest. Nearly gave up last year as nothing much grew in my part of West Scotland.