Help MBE grow his dinner 2013.

D&DD

Chasing my tail here everything has gone mad My wheat bag is surgically attached to my back but does anyone know a place that makes a full body one??:rotfl:

My sacrificial tomatoes and round courgette I put in the cold greenhouse are looking really happy so will pot on some more tomorrow,happy days

annie123

My water melon seed leaves seem to have stopped at 6" they're very enthusiastic growers.

I've been hardening off my toms by window opening, they're happy now with windows open 8am to 9pm so by the end of next week they'll be outside. Would do it before but night time temps could go down to 0c this weekend. Hopefully that'll be the last of the very cold nights.

Sowed 8 runner bean seeds in root trainers, they can take over from the toms on the window. If I can plant out little plants then they might get passed the snails........which are in abundance again this year it would seem

Several cucumbers have tiny flower buds in addition to the courgette.

D&DD I grew the round ones last year for the first time and they're brilliant. This year I'm going to train them up something rather than letting them sprawl.

Whilst I'd love to do more gardening today, I'm off to the dentist

annie123

mrbadexample wrote: »

I'll be away again from Friday-Monday so can't really wait for the weekend.
Annie, will you water the thread while I'm gone please?

Thread watered, you back yet? or shall I carry on?

djohn2002uk

mrbadexample wrote: »

I'll be away again from Friday-Monday so can't really wait for the weekend.

Can't rely on him these days.:cool: There's late and LATE but 2 days and counting......;)

Badrick

Inspired by my watching of "Jack the Giant Slayer", runner beans have now gone in.

djohn2002uk wrote: »

Can't rely on him these days.:cool: There's late and LATE but 2 days and counting......;)

He's apparently taken to eating roadkill, hope it hasn't bitten him back.:p

lemonjelly

Forgot to mention I planted chives about 2-3 weeks ago. Noticed last night they're starting to sprout!:j

This is good news, as generally I spend 4 weeks after planting tomato seeds grumbling that nothing is happening and my seeds are obviously useless!:o

RedLass

I had been hardening off some mange tout and green beans and on Monday I planted them out. Now I've seen the forecast for the weekend and we're predicted near 0C overnight temps. Oops! But if they were still indoors they'd not survive well anyway. I had no idea that peas shot up so tall sooooo quickly and had been propping them up with chopsticks... I'll put recycled bottles over the beans as mini cloches for the weekend which I hope will keep any frost at bay but for the mange tout I'll have to make some kind of vertical blanket out of fleece somehow...

I haven't had the kind of germination rate that I would've hope to get from my cucumber. I think I've planted 10 in total and only have 3 plants. They'd better be survivors! My tomatoes are coming along well but I really need to pot them on now.

We're away this weekend so I won't get a chance, but I also need to get some courgette seeds going indoors so hopefully early next week.

Has anybody ever had luck with seeds in cardboard eggboxes? I had a 0% germination on my lettuce seeds. Basil did come up but died quite quickly after. In fact Basil did the same on me last year.. I think I must be doing it wrong

mrbadexample

djohn2002uk wrote: »

Can't rely on him these days.:cool: There's late and LATE but 2 days and counting......;)

All present and correct. I had a lovely time at the 3-day stag do thank you. I haven't been the least bit tired and broken. :whistle:


I've finally got purple sprouting broccoli.

Glad you've all been busy. I got the warmer weekend so hopefully the spuds'll be ok. The tomatoes seem happy in the greenhouse, although the chillies & cucumbers are still coming in at night.

djohn2002uk

Last 2 days my wife has sifted loads of compost from 2 bins which we mixed with an equal amount of multi-purpose and half filled 8 x 35litre and put 4 international kidney spuds in each.
sowed 105 runner beans in 3" pots, the last 24 LAYA as I'm now moving to Enorma.
Put 2 double rows of bean canes up and totally enclosed them with netting against the dreaded sparrows.
Potted up 15 tomato plants and filled my black buckets with some more of my wifes compost ready for the toms.
Tomorrow hopefuly I'll get some more peas into modules as the 1st sowing only resulted in 18 plants from 145 peas sown. Got to find another tall pea because Alderman has had such a bad germination rate for 3 years in a row.
Must remember to get some carrots in tomorrow too.

annie123

djohn2002uk wrote: »

sowed 105 runner beans in 3" pots, the last 24 LAYA as I'm now moving to Enorma.

You two really do like runner beans!!! 8-10 plants is about right for us.

After hearing how wonderful Enorma are and having been kindly given some, I tried them last year and was disappointed with the crop.
But that could have been the weather so I've sown some again but also scarlet emperor who have always cropped well but they get tough and stringy very quickly. A mini trial should let me compare yields and taste this year.