Help MBE grow his dinner 2013.

mrbadexample

Little_Vics wrote: »

T-shirt?? T-SHIRT?!!!!!! We're still in 5 layers, scarves and hats up here!

Don't tell fibs! I've seen those young girls out on the razz in York, wearing nothing but a wide belt and a couple of shoelaces, in January. :eek:

'ard as nails, I tell ya!

savingpennies

Hopefully you can see my patch and greenhouse. As you can see it is small. I put onions in last autumn which you can see. Against the back fence are 3 apple and a pear cordon and to the left on the fence are some rasperberries. There are also two currants, a gooseberry and some rhubarb on the left.

savingpennies

Ooh! Really excited that the pic worked, it's the first time I've tried it. Once the onions are over I intend to try to mark it out in squares.

mrbadexample

savingpennies wrote: »

Hopefully you can see my patch and greenhouse. As you can see it is small. I put onions in last autumn which you can see. Against the back fence are 3 apple and a pear cordon and to the left on the fence are some rasperberries. There are also two currants, a gooseberry and some rhubarb on the left.

That looks nice. Is there room in your greenhouse to grow anything, or is it just full of stuff? :whistle:

D&DD

Lovely garden pics

Well the shorts are back in the cupboard and I was seriously debating wether thermals were needed for the dogwalk!

Annie I have no appointments next week or the week after *yay* so anytime is fine by me

Plants were left in the triple fleeced greenhouse last night and look fine this a.m but still debating tonight as its meant to be colder still luckily I have one of those wireless temp thingies I won from the Kitchen Garden mag a couple of years back so I don't have to go outside to check,if it's looking dodgy I'll bring them inside for the night.

mrbadexample

D&#8517 wrote: »

Plants were left in the triple fleeced greenhouse last night and look fine this a.m but still debating tonight as its meant to be colder still

I light a candle in mine if it's going to be cold. It just raises the temperature by a degree or two - not much but enough to keep it out of the danger zone.

Leif

savingpennies wrote: »

Ooh! Really excited that the pic worked, it's the first time I've tried it. Once the onions are over I intend to try to mark it out in squares.

You have a tidy looking patch. I think square foot gardening is really the same as deep digging, whereby you create a deep fertile soil, and then avoid walking on it so that it does not compact, and does not need digging again. How do you avoid walking on yours? I created paths between my beds, although they are a bit amateurish, it does make life easier, but I have more space than you.

savingpennies

At the moment it does look full of stuff. But there are pots in there with sweet peas, runner beans, french beans and broad beans and I've also got some strawberries coming on nicely. Later, when toms, cucumbers etc get going I'll put my grobags in on each side. The plan is to have cucumbers, aubergine and tomatoes in there.
As for walking on the soil, I bought some plastic tread mats which I can put down when I have to do any planting or weeding. i am thinking about dividing into three, with narrow dividing strips so I can access the ground better. Just wish the w

berkshirelady

Hi MBE! loved the forum thread last year, glad you're back! I'm very late in saying hello this year, as I have taken the plunge and got myself an allotment...a major step from growing stuff in containers but it was time to really go for it! I've got a 60ft by 15 foot plot for only £15 a year. The plot hasn't been worked properly before, so I'm digging lots of horrible weeds and other bits of crap out of the ground and panicking because I've got loads of seedlings on the window sills and in the propogators, raring to go. It's really hard work but I'm meeting so many nice people, my neighbour is a bee keeper (pollinators!!) and I am finding lots of slow worms and frogs - fab for eating slugs and other beasties!

So...if I can get it together in time (and my shed is being delivered this Friday, sooo excited!) I will do chard, peas, runner beans, sunflowers, salad, courgettes, spring onions (and potatoes in the old nettle patch to get the roots loosened nicely for digging up). I've already been given a water butt, a wormery, guttering for the shed, a butterfly house, chitted potatoes, blackcurrant bush, raspberry cane, blueberry bush, strawberries and some tea lights for an ambient light for evening drinkies :-)

I feel very lucky right now...the plot looks awful at the moment but I've had lots of gifts, people are helping me dig the plot, and the community atmosphere is fab. Bring it on :-)

mrbadexample

berkshirelady wrote: »

Hi MBE! loved the forum thread last year, glad you're back! I'm very late in saying hello this year,

Yes you are. Have you got a note?

berkshirelady wrote: »

I feel very lucky right now...the plot looks awful at the moment but I've had lots of gifts, people are helping me dig the plot, and the community atmosphere is fab. Bring it on :-)

Sounds fabulous - I bet you're really excited about this growing year. I know I would be. :T