Help MBE grow his dinner 2013.

mrbadexample

annie123 wrote: »

Anyone who thinks they can't squeeze in any more should see her garden, small but packed full,very productive and attractive looking too. I'm going to rethink my planting again.

Let's be having some photos then, eh?

Little_Vics

annie123 wrote: »

TIP for aubergine growers ; NO pinching out aubergines 'till 12" tall and mine are no where near that yet.

Mine is!

(smug)

annie123

mrbadexample wrote: »

Let's be having some photos then, eh?

Sorry didn't think to take a camera!

Little_Vics wrote: »

Mine is!

(smug)

Show off

My sacrificial cucumber has been out for a few days now and even survived the gales last night. Not only is it alive but it looks happy too. And a courgette, but boy does it have some holes in it. So tomorrow (please let it be dry at some point) the rest of my stuff is going out, except for the peppers and the not 12" tall aubergines
My french beans, at 4 to a bucket are alive and well, and unmunched this year. And no sign of a single parsnip I'm going to sow some more tomorrow, rather have too many to thin than none at all.
Spuds are growing daily, can't earth up quick enough and I have little flower buds on my raspberries

Little_Vics

wow - you are miles ahead of me!

The aubergine is actually last year's - I randomly over-wintered it on my windowsill from seed. Don't ask me how.

My seeds are doing well in the coldframe - salad, spinach, radishes, mange tout and toms all have little sprouts. My apple tree and quince tree are both full of leaves, strawbs have revived themselves and there is new growth on my loganberry and the other one that I can never remember what it is.

However......it's raining......still........

D&DD

I'll post some pics when I get a chance currently chasing loose pots around the garden it's so gusty still.

My aubergines are around 2 inches :rotfl:

Just went out for some seaweed feed and came home with...

garlic bulbs for a quid (worth a punt for that)

shallots for the same (lost a few of mine so needed a few spares)

2 david austin roses for £8

A new kiwi for a fiver

and a huge 8 foot conference pear for £15

and forgot my seaweed stuff...

So sorry to hear about your boy's job Annie that sucks

Foxy0810

Think i have figured out photos so here goes
This is one half of my allotment

This is the other with home made fruit etc cage

We still have lots of work to do
This is my sweet corn it's twice the size now

My watermelon

My leeks some toms broccoli and sprouts

Some pumpkin, cucumber and sunflowers

My pack of rhubarb

Think I've prob bored you enough now lol

Mollymoonlight

mrbadexample wrote: »

Not too late at all. They grow quite quickly, so you've plenty of time. My seeds say sow until July.

Thanks MBE, I noticed this when I was looking through my still-to-be-sown seed drawer this morning. I wasn't sure if they would germinate in the ground up here, but as I have a couple if months to try, I'll give it a go anyway.

D&DD can you post photos of your garden? I have a really small garden, and I've crammed it full of all sorts, but I'd love to see yours to get some new ideas :T:T:T

After dropping DH off at the airport at 7 this morning, I came home very frustrated by the rain. Early morning is my favourite time for pottering in the garden. After half an hour of huffing I decided to go out anyway. I despaired a little at the bird food germination on my rabbit's green roof and potato bags, but picked the sprouting seed for the buns, and decided its for the greater good having had no wildlife in the garden last year. I then planted 3 hanging baskets each with a Moskotka tommy and hung them up despite the weather. Unfortunately if they're not hardy enough to deal with this miserable day, then they won't last a summer so I just went for it. They've filled 9cm pots and are about 8inchs so they're big enough and I've been hardening the off for a couple of weeks. When it cools down overnight through the week I'll stick them in the grow house.

Good idea about halving the growbags MBE, considering this for the ferline tommys. I've been promised flower buckets from a friend who works for Lidl, but they don't seen to be coming any time soon. Don't want to push it as its a favour.

Off to stick the horse out in the rain now. Have a good day gardening everyone! :j

Foxy0810

The weather is still pretty vile here today, were off to the local farm with our little lady then down to the allotment to sort out our patio/pond area it's overgrown and ugly at the min it will be beautiful later

D&DD

Heres a few to give you an idea of the shape of our garden and size I'll take some of this year when I can get son to help as I'm a bit of a technophobe lol

D&DD

It's sort of an L shape garden,the greenhouse is on the left side if I was organised the pics should run from the left to right in order

pic 4,3,5,6,1, and number 2 is up the side IYKWIM

It's a south facing garden but theres the side of a house all along the bottom above us so we rarely get much sun,to the rightside theres a massive tree lol.

It's a challenge and when we moved in it a just a slope/cliff with grass..we dug it all out by hand with a pick axe,shovels and morrisons buckets into a skip(or two) took us around 4 years to get it vaguely useable! I think I have some work in progress pics somewhere..

Here's one which shows the 'soil' we had to work with!