Help MBE grow his dinner 2013.

annie123

savingpennies wrote: »

I've also planted out courgettes in a big pot I have. Beginning to think I'll not grow anything edible this year.:(

Courgettes are edible, and you'll be coming on here asking how to use a 4 week soon

Took the rubbish out to the wheelie bin at the front, and stopped to ponder on the sad looking front garden and noticed someone's pinched my broads beans and the nice pot they were in :mad:
I had potatoes in 'painted by kids' tyres pinched too but that was many moons ago when the kids were small. Little s*ds left a note saying sorry I was hungry!!!!
I'm going to sow a few brodies in the prop tomorrow and hope they come up super quick.

mrbadexample

annie123 wrote: »

Took the rubbish out to the wheelie bin at the front, and stopped to ponder on the sad looking front garden and noticed someone's pinched my broads beans and the nice pot they were in :mad:

Guess that's the chance you take growing stuff out the front.

What annoys me is that if they'd knocked the door and asked, you'd probably have given them some anyway. :A

morwenna

annie123 wrote: »

Took the rubbish out to the wheelie bin at the front, and stopped to ponder on the sad looking front garden and noticed someone's pinched my broads beans and the nice pot they were in :mad:
I had potatoes in 'painted by kids' tyres pinched too but that was many moons ago when the kids were small. Little s*ds left a note saying sorry I was hungry!!!!
I'm going to sow a few brodies in the prop tomorrow and hope they come up super quick.

I hope they do Annie - I have herbs and tomatoes out front and I always worry that they will walk in the night. Mind you DH thinks they will more likely make off with what my sarcastic neighbour calls "the Hanging Gardens of Babylon". (My three hanging baskets and two window boxes.) Took advantage of the sun yesterday and planted out my courgettes and French beans too. The asparagus peas are still super small though - anyone know how big they get to?

D&DD

oh I am so fed up today have had to take out every single onion and shallot I had planted They looked so healthy but while I was weeding round them I felt one of the bulbs was soft so checked the rest and I've lost the entire crop..gutted.

The only thing that cheered me up was the fact that its one of the cheaper crops to buy in,that and the fact I have a small stockpile of dried,pickled and powdered so I can manage with those if need be,still sulking tho

Annie those little barstewards! I know how it felt when my stuff went missing years ago *still miffed* what is the world coming to thieving peoples veg??

annie123

mrbadexample wrote: »

Guess that's the chance you take growing stuff out the front.

What annoys me is that if they'd knocked the door and asked, you'd probably have given them some anyway. :A

Um, no! I only had 4 beans and they took 50% so I've sown the other 2 in the prop. Actually if they'd knocked and asked I would have given them the other beans or one of the plants in the pot.

D&#8517 wrote: »

oh I am so fed up today have had to take out every single onion and shallot I had planted They looked so healthy but while I was weeding round them I felt one of the bulbs was soft so checked the rest and I've lost the entire crop..gutted.

The only thing that cheered me up was the fact that its one of the cheaper crops to buy in,that and the fact I have a small stockpile of dried,pickled and powdered so I can manage with those if need be,still sulking tho

Annie those little barstewards! I know how it felt when my stuff went missing years ago *still miffed* what is the world coming to thieving peoples veg??

Bu**er about the onions but you probably have enough stored for all of us on this thread to use all winter:rotfl: and it does leave space for another crop, like watermelon
It's sugar baby by the way and from looking on the web seems to come as a bush, or a vine. The packet just says plant 2' apart, so not much help really.

Spent yesterday carefully attaching to rotting fence post the thick plastic mesh/trellis along the fence at the top of my garden (the fence that each year they say they will replace when we offer to do it) for squashes and putting in canes in front for toms, then putting 90% of toms in final buckets and in place.
This morning they are in and tell me they are replacing it next weekend :mad::T :cool: so spend the next few hours dismantling it and moving as much as I can away from the area, including squashes/courgettes, cucumbers, potatoes and a lot of toms and plonking in any available space left elsewhere. Some ended up on what's left of the lawn. But it should look so much better and more importantly be able to hold the weight of the vast amount of squashes I'm hoping for this year

mrbadexample

I picked up a couple of grafted tomato plants at the weekend, reduced to £1 each so I thought I'd take a punt. They're a bit of a funny shape but tomatoes are pretty tough so I've repotted them today - they'll be fine.

Today I've shredded some pyrocanthus prunings that someone gave me, and used it as a mulch round my pear tree. I've mown the lawn, Mantised the compost, planted out the leeks, picked some rhubarb for the freezer, done a bit of weeding, planted some ferns in the stumpery, watered the bog garden and sown violet sprouting broccoli and red Brussels sprouts.

It's a bit windy here but warm enough. Rain forecast for tomorrow, which is a shame as I've got the day off. Might start work on that strawberry planter. Something like this but about £128 cheaper:



:money:

D&DD

oh Annie best laid plans eh lol well at least the fence will be better hopefully.
If you need more broadie seeds I have plenty don't forget.
I decided in a fit of laziness to leave my tomatoes outside and they got hailed on so a few of those are looking a bit sick too but they'll survive..probably long enough to get blown away :rotfl:

Retired to the greenhouse to do my seeds today as I got fed up with everything blowing over,mind you it got the washing dry

The melons are really doing well *yay* I've played safe and kept them in the greenhouse for now but if we actually get a summer will try one outside and one 'indoors'.

I have tiny cucumbers too,lettuce ready to eat and spinach making a bid for world domination...

RedLass

Annie! Bloomin' cheek those kids have. My front garden isn't very big but I think even if it was, I would want tall hedges or other such camouflage before I planted veg there. I wouldn't trust anybody to leave well alone. Fingers crossed that your new sowings come up quick and strong.

D&DD really sorry to hear about your onions Is there something else you can use the space for to make up for it a bit?

MBE good luck with that box on legs... it has at least one thing going for it - the slugs have a mammoth task ahead if they want to try your strawbs. Are you a dab hand with a saw? Nice that it would leave some room underneath for a trough or a couple of smaller pots.

I put 10 strawb plants in this weekend and they look happy enough. They're in the ground this year instead of a pot, which I think they will prefer but I need to get some sort of net up to protect them from the birds, assuming they do actually produce any fruit. I'm going to try removing every runner I see in an attempt to maximise first year crop.

Yesterday I bregrudgingly planted out my toms, 3 in the ground and 3 in pots. They would've soon been pretty grumpy in the 4" pots. I just hope the weather doesn't have any more hailstones for us. My cucumber died, so I pulled it up. Courgettes are looking very happy so I may plant one out at the weekend.

Oh, I also bought 3 50L bags of New Horizon MPC yesterday. It has a much nicer texture than the bag of J Arthur Bower's I bought last month, which was very woody and coarse.

D&DD

Yes, thanks Redlass I do have more than a few spares of just about everything that can plug the gap fortunately I always plant way too much just in case,but this is the first time I've ever had to use them in such a way.

It wasn't neck rot or fungus the only thing I can think it was,was the bulbs were maybe affected by last years wet weather and had a problem similar to the stored potatoes..I dunno.Onwards and upwards everything else is looking healthy enough the wet weather interspersed with a few nice days is doing wonders,perfect for fruit and veg growing we just need to lose the wind and hail.:D

MR B a lady was buying a posh veg trug like that in Wyevales and said ooh its a bargain! I nearly keeled over at the £100 price ticket but it was reduced by 50 quid..so I suppose it was a bargain if you had that sort of money to waste in the first place.

annie123

Gone back to painting the bedroom, too wet to do anything else.
No, I lie, I topped up the beer traps last night, and watched nothing sprouting yet in the propagator for a few mins.

I'm going to get this http://www.screwfix.com/p/ryobi-rbc1000ex-1000w-electric-trimmer-230v/36386
To tackle the brambles at the side of mums bungalow, and the long beach grass at the front and rear. Unless anyone knows of a better corded one?
Buying it on Friday so I can try it out on DS's long grass and brambles at the back of his garden first. If I look like I'm not sure about how to use something, mum goes into panic mode with fingers ready to dial 999!

Edit: Looks like I'm not buying it, seems to be out of stock at any of the nearby shops. Back to looking.