Help MBE grow his dinner 2013.

Kantankrus_Mare

Mr bad

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I am really impressed with your planter!

You could make yourself a fortune if you made them to sell!

Well done

D&DD

*waves at hyperspeed* not ignoring you folks just swamped with the garden etc ATM

MrB you clever thing that is really superb! I'm banned from using powertools after sawing through my new sideboard..:o

Annie hope your ribs are feeling less sore now and the kids are doing better XX

Will catch up when I get 5 mins it's looking like it's going to be a great year for fruit again my soft fruit will start cropping anyday now :j

XX

Pre-war_babe_33

Sorry I went AWOL again but have been in hospital so no gardening for me again this year but if you have any questions feel free to ask and I will answer if I can.

Yes, the time to bend the onion leaves over is when they start to die back. Quite right, it helps in the ripening process.

I have renamed my lawn - I am now calling it my flower meadow. The grass is above my knees now and I have had primroses, forget-me-nots and daisies springing up along with other flowers that I will have to look in Marjorie Blamey`s book to identify.

Oh, those horrible dandelions have all clocked in my absence - something I really did not want to happen - I hate dandelions! Yes, I know, most of the plant is edible, leaves, flowers and roots can all be made use of. Roots can be roasted and ground into a substitute for coffee apparently - don`t ask me how. Flowers can be turned into dandelion wine and the leaves can be used in salads or cooked like spinach.

Mr MBE I really like that strawberry trough did the price it cost you include the price of the plants, compost and straw? Certainly a real bargain you`ve got yourself there.

annie123

Still struggling on get to threads and most posts here are jumbled letters and no thanks button so I'll catch up when I can.
DS is coming to look at my comp to see if it's my settings or updates so hopefully back to normal soon.

Today I harvested my first spuds :j:D plonked in on the 22nd March between snow.

Sawfly on my redcurrants :mad: so that's kept me busy going over all 3 plants plus goosgogs but only one infected which was good.

All toms now in buckets with canes ready to hide the nasty fence (hubby thinks it will fall over in autumn gales and he'll redo it;) )

Didn't notice till today but looks like one of my 3 year old chilli has had red spider mite and looks like it's had it awhile so it may be compost for it.

Courgette must have put out 20 male flowers, female ones are now overdue I think.

French beans looking good, so too runners and the tall peas.

I'm down to 1 watermelon :eek: the others have been eaten even the 2nd sowing, so I've sow more in the prop.

My late leeks are just up in their pot and I saved 2 from the forgotten ones.

I have 14' of raspberries (must shorten the row next year) and what looks like enough to keep the whole road in berries for the summer, strawberries also looking to be bumper crop, and so too apples and cherries.

I can see pictures and MBE that's a fine looking strawberry tub I assume you've made it, well done and that's a cute looking frog.

Little_Vics

I feel like I'm miles behind you all! Is it true that Yorkshire's about 3 weeks behind London in terms of growing seasons?

mrbadexample

Pre-war_babe_33 wrote: »

Mr MBE I really like that strawberry trough did the price it cost you include the price of the plants, compost and straw? Certainly a real bargain you`ve got yourself there.

No. I paid a fiver for the three strawberry plants (but I've since been given 5 alpine strawberries too), and there's 125 litres of compost (£5.98) in there. I did buy a few bales of straw a couple of years ago, so that's about 1p worth. Comfortably less than £20 all-in though.

mrbadexample

My folks get some [STRIKE]luck[/STRIKE] duck:







Jammy sods.

Fay

Hi everyone-I'm back from my holidays and have been working hard in the garden. Will try to update later with pics.

mrbadexample

I sowed some radishes on top of my potatoes. They've been a bit slow in coming so I turned my back on them for 5 minutes.





Best I've ever had I reckon. :j

zafiro1984

mrbadexample wrote: »

You could maybe sow some sprouts or purple sprouting broccoli, and put it in place after your op? They'll be ok in a pot for quite a while.

thanks MrB, good idea, I know it's cheating but I've found a good website that sells veg plants at a reasonable price so I may take your idea on board. Gardening with a walking frame is a laugh, I can't even get upstairs at the moment let alone outside - roll on the Autumn, I'm impatient.

Did manage to get my daughter to pick a load of rhubarb, over 14lb in weight. Used to make a rather wicked wine out of it but I've chopped it up and frozen it this time.