Help MBE grow his dinner 2013.

Little_Vics

Welcome to the latest installment of LV kills everything:

In my cold frame I have tubs of spinach and salad leaves. Over the past few days I've watered in the evening, but they have all but vanished - vanished, I tell you - shriveled and flopped.

Gah.

Badrick

Little_Vics wrote: »

In my cold frame I have tubs of spinach and salad leaves. Over the past few days I've watered in the evening, but they have all but vanished - vanished, I tell you - shriveled and flopped.

If you've had this weeks sun shining on them in the cold frame, then it's likely to have got too hot and probably cooked them.
Spinach doesn't like hot weather and tends to bolt (send up a seed stalk) if it gets too sunny when it's growing outdoors.

Little_Vics

so I've successfully by-passed the growing, harvesting, and saute-ing stages to achieve cooked spinach? Heck.

Right, will scrape them out and plant some more!

Badrick

Little_Vics wrote: »

so I've successfully by-passed the growing, harvesting, and saute-ing stages to achieve cooked spinach? Heck.

Right, will scrape them out and plant some more!

I'd sow them outside and grow something that thrives under glass in your cold frame. :cool:

mrbadexample

I was on page two! :eek:

Today I've recut some of the lawn borders to make it easier to mow without squashing plants, mowed the lawn, planted out runner beans, weeded like mad, and finally got round to splitting up the beetroot clumps and spacing them out.

Pictures tomorrow - too tired now.

Oh, and I also made a jar of pickled radishes with mint.

Badrick

mrbadexample wrote: »

I was on page two! :eek:

You're back there again.

Mr Be, quick question.
Think you mentioned you grew walking onions, last year when I had sown some seed and mine's at the stage of either about to take it's first step or run to seed and probably expire, when can you tell if it's a flower stalk or an onionlet ( is that a word? )

I've also sown some Strawberry Spinach as my oddity of the year, if anyone's grown it, I'd be obliged for any tips.

lemonjelly

Little bit of progress starting to appear...
One thing is certain, I'll definitely have carrots this autumn.
The carrots planted out straight into the ground are starting to develop. Spent an age weeding around them today.
The cucumbers are getting stronger & starting to get bigger.
2nd batch of toms kicking in now, & will need repotting in a week.
Planted out about 20 beetroot into the ground this evening.
First lettuce will be brought in for eating over the wekend. More will instantly be planted!
I also used lots of my home made compost from the comoster for some of the bigger tubs with carrots/beetroot in them, & onions & a few other things. In those tubs there has been sproutage of something which I had no idea what they were. Have realised they are extra tomatoes. I'll be repotting them over the weekend. Looks like there are so many I'll be giving em away somewhere.
Project weeding in the back has been completed (for a couple of weeks at least!) This is good news, as the composters have been full to brimming every time I manage to shove the latest lot in.

mrbadexample

Badrick wrote: »

You're back there again.

Mr Be, quick question.
Think you mentioned you grew walking onions, last year when I had sown some seed and mine's at the stage of either about to take it's first step or run to seed and probably expire, when can you tell if it's a flower stalk or an onionlet ( is that a word? )

It will look like a little clump of onions on the end of the onion stalk:

Little_Vics

rescuing you from page 2 again!

I've been given 4 courgette plants so will be constructing some kind of diy poly tunnel this afternoon. Photos to follow if you are good,

lemonjelly

Those maverick tomatoes sprouting from the compost in all sorts of other pots have been "weeded" out into their own pots. I'm going to see/hope they strike out on their own.
As a result, I now have an additional 74 tomato plants!