Help MBE grow his dinner 2013.

Badrick

annie123 wrote: »

Any tips for what's needed shelving/hook wise for gardening stuff? It's the hand tools I lose the most, often found hiding under foliage weeks later as I got side tracked by something and just leave them where they are. I really annoy myself when I do that, and I hide the string and scissors too :mad:?

Annie, if you're hanging your tools on a board, draw around them all with a felt tip pen, then if anything's missing you'll know what it is at a glance from the outline. shame it doesn't tell you where you left it .
Hope you'll be posting us all some pics of this magnificent edifice upon completion.

Don't want to come over all health and safely, but it's safer to use cheapest new engine oil and sand cos frequent contact with used engine oil may cause dermatitis and other nastier skin disorders.

The raspberries are doing great at the moment, with at least a bowl a day from a dozen canes, I left the canes on last years autumn rasps cos they didn't fruit and they've certainly come good as a result

The strawberry spinach appears to have blown a raspberry, as successive sowings have all failed to germinate.

I'm about to prune the grapevine in the greenhouse, never attempted it before, so I'm off to "Google" it, wish me luck.

grandmasam

foxy and Annie I have an old tray that I cart around with me, all my hand tools are dumped on it and then it's popped just inside the greenhouse on the shelf ready for next time.
Raspberries doing well, and the first of the loganberries have been sampled! Flowers just appearing on the butternut and winter squash, so mabel and myrtle, the hens have to be confined, they ate the flowers on the courgettes :eek:
thanks
Caz

Oh ,on reading this through, lightbulb moment!!! Have an old wire supermarket basket that would be much betterer than the enamel tray, duh!

Leif

I was impressed with how fast my last sowing of Pak Choi has grown, then I noticed loads of small holes. On closer inspection the undersides are covered in tiny white sausages, stuck by one end to the leaf, which I take to be insect eggs. Damn. The small holes do not bother me but the eggs do. With luck they hatch, have breakfast, then b*gger orf.

The mange touts have been amazing, only 1 square metre too, and they are now growing like peas, so I'm harvesting them as peas. They are going yellow which might be the heat. Maskotka tomatoes are ripening, and the few I had yesterday were very tasty. The Sungold are ripening more slowly. I did not pick out shoots properly, so they have spread sideways. The courgette is growing well, producing nice firm fruits. Butternut squashes are on the way to world domination. No fruit yet just flowers. Beetroot doing well, tennis ball size, salsify doing well, rhubarb massive, first year raspberries and currants doing well. Orange Habanero chillis are a bit sorry for themselves. Lemon drop chillis have had ripe pods for over a month now. The rocoto are ripening.

I could do with some rain as the 3 water butts are getting low. I've avoided using tap water thus far.

Little_Vics

My gardening tools are in OH's spare tool box.

Had a fettle in the garden today. Strawbs are doing well, and the loganberry has shot up. Lots of flowers on toms and aubergine. A couple of baby courgettes coming, and salad is doing well in the cold frame.

Question - I have a pumpkin in a pot which is about 4 inch tall. When should I plant it out?

Foxy0810

I'd put the pumpkin out now little vics

Little_Vics

right-o! I shall find a spot for it.

annie123

12 hours of shed work today, but that did include sitting in saturday traffic for ages to get some glass as local diy shop only had 2ml and hubby wanted 4ml.
Underlay and pond liner on roof and secured, noggins put in-that took ages due to rummaging around for bit's of wood that were long enough, window frames made and a trim to hide the edge of the liner on the outside rim.
And yes Badrick I will bore you all with before, during and after pics when it's finished as I think he's done a great job and he did laugh when I wrote on several pieces of wood 'wedding anniversary next Sunday' but I think the new shed is more than enough.

Thank you all for the suggestions for tools, I will do something along those lines.

I cleared 8' of summer fruiting yellow raspberry canes as the last few had turned and tied in the new canes out of the way. Lot's more light in now and will be giving away 50% of the new canes as they have taken over more than their fair share of my border.
I now have a big pile to shred but the shredder's in the spare bedroom and can't fit anything else into the garden at present so they're stuffed behind the log pile for now.

My cucumber has woken up and started growing again, and with the old canes gone my red currents get a bit more sun now.

And I have black fly on my runner beans, lots of them so soapy spray has been used.

Parsnip question--should I be feeding them John?

More bits on shed tomorrow morning then off to MIL for the afternoon which hubby doesn't want do but I pointed it it's his family gathering for his 50th birthday so he has to go

djohn2002uk

I've given mine a couple of waterings with Phostrogen but that's all.

Fay

Annie, I have a mixture of ways to store tools. Some are kept in pots and carriers to take around the garden but here are my tools in the potting shed (more are kept in the garage-we like tools!)
My not so tidy shed yesterday


Some tools have these clips to hold them


Some are just on nails


And last year hubby made me this to hang my hand tools on-which all need a good clean. I also want to do the sand bucket trick


In the preview all my pics are upside down again, I hope they post the right way up. Hands up if you find the new photobucket frustrating!

COOLTRIKERCHICK

'pops out of lurkingdon' what a tidy shed, looks very chic too.