Grow your own dinner 2014

the_worm

Tonight's dinner included sprouts carrots parsnips leeks and a tennis ball sized Swede all from our allotment or garden...very happy

zafiro1984

Wow that's some greenhouse.

Just had notification of my 3 apple, 1 medlar, 1 mulberry tree being dispatched - way-hay.

still potting up my strawberry runners got about another 100 to do, running out of space.

bouncydog1

Already got loads of stuff in as mentioned already - apparently 50 kegs of seed potatoes are due here tomorrow so guess what's goin in at the weekend. charlottes and international kidneys already in. Hopefully first ones ready for Easter with lots of butter!

soupdragon10

I have just inherited two heated propagators - any ideas what I could start off in them at this time of year?


I have to site them indoors as my greenhouse doesn't have power at present, so they will be in a well lit but not too warm room.


Slowly reclaiming the wilderness that is my garden - about 1/2 acre which for one mature lady is an uphill struggle, but every year is a bit more productive than the last so onward and upward.


Looking forward to growing more veg this year (clay and rain permitting) and getting ideas from other like minded people.

seemasfriend

bouncydog1 wrote: »

Already got loads of stuff in as mentioned already - apparently 50 kegs of seed potatoes are due here tomorrow so guess what's goin in at the weekend. charlottes and international kidneys already in. Hopefully first ones ready for Easter with lots of butter!

50kgs! What types? Tell us more. I am looking to plant potatoes on my half acre plot but haven't ordered yet. Any advice. I assume you don't chit yours

hathor

Does anyone remember a BBC Gardening veg-growing prog from a few years ago? I think it might have been a Carol Klein one. The bit I am trying to find concerned a couple of young ladies (I think they were horticulture students) who tried to maximise the veg they could produce over a year. As I recall, they had only something like a 3m x 3m raised bed, but by succession planting, catch crops etc they got a massive amount of food from a small plot. I'm sure I remember reading about it in the book of the series, which even included the planting layout they had used.
However, I mistakenly thought it was CK's "Grow Your Own Veg", but I've looked that up and it wasn't!
Any ideas on which book I should be looking for? I'll be setting up a new garden later this year (moving house) and I'd really like to follow this example.
I can't have dreamed it, surely???

seemasfriend

hathor wrote: »

Does anyone remember a BBC Gardening veg-growing prog from a few years ago? I think it might have been a Carol Klein one. The bit I am trying to find concerned a couple of young ladies (I think they were horticulture students) who tried to maximise the veg they could produce over a year. As I recall, they had only something like a 3m x 3m raised bed, but by succession planting, catch crops etc they got a massive amount of food from a small plot. I'm sure I remember reading about it in the book of the series, which even included the planting layout they had used.
However, I mistakenly thought it was CK's "Grow Your Own Veg", but I've looked that up and it wasn't!
Any ideas on which book I should be looking for? I'll be setting up a new garden later this year (moving house) and I'd really like to follow this example.
I can't have dreamed it, surely???

It's not the BBC program but you might want to look at square foot gardening. This is a no dig raised bed system devised by an American that produces large quantities of veg from small plots. I did it last year (sort of) and was quite successful. Am sure that if I had followed it to the letter I would have done even better. Below is the you tube link if you are interested.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMY3mM9CteA
Square Foot Gardening

Little_Vics

Wow - lots of newbies joining in this year! Good to see - maybe I'll learn something at some point.

trollopscarletwoman

soupdragon10 wrote: »

I have just inherited two heated propagators - any ideas what I could start off in them at this time of year?


I have to site them indoors as my greenhouse doesn't have power at present, so they will be in a well lit but not too warm room.


Slowly reclaiming the wilderness that is my garden - about 1/2 acre which for one mature lady is an uphill struggle, but every year is a bit more productive than the last so onward and upward.

You've got nothing to lose by experimentation.


Looking forward to growing more veg this year (clay and rain permitting) and getting ideas from other like minded people.

Chillies and peppers as they need a long growing season.

Along the same lines onion from seed.

I've got stacks of different veg/flowers in mine some probably some too early but as seed is so cheap for most things I gauge that I might as well have a go.

You could also start off herbs such as parsley and basil. Parsley needs a bit of heat.

Once the seedlings are up I tend to individually pot on and then place in an unheated propagator but still indoors.

annie123

hathor wrote: »

Does anyone remember a BBC Gardening veg-growing prog from a few years ago? I think it might have been a Carol Klein one. The bit I am trying to find concerned a couple of young ladies (I think they were horticulture students) who tried to maximise the veg they could produce over a year. As I recall, they had only something like a 3m x 3m raised bed, but by succession planting, catch crops etc they got a massive amount of food from a small plot. I'm sure I remember reading about it in the book of the series, which even included the planting layout they had used.
However, I mistakenly thought it was CK's "Grow Your Own Veg", but I've looked that up and it wasn't!
Any ideas on which book I should be looking for? I'll be setting up a new garden later this year (moving house) and I'd really like to follow this example.
I can't have dreamed it, surely???

I remember that, it was based on square foot gardening. I have the book and tried it, but I'm not organised enough to keep on top of successional sowing.

The book is a very interesting read and provides sowing charts for all sorts of things.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Square-Foot-Gardening-Garden-Space/dp/1579548563

There are various versions out but they seem much the same.