Grow your own dinner 2014

icontinuetodream

suzeesu2000 wrote: »

Everything in the house is coming up great guns - all doing really well. Think I may be potting on at the weekend especially for the lettuce which I am hoping will come in nice and early. Should my tomato seeds be up yet? How long do they take to show shoots? Never grown them from seeds before. Chose Moneymaker as my mum used to grow them very succesfully.

Tomatoes usually take 14-21 days to start showing shoots....although I have had them come up a lot quicker and a lot slower but hey, general rules !!;)

Today, I have planted my potatoes, some tomatoes, broad beans and butternut squash....also planted sweet peas for the pretty!!

At the weekend, I will transplant my globe artichokes, kiwi, grape vine and rhubarb into their long-term homes.....it's absolutely beautiful weather here at the moment and has been for the past couple of days.....can't begin to tell you how fab it has been being able to spend most of the past couple of days just mooching around the garden!! :D:D

Little_Vics

I'm so jealous of you all planting stuff! I've done nothing.

annie123

Little_Vics wrote: »

I've done nothing.

Why not?

My soil no longer sticks to my boots :j so planting and out door sowing can now start.
And my neighbour with 3 cats is moving out in April :T They're lovely people but they're cats are a PIA.
They're going to rent out their flat, which is great as we can then do a proper repair to that daft fence they put up which fell down in the winds and they repaid it by pulling it back up straight attaching a corner bracket and glueing it to the patio!!!!!!!!:eek: :rotfl:


John can I get hubby to make the cones this Saturday?

suzeesu2000

Fingers crossed for Saturday to be a lovely day please as I really need to put "victoria" (plum tree) in her new big forever tub. Also want to fill my small plant pots and "pot on" the seeds which are getting too big for their little first homes.

The dwarf French beans are going great guns! I am hoping to have a lovely crop from them. Likewise the radishes and all onions look like they could do with going up a size too.

Will it be okay to put my seed potatoes into the potato sacks this weekend too? Do I knock off the puny shoots and just leave one good healthy one? Please help, I have never grown pots before. Want to do it right so I get a good result.

annie123

suzeesu2000 wrote: »

Fingers crossed for Saturday to be a lovely day please as I really need to put "victoria" (plum tree) in her new big forever tub. Also want to fill my small plant pots and "pot on" the seeds which are getting too big for their little first homes.

The dwarf French beans are going great guns! I am hoping to have a lovely crop from them. Likewise the radishes and all onions look like they could do with going up a size too.

Will it be okay to put my seed potatoes into the potato sacks this weekend too? Do I knock off the puny shoots and just leave one good healthy one? Please help, I have never grown pots before. Want to do it right so I get a good result.

Your chits should look like these https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=chitted+seed+potatoes&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=-YQYU6CzG4qrhQfqo4CoDg&ved=0CAgQ_AUoAg&biw=1280&bih=887

As a rule of thumb, the more chits = more potatoes, less chits = larger but fewer. You could do both and decide which is best for you.

Still plenty of time for a hard frost or even snow and if that gets to your spuds you won't have any.
If you're prepared to cover them up or bring them indoors if frost is due then yes stick a few in (I have) but the traditional time to plant them is end of March or April.
If you plant a big batch of first earlies at the same time you'll have a glut of spuds then none. You can stagger them buy rubbing the chits off a few and start chitting again.
If you have any that haven't been chitted, store them in the fridge for now and plant later.
Do you have 1st earlies, 2nd earlies or maincrop?

Little_Vics

annie123 wrote: »

Why not?

Essentially because I'm lazy. Also because the last time I went into the outhouse to get the tools, I was attacked by spider webs and a frog. And because it's been raining. And also, sigh....I'm lazy.

The weekend may be dry, so I shall persuade hubby to get the stuff out of the shed, and I shall do some weeding and cutting of dead things.

Is it too early for spuds?

annie123

Spiders are a perfectly valid excuse :eek:
I'm surprised by the lack of them in my shed but grateful.

I would think you could stick a few early spuds in pots, you can always ask hubby to put them in the shed if frost is due.

djohn2002uk

Annie.
Do you remember, I posted this in Jan?

Annie. I trawled through last years thread and found this.
On the 6/04/13 I wrote:-
"Annie.
Did 27 holes and 3 seeds in each today. May do another half doz tomorrow after I cut the grass. Then get my Runner Bean canes and the pea net up. That'll be enough for tomorrow methinks. "

But, the magazines I read are saying, if it's not too cold, sow them now but I still have around 18 in the ground. I think I'll do mine about first week in March this year because thinking about it, I was probably a bit late because of the cold spring.
Just read on the net that Gladiator, which I think is the best, needent be planted untill April/May. So think I'll go with last years date.
Still going to keep to that date as I'm not able to get on the garden at the mo due to Athritis in my knee. Still got 2 to dig for Sunday. Got visitors comming for wifes birthday.

suzeesu2000

annie123 wrote: »

Do you have 1st earlies, 2nd earlies or maincrop?

Thanks for help. I have Winston first earlies which have chitted beautifully! I am looking forward to a super crop from them. Then I have Maris Piper main crop which are now in the process of chitting as - probably wrong here - I plant them a bit later.

browneyedbazzi

Hi folks, I hope everyone is well and enjoying the sunshine!

Today I was a bit over excited by the blue sky and impulse bought some raspberry canes...now I need to figure out where to put them. My plan had been to limit the veg garden to two 1m x 2m raised beds, but the raspberries will take up too much of the space so I need to figure out another spot for them. My big garden is quickly shrinking!