Grow your own dinner 2014

niftythrifty33

Can I join in please

My FIL has an allotment but can't manage it now so I need to take over :eek: very scarey as I haven't a clue!

Today I planted 6 potatoes that I'd chitted in a big wooden box of soil (earlies). FIL is still doing some of his own stuff like pots and beans etc. as well.

I also planted garlic in greenhouse, pots in potting shed and in outside salad bed to see what works best. I've also put watermelon and mixed melon in shed and greenhouse. Oh and fennel in shed.

I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing but hoping for the best! I have a good book but I'd forgotten to read it before I left (very helpful)

I've now got a note book and need to get organised. I feel SO excited planting my own veg/fruit, I just can't wait until it starts to grow (if it does!)

Dizzy_Ditzy

niftythrifty33 wrote: »

Can I join in please

My FIL has an allotment but can't manage it now so I need to take over :eek: very scarey as I haven't a clue!

Today I planted 6 potatoes that I'd chitted in a big wooden box of soil (earlies). FIL is still doing some of his own stuff like pots and beans etc. as well.

I also planted garlic in greenhouse, pots in potting shed and in outside salad bed to see what works best. I've also put watermelon and mixed melon in shed and greenhouse. Oh and fennel in shed.

I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing but hoping for the best! I have a good book but I'd forgotten to read it before I left (very helpful)

I've now got a note book and need to get organised. I feel SO excited planting my own veg/fruit, I just can't wait until it starts to grow (if it does!)

Welcome to the mad world of gardening! It'll gradually take over your life and your house but it will be worth it, honest

What you've done so far sounds good, but I think you're too late with the garlic- I *think* you need to plant it before the winter sets in as it needs the frost and cold to break itself up into cloves. That was the logic I used when I planted mine in November

You might well still get garlic, but not as much or as big as it could be

Go ahead and ask any questions you want, there are no silly questions here

Dizzy_Ditzy

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I'm having to sit on my card to stop me! I've got no more space

suzeesu2000

seriously - do I need to buy five more trees when I am looking to move in the next eight weeks? and i dont know where I am moving to....

so WHY have I just put them in the basket????

Hope the offer lasts for another week or two and then.....maybe? Do you think? Perhaps?

Little_Vics

I am so excited - we're going to start on the garden tomorrow! Would you like to see pics as we get along?

CAFCGirl

Hello!

I'd like to join you all if I may.
Total newbie to veg/seed growing.

I planted 10 days ago some jalapeno chilli seeds and capsicum (peppers), nothing as yet. They are indoors (its cold outside here and wet as anything!).

Peppers are in peat pots (i think thats what theyre called) and the chilli seeds went in an egg carton.

I fear I may not get anything come through, there's zero signs of growth.

I have a glut of other seed packets here (bought at 2p a pack, say to plant by 2015?). Hoping someone might be able to advise:

Whats best seed to plant, now (late march) indoors out of:
Cucumber (Marketmore)
Onion - Spring (White Lisbon)
Runner bean (Scarlet Emperor)
Broccoli (Purple Sprouting early)
Pea (Kelvedon wonder)
Sweet Pepper (Californian Wonder)

All the packets says sow march-april.

Thanks in advance

Lifes_Grand_Plan

Little_Vics wrote: »

I am so excited - we're going to start on the garden tomorrow! Would you like to see pics as we get along?

Yes please, pics are always good!

Dizzy_Ditzy

I have my palm trees :j :j

Well, a cordyline australis and canary date palm, but that's good enough for me :j

They're both in the greenhouse overnight, but when I get them out tomorrow, I'll take pics and post them

sparrer

queen of cheap don't do that , I've just spent 10 minutes going through the site and 'spent' £38! Fortunately common sense prevailed - oh, how I loathe common sense - and remembered the mantra's just in time.

Taters are coming through in their tubs, it's almost time to give them another layer of soil.
Suddenly the rhubarb has keeled over and died back, maybe it's been too wet for too long?

Keep plodding onwards and upwards

Dizzy_Ditzy

Sorry sparrer