Grow your own dinner 2014

mothernerd

Just had a salad, including half a box of home grown pea-shoots. Not doing a lot at the moment as I overdid the diy and have to rest (with serious painkillers) on doctor's orders or my leg will not get better. Managing some housework in 10-15 minute chunks and have watered all my seedlings this week - real progress 12+ walks from the back to the front of the house.

My 3 weeks are up on Monday and I think I will be going back to the doctor's. I am not in pain the way I was so the resting has helped, but before Christmas I was managing 5 hours a day decorating and now I am doing a couple of 15 minute tasks a day - I need some advice on what to do next as I need to be doing more than this.

Have allowed myself a budget of £100 for the year - I don't think this is realistic (and not including what I have already spent) but it's more to help me resist temptation for the moment, I can buy this but what if I want xyz later and there is no money left. Frugal in most areas but those plant/ tree offers are so tempting. so deferring pleasure. If the house sells quickly when I get it up for sale then all bets are off.:rotfl:

suzeesu2000

oh my word - i have just done the second dressing on my earlies....they look so lovely and green and strong and I am so looking forward to eating them! I have never grown veg before - helped mum at home when I was young but never done it myself. I cannot believe how exciting it is waiting and watching everything.

My green beans of climbing and dwarf varieties are going made, my tomato plants have decided to show off, courgettes are like little trees and my lovely Victoria Plum is covered in blossem!

Bar the odd one or two, every seed has germionated. including all the herbs. The problem we have now is: do I plant everything out or chance it while we are in the process of packing to move? I know I definitely have to plant the climbing beans out or I shall have to be making holes in the ceiling for them!! Hopefully I will get that done in the morning.

icontinuetodream

got all my shrubs, rhubarb, kiwi and grape transplanted at the weekend, my tomato seeds have started to come up, broad beans and butternut squash going well and will plant my runner and French beans, courgettes and chard this weekend my potato sacks need topping up too and I may have to transplant a few of the salad crops as some of them are turning into total triffids!! I have no idea what they are as the seed packet was a mixed one with instructions in Italian!! Quite exciting really!!! :rotfl:

suzeesu2000

Right - 20 climbing beans planted! Hopefully they will grow - they are enormous already.

Plan for tomorrow is that the dwarf beans go outside and the courgettes go out....thats the plan!

This moving malarkey is getting on my wick; dont know where we will end up or actually when other than it will be in the next two months. Not so helpful when you are trying to grow stuff grrr.

Everyone is doing really well.

Little_Vics

I'm still in limbo too while we build the wall and get the garden sorted. I'm not entirely sure if I'll be able to grow anything other than windowsill stuff this year, which is a bit disappointing.

Fay

Absent grower signing in-sorry!
Currently I have chillis, peppers and toms on my window ledge. All doing well and needs to be potted on today.
Peas sown this week directly into the ground, I've never lost any this way as we have a neighbour hood full of cats to keep the mice away but let's see. also mange tout-green and purple and French beans sown in pots, no movement yet and that was a week ago in An unheated greenhouse.
Raspberry canes, black current bush and blackberry bush are all showing signs of life. As are the apple tree and pear trees, although the latter aren't looking great-does anyone know if fruit trees have a life expectancy?
Potatoes all done in bags this year and in a spot in the garden I've not used before, so but of a trial.
I don't know whether to bother with carrots at all or broad beans. Need to decide though.
Sounds like other are going good guns and nice to see MBE drop in

Happygreen

Most of the broad beans from the previous years ended up in the freezer and have not been used up yet. Still I grow them each year - why???

icontinuetodream

I never have broad beans left...love them too much!!;)

Planted the French beans, runner beans and courgettes today and topped up the potato bags.... haven't put chard in yet or beetroot but will do them next weekend as planting directly and haven't sorted the seed bed yet!

suzeesu2000

well, the weather put paid to my plans didnt it! Its been raingin all day so nothing has been done. Grrr. Oh well, always one morning through the week then perhaps

CAFCGirl

Good Morning Green Fingered Friends

Its a wet miserable day here, but on the plus side I went out to my mini greenhouse in my dressing gown and wellies (yeah I got style!), and my beans are starting to come up, my first round of sweet peppers that I was all for throwing in the composter are showing signs of life!
Of my indoor seeds my tomatos are looking good and suddenly sprung up in the 2 days since I checked them, and I think theres life on the chilli peppers too!

Nothing on my cucumber, lemon seeds (experiment admittedly), basil, coriander, sweet peppers x 2 or my chives..... yet!

Still got lots of seeds to sow though, need to get cracking on that. Been donated a propagator seed tray (not elecctric mind you) so I think I might chance my aubergines in that.