Grow your own dinner 2014

icontinuetodream

what sort of furry 4 legged creature Cafcgirl??

Have spent almost all weekend weeding!! :eek: The broad beans I put out a week or so ago now have loads of flowers on so very pleased with that! I'm starting to get some growth on my rhubarb too which I was feeling a bit uncertain about since I moved it several weeks ago from its pot into the ground.....I have planted out my sweet peas, butternut squash and a few tomato plants too...next weekend I will put out my courgettes and beans plus sow my beetroot and rainbow chard....I would have done them this weekend but need to get some compost and currently aching far too much to get to a garden centre!!:rotfl:

sparrer

Dug up 2 potatoes at 4.50pm and had them on my plate with a salad by 5.30pm. Delicious!

Happygreen

sparrer wrote: »

Dug up 2 potatoes at 4.50pm and had them on my plate with a salad by 5.30pm. Delicious!

Wow - my seed potatoes aren't even in the ground yet!!!

A nice clear morning so plans for today are
repotting the Courgettes
plant out the Caulis and the last Broad beans
collect Comfrey leaves for plant brew
put new compost in greenhouse
put out rhubarb leaves as slugs have eaten my runner bean shoots :mad:
sow carrots, lettuce and whatever else tickles my fancy from the seed box:cool:
call T & M where my tomato plants are, they keep losing my orders ...

suzeesu2000

Oh my word :eek: :eek: :eek:


I have green beans!! This is like being told I shall be a grandma!! I am so thrilled....yeay me!! :T

browneyedbazzi

Wow Suzeesu, I haven't even planted my beans out yet! They will have to go out this weekend though because they're getting way too tall to stay in their starter pots without supports. I can't wait to start seeing the produce come in from the garden, but it seems a long way off still.

I spent a long time in the garden over the weekend but it mostly consisted of digging up weeds and planting some shrubs in the borders - the veg patch was rather neglected! Next weekend will have to be the other way around I think.

suzeesu2000

This grub growing is great! I keep going and looking at my dwarf beans - I am smiling even telling you about them LOL.

ed110220

Our first crop of the year was the other week, some rhubarb 'Timperley Early'. Was so good I planted two more types of rhubarb!

Last year broccoli, butternut squashes, pumpkins, courgettes and cherries grew really well for us. All had really big crops looking just as good as the ones you get in the shops. In fact the broccoli was much bigger than anything I've seen for sale! The major failure were brussels sprouts which only gave miserable, misshapen, dirty sprouts that were hardly worth cleaning up. Rainbow chard grew well but we decided we didn't like the taste of it.

This year we've planted strawberries, blueberries and raspberries. Courgettes, uchiki (?) squash, sweet dumpling squash and sweetcorn are all starting on the windowsill. No sign of the butternut squash doing anything so I may need to buy some plants.

Ed

moments_of_sanity

Hi All, I hope you can give me some advice.

My potatoes are growing in the large 'blue' Ikea bags and were doing really well until the weekend, it seems the slugs have found them and have caused an large amount of damage (I was away for 3 days with 18 yr old DD left to water etc), I have collected about 10 small one,s and a large black one from the bags today but have you any ideas what I can do to stop them getting in. I have heard of nemitodes but can't really afford to buy any at the moment (hence trying to grow as much as I can) what else can I do apart from go out religiously and hand pick them off my veg, I am concerned about putting my French beans out as these and my peas were eaten to within an inch of their lives last year :mad:

Happygreen

moments_of_sanity wrote: »

Hi All, I hope you can give me some advice.

My potatoes are growing in the large 'blue' Ikea bags and were doing really well until the weekend, it seems the slugs have found them and have caused an large amount of damage (I was away for 3 days with 18 yr old DD left to water etc), I have collected about 10 small one,s and a large black one from the bags today but have you any ideas what I can do to stop them getting in. I have heard of nemitodes but can't really afford to buy any at the moment (hence trying to grow as much as I can) what else can I do apart from go out religiously and hand pick them off my veg, I am concerned about putting my French beans out as these and my peas were eaten to within an inch of their lives last year :mad:

I was too late this year and have forgotten to protect my beans - gone. But I will now put out rhubarb leaves surrounding the seedlings. Slugs tend to stay under those so they can be picked off in the morning. This for people who don't like chemical weapons .

moments_of_sanity

Happygreen wrote: »

I was too late this year and have forgotten to protect my beans - gone. But I will now put out rhubarb leaves surrounding the seedlings. Slugs tend to stay under those so they can be picked off in the morning. This for people who don't like chemical weapons .

Thank you for this, I have some rhubarb growing so will put some leaves down.