Grow your own dinner 2014

UnluckyT

Im giving growing veg a go again, plus strawberries in hanging baskets. ive sorted one strawberry plant, just got to sort the other two plants as I didn't realise how small the hanging basket is Id bought from pound shop. ive got cucumber, iceburge lettuce, rocket, sweet peppers and tomatoes ready on window sill and a tomatoe plant ready to plant on soon.
im hoping to have a share in an allotment plot soon as my mum is second on the list locally for a plot.

CAFCGirl

Finally got some canes for my beans to grow up. Now I just the rain to 'do one', so I can sort them out!

suzeesu2000

Found a brilliant sheet on P****rest last night. It has the times to sow, when to plant out & when to harvest all in a colourful chart. Really makes planning easy i think - for a novice like me anyway.

Have also found how to build a perfectly fine greenhouse from a couple of sheets of heavy duty plastic or the corrugated plastic sheets and lots of plastic bottles. Am definitely going to have a go at this when we get to our forever house - also showed how to make a greenhouse from a kids trampoline they no longer use - both perfectly "do-able" and pennies to make!

Just as a tip (which you probably already know) if you place containers of water in your greenhouse during the day, the water heats up and makes a difference to the evening temperature.

Happygreen

CAFCGirl wrote: »

Finally got some canes for my beans to grow up. Now I just the rain to 'do one', so I can sort them out!

I decided yesterday to use the old kids' climbing frame for the beans. Attempts to shift it to other kids' gardens have failed and it was too expensive to throw into the scrap, so beans, watch out!
Suzeesu2000, let us know how you get on with making that trampoline greenhouse!

suzeesu2000

Happygreen wrote: »

I decided yesterday to use the old kids' climbing frame for the beans. Attempts to shift it to other kids' gardens have failed and it was too expensive to throw into the scrap, so beans, watch out!
Suzeesu2000, let us know how you get on with making that trampoline greenhouse!

Oh, that's a good idea! :T Brilliant re-purposing and recycling too.

The trampoline actually looks fairly simple to construct - you definitely need two people to do it though.

Simple terms: its taking the frame apart into two pieces (as I understand them, they are push together fixings?)
Then you lay with the arc side up and use plumbers plastic piping pushed onto the legs to make the struts.
I think it would be wise to brace with another plastic pipe in the middle of the length too.
You can also use the middle of the trampoline to cover the floor where you will walk or to cover the bench.
Then just cover with plastic sheeting. You really need to see the picture - looks pretty simple, even for me!! :rotfl:

Happygreen

Will bookmark your trampoline destructions for later use . Do I search for it on-line or would you have a link? Not urgent as teens are occasionally still using it as a sun lounger but it sounds great as a polytunnel!
On the exhausted note, OH found the fault on the mower (sparkplug), so I can get on with that once the weeds dry up a bit (would not call that lawn or even grass!). I might actually pay a teen to do it although exam is looming over them on Friday....

suzeesu2000

http://www.howdoesshe.com/how-to-create-a-greenhouse-out-of-a-trampoline/


hope the link works okay

Happygreen

suzeesu2000 wrote: »

http://www.howdoesshe.com/how-to-create-a-greenhouse-out-of-a-trampoline/


hope the link works okay

Brilliant! Thanks and bookmarked

annie123

lemonjelly wrote: »

next weekend I'll put the greenhouses up, stock them full of the tomatoes & lettuce already planted, & sow loads more lettuce.

Lemon you don't want the lettuce in the greenhouse, it'll wilt.
Well, it will if we have a summer :rotfl:


Other than harvesting tatties whilst hubby holds an umbrella over us I've done naff all gardening as it hasn't stopped raining Might have to put the umbrella over the courgettes again if this keeps up.

I have strawberries that have bit's of red on them but not enough to eat, well unless you're a slug or a snail.
So looking forward to Saturday when London should be dry, warm and sunny, yipee! :j I will be camping out in the garden all day, loads to catch up on.

Happygreen

annie123 wrote: »

Lemon you don't want the lettuce in the greenhouse, it'll wilt.
Well, it will if we have a summer :rotfl:

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or bolt within a week! Lettuce is quite hardy , it's safe now to put it outdoors