The all new 2019 growing your own thread!

silverwhistle

My friend stayed overnight last night and in the morning I took her to see the plot. "When do you fancy doing your hour of digging?" I asked her, innocently..


Perhaps I should ask around for a sturdy student to help for some holiday cash, or ask at the local hand car wash! It's the local show tomorrow so as well as doing some weed clearing I'll pop along to that and make myself known. Let everybody know that I'm on the scrounge!

silverwhistle

Money_mess wrote: »

it was such a mess and we've kind of winged it.
Not sure if there is anything else we will plant before Xmas, as I don't really know much about it! Or what to do!

That'll be me this coming year! Any suggestions will also be welcomed in this direction..

Mnd

Lost about a third of my beans to the wind, but still got plenty anyway. Hopefully the weather will settle now for a while

unrecordings

Mnd wrote: »

Lost about a third of my beans to the wind, but still got plenty anyway.

Shouldn't that be the other way round ?:beer:

unrecordings

Fingers crossed once I'm properly back in the garden the cheesy jokes will stop - I've got too much time on my hands. I did find this today which I thought quite interesting - another planting calender but with adjustable dates depending on location - how accurate ? Will compare with the RHS once I get some sense out of them

https://www.gardenfocused.co.uk/adjust-dates-uk.php

Karmacat

Un, I like the cheesy jokes

euronorris

Cheesy jokes are fine in my book. I use one every day at work, just to hear people groan about them! lol

unrecordings

Rather than derail this and other threads with the same links & questions I thought I'd try this as a fresh thread:

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6036080

silverwhistle

I've attacked my new allotment a little bit, and an observer would have noticed the changes, particularly along the edges (to benefit the neighbouring plots) but said observer would note how much remains to be done!! Hurrah, I have at least one resident frog. :-)



Went to B&M today for some of their fixing spikes for marking out and making raised beds and added some other miscellanea, a couple of watering cans at £1.99 each, a sieve, some perlite etc. at end of season prices. Then to Toolstation for a mattock as there'll be a need to indulge my inner She-Hulk. Not today as it's hissing down and I have the delights of football training tonight.


I may have to borrow my friend's van as a visit to In Excess is on the cards: by far the cheapest source of gravel boards around here. I might start smiling sweetly at scaffolders too, as they often have to discard older unsafe boards, which are even better for raised beds. Then to the plumber's merchant for old pallets to make a compost heap.


One day I might even plant a few seeds!

weenemo

Dizzy Ditzy that's an amazing amount of produce.

The raspberries are coming to an end and I got just shy of 2lbs in total from our wee patch so that will make a nice few jars of jam. I've had a slight problem with wasps having a good nibble on them, but I suppose I'd rather they were bugging the rasps than living in our loft like they were last year.

The courgettes have been slow to start but I'm hoping by next week they will be well on their way, there are a couple more starting and the ones that are there are the size of my pinkie.