The even newer good, bad and ugly of growing your own in 2021!

Suffolk_lass

@Kantankrus_Mare re ginger - it can be rather big. If you have a length of drain pipe (especially the old terracotta land drain ones) they are excellent for growing in. You can start it indoors on a windowsill than move it outside when it's a bit warmer and all chance of frost has passed. It needs lots of light and warmth as it is mostly grown in Asia (most of ours is Indian, but also in China)

carinjo

Tired now! Last couple of days finished the first dig for the potatoes. Neighbour is going through it with a rotivator, which i will regret i am sure, not sure how much marestail in the area, but my poor back was very happy when the offer came! 
Weeded (grass mainly) the onion bed, most coming up now. Counted 4 broadbeans sticking their heads through this morning!
Built a small raised bed and planted shallots (Golden Gourmet) on top of WSFabric. Also a netting cage over it. 
The mystery re-gifted fruit tree found a home next to gooseberries on a corner of the plot. Any shade in future will land on a tree on the neighbouring plot, so it a good spot.
Planted Cornflower and Cosmos in a raised bed next to sun deck and covered all 3 beds with netting to hopefully keep out the cat i've seen roaming around. 
More rhubarb harvested, but in honour of the ease of Lockdown and being able to see my sister soon again, making us a Rhubarb Gin instead of using for dessert.
At home added soil to top of tomato seedlings to help against legginess. I really hope they make it over next couple of weeks, i am about 2 seconds away of playing Classicfm to keep them calm! 
Back at work tomorrow, but will try and do some seeds in the morning, soaking sweet peas and gifted beetroot ready to go. 
@Kantankrus_Mare that ginger sounds like you in for a treat once it gets going!

leftatthetrafficlights

Finally got started! 🙈 planted some tomatoes, chillis, sweet peppers and aubergine 🙌 went and bought plenty of compost ready for next week's big plant out - pond digging is being done next Friday so I'll be spending the weekend sowing seeds and clearing out the greenhouse while that's being completed 😉

Kantankrus_Mare

Suffolk_lass said:

@Kantankrus_Mare re ginger - it can be rather big. If you have a length of drain pipe (especially the old terracotta land drain ones) they are excellent for growing in. You can start it indoors on a windowsill than move it outside when it's a bit warmer and all chance of frost has passed. It needs lots of light and warmth as it is mostly grown in Asia (most of ours is Indian, but also in China)

Yes, I think I read somewhere it can get big so I was thinking biggish pot in the greenhouse maybe.

RelievedSheff

We have signs of life in the purple carrot pot. The first little seedling has raised it's head above the soil

Only one so far mind!!

RelievedSheff

Just been out to check on the baby carrot and another two have popped up now.

We had almost given up on them germinating!!

greenbee

I'd given up on some of the aubergines, but they've all germinated now. As have the padron peppers. No sign of the other peppers or chillies yet though. I'm hoping a couple of days of sunshine and warm weather will get them going. 

ancientmum

I've found that chillies take twice as long as other seeds such as tomatoes to appear.  I grow them on windowsills and find that putting a plastic bag over the pot to retain heat and moisture sometimes helps.

carinjo

After reading through all the lovely posts yesterday, decided to crack on with some seeds. Done pointy beetroot, tarragon, sweet peas. Repotted the lavender Ms C rescued after the storm. Repotted the sage cuttings from end of last season. 
The leeks didn't look too well this morning, think will move it back to the south facing windowsill. Tidied the allotment shed before work this morning, now have space to hide from the weather. 

MovingForwards

My potato bags arrived today, but we've still got high winds, maybe tomorrow it will have calmed down. OH cleared the space for me to put them outside.

This morning I noticed 1 tomato seed had started to appear, throughout the day it's made a bigger appearance and another 3 have popped up. No sign of my other ones or the lavender seeds, maybe I should move them into the lounge.