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

carinjo

The zippy greenhouse went flying again. Luckily the plants survived this time. Very thankful for the rain though and more predicted for today.

MovingForwards

That's why I decided not to put mine up this year, plus it took such a battering last year it wouldn't have survived. Strapping it meant the plastic joints took the impacts and damaged them too. Plus my tom plants were repeatedly broken. It wasn't worth the stress.  @carinjo

This year I will be staking my toms in the garden, some in pots with canes. I get enough heat and sun; OH has had a good tan for a few months.

I've started off some pumpkins for 'SIL' as hers hasn't worked.

I'm slowly transplanting my seedlings into bigger pots, some have gone outside to provide me with much needed space; wrapped in fleece while they settle in.

Hopefully I will be dropping a few plants off to 'SIL' and 'MIL' this weekend. 

Caitykinss

Managed to get rid of a few more tomatoes over the weekend, but that's about the only garden thing I managed. The carrots, chard, lettuce and radish I sowed direct last weekend have yet to show themselves, but hopefully the rain has done them good.

The rest of my tomatoes are desperate to go in their final pots, and I need to free up some medium pots for my aubergines which seem to have doubled in size overnight. Not sure how OH will feel about full sized tomatoes in the back bedroom!

Suffolk_lass

bluesooz said:

we're always good at listening here Suffolklass - much better to have too many plants than not enough.  Have your older asparagus shown themselves yet or is the husband still in the doghouse?

Ah thanks @bluesooz, I do feel better as some of the older asparagus is braving this grim east anglian spring and showing itself at last

greenbee

My french beans look like they've been beaten by the frost, while the salad is just complaining that it is dry. I've acquired some large pots from trees/shrubs for my toms, so those seedlings that have survived can be potted on (they were very happy indoors over the weekend while I was away). 

I'm hoping the wind dies down and it warms up a bit by the weekend. I need to sow more seeds and get outside ready for them. 

Suffolk_lass

I have a few radish seedlings showing in the salad bed (French Breakfast are our favourites) and the second pots of runner beans I took indoors have begun to germinate.

I am trying not to repot my tomato plants until they have good roots poking through the bottom of the pots or they will never be sturdy and always be a bit wimpy, and also not to water them too much as I want them to go looking for water for the same reason

-taff

Just repot them deeper, they'll grow new roots from the stems. I usually do mine up to the first true leaves. I also water from the bottom so they have to work to get it. I syand my pots on gravel in trays, when they're potted on to final pots and water into the gravel until it's level with the top of the gravel. Every year I have to shake the pots when they've been emptied because there's usually a really impressive root system in the gravel itself. I feed from the top, water from the bottom if that makes sense.

akh43

carinjo said:

The zippy greenhouse went flying again. Luckily the plants survived this time. Very thankful for the rain though and more predicted for today.

Mine went flying too, most of the pots survived, unfortunately, most of the labels came out of the pots and loads of spilt soil so no idea what is what now, it took me ages to clean it all up and put right and have made it more secure so hope it stays put if any more bad weather.  Hopefully I will be able to figure out what is what once they grow a bit more

FluffityBunny

After a failed attempt at growing tomato seedlings in coconut fibre compost (nothing grew any more after 6 weeks) I've had another attempt using a bag of compost I found at the back of the garage, seedlings are growing faster than ever so hoping to have some good tomato plants to plant out this year.  I'm glad I haven't sown any peas yet as we've had another day of hail and sleet.  I think I'll wait a few more weeks and get them sown and am prepared for a later crop than usual.

Ellie78

carinjo said:

The zippy greenhouse went flying again. Luckily the plants survived this time. Very thankful for the rain though and more predicted for today.

I saw someone on FB used theirs lying on its back after getting annoyed with how much it blew over.   Depends on how tall your plants are of course!