The even bigger and better and hopefully not lower bits of growing your own in 2022!

MissRikkiC

I am at the top of 3/5 of the potato sacks now so from this point they’ll have to do! 

Thinned carrots again this weekend as well as the radish. We only planted radish to see if we liked them, turns out they’re ‘ok’ but not our fave at all so once they’re up at the end of May something needs to go in their place. 

All the caulis are done now in the raised bed and sprouting Is about to go to seed so hopefully I’ll get some of those started ready to overwinter again later this year. 

Strawberries and blueberries are both starting to flower now, which is V exciting, however probably don’t have enough strawberries to last us the summer. I may dedicate one of the 5 beds to them and stick as many as I can get away with in there. 

Greenhouse (aka too big lean to!) is complete (although the panes are pants and fall out so need taping!) and most of the tomatoes and peppers are in there now. 

I have such dreams of a bigger growing space, there is 1 allotment plot in our village and it’s shared by 2 people on the parish council. We live so rurally I’m shocked there isn’t more! 

carinjo

MissRikkiC said:

I have such dreams of a bigger growing space, there is 1 allotment plot in our village and it’s shared by 2 people on the parish council. We live so rurally I’m shocked there isn’t more! 

I read a book by A1ys F0wler recently where she went around the country looking at different ways people make use of space to grow stuff. You should have a try at speaking to the local pub using some of their space and growing something for them too. Similar to the church, school or even a disused roundabout that can't find a sponsor. I am sure you not the only one looking for a bit if extra space. Good luck!

sammy_kaye18

I am busy in the greenhouse at the minute. 

I have some radishes which I really need to thin out and a few bits that I need to put into the ground or deeper pots. 

Also my mother in law is away at the minute and she mentioned the other day that she’s inundated with strawberry plants since she didn’t control the runners and that she plants to pull quite a few up when she gets home on Sunday so I think I might go over there tomorrow and save them from an untimely death and transplant them to my garden since mine don’t seem to be doing anything. 

carinjo

Yesterday netted the gooseberries, left 2 bushes for the birds.
Finally decided to redo the shed the way i wanted it: changed the door to open the other way so no more blocking the main pathway. Also installed a new shelf and done a wooden hanging bar with screws for all the long tools like spades and rakes. It looks nice and tidy. Lets see how long that lasts!

sammy_kaye18

carinjo said:

Yesterday netted the gooseberries, left 2 bushes for the birds.
Finally decided to redo the shed the way i wanted it: changed the door to open the other way so no more blocking the main pathway. Also installed a new shelf and done a wooden hanging bar with screws for all the long tools like spades and rakes. It looks nice and tidy. Lets see how long that lasts!

Well done. Sounds productive. I need to seriously find some sort of tool storage. 

I have been over my mother in laws today and saved a few of her strawberry plants that she was going to pull up and throw in the composter so now I have 5 plants that Ive put into a small bed I have and given a good water. Fingers crossed they do ok and take root. 

Going to put a few bags of compost into other beds today. 

I ordered an arch last night for runner beans to grow up. I have pea netting so I will put that between the two arch poles too for extra support places. 

Also found two old bits of piping behind my husbands shed that are about 6ft high so hoping I can dig them into the ground and spread pea netting between them to grow peas up. 

I am currently having to play guess the seedling at the minute because some of ours took a tumble with high winds and were just put into whatever tub was closest and I think I have random peas sprouting in a few of them. 

carinjo

@sammy_kaye18 i feel your pain with the seedlings. In my case my abbreviations on side if tomato pots could mean marmande, moneymaker or mini tomatoes 

leftatthetrafficlights

I've regularly forgotten what I've planted/messed up labels so I know how you feel!! 😂 

Haven't been here for a while but been chugging away in the background!

All is going well - potatoes (1st & 2nd earliest plus maincrop) are all coming on well - they are in bags as are the parsnips and carrots; we've just planted out our butternut and spaghetti squash along with the courgettes; sweetcorn, runner beans, broad beans and peas have gone out; swede, turnips, beetroot, calabrese and romanesco are out and the fennel, celeriac and sprouting broccoli have all been potted on. We've also got lettuce leaves and pak choi on the go along with a variety of annual herbs (dill, basil, coriander, chives and flat leaf parsley) and we'll be sowing some chervil later 😁 

I'm going to do some more sowing in a week or so - my aim is to have something to harvest pretty much every month of the year! 

carinjo

An exceptionally long and hard day on allotment. Ms C finished the bean arch and planted the french beans. She also planted the sweet pea and climbing nasturtium seedlings inbetween the beans. I earthed up the first early potatoes and planted dwarf french beans on the edges of the row of potatoes (read somewhere that one can do that with dwarf beans and early potatoes, so fingers crossed) Dug over the bed for dwarf barlotti beans, done 3 rows. The car tyres got the sunflower seedlings, more sunflower seeds and some nigella seeds. The raised box of tulips got tidied. Cut the tulips down and planted carrots, radishes and lettuce inbetween the bulbs that will be left till next year. 
Gave the pear tree, gooseberry bushes a proper soak. 
Next to do is get the soil ready for the tomatoes and big seeds: pumpkin, butternut etc. 

droopsnoot

When I "cleared" the vegetable patch so I could plant potatoes, onions and lettuce, I seem to have not done much of a job as there are potatoes coming up all over it. No sign of the other two, unfortunately, but maybe it's a bit too soon.

MissRikkiC

You’re right @carinjo I’m hoping that whilst somewhere else is being demolished soon, I can use a bit of that space. Good idea about the pubs, unfortunately there are only 2 within walking distance and 1 I wouldn’t drink in, let alone grow anything for/in and the other are the most uptight, awkward people I’ve ever met! However I have been thinking a bit more on my veg kitchen plot and how I can better arrange what I have for now. 

How did you tidy up the tulips btw? Mine seriously need it but I was actually going to take out the bulbs and pop them away so I could use the beds! You seem to have come up with something better and growing between the bulbs??