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

ZsaZsa

MissRikkiC said:

I’m eating early peas from the garden and I have a few red strawberries! On the other hand, my pepper plants are not doing well in the ground at all, my beans I transplanted hated me doing so, I have still not grown a single carrot despite 2 types of variety and 3 sowings of each and I keep forgetting where I’ve sown rocket! 

Notes to self. Label better and figure out what on earth is happening to my carrots! 

Last year I lost all my carrots to slugs, they take the tops of just below the surface of the soil so that seems that they haven’t germinated. Sowed and lost 2 lots, the third sowing was a bit more successful- I wonder if it was because it was later in the season and there was far more temptation for the slugs by then 🤣

MissRikkiC

hmm this seems likely @ZsaZsa as it really seems they’ve not germinated. That said I’ve also found a few tops (very small and spindly new ones) just left on the soil so also wondering if they’d just left a few to show me their game plan! 

ZsaZsa

MissRikkiC said:

hmm this seems likely @ZsaZsa as it really seems they’ve not germinated. That said I’ve also found a few tops (very small and spindly new ones) just left on the soil so also wondering if they’d just left a few to show me their game plan! 

That really is rubbing your nose in it 😂

originator

just testing lol thought you might like to see my runners...

Suffolk_lass

MissRikkiC said:

hmm this seems likely @ZsaZsa as it really seems they’ve not germinated. That said I’ve also found a few tops (very small and spindly new ones) just left on the soil so also wondering if they’d just left a few to show me their game plan! 

That sounds like blackbirds or pigeons

MissRikkiC

Suffolk_lass said:

MissRikkiC said:

hmm this seems likely @ZsaZsa as it really seems they’ve not germinated. That said I’ve also found a few tops (very small and spindly new ones) just left on the soil so also wondering if they’d just left a few to show me their game plan! 

That sounds like blackbirds or pigeons

We have both plus a number of other birds in our garden. They’re not interested in much else but we now have a resident squirrel who is after the strawberries! 

carinjo

Further to the beans conversation: my second try of french beans have mostly survived thanks to plastic bottles. The nasturtium (in toilet roll) in same bed, got munched at soil level.
The bush italian beans covered with fleece, survived the birds, no sign of slugs yet.
The bush french beans got planted under garden string (to keep track of where is was), looks like the birds couldn't be bothered.
Still waiting for the cavolo nero to show.
Harvested a couple of chinese cabbage that bolted.
Harvested the autumn planted onion and garlic, not as big a haul as last year's summer planting, but happy since it just the 2 of us.
Some weeding and lots of watering.
This weekend more weeding and pruning the golden plum tree

carinjo

Ps. GW email header yesterday: Stop Slugs/ Win a holiday 

Suffolk_lass

Lots of watering of flowering potatoes (as per advice from GW last night).

A decision here, to move gooseberries, black and red-currants and create a fruit cage after the greedy pigeons have had the entire crop of gooseberries and as usual, all the redcurrants. There were probably 4k of gooseberries. I will make the borders they are in into narrower raised beds and grow veg in them instead.

Suffolk_lass

Received sweetcorn seedlings I think I ordered in February - all in tip top condition and 27 instead of 12, once separated out in their seedling pods. All in now, albeit, less than the recommended 45cm apart