2023 - the good, the not so good but hopefully not ugly of growing your own!

KajiKita

MissRikkiC said:

My 2.5 year old was very quiet today and I knew she was up to something. I went into the conservatory and the little starter pots were empty. She had pulled the tomato seedlings out. Of a type of tomato with just 4 seeds to a packet 😠 

When I explained they would have to go in the bin now and we would have to start all over again, she got very upset and said ‘just put them back in!’ 

Oh how I wish that would work. Maybe a life lesson there 🤪

Oh no ......!!!!!  I would be absolutely gutted!

KK

MissRikkiC

I was pretty gutted @KajiKita

KajiKita

MissRikkiC said:

I was pretty gutted @KajiKita

😢
Like you said, hopefully it will be a life lesson!

KK

Suffolk_lass

Not gardening but when my DS was about two he got his hands on some scissors and I woke up one morning to him holding a handful of what used to be my fringe, with the scissors in the other hand. "Haircut for you!" he proclaimed. It was a week after he announced in the car "He's a ****** isn't he Mummy!". You realise then how much they pick up on what we say and do...

KajiKita

Suffolk_lass said:

Not gardening but when my DS was about two he got his hands on some scissors and I woke up one morning to him holding a handful of what used to be my fringe, with the scissors in the other hand. "Haircut for you!" he proclaimed. It was a week after he announced in the car "He's a ****** isn't he Mummy!". You realise then how much they pick up on what we say and do...

OMG …. the haircut!!! What a way to start a day!!! 😳😢😂

KK

MissRikkiC

Oh SL! They’re funny. 

We are being very careful about what we say at the moment. My MIL says ‘oh my god’ and I have to keep asking her to refrain or say goodness instead because my daughter is copying everything. Including using actually and basically in context. She will be hopefully leaving the seedlings alone from now on. 

Suffolk_lass

MissRikkiC said:

Oh SL! They’re funny. 

We are being very careful about what we say at the moment. My MIL says ‘oh my god’ and I have to keep asking her to refrain or say goodness instead because my daughter is copying everything. Including using actually and basically in context. She will be hopefully leaving the seedlings alone from now on. 

Yes, I hope so. You could reinforce it by discussing how well the new ones are doing (once they show) and how important it is to not touch or overwater 

My first seeds finally got planted. Two half size seed trays of three beefsteak and one cherry tomato seeds, and three little square pots of 9 chilli seeds in each. In the greenhouse, under cloches in the 2 small heated propagators. I might suggest DH plants some onion sets today, as he has been clearing weeds (chickweed mostly) off the veg beds and tidying up the gravel paths where the mole wreaked havoc last summer, desperately looking for water and burrowing up through the weed suppressing membrane, moving paving slab islands and working the gravel sown into the molehills. Of course there are weeds everywhere on the paths now

carinjo

Yeah, a day off.
Nay, a rainy, windy day!
Potatoes out of cupboard, chitting. 
Attempting a few lettuce leaves, due to shortage in shops *fingers crossed* 

ancientmum

Chilli seeds have sprouted after 28 days, and I have some tomatoes growing on.  I must get some potatoes to start chitting.  I went to the allotment on Sunday and the weather was really warm, so spent a few hours mending the fruit cage netting and generally pottering about enjoying the sunshine.

Suffolk_lass

carinjo said:

Yeah, a day off.
Nay, a rainy, windy day!
Potatoes out of cupboard, chitting. 
Attempting a few lettuce leaves, due to shortage in shops *fingers crossed* 

@carinjo Good idea about lettuce. I plan to do the same thing and bought two seed-tray sized propagators when I popped in to the garden centre for seed compost and some small pots of narcissi to cheer up the front door. I might try French Breakfast radishes too as I have loads of seeds and they are lovely chopped into leaves and hm coleslaw

I'm just going out to check on mine @ancientmum - they are plugged in, in the greenhouse