The ups, the downs and the insides out of growing your own in 2025!

ladybird1106

Just a quick trip to the plot, well at least it was supposed to be🤣. I sure I enter a worm hole when I get up there. Watered and fed the cabbages/ cauliflowers in the greenhouses. Mended the metal compost bay with some metal doors I found squirreled away. More wood for the bonfire 🔥. Got engrossed in chopping back last years wild blackberry stems although it did attempt to attack me back a couple of times. Found an almost day glow caterpillar hiding amongst the wood pile. Not sure what it was so put it back. 

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ladybird1106

Day glow caterpillar will become an angle shades moth.
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 https://butterfly-conservation.org/moths/angle-shades

alicef

@greenbee I'm assuming you are talking about tender veg toms/peppers/aubergine/courgette/cucumber etc?   

I've done what Suffolk_Lass suggests and stuck trays outside the backdoor on a drip tray for easy watering - the reason I put the crates of larger plants into my potting shed is that it can get a bit breezy round here.  I wouldn't leave tender veg outside overnight at the moment - we are set for night time temps just above freezing, so there is a bit of shifting stuff in and out of the house.  The daytime temps for the coming week are looking good though.

greenbee

Yep - toms, aubergines, peppers, cucumbers, loofahs (Courgettes haven't been started yet). I think I'll get some gravel into the trays and maybe bring one lot of staging down onto the patio for a bit. Definitely still getting frosts here. 

ladybird1106

Yesterday I tackled the 6ft gooseberry plants,  probably a bit late. They had all dropped branches to the floor and replicated themselves (not sure what this is called), so they had to come out too. OH rotavated the first couple of rows where the potatoes are going next week. Spring is definitely in the air. 

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greenbee

Lids were left off propagators last night, and so far no cat damage, so I'm hopeful that I can keep things on the windowsill for a bit longer. I just need to clear space for more trays!

Suffolk_lass

Tomatoes are germinating, thank goodness, after my kill episode last week. I am away from tomorrow until Sunday night and everything will just have to see to itself. DH will be asked to rotate the seed trays, but nothing else

Farway

ladybird1106 said:

Yesterday I tackled the 6ft gooseberry plants,  probably a bit late. They had all dropped branches to the floor and replicated themselves (not sure what this is called), so they had to come out too.

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Layering.

It's an easy method of increasing your stock

https://www.rhs.org.uk/propagation/layering

carinjo

Farway said:

ladybird1106 said:

Yesterday I tackled the 6ft gooseberry plants,  probably a bit late. They had all dropped branches to the floor and replicated themselves (not sure what this is called), so they had to come out too.

Love 🐞

Layering.

It's an easy method of increasing your stock

https://www.rhs.org.uk/propagation/layering

Oh i love this idea. Tried propagating Monty Don style and it worked really well. But the layering method can be done in place where your bushes grow!
The greenhouse min max for the last few days was 0.7C/38.6C! Love the little temperature gauge we got. 
Yesterday was a very productive day on allotment. Ms C done flower seeds in trays and a few rows of beetroot and lettuce in greenhouse.
We also done red sun shallots with fabric weedsuppressing, covered to protect against pigeons.
Finally i done a few rows of lettuce and beetroot under glass in the gladioli raised bed.
Ms C just put the first layer of varnish on the newly painted potting bench, seed planting shall commence tomorrow!

ladybird1106

Thanks farway.
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