Show Us Your Veg Patch - You Know You Want To!! (Merged Thread)

Lotus-eater

huxley wrote: »

and I need help from you clever lovely people my cherry tree is not looking well, all of a sudden leaves have started to curl and seem to have lots of black eggs on the underside of the leaves

Its either peach leaf curl or aphids

Aphids soft soap should sort it very quickly. Btw I mean sort the aphids, not the curling leaves, that will grow out, or you can just pick off the tips, which is where I'm guessing the problems are?

Primrose

Huxley - lovely display of foxgloves. The joy of them is that they self seed so you never have to spend money replacing them ! When I see that garden centres are charging about £4.99 per potted foxglove, you could be sitting on a fortune !

huxley

Thank you Lotus-eater, I will have a go with the soapy water, when it stops raining:rolleyes: I will go and do battle

MRSMCAWBER

Morning all

Just thought id do an update... I spent yesterday moving around some of my potio as things were going crazy and fighting for space... including me n hubby :rotfl: I have now managed to squidge the table and benches i got at the weekend in so WE have somewhere to sit :j it was a super bargain..€30 and its aluminium, the table folds up and packs into the benches so you can take it out -but its really strong -the benches will take upto 250kilo each:eek:




I have moved the peppers into the tent for a bit of extra warmth... mind it was 80 in the shade indoors at 4pm yesterday :eek: thankfully this morning its a little drizzly so the plants will be gratefull
I got more sweet potato slips of the sweet potatoes i was sprutting so planted them out yesterday :T just hope they work..the first lot have rooted -so its a start :rotfl:
today i just need to set more watercress and spinach and move the courgettes/butternut squash i think..then it should be just a case of watering and waiting
Have been able to stop buying salad leaves now :j and am getting watercress, spinach and chard to use....
the broad bean flowers are starting to drop off so beans are appearing
lots of flowers on the peas and beans..and a few pea pods pinched allready
the tomatoes, courgettes, chillies and peppers are flowering too :T
can't wait to see everyones updates

Primrose

Mrs McCawber - can you please give detailed instructions on how you grow your watercress. We eat lots of it and it's expensive to buy so would like to try growing it. Does it keep regenerating, i.e. Cut & Come again or do you have to keep resowing?

Lizzieanne

Well, I've been following this thread with interest as I usually grow herbs in the garden and like to add a few tomato plants for the summer. I'm also trying out some garlic this year.

I mentioned this thread to Mr L a few weeks ago and said how nice it would be to perhaps have a small raised bed built for next year, so I could grow a few other bits and bobs.

He was obviously more keen than I thought, because it's now up and running! I've got a few seeds germinating indoors (Salad leaf and beans) but to start me off this year I've bought a few plants instead - leeks, peppers, courgette, aubergine and sweetcorn, as well as the garlic and tomatoes.

So now a small, redundant area of the garden now has a small raised bed and a nice selection of containers. This thread has really inspired me to give it a try and as soon as the rain stops I'll get a photograph.

Thanks everyone - now if only he got on with all the other jobs that need doing as quickly...

Jack's_mummy

Looking good Mrs M.

I found my first pea flowers yesterday so am well chuffed.

hathor

I've got my first two flowers on a tomato plant......Yippeee!
As in, my first two flowers....ever. I'm so excited.
My carrots and spring onions are through, and some sage and thyme seeds have just about poked some green above the "soil". A tiny little rocket plant I bought in a little square pot the size of a postage stamp and popped in between two tomato plants now has leaves about five or six inches long (high?), so I'll be having those on a sandwich this weekend when hubby comes home, if only by way of self-encouragement!
A butternut squash seed I put in a pot on the kitchen window has now sprouted a really thick stalk with a pair of leaves on: it looks so robust next to a pot with basil & marjoram, which are only about an inch high and look positively weedy (in the other, non-gardening sense) by comparison. Try to imagine Mike Tyson beside George Formby, in their singlets!
Still waiting for some peas & beans to germinate, but a couple of sunny afternoons should do it, if the rest is any guide. It was foggy most of the day yesterday, so it didn't get as warm as it has been of late. A hazard of being at the coast, I guess.

Mudbath

I love all the photos. I got ever so excited yesterday when we saw that the beetroot on DD's mini allotment have sprouted, the onions are starting to grow and we've got flowers on the tomato plants. It's this time of year that you know all the hard work has been worth it xx

kazwookie

I have strawberries starting to form,:T

And what ever was eating the salad leaves has not stopped!! :rotfl: and the leaves seem to be recovering!

Spuds are getting a real move on, and it is pouring down here so all is good.