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

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Hi Doom and Gloom
Thanks very much for you're help, one thing we started off from seed in the house that we have got to look forward is peppers. At the moment they are still in the house. Will they survive outside in a raised bed?

I'm pleased to hear that we might be able to get away with onion sets, I wanted to give this a go. Can't wait to get started.

Thanks again:o

Brassic

jtb2412 wrote: »

Brassic ....... your garden looks great too !....
I'm kind of enjoying 'escaping' to the greenhouse in the afternoons/early evenings while dinner is cooking - even if it's just to check on everything !

Keep the pictures coming everyone !

Thanks jtb, I'm pleased but have so many plans for next year

I enjoy the escape too, but work 12 hour shifts, so the last couple of days have been up just before 5.30 so I can water them all before I go to work <yawn>.

Brassic

kayjay1809

Thanks to everyone who's posted pics on here, very inspiring! I only have strawberries and herbs but we're working on the garden to give us a small veg plot for next year so I will continue to lurk here for ideas :T

Primrose

JTB - If you're thinking of sowing parsnips for the first time, remember that they are very slow to germinate and can take up to 28 days so you may get very small plants this winter. You can speed up the process by putting the seed on wet tissue paper in a saucer. After about 10 days you will see tiny little white shoots appearing. As soon as you see them plant them out quickly, preferably on a thin layer of damp compost to speed things up. I normally sow my parsnips around March as they need a long growing season and this year tried the damp tissue paper method and as soon as the shoots started to appear, planted them in compost in empty loo rolls. This really got them off to a flying start and when the shoots are between 1 & 2 inches high, you can just dig deep holes and plant out the whole loo roll as it will slowly decompose over the summer. (a good way of recycling loo roll inners too).

MRSMCAWBER

Morning all

Just an update on the veggies most things are going great guns All of the flowers are nearly off the broad beans..leaving loads of pods behind ..about 7-10 days and i will be starting to fetch those off...Yesterday i had to go round tying up the tomato plant trusses as there are that many flowers on -i know they are going to need help 1 of the tomatoes now has over 100 flowers/buds on 1 lot of potatoes are flowering and will be ready to pull up soon...hope everyone elses crops are on their way

~Chameleon~

Wow!!! That's looking great Mrs Mc, well done!!! :T :T

It's amazing how much you can achieve growing in pots

jtb2412

Primrose wrote: »

JTB - If you're thinking of sowing parsnips for the first time, remember that they are very slow to germinate and can take up to 28 days so you may get very small plants this winter. You can speed up the process by putting the seed on wet tissue paper in a saucer. After about 10 days you will see tiny little white shoots appearing. As soon as you see them plant them out quickly, preferably on a thin layer of damp compost to speed things up. I normally sow my parsnips around March as they need a long growing season and this year tried the damp tissue paper method and as soon as the shoots started to appear, planted them in compost in empty loo rolls. This really got them off to a flying start and when the shoots are between 1 & 2 inches high, you can just dig deep holes and plant out the whole loo roll as it will slowly decompose over the summer. (a good way of recycling loo roll inners too).

Thanks for the help Primrose ! I've just realised (by reading the packet) that i'm probably too late for the parsnips ! Grrrrrr - tis a shame cause I love them! They will definitely be on the list for next year though. I've copied, pasted and printed out your advice and put it in with my seed box ready for next year so thanks again :beer: .

Mrs Macawber (think I spelt that right ! ) you're looking fantastic there ! Am envious of you - we're a few weeks behind you - must be exciting knowing you're nearly at 'harvesting' stage !

Just quickly, a bit of advice needed about my dwarf beans - do they need something to 'climb'? They're about a foot tall but looking as if they need to climb up something - should I put a cane in? Any advice appreciated !

hathor

jtb: dunno for sure (shades of "blind leading the blind" here) but when I planted my dwarf beans I was told that they sort of support one another, on account of they don't achieve anything like the height of regular beans. (My pot has two staggered rows of peas & beans.)

I'll be watching out for further advice on here, though!

Good luck

MRSMCAWBER

Hi there

I have some dwarf beans and have given them canes and string as support... mind they have 5ft canes as i didn't know they were dwarf to start with :rotfl: ...the canes will give them a better chance against the winds and keep them a little safer from the slugs etc.... Have allready had a few beans off and have more ready by the weekend:j

jtb2412

hathor wrote: »

jtb: dunno for sure (shades of "blind leading the blind" here) but when I planted my dwarf beans I was told that they sort of support one another, on account of they don't achieve anything like the height of regular beans. (My pot has two staggered rows of peas & beans.)

I'll be watching out for further advice on here, though!

Good luck

Lol :rotfl: you're right about the blind leading the blind ! I think all of my greenfingeredness (is that a word!? lol) has come from MSE, the internet in general or my MIL !

I've put a cane up by the side of them and just supported them with a bit of string as they seem to be having a bit of trouble standing up (live by the sea and there is a constant breeze here).

Just popped in for a cuppa after sowing some cauliflower (for next year, says sow now for next year on the packet ), more radishes, more beetroot, more lettuce and have just pricked out my little flower seedlings and put them into a pot in my wishing well . I dare not do any more, hubby will have a fit if he has to dig up more of the lawn ! :shocked:

Some info for us newbies (you probably already know this ), I found out today (after ringing my MIL) not to worry about ants on plants - they eat the aphids/greenfly ! I saw loads of ants going up and down the stems of my blackcurrant bush cuttings and got worried they were eating it ! MIL told me to go and look closely at the stem and sure enough, they were eating loads of little green bugs on the stem so yay for the ants !!!! :T

Off to potter about again and see what else I can do :whistle: