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

Primrose

Suzie - if your climbing beans are getting too tall, plant them out and wrap your climbing bean frame permanently in white garden fleece for a couple of weeks at least. It won't harm the beans but hopefully will protect them enough on cold nights to get them through without them being killed. I sowed mine too early one year and simply had to plant them out because they were getting too tall. This process worked for me. Your peppers are best kept indoor until June. The flowers are self fertile so don't need insects to pollinate them but they can go outside during daytime if we get a really warm day as long as you bring them in again once the sun goes down and the temperature starts falling, otherwise the drop in temperature could cause your baby peppers to drop off.

blackcoffee

We have just sifted and weeded though last years strawbery plants, and now have about 15 very healthy looking plants out in our mini greenhouse.

Our garden is north facing unfortunatly,but we have successfully only grown strawberries in the past, but last year the rain killed all the fruit ! grr ! hence purchase of mini greenhouse !

I have a very succesul pot full of mint. ( my only herb)

My daughter has this morning planted onions and leeks. We have 2 huge plastic pots and Im hoping they will transplant ok from our downstairs toilet window sill, which is the hotest room in the house.

Im hoping to get some tumbling toms, for the hanging baskets at the front of our house.

any tips would be appreciated !! we have little growing space, so everything will be grown in pots and tubs !

hathor

I need to start some strawberry plants from seed PDQ, and would like some advice about how many plants I will need.

They are Alpine strawberries, and will be going into a hanging basket with a top diameter of 11 inches. It’s a “solid-bowl” type of hanging basket, not the kind where you can poke plants through the liner into the underside of the bowl; there’s just the top surface. It’s a self-watering one, so getting water to the roots shouldn’t be a problem.

Do you think I should put in 3, 4, or 6 plants? I’ll sow extra seeds, of course, in case some don’t germinate or I need some spares, but I don’t want to waste seeds by starting plants I can’t use.

How many tumbling toms would you put in another basket of the same size?

sistercas

SuzieMum wrote: »

I was asking mainly because I don't know the last frost dates and any suggestions for keeping them under control indoors as they are going towards the windows and up the frames, I was wondering if anyone had any ideas for keeping them non-tangled, or maybe someone would have said just put them out they will be fine. Never mind.

Suziemum i have found a really good gardening website HERE if you put in where abouts you live it will tell you when and what to plant and when the frosts are over

Lotu-eater I must admit I thought the ruler was going to be a gardening tip too lol

Jolaaled

Pic of my new raised bed..lettuces and rocket doing ok so far, but have no idea which are radishes and which are weeds.
I hope I've made it deep enough..the soil has settled loads since I first filled it back in March!

Lotus-eater

sistercas wrote: »

Suziemum i have found a really good gardening website HERE if you put in where abouts you live it will tell you when and what to plant and when the frosts are over

Lotu-eater I must admit I thought the ruler was going to be a gardening tip too lol

Life is not all hard work and compost you know Due to demand I will try to think of a gardening tip with a short ruler.

That web site isn't that accurate at frost dates, just so you know, don't take it as gospel.

Jolaaled

I've also put together this makeshift 'coldframe'. Working well so far.

hathor

Uses for a short ruler: measuring between planting positions, measuring depth of planting holes, supporting low-growing crops (:rotfl:cress, anybody?), checking size of pots, depth of soil, as a plant label (one-time use, that one!), flicking away caterpillars, scooping individual portions of salt onto slugs, stirring coffee (not after doing all the above, of course)

There must be more, surely...

(Only kidding, lotus-eater)

Lotus-eater

Yeah, one of those ^

:rotfl:

TheBees

SUZIEMUM AND LOTUSEATER - I think I put my Dwarf Beans out too early. I rushed out and bought some fleece today as they were looking a bit droopy and the temperature's dropped a lot. I'm just too impatient and wish I'd kept them indoors a little longer!:D

Still have cucumbers and tomatoes on the lounge windowsill which aren't going outside until the middle of May... No sign of my spring onions outside in the growbag but I can just see a few specks of green poking through where I've planted my first ever lettuces. These are also covered in fleece.

TheBees have made a major decision. At the end of our garden we had a wall built and planned to fill the bank in behind with topsoil and plant it up with attractive shrubs. Now after a lot of thinking we have decided to turn the bank into a vegetable patch so I have a lot of digging over to do. If it fails then we can always go back to the shrub idea but if we get a good supply of veg then great. Will take some photos tomorrow!:rotfl: