Growing stuff.

[calumscott]

Inspired by the fact that we have a big veggie plot and a greenhouse in the garden of our grown-up pad (I say our, I mean the bank's of course, the first mortgage statement tells me that I own a small shrub and the land on which it grows just to the left of the back lawn...) we spent the weekend planting stuff...

...a bit late.

Tatties (two varieties), Garlic, Beetroot and Carrots in the veg plot.

Tomatoes (three varieties), Peppers, Chillies and Cucumbers in the greenhouse.

Finally 10 different herbs from basil to rosemary via parsley and mint to grow out in big pots...

Oh, and the grape vine is looking nice and green - my hackery hasn't killed it! :party:

Oh, and the first cut of rhubarb yielded 2kg - two crumbles and a start to the freezer stock for rhubarb wine. :thumb:

 

[RokDok]

Fantastic to grow your own veg.

I'm a bit worried that you haven't mentioned hops.

RD

 

[calumscott]

I'm a bit worried that you haven't mentioned hops.

Never say never...

 

[One eye]

me tats are up, oinion sets are growig, runner beans carrots tomatoes and sweet corn in greenhouse rhubarb is lovely,

4 new apple trees grown from seed, 1 Mango tree ( 10 inches high lol ) grown from seed saved from Mango fruit from supermarket,

Montana climbing, flowered today, last year flowered on 18th April just shows how late things are due to the bad weather

 

[Tim_Crowhurst]

Sounds all good. Make sure you put in a load of French marigolds alongside the tomatoes, peppers, chillis and courgettes. The marigolds will kill off nematodes that would attack them. Plus you can use the flowers to make wine. Also, if you plant any kind of bean, put the courgettes nearby. They'll benefit from the nitrogen that gets fixed by the beans.



I'm heading over to my allotment today, to finish getting the ground ready and to get my beetroot, parsnips and spinach in. I've also got courgettes, potimarron squash, broad beans, French & African marigolds, potatoes, nasturtiums and loads of herbs.

 

[graysalchemy]

Very jealous, all we manage to grow in our garden is next doors Leylandii which are now taller than the house, and destroying our fence. :evil: :evil:

 

[Tim_Crowhurst]

Very jealous, all we manage to grow in our garden is next doors Leylandii which are now taller than the house, and destroying our fence. :evil: :evil:

The ground underneath should be good for blueberries and other acid-loving plants - if you get enough sunlight!

 

[graysalchemy]

Very jealous, all we manage to grow in our garden is next doors Leylandii which are now taller than the house, and destroying our fence. :evil: :evil:

The ground underneath should be good for blueberries and other acid-loving plants - if you get enough sunlight!

Thats the problem we don't get any of that either. :evil: :evil:

 

[Russ146]

Sounds all good. Make sure you put in a load of French marigolds alongside the tomatoes, peppers, chillis and courgettes. The marigolds will kill off nematodes that would attack them. Plus you can use the flowers to make wine. Also, if you plant any kind of bean, put the courgettes nearby. They'll benefit from the nitrogen that gets fixed by the beans.



I'm heading over to my allotment today, to finish getting the ground ready and to get my beetroot, parsnips and spinach in. I've also got courgettes, potimarron squash, broad beans, French & African marigolds, potatoes, nasturtiums and loads of herbs.

Marigolds and Nasturtiums are brilliant for confusing the scents so the carrot and onion flies cant find the veg plus Naturtium flowers make a colourful and peppery addition to a salad, i love them

 

[stuey]

Very jealous, all we manage to grow in our garden is next doors Leylandii which are now taller than the house, and destroying our fence. :evil: :evil:

The ground underneath should be good for blueberries and other acid-loving plants - if you get enough sunlight!

Thats the problem we don't get any of that either. :evil: :evil:

Have you thought about the High Hedges process?

 

[PD]

apple trees from seeds ?

You might have to wait many years for any appreciable fruit...

Better off getting a couple of ready grown grafted trees in

 

[Titus A Duxass]

I bought the wife a 8x4 metre poly tunnel, she's got 8 sorts of toms, 5 or 6 types of chilies, aubergines and peppers on the go now Along with 4 varieties of beetroot and various salad veg.

Outside we have parsnips, sprouts garlic, 4 onion varieties (about 100 in total), 120 pink fir apple spuds, a raft of beans, red/white/black currants, Tay berries, josta berries, asparagus, rhubarb and a raft of beans.

The peas are going in soon along with 120 leeks and multicoloured carrots.

And that lot only uses a third of the garden.

Then we've got 5 sorts of apple, pear, quince, sour cherry, sweet cherry and some sort of special plum.

 

[PD]

what does she do after breakfast ?
:grin:

Keep em busy that's the style...

 

[graysalchemy]

The ground underneath should be good for blueberries and other acid-loving plants - if you get enough sunlight!

Thats the problem we don't get any of that either. :evil: :evil:

Have you thought about the High Hedges process?

Just had a look at the Hedgeline campaign here.

Thanks :thumb: :thumb:

 

[Titus A Duxass]

what does she do after breakfast ?
:grin:

Keep em busy that's the style...

Cleans out the 9 chickens.

 

[Megaross]

I have a courtyard which is surrounded on all sides so gets no light and is full of my housemates kayaks and bikes
Going one poultry chilli plant in the windowsill.

Moving soon though, hopefully to somewhere with a garden, I can get my grow on.
If I started growing tomatoes I'd be in the money, I'm tomato addicted, eat loads of them throughout the day, kilos a week.

 

[PD]

:thumb: :thumb:

 

[fbsf]

I bought the wife a 8x4 metre poly tunnel...And that lot only uses a third of the garden.

I wish. 8x4m pretty much is my garden. And apparently turning over all of the grass to a veggie patch isn't appropriate for a family garden. :cry:

 

[JimmyB78]

I have a courtyard which is surrounded on all sides so gets no light and is full of my housemates kayaks and bikes
Going one poultry chilli plant in the windowsill.

Moving soon though, hopefully to somewhere with a garden, I can get my grow on.
If I started growing tomatoes I'd be in the money, I'm tomato addicted, eat loads of them throughout the day, kilos a week.

you could grow a couple of dwarf tomato plants on your windowsill along with the chilli. We did some a few years ago and got a good crop of cherry toms from them. Dwarf ones are also good to do in hanging baskets if you have a sunny bit of wall.

I need to get out and start planting, have got tomatoes, corgettes and cucumbers ready to go now, but I need to build the raised beds first or it'll be another year before do them. Also going to get some peas, French beans and various salad leafs going shortly. Salad pots are already in their bags. Then see what space we have left before deciding what else to plant.

 

[BarnsleyBrewer]

Tried a few bits the other year... planted some spuds in pots, plenty of green leaves and only a few spuds so wasn't really worth the hastle for me...
If I had a bigger garden to plant things in the soil I might have tried again but sadly I haven't. :cry:

So I'll stick whi Morry-Bobs & ASDA....... ASDA being the no.1 choice because our daughter works there so we've got a cheeky 10% discount card!!

BB