Mine. Used to always do so well. The indoor chillies and sweet peppers have faired better.
The only things of mine that have done well are the peppers, tomatoes, spinach and carrots. Everything else died as small plants or they just didn't even grow to begin with!
The only things of mine that have done well are the peppers, tomatoes, spinach and carrots. Everything else died as small plants or they just didn't even grow to begin with!
I pretty much gave up on the allotment around mid July.
Beetroot and French Beans came good, Onions were OK.
Have some leeks and kale which seems top be doing ok along with a few varietys of squash.
Everything else just either didn't take off or was a disappointment.
I have a pepper plant that has just started thriving when an item fell on it and broke the main stalk! I was gutted after waiting all this time for it to start producing. I picked it up and put it into a vase with water and the leaves have come back to life. Is it possible for it to continue growing like this? Would it be possible if I added plant food to the water?
BTW, the plant was given to me and the person didn't know what type of pepper it was (it was randomly selected at their workplace), so I am not sure of the exact type of pepper it is. They look like a mild green jalapeno and one of them is quite big.
This year apart from the new spuds that I grew in the poly tunnel all my outside ones drowned. All my brassica's came to nothing. The only things that have done ok are in my poly tunnel and even then the toms peppers and aubergines are struggling to ripen.
I'm a complete novice at growing vegetables, can anyone give any suggestions of easy veggies I could grow right now or is it too late in the year?
Its really the last sowing Month;
Sow garlic cloves now for harvesting in Jun/Jul
I have just sown directly outside for my last lot of spinach perpetual, it grows ok down here in the South overwintering.
You can sow overwintering broad beans, giving them a head start for the spring.
You can sow carrots in a cold frame or greenhouse.
Sow onion sets for a harvesting mid summer
If you know anyone that has some spring cabbage plants, they can be planted out now.
Its really the last sowing Month;
Sow garlic cloves now for harvesting in Jun/Jul
I have just sown directly outside for my last lot of spinach perpetual, it grows ok down here in the South overwintering.
You can sow overwintering broad beans, giving them a head start for the spring.
You can sow carrots in a cold frame or greenhouse.
Sow onion sets for a harvesting mid summer
If you know anyone that has some spring cabbage plants, they can be planted out now.
Thanks, that's quite a good selection, more than I thought. I'm in the south also, but I don't have a greenhouse or anything like that, I'm a complete novice but I just want to start growing my own basic veggies.
I'll have a look in b&q gardening section see what they have. Could I just sow some seeds, so they come up in the Spring?
Thanks, that's quite a good selection, more than I thought. I'm in the south also, but I don't have a greenhouse or anything like that, I'm a complete novice but I just want to start growing my own basic veggies.
I'll have a look in b&q gardening section see what they have. Could I just sow some seeds, so they come up in the Spring?
yep all seeds except the garlic cloves, you can use supermarket ones, but really you should buy proper garlic gloves for growing, just split out the cloves from the bulb and sow each one.
A small home made cloche will be fine, just to protect from the cold then, build your own something like this here;
yep all seeds except the garlic cloves, you can use supermarket ones, but really you should buy proper garlic gloves for growing, just split out the cloves from the bulb and sow each one.
A small home made cloche will be fine, just to protect from the cold then, build your own something like this here;
I think I'll give the seeds a go, I like spring cabbage, potatoes and carrots. Do I have to crop rotate? I have an awful lot of weeding to do first though, my garden is like a jungle at the mo.
Hello all - hope you all had/are having a good year for fruit and veg.
A lot of family stuff got in the way for me this year so I decided to take the year off growing anything but am looking forward to getting back to it for the next year!
An horseradish specialists out there? I love the stuff and can't find the fresh anywhere in Swansea anymore. So about two years ago I planted some 'pieces' I bought from Wyevale' - they've seemed small when I had a peek last year while I moved a little bit of earth - the leaves have been huge! Now I can see a small but spilt piece poking out of the ground - I know you have to take it out leaving a bit if root in but when should I take it? If it's still small, is that normal too?
Thanks in anticipation - I will check back for any advice I'm grateful for.
Btw, even my borage, chard, green beens, peas & broad been seemed confused this year. My 'forget me nots' have come & gone twice and are now emerging again!:eek:
An horseradish specialists out there? I love the stuff and can't find the fresh anywhere in Swansea anymore. So about two years ago I planted some 'pieces' I bought from Wyevale' - they've seemed small when I had a peek last year while I moved a little bit of earth - the leaves have been huge! Now I can see a small but spilt piece poking out of the ground - I know you have to take it out leaving a bit if root in but when should I take it? If it's still small, is that normal too?
Thanks in anticipation - I will check back for any advice I'm grateful for.
Btw, even my borage, chard, green beens, peas & broad been seemed confused this year. My 'forget me nots' have come & gone twice and are now emerging again!:eek:
^^^ AK ( love that username btw!:D) I did have hubby pull a little clump up & it was rather good!:eek::)
I wish I knew where to forage it wild & would love to obtain wild garlic too!
That chap on River Cottage who forages pig nuts etc - I'd love his knowledge, and would love to find & trust my instincts regarding mushrooms - tho' I'm probably better off in a supermarket with my eyesight these days.:rolleyes:
^^^ AK ( love that username btw!:D) I did have hubby pull a little clump up & it was rather good!:eek::)
I wish I knew where to forage it wild & would love to obtain wild garlic too!
That chap on River Cottage who forages pig nuts etc - I'd love his knowledge, and would love to find & trust my instincts regarding mushrooms - tho' I'm probably better off in a supermarket with my eyesight these days.:rolleyes:
thank you:cool:
horseradish grows all over the place and it`s easy to spot.
[they`re natural poppers too, incidentally].
i have absolutely no problem picking special mushrooms;) but culinary ones, i wouldn`t dare:rolleyes:@self.
Thanks for that AK! I'm going to save those pages and keep a look out - well I'll know the smell of those two anyway!
I remember going to the local Sunday market with my husband in Turkey last year - there was a lovely little woman selling a selection of beautiful looking mushrooms - but despite my love of them I just couldn't bring myself to buy them. It was my MIL's local market and hubby spoke with the woman but I didn't fancy my chances! MIL despises mushrooms from a bad childhood experience ( goodness knows what she ate!) so hubby and I bought the normal white, closed cup ones which were lovely. They look like our closed cap but have the texture of a chestnut mushroom.
They tend to use a lot of purslane out there too ( very bad if you have kidney stones - which my brother in law does, so we'll have to tell MIL). We don't tend to see it here anymore, well not that I know of.
My pepper plants are doing quite well as are my chives. All indoors.
Any advice for growing basil indoors? I've tried from seed a few times but no luck. Parsley, chives and corriander have always been good just having problems with basil.
I got one pepper (usually get about 10), 3 tomatoes medium size (usually get about 30 large). Carrots were small. Leeks, spring onions didn't even sprout. Lettuce died very quickly.
Potatoes, although I got a good yield were much smaller.
Spinach did very well. The brocolli seems to be going strong still.
I still have some early potatoes -Marilyn and Orla- in pots surviving the frosts. I had to lever up a half inch thick disc of frozen compost to get to them but they're fine. I brought in some orla for tea. Agree it has been a poor year overall though.
well it nearly time for me to get started. snag is, i plan to be away a lot in my little camper. i dont want to inflict too much work on my neighbour and i dont want stuff going to waste while im not there to pick it. so i thought i would grow potatoes, onions garlic and beetroot. just things i can leave to get on with it. can anyone suggest anything else please? not carrots cos i keep getting carrot fly so ive given up with them
I love my fresh herbs - when should I start looking out for them in pots at my local garden store? Sometimes I seem to miss out on chard etc. plus anyone have any luck with salsify? I tried, unsuccessfully to grow it from seed - I can't buy it locally & would love to try it.
This year I want to look out for different mints/ basil as in Thai: Vietnamese.
Started off my tomato seeds today, also have sown cucumber, sweet pepper and red and yellow beetroot which is just for baby leaves for salads.
A couple of weeks ago I got my cayenne and scotch bonnet chillies on the go which are all up now and doing well. Plus I planted some cabbages, red and greyhound. Which have been potted on today and should be ready in a few weeks to plant out:)
Fingers crossed for a good year this in the veg garden:)
Started off my tomato seeds today, also have sown cucumber, sweet pepper and red and yellow beetroot which is just for baby leaves for salads.
A couple of weeks ago I got my cayenne and scotch bonnet chillies on the go which are all up now and doing well. Plus I planted some cabbages, red and greyhound. Which have been potted on today and should be ready in a few weeks to plant out:)
Fingers crossed for a good year this in the veg garden:)
I am glad to have found the thread! I am a very amateur gardener - I grow basics like potatoes cabbage lettuce onions tomatoes etc mum in law picked up garden peas and brussel sprouts for me to try - my poly tunnel got battered in the recent winds but hopefully hubby will repair it for me soon - any advice re sprouts and peas I would be grateful!
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Mine. Used to always do so well. The indoor chillies and sweet peppers have faired better.
The only things of mine that have done well are the peppers, tomatoes, spinach and carrots. Everything else died as small plants or they just didn't even grow to begin with!
I pretty much gave up on the allotment around mid July.
Beetroot and French Beans came good, Onions were OK.
Have some leeks and kale which seems top be doing ok along with a few varietys of squash.
Everything else just either didn't take off or was a disappointment.
BTW, the plant was given to me and the person didn't know what type of pepper it was (it was randomly selected at their workplace), so I am not sure of the exact type of pepper it is. They look like a mild green jalapeno and one of them is quite big.
Any advice would be appreciated. Thank you.
Its really the last sowing Month;
Sow garlic cloves now for harvesting in Jun/Jul
I have just sown directly outside for my last lot of spinach perpetual, it grows ok down here in the South overwintering.
You can sow overwintering broad beans, giving them a head start for the spring.
You can sow carrots in a cold frame or greenhouse.
Sow onion sets for a harvesting mid summer
If you know anyone that has some spring cabbage plants, they can be planted out now.
Thanks, that's quite a good selection, more than I thought. I'm in the south also, but I don't have a greenhouse or anything like that, I'm a complete novice but I just want to start growing my own basic veggies.
I'll have a look in b&q gardening section see what they have. Could I just sow some seeds, so they come up in the Spring?
yep all seeds except the garlic cloves, you can use supermarket ones, but really you should buy proper garlic gloves for growing, just split out the cloves from the bulb and sow each one.
A small home made cloche will be fine, just to protect from the cold then, build your own something like this here;
I think I'll give the seeds a go, I like spring cabbage, potatoes and carrots. Do I have to crop rotate? I have an awful lot of weeding to do first though, my garden is like a jungle at the mo.
A lot of family stuff got in the way for me this year so I decided to take the year off growing anything but am looking forward to getting back to it for the next year!
Thanks in anticipation - I will check back for any advice I'm grateful for.
Btw, even my borage, chard, green beens, peas & broad been seemed confused this year. My 'forget me nots' have come & gone twice and are now emerging again!:eek:
i forage for wild horseradish.
I wish I knew where to forage it wild & would love to obtain wild garlic too!
That chap on River Cottage who forages pig nuts etc - I'd love his knowledge, and would love to find & trust my instincts regarding mushrooms - tho' I'm probably better off in a supermarket with my eyesight these days.:rolleyes:
horseradish grows all over the place and it`s easy to spot.
[they`re natural poppers too, incidentally].
http://www.vegetarianliving.co.uk/foraging.php?do=view&article=7
and garlic
http://www.deliciousmagazine.co.uk/articles/call-of-the-wild-garlic
i have absolutely no problem picking special mushrooms;) but culinary ones, i wouldn`t dare:rolleyes:@self.
Thanks for that AK! I'm going to save those pages and keep a look out - well I'll know the smell of those two anyway!
I remember going to the local Sunday market with my husband in Turkey last year - there was a lovely little woman selling a selection of beautiful looking mushrooms - but despite my love of them I just couldn't bring myself to buy them. It was my MIL's local market and hubby spoke with the woman but I didn't fancy my chances! MIL despises mushrooms from a bad childhood experience ( goodness knows what she ate!) so hubby and I bought the normal white, closed cup ones which were lovely. They look like our closed cap but have the texture of a chestnut mushroom.
They tend to use a lot of purslane out there too ( very bad if you have kidney stones - which my brother in law does, so we'll have to tell MIL). We don't tend to see it here anymore, well not that I know of.
Thanks again AK.:)
Any advice for growing basil indoors? I've tried from seed a few times but no luck. Parsley, chives and corriander have always been good just having problems with basil.
I got one pepper (usually get about 10), 3 tomatoes medium size (usually get about 30 large). Carrots were small. Leeks, spring onions didn't even sprout. Lettuce died very quickly.
Potatoes, although I got a good yield were much smaller.
Spinach did very well. The brocolli seems to be going strong still.
Any good winter veggies I can plant out now?
The start of another Gardening Year beckons...........blooming hope it`s not as wet as this year!!:D
This year I want to look out for different mints/ basil as in Thai: Vietnamese.
A couple of weeks ago I got my cayenne and scotch bonnet chillies on the go which are all up now and doing well. Plus I planted some cabbages, red and greyhound. Which have been potted on today and should be ready in a few weeks to plant out:)
Fingers crossed for a good year this in the veg garden:)
Ditto...summat in the air do you think?