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Head just about above water....
Day at a time... Y'know.
Always think of you when I'm weeding my strawberry bed or passing the "Doolin Ferry" signs
It's a common reaction.
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Head just about above water....
Day at a time... Y'know.
Always think of you when I'm weeding my strawberry bed or passing the "Doolin Ferry" signs
Leeks, squash, peas, cabbage. Sounds like a plan. I would love to grown rasps as well. Are they easy?Loads of advice on the RHS site, but if you are a beginner I would go for a combination of things that you like, and things that you can't go wrong with i.e. aren't too much of a faff to grow or are not too prone to diseases/pests. In the second category are leeks, potatoes, runner beans, pumpkins (if you've got kids they'll love the fast growing pumpkins). Brassicas are a class apart from those you buy in the shops, but need protection from cabbage root fly (put discs of old felt around their roots) and butterflies (net them, or check every day and brush the little yellow eggs off) and slugs and snails (you need to be out with a torch every night while they're young, and you need to seek and destroy with no mercy). Sweet corn is also a revelation after shop bought. Do some fruit as well - hard to go wrong with strawberries.
I don't know about the rabbit shit but suspect not.
Leeks, squash, peas, cabbage. Sounds like a plan. I would love to grown rasps as well. Are they easy?
yes piece of piss. just stick 'em in the ground.Leeks, squash, peas, cabbage. Sounds like a plan. I would love to grown rasps as well. Are they easy?
Leeks, squash, peas, cabbage. Sounds like a plan. I would love to grown rasps as well. Are they easy?
I don't know about the rabbit shit but suspect not.
Not greenhouse but a polytunnel... Tomatoes and cucumber as well as chillis do really well in it.It must be the weekend for it. I've been down the garden centre today and been sat at the dining table most of the afternoon, making up my planting plan. I'm not starting most things off for another month, but will get some leeks going on the windowsill in the next couple of days.
Has anyone had much success with greenhouse growing? What do you grow and what does well?
I got one a few years ago. It is brilliant for starting off seeds but apart from cucumbers, I have not had that much success. Two small peppers and tomatoes have been rubbish. The toms I have put outside have been rubbish too the last few tears, so I am going to buy from a different source this year.
Unfortunately I don't have the garden for it so have a box with a few pepper plants. Plus I grow tomatoes and tobacco for work anyway.
Don't know if it is just bad luck or bad management, but each time I have tried to grow chill is they ended up being greenfly magnets.chillis
Never had that, are you growing them outside?Don't know if it is just bad luck or bad management, but each time I have tried to grow chill is they ended up being greenfly magnets.
i've tried it in a greenhouse and in a poltytunnel.Never had that, are you growing them outside?
I think that might be your problem. Try them outside.i've tried it in a greenhouse and in a poltytunnel.
Encourage ladybirds. We have dozens of them overwinter in our sash windows. With the warmer weather, they are all over the shop at the minute. Keep on sweeping the poor little mites up.i've tried it in a greenhouse and in a poltytunnel.
Will they live ? This is the North, you know...I think that might be your problem. Try them outside.
Them lot must cost you a bomb!It's February, it's time to be thinking happy thoughts about what you'll be planting and eating this year.
I grow from seedlings not seed as I don't have a greenhouse and also have some time constraints. So just put my order in for:
tomatoes
summer cabbage
savoy cabbage
broccoli (calabrese)
purple sprouting broccoli
sprouts
celeriac
courgette
leek
pak choi
peas
broad beans
dwarf French beans
runners
aubergine
chillis
butternut squash
sweetcorn
Heavy on the brassicas this year. Love my brassicas me like.
@Cowvahlo @spitfire
I know there are more of us veg growers, sorry for not tagging everyone, can't remember who else is in.