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Veg patch at work? Unusual, is it a massive mansion or stg?
Jerusalems, garlic and asparagus all planted to join the onions which are starting to recover from winter. Strawbs planted and terraced beds built for rapsberries & fruit bushes. Bit of a bonus to get all this done before April thanks to good weather.
Anyone else with advanced planting plans?
Yet another daft gardening question - how do you know if compost is "done". And how do you fill & empty those dalek shaped bins? I have more than one, so I presume one is being filled while the other is doing it's stuff.
There's a limit to what you can get to through the little hatch, is it better to, when it's fully cooked, remove the entire bin & take all the contents out? then reposition the bin itself?
Stop Press... We shared our first asparagus spear of the year yesterday.......
Just wish we could grow more than one at once
One between the family doesn't sound like alot, Dave! But it tasted divine, it's one of my favourite vegetables. It's on my list of things to grow, but I keep missing the planting window... Oh, and don't quite know where to put it.
There's only 2 of us....
We have planted a dozen heads, But even after 6 years they seem to arrive one at once
One is better than nowt.
My allotment neighbour has planted 20 crowns in a 3ft x 7ft bed....hmmm.
Still finishing the cabbages and kale from the winter - the crop that keeps on giving
Not sure about compost but when it's done it presumably doesn't seem much llike raw composty stuff any longer?**
**(displays monumental gardening ignorance)
Love this time of year
We have rhubarb. Lots and lots of rhubarb. Better start collecting jam jars and get that bucket ready for the next rhubarb wine.
Quite why I planted 4 plants I'll never know. They are all different, 3 are small but the 4th is huge no it's HUGE.
Please can I have some of your Rhubarb. Despite being one of the easiest plants to grow it always dies in my blooming garden. I've resorted to putting it in pots this time.
hehehe Emmy-bug. I got label wotsits this year. They're fab
although it does take the element of surprise away.
@Happychap... I did it last year thinking "i'll remember which one is which...." until I moved them out of the way and they got jumbled together.
I wish i could grow rhubarb - it dies in my garden too...
My rhubarb isn't looking elephantine, but it only went in this time last year, so I'll not pick too heavily. might manage a stalk or two though...
I bought those black stick things with a white marker. So I can tell the difference between carrots & parsnips. not much in it at the moment.
Any experts with cherry tomatoes? Im a novice gardener to say the least and have planted seeds which have now grown in the conservatory and are now about 3-4 inches high in their respective pots. When do I transfer them to a growbag in my garden? I have one of those small poly greenhouses but im desperate for them to not die!!! any guidance from expert gardeners appreciated!
that's what I'm doing with my toms at the mo as I don't plan to plant them outside until the end of this month when the risk of frost is pretty much gone.
Have racked more soil over the pots to protect from the frost.
Hello all
Glad it's April showers, everything is getting a nice drink and making it grow...... downside is, so are the weeds!
Sweet Pea question from my friend.... when can she plant them? She lives in Birmingham.
Happychap, envious of your raised beds, but we'll have them one day. Got the stuff to do them, we just need to get them done!
My F-i-L is growing some baby rhubarb for me, can't wait until it's done. I've just been into our local farm shop and it seems to be a ridiculous price!
if they are already growing in pots indoors, they need to go out to harden off and then plant up
end of April/early May is a good time to get most plants into the soil as the risk of frost has mainly passed but with the cold weather at the mo you need to be careful planting out tender seedlings. my toms have been outside hardening off but they's in shelter again now with the heavy rain and cool winds as I can see they're getting affected by it
I managed to get half the soil into the beds yesterday in a dry patch between the deluges. So got some more beets, cabbages and sprouts in.
Squish, I can send Toucs up to you if you like? But be warned. His 'C' is CSE woodwork was a fluke I think...
Waterlogged. Strawbs and garlic look happy but don't dare plant anything until/unless the weather improves.
There was an interesting bit on Gardeners World the other day about growing on hotbeds - some fella was harvesting spuds, salads etc in March as all his beds were on top of 12-24 inchs piles of fresh manure. Must have been literally tons of the stuff - if one could get hold of it and move it, it looks like a stellar way to grow. Anyone tried hotbeds?
the Victorians were into it big time - many of the big estate gardens had hotbeds, often under purpose made glasshouses. but then they had the money and staff to do the graft. their gold standard was to grow a ripe pineapple - and many succeeded.
Lots of planting today, including Hamburg parsley - anyone tried/succeeded with this odd veg?
My spuds finally went in the ground yesterday - after sitting on the windowsill for weeks!
Slightly concerned that the carrot & parsnip seeds that went in a month ago are showing signs of doing bugger all. Ho hum. Finally got the grow bags, and will get the greenhouse populated.
And the newly planted plum tree has budded, so at least it seems to have survived planting (always a risk with me around)
Parsnips have known for having a slow germination esp when its cold. No sign of mine yet either. It doesn't help that they've been under water for two weeks, even in the raised beds
Off out into the garden today to survey the damage caused by the weather.