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I've put the Artichokes in the garden out of the way rather than take up valuable raise bed space, just in case.
I'll keep an eye on the Comfrey FB, thanks for the tip. I don't want another Rocket fiasco. It took me bloody ages to get rid of it all. And of course the famous mint explosion. They never tell you this stuff on the label!
Mint just wont grow in my garden and I must have the smallest horseraddish ever.
I have a patch of ground where nothing will grow despite having changed the soil. I'll do it again this year but I think it's the councils weedkiller from the other side. 
Q. I had ome daisy flowers in a vase but now they are deadish, however the stems are rooting. If I cut the flower heads off and back down to the new shoots, will I get plants or just flowers? I have never propogated anything but tips before so flower tips were no good, but I don't know about longer stems.
Apart from that - my parsnips don't appear to be doing anything but the carrots and turnips seem to be ok. My cat is helping by moving all my onion sets around as he likes to roll in the mud. I shall have to net the boxes soon or I will find my girl cat asleep in them.
Hello all,
well I was almost going to be without an allotment this year, as the person who i shared with wasnt going to renew the subs, and it would have been too much to manage by myself. However, I managed to find an allotment buddy, so in fact there are three of us sharing one plot now. Which is actually quite good.
Had some asparagus over the weekend, and have so far planted:
Onions adn garlic (did this before xmas)
Early pots
Beetroot
Parsnips
hope to get some swedes and turnips in before too much longer and have some courgettes indoors that I want to get in the ground before easter as I goto Nepal for 3 weeks.
Seeds in raised bed today? Carrots, beet, lettuce and cabbage. Can't find my bliddy tomato seeds ???
Going to set some swede off in trays, oh yeah and some peas.
Afternoon all!
Lots happening at the Pineapple Estate:
Next steps:
- Successional sowings of salad and roots
- Plant second early spuds and then maincrops
- Start French beans going
- Then think about courgettes...
I love this time of year almost as much as the harvest - a time of promise and potential*!*Before everything gets damage by weather/pests...
Thanks for the reminder, FB
- I need to do the same...
I need to get my backside in gear - I need to make some more planters. I'm going to run out of time soon. My parsnips are still invisable. Everything else is making a show.
I have plenty of rhubarb.
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I have been digging and am dirty - next for some tying and caning. Anyone?
Maybe I should've used some labels afterall.
Spuds all planted. Second row of salads and roots sown.
Strawberry and raspberry flower buds forming nicely!
Any advice on what to do with an old tree stump please. Tree has obviously been cut down for some years, as the wood is quite papery in places. But it's a biggish size and it's right where I'm trying to dig out the flower bed for a vege patch (yes, I know it's late, but it'll be well prepared for next year...)
What's best approach? It's about 9 inches in diameter and has been cut off low to the ground, and I only found it when I started digging out the rest of the bed.
If in doubt, ignore all advice and go at it like a bull at a gate.
Dug large hole, used pruning saw to cut roots, pulled it apart (fortunately it had started to decay, so broke up reasonbly easily). Filled in big hole. Retired to the bath feeling the worse for wear - shoulders, arms, back & legs are making their opinion known on the subject 
On the plus side, I've dug over that portion of the vege patch really really well!
Quick numpty question - I wanted my potatoes in a different bed this year, and thought I'd got all of the pesky blighters, but three or four plants have just emerged (very late, so must have been pretty deep?) through my rocket seedlings
Do you think they'll be alright to dig up and plant with the others?
Morning all!
I'm never sure what to do with rogue spuds, Frodo - tend to get a few every year no matter how careful I am...
Depends on where they are - sometimes I just leave the plants to develop as normal, although obviously this means I'm not really doing crop rotation very effectively.
Otherwise I try and dig them up - I don't normally replant them elsewhere though as I don't really have the space.
Someone else on here might have more useful advice...
As for my little plot, it's going pretty welll. I've planted and/or sown just about everything I possibly can at this point.
Slight hitch, though...a frickin' freak hailstorm amid all the sunny weather on Saturday afternoon. Massive hailstones too!
It has shredded my rhubarb, I fear for the survival of my turnip and radish seedlings (but good job the salads are all under a polytunnel
), the open strawberry flowers are in tatters 
(although hopefully there are enough flowers left to get a reasonable crop...), and there's a (fixable, but still annoying) rip in the roof of the polythene greenhouse. 
I dunno...gardening's like my experiences of running. You get one thing sorted and something else comes along to bugger things up.
It's not too bad - the greenhouse withstood the storm much better than I'd expected, and I think I've got enough of everything to ensure things survive. But it's still disappointing that this happened just after I'd spent a couple of days working hard on it all...
Trials of life, eh?
Hail - that's nothing - try cats, why is it that as soon as there is a showing of green stuff my planters become cat beds? The sweeties. At least they guard the cherries from the starlings.
Gardening is always intereting Lady P.
I'd pull the rogue pots out as they may be harvesting nastys inside like fekkin slugs or parasites.
Hailstones LP ??? Are you in Siberia ???
Put some freebie courgette plants (donated by my Mum
Sheffield, Nicko!
Straight back to bright sunshine pretty soon after.
Colder today - I'm back at work though, so glad it was nice (hailstones aside) for the whole fortnight I had off.
Hello, fellow green-fingered peeps. Revamped my garden over the past six months with the help of my Dad so that I can have a serious go at this grow-you-own mularky. Grew some beans, pots, carrots and parsnips last year. Now I have some raised beds and have reclaimed garden space I didn't know I'd got, so am going for it in a serious manner!
Has anyone tried to grow sweet potatoes before? Any hints or tips?