2017 GROWING THREAD

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  1. "M"

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    Ok, then that rules out roast/microwave :heehee:
    So: boiled/mashed/steamed or stir fry?
     
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    Boiled then :)

    I'll go for my favorite serving suggestion, "why not serve with asparagus tips and a knob of butter" :)
     
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      my poppies will be a mystery.
       
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      Perennials or annuals, redstar???:mad::snork:
       
    • Phil A

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      Got my bit of the plot weeded and raked over where I could :) DSCI0001 (8).JPG

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      Tiddies are up :)
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      Sank a bucket with no bottom in to keep the mint under control.

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        First Strawberry flower :spinning: DSCI0004 (3).JPG
         
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        • Scrungee

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          I've been having a sort out of my seeds, haven't found the ones I recently mislaid but found the Bridgwater Beans given to me by @Zigs How are they grown?
           
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          • Phil A

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            You keep some in your pocket, then sneak them into flower pots or bean poles at Shineyland :heehee: DSCN2101.JPG

            That's one behind I in the pub :snork:

            Same as runners really :)
             
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              Are the whole pods eaten when young, mature seeds dried for later use, or both?
               
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                Both :)
                 
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                  Sowing so far:

                  Basil 2
                  Broad Beasns
                  Carrots
                  Celery 2
                  Chillies 3
                  China Aster
                  Corriander
                  Fennel 2
                  French Beans
                  Leef Beet/Perpetual Spinach
                  Leeks 4
                  Lettuce 26
                  Nicotania
                  Parsley
                  Parsnips
                  Peas
                  Radishes
                  Rudbeckia 3
                  Spring Onions 2
                  Statice
                  Strawflowers
                  Sweet Peas 2
                  Sweet William
                  Tagetes
                  Tomatoes 19


                  Numbers are different varieties. Everything so far sown indoors, using propagators where required (5 x Sankey 50w Plantmasters) and using my big growlight box to boost light levels. Next month I'll put the greenhouse heating on, bring my 6th Plantmaster into use, together with a 600mm x 1200mm thermostically controlled heat mat and 2nd growlight box.

                  Only 4 days before it really gets going :yikes:
                   
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                  • Phil A

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                    Dashboard garden is coming on

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                    3 Kelsaes, 2 plum tomatoes a wild strawberry and a pot of chives reduced to 5p at morrisons :)
                     
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                        Sowed parsnip on the plot
                        Just sowed (cuz I didn't do it when I said.. naughty, naughty)

                        cabbages x3 types (not rootclub resistant so not for plot)
                        swede invitation
                        par-cel
                        celery x 2
                        Hamburg parsley
                        flat parsley
                        perpetual spinach
                        Spinach
                        spring onions
                        tomatoes x10 types
                        garlic chives
                        bog standard chives
                        chard silver something
                        digitalis laviegata and lutea
                        ricinus communis /castor oil plant

                        more latana camara, rudbeckia choc fudge (other ones have had 100% germination!?) cosmos picotee, penstemon, malva, last of the salvia forssakoli seed - all no shows or I'm too impatient, take your pick.

                        Peas x 3 in gutters tomorrow and carrots x 4, long ones in pots and short ones on plot and some pickling onion on plot.
                         
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                          Just a small update.

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                          You will be happy to hear that most of the radishes survived, although, on the downside, the regimented straight lines have gone somewhat awry.
                           
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