2017 GROWING THREAD

Spudage



Watercress



Mint

 

Marrows are coming on well, these are the best/1st sown, plus there's a whole load of stragglers, 'difficult births', 2nd sowings, etc. coming on and being given intensive TLC. Really going for the 100 pounder this year. As with my pumpkins I'm now cutting back on the use of growlights to minimise distorted growth in first true leaves

 

@Zigs My Bridgwater bean seeds all failed to germinate, well one did but it had a small, thin, stunted root and no leaf shoot, all the others rotted, sown in a heated propagator where all my runners and french beans had over 90% germination, añd some were a few years old.

 

Oh bother Scrunge

Mine were a few years old, sowed them in the unheated greenhouse and they all came up

 

Re-sown thai long green beans have started showing as have the harrier squash a further sowings of mangetout. My last two golden courgette seeds have grown. These will have to replace the three that failed on the allotment (direct sown too early!).

 

Make sure you keep the wind off the long beans Snork, it killed mine stone dead

 

Ah had a feeling they might be a nuisance to grow. I couldn't believe how quickly the first batch were affected. Seems like it would be best to grow them in the greenhouse!

 

Think they're a bit tender for our climate

 

I might actually just grow them in the greenhouse! Trying to grow lots of thai stuff as love cooking thai food.

I've got a kaffir lime tree which has been brilliant-actually does better left outside over winter than being brought inside. Dont expect to grow any kaffir limes on it but use the leaves alot.

Hoping my thai basil does well-and the lemongrass. Anyone done lemongrass from seed before??

 

Bit small.. Couldn't resist seeing how they were growing

 

Look good to me

 

Pudding

 

Runners ready for planting out.

Sowing in individual fibre pots, germinating in propagators, then potting on into 2L deep rose pots with sticks works so much better than sowing in cell trays and returning from hols to find them in a tangled mess.



Giant Maize ready for planting out

 

Puddings

 

update: my blue poppies are only an inch tall. no wonder the plant costs so much. takes forever. but never did expect it to flower this year. I recall when I started my mountain rue plants years ago, it took a good 3 seasons before they were large enough to move into the ground. at the end of this year, just before fall, I will transplant them to pots and find a protective outside place for them to winter over. maybe, or might consider housing them in my garden window inside.