Hi Guy's!! First day back at work today! n it nearly killed me!! They say don't take time off work because ya come back to an abundance!! How true!! Lol!! Really ready for an Horlicks n bed!! (only 46! How bad is that!!) Ha! Ha! But cheers Sandra! I now know the meaning of a "rod" Thanks! Sad that I want to know, but my knowledge as been expanded!! n Rosie! Ya not mad!! Just concider yourself as one of the chosen few! Bet ya love sitting in the back garden listening to the bird song too!! With a cold glass of wine of coarse!!!! He! He! n Emma! Living in the North, I am holding back for planting out!! I have a boat load of stuff to go out, but waiting for a friend to do me some spikes for the raised beds so I can cover my crops as soon as they go in to to try save em from the cabbage white!!
Just out of interest, guys, and talking of creepy-crawlies, how do you kill slugs? I have all manner of ways of catching them - traps etc, but it really gives me the creeps to squash 'em, especially the big fat brown ones. What do you do?
I find a sharp pair of scissors does the trick! Just snip em in half into a bucket! qiute brutal but effective. But if a tad squemish, drop em in a bucket of salted water!
Okay - night time patrols and salty bucket it is then...
In other news, if the rain holds off I should be able to get shelves in my new shed today - then I can move my tools out of the cold frame (where they've been rather insecurely stored) and actually use the cold frame for plants. Huzzah!
What has everyone else got planned for this weekend?
Hi - I'm very very new to gardening and veggie growing so stumbling along a bit. I've set up 2 raised beds (no allotment for me) in the garden and in one have put in some peas (with a cane wigwam I made from our raiding our bamboo plant), parsley and some leeks. I just realised the leeks should be planted out singly? not in the clumps they came in when I bought the seedling box.... How will I fit all those leeks in my itsy bitsy bed? The other bed has some beetroot seeds, some thyme and space for the courgettes I'm growing from seed on the kitchen windowsill. I'm growing some sweet peas up a obelisk (well they are starting to show through the ground now) and they and the lavender will hopefully attract some bees.
Ha - your leeks must be further developed than mine - they look pathetic at the moment.
Best way to plant leeks - use a thick dibber - I use the end of an old broom. Make a nice deep hole and drop single leeks into each one so the top's sticking out, then water them in - don't bother back-filling the holes. It looks a bit odd but persevere!
Thank you Sandra. They're not very big yet. Clumps of thin little critters more like the bristles of your broom! I've spread them out a bit in between rain showers and they are still looking fairly perky. I've just been transplanting some tomato seedlings from the propogator into some smallish pots (7cm). Hope they survive... the leaves are very droopy and sad despite a nice drink. They are on a sunny windowsill but not much sun...
I think they should be fine. I'm having to turn my toms on a daily basis as they keep growing towards the light. They'd better be bloomin' worth it. Last year the whole allotment got blight, so this year I'm trying a blight resistant one, which is frankly a bit weedy so far.
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Hi Guy's!! First day back at work today! n it nearly killed me!! They say don't take time off work because ya come back to an abundance!! How true!! Lol!! Really ready for an Horlicks n bed!! (only 46! How bad is that!!) Ha! Ha! But cheers Sandra! I now know the meaning of a "rod" Thanks! Sad that I want to know, but my knowledge as been expanded!! n Rosie! Ya not mad!! Just concider yourself as one of the chosen few! Bet ya love sitting in the back garden listening to the bird song too!! With a cold glass of wine of coarse!!!! He! He! n Emma! Living in the North, I am holding back for planting out!! I have a boat load of stuff to go out, but waiting for a friend to do me some spikes for the raised beds so I can cover my crops as soon as they go in to to try save em from the cabbage white!!
Just out of interest, guys, and talking of creepy-crawlies, how do you kill slugs? I have all manner of ways of catching them - traps etc, but it really gives me the creeps to squash 'em, especially the big fat brown ones. What do you do?
I find a sharp pair of scissors does the trick! Just snip em in half into a bucket! qiute brutal but effective. But if a tad squemish, drop em in a bucket of salted water!
Yick!! No - I really couldn't cut 'em in half. But I need to do something - my lettuces are a shadow of what they were a week ago...
Ha! Ha! Well the salted bucket seem's your only answer! As well as a torch n night time patrol's!! Good luck with it!!
Okay - night time patrols and salty bucket it is then...
In other news, if the rain holds off I should be able to get shelves in my new shed today - then I can move my tools out of the cold frame (where they've been rather insecurely stored) and actually use the cold frame for plants. Huzzah!
What has everyone else got planned for this weekend?
Ha - your leeks must be further developed than mine - they look pathetic at the moment.
Best way to plant leeks - use a thick dibber - I use the end of an old broom. Make a nice deep hole and drop single leeks into each one so the top's sticking out, then water them in - don't bother back-filling the holes. It looks a bit odd but persevere!
I think they should be fine. I'm having to turn my toms on a daily basis as they keep growing towards the light. They'd better be bloomin' worth it. Last year the whole allotment got blight, so this year I'm trying a blight resistant one, which is frankly a bit weedy so far.