grow your own

[dreamer]

hi just to tell you about my progress on grow your own which i am quite chuffed about.

Runner beans   grown lovely and taste good

Peas      only small amount grew but very tasty

Tomatoes    Absoloutly loads and oh so sweet

Cucumber     looked fantastic tasted,, extremley bitter ( but have now found out that you have to look for male and
                  female flowers, and if you see male flowers you have to pick them off or else it turns your    cucmbers
                  bitter) Plus had to debug it as loads of white tiny flies on it so have dumped it.

Lettuce       didnt grow enough what I grew tasted lovely/

There is no doubt that when you have grown it yourself it tastes better, when we move next year I am going to look for a bigger garden so I can have abig veg plot.  If I can grow these things anyone can.

[lava-lamp]

Hi Dreamer, did you find your tomatoes took a long time to turn.  We`ve only had a couple of pale orange, Pab`s parents greenhouse we were looking after also, is very slow at turning.

It is nice growing veggies, we had potatoes last year, and I enjoyed them, never put any in this year.

[dreamer]

yes they did seem to take some time, but I wondered if that was because I put them outside after being in the greenhouse. Now funnily enough I left one tomato plant inside the greenhouse and it has not turned the tomatoes red yet,

[raddison]

Ah the GOOD LIFE
So now our Dreamer is turning into Flis Kendal (fwar) she will have a goat, pigs, and dont forget them chooks.

way to go girl

[lava-lamp]

Some of my ended up with brown dry sort of patches on them. 

[raddison]

  some of your WHAT?

Some of my ended up with brown dry sort of patches on them. 

?

[lava-lamp]

Toms of course 

[raddison]

I see 

could have been your cue's I was goping to say plumbs but hey you havent grown any    HAVE YOU ? Victoria are lovely!

[lava-lamp]

I`ve been and planted a few veggies this week.

Have tomatoes, cabbage, and brussel sprouts, and pumpkins.
Already had potatoes growing on another part of the garden, will report back on their progress.

With in a day, the pesky pigeons had pecked at some of the leaves, so I`ve got some netting down
now, and a few slug pellets.

Fingers crossed, I get something.   

[Gerry]

I don't know if it's just plain lazy, but I've never been much of a gardener.  Apart from cutting the grass and trimming bushes, I do very little gardening.

Many years ago, we had a lot of snails and we used to put Snail Bait down but we still had lots of snails.  My wife heard or read somewhere that if you didn't put Snail Bait down, this would encourage the lizards to return.  We did this and although it took several years, the lizards did return and now, it's extremely rare to see even one snail.  It seemed that the Snail Bait was more effective at killing the lizards off than the actual snails

[PaigntonPearl]

You are so industrious LL.  I grow flowers and shrubs in pots on my balcony.  Once I grew tomatoes but they all seemed to ripen at the same time so I was inundated for a week and then nothing!