How are the veggies coming along?

[woody paul]

12 hours ago, gary112 said:

Anybody got any spuds in the ground yet

Planted some in large pots yesterday first time I have done this.

[Mick Dempsey]

We use pure well rotted woodchip, at least 5years old.

 

Had great success with it.

 

Pictures in wrong order btw.

Edited April 8, 2018 by Mick Dempsey

[woody paul]

1 hour ago, Mick Dempsey said:

We use pure well rotted woodchip, at least 5years old.

 

Had great success with it.

 

Pictures in wrong order btw.

That's interesting as what I have used in pots for potatoes.

[Paul in the woods]

9 hours ago, woody paul said:

Planted some in large pots yesterday first time I have done this.

Yep, put my first earlies in pots a couple of weeks ago as their shoots were getting too long and the ground was still too cold. They need to be planted out now, at least it seems to have warmed up a bit now.

[Matthew Storrs]

Anyone use a polytunnel? I’m thinking of getting a fairly modest size- more or less gave up growing veg in open raised beds as the growing season is so short where I live that success was usually fairly limited! Not to mention cats and the like coming in the night and sh**ing in the newly planted carrots.

 

Thinking a poly tunnel might be the answer...

[Sawchip]

1 hour ago, Matthew Storrs said:

Anyone use a polytunnel? I’m thinking of getting a fairly modest size- more or less gave up growing veg in open raised beds as the growing season is so short where I live that success was usually fairly limited! Not to mention cats and the like coming in the night and sh**ing in the newly planted carrots.

 

Thinking a poly tunnel might be the answer...

I use my greenhouse for many other things than toms and bringing on plants. French beans up into the ridge,squash running round the toms along with all my salad crops due to the lack of slugs and snails. Carrots do just fine iv found so i would give indoor growing a thumbs up. 

[josharb87]

Well despite the snow hanging around and now a drought, temperatures hitting 35 in the shade at home, and 45 up in the sun on the decking a few weeks ago, everything’s growing ok

 

 

[gary112]

Coming along nicely, nice pick tonight! 

[Graham]

Dust bowl blues here.  Bad year for seed germination with two rows of carrots failing along with parsnip, beetroot, French beans and broad beans.

 

[tree-fancier123]

17 hours ago, Graham said:

Dust bowl blues here.  Bad year for seed germination with two rows of carrots failing along with parsnip, beetroot, French beans and broad beans.

 

I can believe it - one of these centuries an exceptionally dry year will cause another famine