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For really hot chillies there's a perennial type from Latin America called Tepin. Tiny little bombs of fire.
 
My mange tout are nearly ready to plant out. My broad beans are coming up too. This year I'm growing these

BROAD BEAN CRIMSON FLOWERED
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from www.plantsofdistinction.co.uk

Broad Beans always seem to get black bean aphid. Pich out that shhot (but not too early and you'll have dealt with the problem and you'll get more beans because the plant will be bushier. Because they are beautifully coloured and scented, and I have limited space they're getting tucked in amongst flowers in my borders
 
I have just bought a compost bin, subsidised by my local council and good for small gardens - we have a little backyard with space for lots of containers.

Am ordering some Gardener's Delight tomato seeds, on the enthusiastic recommendations of Suburban posters - will I still be in time to plant these? I know I won't have homemade compost ready in time, so will buy them some nice rotted manure or similar to be going on with.

Also, will I be able to grow sweet peppers in containers? Our yard is quite sunny and reasonably sheltered (we're in a terrace).

Sorry for all the questions!
 
The lemon tree seedling that I was given last autumn has suddelny put on a little growth spurt. Most exciting. Am going to get some chilli seeds started off soon too. Maybe some sweet peppers too. Dunno if I can be arsed with tomatoes this year though. I always forget to water them anyway. Got a rosemary plant I need to transplant into a bigger pot, or maybe just into the ground. Got a big terracotta pot, but it doesn't have any drainage holes, which doesn't seem ideal.

Got a small bed in the garden that am just wondering what to do with.
 
I have chillis and red peppers germinating in pots in the garage (in sunlight too ;).)

Planted Broad Beans (admittedly a little late) at the weekend.
Sowed the first round of carrots, radish, salad leaf, parsley, beetroot and salad onions under polythene.

Ere we go ere we go ere we gooooooooooo!
 
I thoroughly reccomend starting seeds indoors under lights.

A few £1 compact fluorescents from Aldi inside a £10 mini-greenhouse from the cheapie shop.

A lot less precarious than the greenhouse. And only a few quid to run.


Put them on an 18/6 timer to keep the cost down.

Amazing how fast I've raised things like tobacco plants for the garden starting very late. So great for problem plants like morning glory that are wont to sulk if they get cold.
 
The last few nights I have been putting a couple of old duvet covers over my polytunnel for a bit of extra warmth for those just germinated beetroot and radish seedlings.

Bloody cold snap.:mad:
 
vipper said:
The last few nights I have been putting a couple of old duvet covers over my polytunnel for a bit of extra warmth for those just germinated beetroot and radish seedlings.

Bloody cold snap.:mad:
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OMG - that's so sweet.. snug as germinated veg in a rug!! :D
 
Tomatoes, baby carrots/courgettes/radishes well on their way - brought them inside this week even though they were in the mini greenhouse. Chilli peppers to be planted this weekend through a concentrated campaign of nagging gaijinboy to plant them. :)
 
I've got some tomatoes in pots in the conservatory. Fingers crossed they grow :) cos i've never been someone with greenfingers :o
 
I'm a bit worried :(

My balcony gets a lot of light but because the balconys run one op of another it doesn't get any *direct* light

Will that make a difference? :confused:
 
well I have many types of chillis on the go and they look the best they ever have done for me at seedling stage :cool:

also sown tomatoes (3 types) for me, bees' mum and I think my mum too

and then I'm not doing much other than cucumber this year, I really just don't have the sodding room :D I have some radish to grow too, and some rocket from abs that she won't let me not grown :D

I'm going to do more flowers this year cos I love colour :cool:
 
zenie said:
I'm a bit worried :(

My balcony gets a lot of light but because the balconys run one op of another it doesn't get any *direct* light

Will that make a difference? :confused:
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You should be OK if you're not north-facing.
 
Have put some courgettes and climbing green bean seeds under glass for a staggered crop. And sown leek seed under glass. Couple of rows of onions in the soil.

Having to restrain myself from sowing more.
 
My outdoor sown pumpkins, broad beans and mange tout have stuck their noses out of the ground nicely, despite the recent cold spell. The rhubarb is looking great too.
 
aye my rhubarb looks great too considering its in a pot :cool:

whats the best way for me to feed it? I can't get horse shit in the pot :D
 
The main thing is to water it enough. Can't you lift a paving stone or summat? They do so much better in the ground. Otherwise get a really big pot. I'd use a liquid feed.
 
My tomatoes are not sprouting :(. I've now moved them out of the conservatory into the kitchen cos my mam said while i was away and she was house sitting, she kept everything in the conservatory cos it was nice and cold just like the fridge :eek: . No wonder the poor tomatoes had no chance. I'll give it another 2 wks then i give up :(
 
I am keeping my eyes peeled for the dreaded gooseberry sawfly. They usually attack in May, but here in London it's often earlier. They can completely strip a bush of leaves in half a day while your back is turned. I don't use insecticide at all normally but I've had one sodding gooseberry in three years. I got derris as it's the least awful thing to use and is OK from an organic pint of view and a food crops point of view.

http://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/profiles0601/gooseberry_sawfly.asp
 
I have my plastic greenhouse thingy full of nearly dead cucumber, tomato and sunflower. :( :( :(

The pumpkins seem to have survived the move outside.

My mange tout and sweet pea are nearly ready to put out there. So then it will be time to sow my courgette, french bean, sweetcorn and rocket.

I hope my toms and cuc survive, they look so gawn :(
 
No, in Dorset.

I have germinated my veg indoors then planted out into bigger pots a couple of weeks ago.

They just seem to have given up :( Maybe I should have put them straight into the grow bag, but I didnt have my plastic greenhouse at that point. I shall be putting everything into tubs/grow bags because I want to make sure I am successful before I dedicate a patch to veggies, iyswim..
 
madamv said:
No, in Dorset.

I have germinated my veg indoors then planted out into bigger pots a couple of weeks ago.

They just seem to have given up :( Maybe I should have put them straight into the grow bag, but I didnt have my plastic greenhouse at that point. I shall be putting everything into tubs/grow bags because I want to make sure I am successful before I dedicate a patch to veggies, iyswim..
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mmm, things always do better in the open ground unless they're so tender they need to be in a greenhouse in my opinion....or if your ground is infested with eelworm, or clubroot or summat.
 
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