What are you planning to grow 2016.

[jansman]

This is a lovely time of year, all of us full of optimism and plans. Unlike the rest of the family, I am not artistic, but I always think of gardening as being creative ( as well as productive).

[PreparedKent]

I found a load of blueberry canes in Tesco for £2 today. Got them Sat in pots in my conservatory right now

[ForgeCorvus]

I found a load of blueberry canes in Tesco for £2 today. Got them Sat in pots in my conservatory right now

Good score!

[Decaff]

Love it! Spring is springing! Birds are singing and trees are waking up.

Can't wait for the growing updates on here and I hope to be joining in soon!

[Brambles]

The Greenhouse is up and the heater is on, I ran out of room on the only windowsill wide enough to take seed trays.

A quick update on the Lidl Citrus trees. They are doing remarkably well, the Lemon has dropped a handful of leaves, other than that all is well and they seem to like the plastic greenhouse. Bit of a bargain for £14.99 each.

[featherstick]

Well, I've turned 8 12x3 foot raised beds into 4 12x10 foot beds, and removed a tonne of weed and root in the process. The soil in the middle of the beds (where the paths used to be) is compacted and damaged but will be mixed with compost, manure and good soil from the rest of the bed. It feels much better, and swinging the mattock has been good fun.

I've got more manure in, and given everything a dusting go blood-and-bone. I've also got the local Starbucks* to keep their used grounds for me. This will go on the compost heap, and also be used directly around the plants as a slug deterrent.

So all-in-all I'm pretty pleased.

Will be doing French beans, squash, sweetcorn, spuds, chard, oca and yacon this year, and extending the raspberry and strawberry planting. I'm keeping it a bit simpler this year.





*other coffee shops are available.

[munchh]

My purple srouting broccli is still going. But all ive had off it is leaves for my rabbits! Still no crop. Its got very purple now though, am i doing something wrong you recon?

[featherstick]

My purple srouting broccli is still going. But all ive had off it is leaves for my rabbits! Still no crop. Its got very purple now though, am i doing something wrong you recon?

Difficult to know without knowing where you are and how you've grown it and so on, but if you are taking leaves off you may be stressing it too much to produce heads.

[munchh]

Oh right, thats interesting, i thought it was the othe way round, i am in the south east, bought them as small plants, had them in a polytunnel during most of last summer autumn, but they got too big, they have been in a large planter ever since outdoors, some are doing better than others and one has 3 heads afrer nearly dying and is now the biggest strongest plant.

so should i feed them anything to help them along? When do you normaly get a crop?

[featherstick]

They'll need a lot of feeding if they're in containers. Some blood-and-bone meal watered in might get them going.