Kitchen Garden Forum

For the chickweed I'll box you up a wood pigeon or three and post them down to you.....

Only a few nibbles have been had at the Pea row since giving it a treatment....so has it worked.?..or weren't there any leaves left to bother eating.?
Some have grown back now...and there was a bit more of an attack this morning.........

Got the tomatoes planted in the greenhouse yesterday evening...bit later than at one time...but in fact we weren't going to plant any this year....but had a last minute relent and have set just 4 Shirley and one Lidi...

Out for a walk today....around the estate that surrounds my work location....looks like rain.........


Clive.

Dear Wood pigeons do you eat chickweed?

Heaven forfend that we should descend to that dahling. All those lovely gardeners lay out a buffet for us every day of delicous stuff. Chickweed eugh, never!

Hoe, hoe, hoe, Peter....Merry Sunday....

Our garden has been totally overrun by several families of baby starlings today. They are so noosy it has been like having a horde of football holigans take over the place.

I've had to bite the bullet and plant out my remaining tomato plants in the border today. They've become potbound and the tumbling varieties have already developed their first truss of flowers, so hoping the nights won't be too cold for them..

Noticed that quite a few of my red and white onions have already started going to seed. Have kept them well watered and can't figure out why this should happen. It seems to happen every year to the point where some years almost half those planted have been wasted. Am wondering whether to stop growing them. It's such a waste of time and space, especially when I'm short or growing space for other possibly more expensive crops. Is anybody else having the same problem? I'm m wondering if it could be due to the lightness of our soil? I did fertilise the soil with chicken manure pellets before planting.

Hurrah!

Merry Tiller back, with electronic ignition conversion and a carburettor rebuild, wallet lighter by £151,

Four rod hand weeded then thoroughly rotovated.
MT running sweetly and as smooth as a sewing machine.

Just seen the bit about chrysanths, when I was an apprentice we grew them in the glasshouses over winter and you use about 6" square wire on a roll held up by wooden posts and canes, not tied, just under tension by angling out a little. The plants grow up through and as they grow you keep moving the wire up. As they were grown in a long block there was very little weed growth to hoe off but you could get a hoe underneath if needed.

MW

I did buy some soft mesh in the end so I'll see how I get on. When searching found somebody who called it scrog netting, change the search to that and you find some alternative horticultural advice!

You'll have visitors Geoff!

Should be OK I've turned off the growing lights.

Mince a clove of garlic every twelve hours and spread the mince by the crop.

Well I planted 40 spray Chrysants under netting today, not sure if I've done it right there hasn't been a follow up on Beechgrove. I've done two levels of netting at about 1' and 2'.