| **Red Hot Lock Down Gardening Talk In Here** 14:22 - Jun 5 with 797 views | SpruceMoose |
Alright green thumbed posters.
One of the main things keeping me entertained during lockdown is being able to get out into the garden and get some stuff growing. Having a crack at Okra for the first time this year along with the usual tomato, pepper, aubergine, courgette type stuff. Also putting together a herb and wildflower collection with some English heritage type stuff that has fallen out of fashion. What are you lot growing?
And also, allotment holders, were you able to get out to your plot at all during the lockdown or was that forbidden? |  |
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| **Red Hot Lock Down Gardening Talk In Here** on 15:14 - Jun 5 with 740 views | StochesStotasBlewe |
Growing all the vegetables apart from Okra you seem to be cultivating. I tend 3 different plots for customers so here is a list........runner beans, french beans, cucumbers, red and white onions, potatoes, carrots, broad beans, sprouts, lettuce, parsnips, sprouting broccoli, white cabbage, sweetcorn, leeks, radish, beetroot. Also have vines, blueberries, rhubarb, white, black annd redcurrants, raspberries and a small orchard of different plums, apples , greengages and pears to manage.
Grown cosmos, calendula, nicotiana, stocks, sunflowers, foxgloves, love in a mist, larkspur, cornflower, wallflowers and various hardy perennials for a cottage garden.
Marvelous to se it all fairly succesful this year. |  |
| We have no village green, or a shop.
It's very, very quiet.
I can walk to the pub. |
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| **Red Hot Lock Down Gardening Talk In Here** on 15:18 - Jun 5 with 733 views | SpruceMoose |
| **Red Hot Lock Down Gardening Talk In Here** on 15:14 - Jun 5 by StochesStotasBlewe |
Growing all the vegetables apart from Okra you seem to be cultivating. I tend 3 different plots for customers so here is a list........runner beans, french beans, cucumbers, red and white onions, potatoes, carrots, broad beans, sprouts, lettuce, parsnips, sprouting broccoli, white cabbage, sweetcorn, leeks, radish, beetroot. Also have vines, blueberries, rhubarb, white, black annd redcurrants, raspberries and a small orchard of different plums, apples , greengages and pears to manage.
Grown cosmos, calendula, nicotiana, stocks, sunflowers, foxgloves, love in a mist, larkspur, cornflower, wallflowers and various hardy perennials for a cottage garden.
Marvelous to se it all fairly succesful this year. |
Blimey, that lot will keep you busy!
Our back yard is largely concrete so I'm restricted to container gardening mainly, so reading that list I'm pretty jealous.
Right now I engaged in a running battle against squirrels and a rather troublesome raccoon. | |
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| **Red Hot Lock Down Gardening Talk In Here** on 15:23 - Jun 5 with 725 views | brazil1982 |
we have established fruit such as rhubarb, blackcurrant (loads), apple and gooseberry. Now growing broad beans, peas, mange tout (very successful last year) courgettes and beetroot. Chillies inside.
I have a leaf salad / wild flower raised bed too.
Been growing almost everything from seed this year, reasonably successful except for the sunflowers when planted out were victim to slugs over night. Eight of them.
Currently growing petunias from seed, a very long growing process it seems. |  | | |
| **Red Hot Lock Down Gardening Talk In Here** on 15:24 - Jun 5 with 725 views | StochesStotasBlewe |
| **Red Hot Lock Down Gardening Talk In Here** on 15:18 - Jun 5 by SpruceMoose |
Blimey, that lot will keep you busy!
Our back yard is largely concrete so I'm restricted to container gardening mainly, so reading that list I'm pretty jealous.
Right now I engaged in a running battle against squirrels and a rather troublesome raccoon. |
I only have a smallish garden at home used mainly for leisure, but work for quite a few with large plots. Also get to reap some of what i sow and get paid for the privilage so win win really.
Allotments near to me have been open since lockdown.
Add asparagus to the list.
Gooseberries also. [Post edited 5 Jun 2020 15:26]
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| We have no village green, or a shop.
It's very, very quiet.
I can walk to the pub. |
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| **Red Hot Lock Down Gardening Talk In Here** on 15:27 - Jun 5 with 719 views | Dubtractor |
This is where I'll look like a smug c@nt.
Currently growing in my garden and greenhouse is.....
Several types of sweet pepper
Several types of chillies
3 types of tomatoes
aubergines
cucumbers
2 types of courgette
chard
spring onions
normal onions
shallots
garlic
lettuce
carrots
peas
early potatoes (arran pilot)
maincrop potatoes (maris piper)
parsnips
climbing beans
radish
beetroot
oregano, basil, thyme, rosemary, sage, tarragon, coriander
Strawberries
Blueberries
Raspberries
Plums
Apples
Cherries
Rhubarb
Blackcurrants
Apricot - a whole 2 fruit have set!
And to add to that tonnes of flowers and shrubs in my beds.
I bloody love my garden and suffice to say it has been given a lot of attention this year! [Post edited 5 Jun 2020 15:27]
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| **Red Hot Lock Down Gardening Talk In Here** on 15:29 - Jun 5 with 708 views | SpruceMoose |
| **Red Hot Lock Down Gardening Talk In Here** on 15:27 - Jun 5 by Dubtractor |
This is where I'll look like a smug c@nt.
Currently growing in my garden and greenhouse is.....
Several types of sweet pepper
Several types of chillies
3 types of tomatoes
aubergines
cucumbers
2 types of courgette
chard
spring onions
normal onions
shallots
garlic
lettuce
carrots
peas
early potatoes (arran pilot)
maincrop potatoes (maris piper)
parsnips
climbing beans
radish
beetroot
oregano, basil, thyme, rosemary, sage, tarragon, coriander
Strawberries
Blueberries
Raspberries
Plums
Apples
Cherries
Rhubarb
Blackcurrants
Apricot - a whole 2 fruit have set!
And to add to that tonnes of flowers and shrubs in my beds.
I bloody love my garden and suffice to say it has been given a lot of attention this year! [Post edited 5 Jun 2020 15:27]
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Ok now I've done what you asked and set up a gardening thread for you to showboat through you can Paypal me that five quid. | |
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"Imagine being a heterosexual white male in Britain at this moment. How bad is that. Everything you say is racist, everything you say is homophobic. The Woke community have really f****d this country." | | Poll: | Selectamod |
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| **Red Hot Lock Down Gardening Talk In Here** on 15:37 - Jun 5 with 699 views | Dubtractor |
| **Red Hot Lock Down Gardening Talk In Here** on 15:29 - Jun 5 by SpruceMoose |
Ok now I've done what you asked and set up a gardening thread for you to showboat through you can Paypal me that five quid. |
Cheers boss.
As other east anglian gardeners will relate to, this year has involved getting the hose out in the garden a hell of a lot so far. Its bloody miserable in Ipswich today, but I'm pretty happy to see some rain tbh. The wall to wall sunshine so far though has put everything in the greenhouse a few weeks ahead of schedule though, which is a bonus. | |
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| **Red Hot Lock Down Gardening Talk In Here** on 15:39 - Jun 5 with 696 views | SpruceMoose |
| **Red Hot Lock Down Gardening Talk In Here** on 15:37 - Jun 5 by Dubtractor |
Cheers boss.
As other east anglian gardeners will relate to, this year has involved getting the hose out in the garden a hell of a lot so far. Its bloody miserable in Ipswich today, but I'm pretty happy to see some rain tbh. The wall to wall sunshine so far though has put everything in the greenhouse a few weeks ahead of schedule though, which is a bonus. |
Two years when we came back to Suffolk in August it was shocking just how brown and arid everything was. We were in Woodbridge at one point and the park that backs onto the railways tracks by the tennis courts was a dustbowl.
Did someone say hosepipe ban?! | |
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"Imagine being a heterosexual white male in Britain at this moment. How bad is that. Everything you say is racist, everything you say is homophobic. The Woke community have really f****d this country." | | Poll: | Selectamod |
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| **Red Hot Lock Down Gardening Talk In Here** on 15:44 - Jun 5 with 695 views | Dubtractor |
| **Red Hot Lock Down Gardening Talk In Here** on 15:39 - Jun 5 by SpruceMoose |
Two years when we came back to Suffolk in August it was shocking just how brown and arid everything was. We were in Woodbridge at one point and the park that backs onto the railways tracks by the tennis courts was a dustbowl.
Did someone say hosepipe ban?! |
The odd thing is that we've just had one of the wettest winters on record, Anglian Water were proudly stating that water levels were healthy etc... | |
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| **Red Hot Lock Down Gardening Talk In Here** on 16:05 - Jun 5 with 682 views | BanksterDebtSlave |
| **Red Hot Lock Down Gardening Talk In Here** on 15:14 - Jun 5 by StochesStotasBlewe |
Growing all the vegetables apart from Okra you seem to be cultivating. I tend 3 different plots for customers so here is a list........runner beans, french beans, cucumbers, red and white onions, potatoes, carrots, broad beans, sprouts, lettuce, parsnips, sprouting broccoli, white cabbage, sweetcorn, leeks, radish, beetroot. Also have vines, blueberries, rhubarb, white, black annd redcurrants, raspberries and a small orchard of different plums, apples , greengages and pears to manage.
Grown cosmos, calendula, nicotiana, stocks, sunflowers, foxgloves, love in a mist, larkspur, cornflower, wallflowers and various hardy perennials for a cottage garden.
Marvelous to se it all fairly succesful this year. |
Miss Slave says "Eeeeeeeeeeeezzzzzzzy |  |
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| **Red Hot Lock Down Gardening Talk In Here** on 16:10 - Jun 5 with 665 views | BanksterDebtSlave |
| **Red Hot Lock Down Gardening Talk In Here** on 15:24 - Jun 5 by StochesStotasBlewe |
I only have a smallish garden at home used mainly for leisure, but work for quite a few with large plots. Also get to reap some of what i sow and get paid for the privilage so win win really.
Allotments near to me have been open since lockdown.
Add asparagus to the list.
Gooseberries also. [Post edited 5 Jun 2020 15:26]
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I put our first crowns in a couple of years back and resisted eating all but 2 spears this year. Chances are we will move and some other tenants will get the pleasure. | |
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| **Red Hot Lock Down Gardening Talk In Here** on 16:14 - Jun 5 with 655 views | Westover |
I'm struggling for a start I've no garden, I'm in the Algarve so in December I bought eight containers I put 6 shallots in they are drying out now and ive got 60 so that was good but two further lots have failed also runner beans grew to over five feet and died , I did get a couple of feeds of French beans but not worth the trouble.
Strawberries and tomatoes are good and my second attempt at cucumbers looks like they will be fine they are in flower.
I think it's too hot for some veggies and it's knowing when to plant , anyone have any experience of growing in a hot climate ? |  | | |
| **Red Hot Lock Down Gardening Talk In Here** on 16:18 - Jun 5 with 650 views | SpruceMoose |
| **Red Hot Lock Down Gardening Talk In Here** on 16:14 - Jun 5 by Westover |
I'm struggling for a start I've no garden, I'm in the Algarve so in December I bought eight containers I put 6 shallots in they are drying out now and ive got 60 so that was good but two further lots have failed also runner beans grew to over five feet and died , I did get a couple of feeds of French beans but not worth the trouble.
Strawberries and tomatoes are good and my second attempt at cucumbers looks like they will be fine they are in flower.
I think it's too hot for some veggies and it's knowing when to plant , anyone have any experience of growing in a hot climate ? |
I had an awful time last summer. We had a stretch where it was in the 30's for what felt like weeks on end, and as the back is mostly pale concrete everything just baked.
The only thing that I could keep going over the summer really were chilies, peppers and tomatoes, but I was having to water them several times a day as their 15 gallon containers were just drying out too quickly. I tried sticking to stuff that usually grows successfully in this climate, but that didn't help much.
If it happens again this summer I'll just grow whatever they grow in Arizona next year! Agave and cacti? Make my own Tequila... [Post edited 5 Jun 2020 16:23]
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