How does your garden grow?

[Onoff]

We have life! Maybe they just needed more water. Poured yesterday and they were left out in it. Brought in last night and this morning. 4 out of 50 showing so far.

 

 

One is growing out of the side of the cheap cardboard pot that's split. Might need to re pot I guess. 

 

Edited May 12, 2022 by Onoff

[SteamyTea]

30 minutes ago, Onoff said:

One is growing out of the side of the cheap cardboard pot that's split. Might need to re pot I guess. 

Usual to send ones like that to a psychotherapist.

 

Sprouted a lot faster than mine.

[Onoff]

3 minutes ago, SteamyTea said:

Usual to send ones like that to a psychotherapist.

 

Sprouted a lot faster than mine.

 

Mine have been brought in overnight, maybe that's the reason?

[SteamyTea]

12 minutes ago, Onoff said:

 

Mine have been brought in overnight, maybe that's the reason?

Could be. My seed was quite old, been in the useful draw for 2 or 3 years.

Just got a timelspse package for my old kindle. Shall see if I can set it up overlooking the beauties.

[DevonKim]

1 hour ago, Onoff said:

 

One is growing out of the side of the cheap cardboard pot that's split. Might need to re pot I guess. 

 

 

I wouldn't repot it (you don't want to disturb the roots), just either pop it in where you finally plant it sideways (i.e. with the green bit pointing straight up), or pot it sideways in a larger pot with some more compost 🙂 

[Onoff]

4 hours ago, DevonKim said:

I wouldn't repot it (you don't want to disturb the roots), just either pop it in where you finally plant it sideways (i.e. with the green bit pointing straight up), or pot it sideways in a larger pot with some more compost 🙂 

 

Whoops...too late.

[saveasteading]

They know which way is up  and these pots are meant to disintegrate with roots through. But it should be OK.

 

It was simply their time to emerge not due to the rain.

 

But hoorah for you and your beans. Let them grow to 4 inches and harden them off before planting. The slugs will be lining up.

[SteamyTea]

1 hour ago, saveasteading said:

The slugs will be lining up.

Not in my pots they won't.

 

Got furry fungus on my potatoes though.

Edited May 12, 2022 by SteamyTea

[Onoff]

8 minutes ago, SteamyTea said:

Got furry fungus on my potatoes though.

 

Cornish euphemism for an STD?

[SteamyTea]

1 minute ago, Onoff said:

 

Cornish euphemism for an STD?

It is now.

[Onoff]

I'm just making an old 50 gallon drum into an overly complex garden incinerator, not for me just smacking some holes in it with a pickaxe!

 

Aiming to save the wood ash to sprinkle around the beans to try and deter the slugs. 

[Onoff]

Well something had me earlier by the looks of it!

 

[SteamyTea]

With your nails painted, was it a Puff Adder.

[Onoff]

25 minutes ago, SteamyTea said:

With your nails painted, was it a Puff Adder.

 

More grarse snakes down here than adders. 

[SteamyTea]

Racing ahead now. Should we put a tape measure on them.

 

Edited May 13, 2022 by SteamyTea

[saveasteading]

I have 2 beans that are 100mm high and have planted them in the ground.....3 snails and 4 slugs were lurking but have gone away.

Also a clump of sweet peas to attract insects.

 

The adjacent courgette is growing leaves slightly faster than they are being eaten.

 

I only have 2 more beans growing, very slowly. Most have rotted in the pots, either through being old stock or too much water.

So I have also planted some more beans direct in the ground. If they grow that will look like clever succession planting for a longer season.

 

Headline news. The shallots are bolting, which isn't perfect, as that is the biggest they will grow.

[Onoff]

26/50 at the mo on the runner bean front.

 

Plan tomorrow is finish the 50-gal drum incinerator as a source of wood ash I'll keep to sprinkle round the beans as a slug deterrent.

[Onoff]

On 13/05/2022 at 16:05, SteamyTea said:

Should we put a tape measure on them.

 

Reaching for the sky! Just over the 100mm, the tallest one here so far:

 

[SteamyTea]

Not measured mine.

 

[Onoff]

1 minute ago, SteamyTea said:

Not measured mine.

 

 

What variety are they out of interest?

 

Mine are Czar and the been seed is pure white.

[SteamyTea]

21 minutes ago, Onoff said:

What variety are they out of interest?

Enorma

[Onoff]

Right or wrong I've started stringing the frame with coir rope. Round turn and two half hitches top and bottom. I've left a 6" tail at the bottom:

 

 

 

[saveasteading]

Right. No bean has ever untied a RT + 2 HH.

The beans will wrap around the strings when higher, but often need some help when tiny, using little sticks, especially branchy ones.

[Onoff]

I'm making a garden incinerator, in part for some wood ash. To a design from the Crop Protection Agency:

 

 

That's the lid on top from my now burnt out, cheapo incinerator. Just keeping a bit of the rain out. 

 

I've a big sheet of "diamond" pattern reinforcing mesh and a bunch of long M10, black bolts for the grid etc. 

 

 

[SteamyTea]

6 minutes ago, Onoff said:

I'm making a garden incinerator, in part for some wood ash.

So all that helpful carbon, that could go into the soil, is to be sent into the atmosphere, where we have more than enough.

Shame on you.