...that my moong beans and my chickpeas have put up beautiful healthy seedlings :):):):)
As have my radishes, my turnips and dh's potatoes and shallots!! And my gooseberry bushes are already weighed down with fruit!
The carrots, cauliflowers, pumpkins, squash, broccoli, onions, parsnips, peppers and leeks remain recalcitrant 
although the batty old dear in the next allotment assures me that they will all come up "when they're ready"
Anyone else got any growing news?
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Greensleeves · 13/05/2006 19:10
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VeniVidiVickiQV ·
14/05/2006 20:37
Sounds like they are doing okay SHR.
FMF - i am growing parsnips this year for the first time. A tip i read was that where you are planting the seeds, take a crow bar or similar, push into the ground as far as you can and make a hole by rolling it around the edges to make a conical/funnel shape in the ground iykwim.
Then fill that hole with compost.
Then plant the seed in it. This should allow the roots to grow without forking. Allegedly 
fullmoonfiend ·
14/05/2006 20:41
yes, I have had a forking nightmare with parsnips in the past (hoe hoe, did you see what I did there . Shall try your way. Now, where did I put my crowbar...
Hattie05 ·
14/05/2006 20:45
I have too many slugs in my garden . They ate all the runner beans i put in pots!! Some had slug pellets some didn't but they still got eaten!
On my veg patch, i have carrots, onions, cucumbers, sweetcorns and some newly planted runnerbeans are beginning to sprout in the veg patch.
I am just scared they are all going to be eaten by the snails! i tried beer cups, i know egg shells are a good idea, but i just don't eat enough eggs to spread everywhere!
VeniVidiVickiQV ·
14/05/2006 20:55
FMF
I have a terrible slug/snail problem. You wouldnt think so with all the frogs and toads in and around my pond but hey ho. It seems i am not gardening organically this year after all as i caved and bought pellets in the end.
I have evidence today that my runner bean(s) are sprouting and so are my peas
Also signs of my onions and peppers. (One pepper seed had fallen out of the pot and onto the moist kitchen paper underneath and it had still germinated and grown to about an inch and a half tall 
)
Im sure now your geraniums are potted on they will get stronger and stronger SHR.
fullmoonfiend ·
14/05/2006 20:59
Yes, I try to be organic but in the end, I alsways end up using some slug pellets 
VeniVidiVickiQV ·
14/05/2006 21:30
LOL at your weedy rhubarb (rather reminiscent of what mine is currently like)
hunkermunker ·
14/05/2006 21:42
We have peas, runner beans, tomatoes, chillis and garlic atm, and lots of herbs. Bloody slugs 
Keep eating our beans.
hunkermunker ·
14/05/2006 22:06
Thank you, VVV. DS1 was most impressed with your squash seedlings the other day. Or was it the yoghurt pots?
Daisymae ·
15/05/2006 09:24
Please can i join in as I have just got an allotment!! It hasn't been worked for 25 years and was hard work to clear.
Tomorrow the shed and greenhouse arrive!!
I wanted to ask what do you think I can plant in the next few weeks to get a crop this year, apart from salad and the tomato and cucumber plants I've started off? I would really like potatoes, but think it's too late,cabbage and would love home grown Brussels sprout an Christmas Day!!
One of the guys on the plots has put beans and tomatoes in tubs ready for me, that was such a nice gesture, especially as so many people have been so negative.
I must add that we are using the 'No-Dig' method, due to my arthritis, has anyone else tried it?
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Daisymae ·
15/05/2006 10:43
Thank you dewmeadow, for your encouragement. I'll investigate the potatoes later, I could start them off in container while I'm making the raised beds, I'm trying to use the garden to get things going while I sort out the basics on the allotment.
People were negative because they were embarrassed about having used our plot as a dumping ground, we've had some spectacular bonfires of old sheds etc!! We've kept the bath, any ideas for how to use it?
I did accuse the committee of having killed an ackward allotmenteer off and buried the body on our plot, lol. It seemed the only explanation for the tut-tutting!
Luckily people have accepted that we are committed to this project and arein for the long haul. Some of the plots are so lovely, productive AND beautiful they are an inspiration.
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VeniVidiVickiQV ·
15/05/2006 11:20
Dewmeadow - just wade in like the rest of us 
Im not sure how this ties in with the no dig method daisy but beetroots grow very quickly, as do spring onions. Calabrese and Brussel Sprouts should be fine to start off, and beans you can still do. Herbs i think too.
I have been a bit late starting off some of my seeds this year but only by two weeks or so, so i dont think it will be a major problem.
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