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Growing Your Own

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Oh brill, thankyou! I'll have a look at it and see if it's something the hubby could do!
 
Wow flutterby thats an impressive list!
All 10 of my green beans have germinated and 1 of my watermelons too so they have moved to the conservatory.
Green beans r my piggies favourite and the kids and i love watermelon so thats why i chose to start with those.
 
Oooh watermelon! Sounds lovely! :)

My list isn't as extensive as last year, but we wanted to concentrate on things that were easy to grow and care for due to limited time, and things the piggies go through the most of! :P
 
I planted my herbs seeds in tubs on Thursday as it was lovely sunshine but it snowed here pretty bad yesterday! (Typical Scotland) now I don't know if they will grow :(
 
They may still grow! Perhaps worth getting some frost fleece to put over the tubs til you are sure there will be no more.
 
Wow! This thread is so cool!

Ive just got into gardening this year, just bedding plants, a hosta, some climbers, that sort of thing.

I've also got mint and Rosemary growing in what is to be my herb garden on my window ledge outside :) I've got a chilli plant which I've kept alive for a year and is now flowering again, and a coriander which always looks a little sad but I don't want to over/under water it! The coriander lives indoors in my kitchen :) I am the very greenest of gardeners so I'm so glad I've found this thread!
 
my coriander is starting to grow. I'm shocked really as I was planting the other herb seeds and put them in by mistake as the packet said to wait another month or two yet... oh well seems to be working out fine.
 
I only plant a few things for the pigs:
Parsley: which they love
Peppers: they don't grow very well here but when they do they are for the pigs
Kale: I don't grow it my dad does but I steal it for the pigs and luckily he doesn't notice.
 
My lettuce is coming through in the garden planters and my strawberry's are doing well :)
 
I think someone gave my chilli pepper and pepper seeds steroids.. They've shot up over the last 2 nights!
The chilli peppers seem to be doing better than the pepper at the moment, the peppers still don't know how they feel about being plants.
 
Getting annoyed with my growing this year! Things are growing in the greenhouse ok, but I have only had 1 pumpkin plant come up this year after 2 rounds of planting! and only half of my lettuce seeds have come up after 3 rounds of planting! I think it's due to the crappy weather we've been having!

On the plus side I think I'll have some nice fruit this year, my pear, apple, plum and cherry trees are all already fruiting! :)
 
Well my peppers have been outdoors for the daytimes over the past week so today they actually got planted out in my veg planter. I now have a load of carrots, a courgette, 5 tomatoes (I only remember planting 3!) and 3 peppers! The veg already in the planter seems to be having a growth spurt and my coriander is growing well too. My onions are looking great (well from the tops anyway, they should be ready for harvesting soon :)
 
I spent ages planting everything out yesterday. Still a bit more to go but getting there. Was a bit late this year because of life chaos but I don't think it will make a difference. Am sure I planted less this year than last but I seem to have run out of room so have beetroot dotted all over the place and think I will have to grow my leeks, parsnips and carrots in pots!

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Your garden looks brilliant! Such a good idea growing your own veg. I've got long grass, weeds and some lovely flowers in mine... well they were lovely until we had that bad wind :/
 
There are some impressive plants here! I just read through the whole thread! My attempts are pathetic in comparison but I bought a tomato seedling from the garden centre in early April which has done really well! Started it off in the conservatory and now it's in a big pot outside soaking up the sun :) it has quite a few tomatoes appearing on it already! Humans and guinea pigs alike will enjoy eating them!

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And here is my mint. There's some rosemary and lavender behind it as well in the flower bed.

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I'd love to grow more things for the pigs though!
 
Look great! All my plants have been started off outside this year so I want have anything ready for a while yet.
 
My crops are behind this year as well Flutterby, glad I'm not the only one having problems, runner beans have been very slow to germinate even the ones I started in the greenhouse. I'm growing tomatoes, carrots, parsley, coriander, french beans, runner beans, spring onions, radishes, lettuce, mint, peppers and beetroot this year. Obviously the guineas can't eat some of these but we are looking forward to it all.
 
My peas in a pod are doing well and my cucumber, kale, coriander and parsley, the red are slow going at the mo!
 
Do any of you have any experience of dealing with aphids? I planted 3 globe artichokes last year and they are looking ready to eat now. The problem I have is that they are infested with aphids and ants. I have no idea how to get rid of these as they are living in the central part of the globes inside all of the tight scales. I haven't used pesticides before but have just bought some Bug Clear Ultra that can be used on flowers, fruit and veg. I do feel that if I use this I might then be nervous about eating the artichokes in case I ingest any of the pesticide.

Does anyone have any advice on either the use of pesticides or anything else I can do to get rid of the bugs?
 
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Do any of you have any experience of dealing with aphids? I planted 3 globe artichokes last year and they are looking ready to eat now. The problem I have is that they are infested with aphids and ants. I have no idea how to get rid of these as they are living in the central part of the globes inside all of the tight scales. I haven't used pesticides before but have just bought some Bug Clear Ultra that can be used on flowers, fruit and veg. I do feel that if I use this I might then be nervous about eating the artichokes in case I ingest any of the pesticide.

Does anyone have any advice on either the use of pesticides or anything else I can do to get rid of the bugs?
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A light dusting of watered down fairy liquid is supposed to do the trick. haven't used it personally though!
 
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