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Growing Your Own

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You can get winter lettuce or grow it inside, or in a heated greenhouse, as long as it's well protected from frost.
 
Ahh brilliant, thank you.. It's just my Mum gets us the trio lettuce from ASDA and sometimes it's terrible, so I'm just wasting money.
 
I grow mixed leaf lettuce in the garden which comes up well spring to autumn :)
 
You can grow a missed leaf pot on your kitchen window ledge, I think I got my seeds from Wilko.
 
I'm growing little Gem which came up in a week in the greenhouse, probably 3 weeks till picking time. I also grow mixed leaf ones in pots which you can keep picking off the odd leaf when you want 1 or 2 for a sandwich or something, I keep a pot of these on the kitchen window ledge.
 
I find most mixed leaf are ready in a few weeks when grown outside. I find my mixed leaf grow better outside than in the green house, but I suppose it depends what part of the country you are in.
 
my peppers have barely grown since being outside... I think I might be lucky if I get one tiny green bell pepper from them again this year :)) Carrots are doing well, courgette plant has got bigger than last years and tomato plants are only just flowering... think I need to plant seeds even earlier next year!
 
I'm gonna grow my own timothy grass so my pigs can have my hay mixed with shop bought (i can't grow enough).
 
A lot of mine is growing slowly this year, I think it's the weather!
 
All my outdoor plants are way behind this year, we had frosts into beginning of June which stopped growth. Really looking forward to runner beans, bought a bigger freezer when old one broke in anticipation of a bumper crop like last year!
 
Can't believe I just came across this thread, amazing. We are just trying to start our first veggie patch. Not really sure what we're doing but givng it a go! I would love to grow things for us and also for the piggles, but we only have a small space.
My mother in-law bought us our first raised bed set for Christmas, and I built our second yesterday out of a fence we took down a few months back
 

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This is the planter that my OH made. We were lucky and found some expanding trellis in the garden centre in the same colour lol! Back right is my tomato plants which are finally starting to flower, the carrots along the front have gone nuts and the courgette plant (front right) is also thriving. The poor pepper plants don't look so well but I am still hopeful!
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Lady Kelly said:
This is the planter that my OH made. We were lucky and found some expanding trellis in the garden centre in the same colour lol! Back right is my tomato plants which are finally starting to flower, the carrots along the front have gone nuts and the courgette plant (front right) is also thriving. The poor pepper plants don't look so well but I am still hopeful!
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I love the colours of that planter!
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The excitement when some of your tomatoes start to ripen!
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That's looking great :D
 
Oh melanie I am so jealous! I don't even have green tomatoes on my plants yet... Though they have been growing more quickly in recent weeks. My peppers are still tiny but trying to flower already, I think the crazy carrots are stopping them getting enough sunlight
 
At the moment I am growing tomatoes and a black currant plant but they both seem to be dying- the stalks breaking and leaning and and the leaves going yellow :(
 
azolla and duckweed (Lemnaceae) from ponds are really REALLY good for the gardens, makes plants grow really big. and very healthy
 
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At the moment I am growing tomatoes and a black currant plant but they both seem to be dying- the stalks breaking and leaning and and the leaves going yellow :(
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Dig down a bit and see if there is damage to the bottom of the stalk and roots. I had a problem with vine weevils at the beginning of the year and got some nematodes to use in my veg planter to prevent them causing a problem.

That said my middle bell pepper plant has given up on life and died, the two either side are fine and doing well
 
I love this thread, keep checking back though it as I'm plotting planters!

@Flutterby I've been searching online for mixed leaf lettuce but I'm not having much luck! Are these the sort you grow? I don't recognise the plant names, but I take it lettuce is all ok unless its Iceberg?

http://www.thompson-morgan.com/vege...enti-italian-seeds/gww0324TM#additional-links

Sorry it wont let me copy the info/picture in directly.

Already planted some dandelions (my dad was disgusted when he found out!), coriander and parsley :)
 
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