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    Newbie ..please be gentle

    hello, I'm new to the forum not new to gardening but still class myself as a complete beginner. I don't have a green house this year as of yet (but I'm working on it ) last one got seriously damaged by the wind, there was glass was everywhere gable end twisted etc..anyway a friend gave me a poly tunnel so figured I'd put it up and give it a go. It has a few holes in it but will do me for now!

    Anyways all I have in there is six tomato plants which seem to be doing okay. I have two raised beds new this year, in one I have onions and two rhubarb plants ( they wont grow anywhere else ) in the other I have beetroot and carrots. I have a three pots of strawberries. Last year i grew cucumbers, sweetcorn and potatoes (although grew potatoes in bags and didn't do very well )
    I have bought today some lettuce seeds and peas..What else can I start growing now. I haven't got the third bed built yet but hoping if I start something off by the time its ready to be planted out the OH would have built it, the peas ~Im going to grow in pots ....Thanks
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    Hello cazzaahh,

    Welcome to the vine!

    I've just sown another lot of dwarf french beans
    spinach
    lettuce
    kohl rabbi
    beetroots
    hispi cabbages
    Dill
    Florence (bulb) fennel
    mexican tree spinach

    I am also about to sow some pepper seeds to try and overwinter.
    A few more buckets of carrots
    Some 'early' potatoes to be ready for xmas
    http://goneplotterin.blogspot.co.uk/

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    • #3
      Welcome to the vine cazzaah

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      • #4
        Thanks

        Guess I'm what you'd call a boring gardener. My OH only eats carrots, beetroot and onions. Son will eat peas, carrots and that is about it. I eat cauliflower sprouts etc , but although Id like to have a try at growing them is there any point when only I eat them , though I guess if grew something that I could freeze, that wouldn't be so bad. Ill end up spending a fortune on seeds just for a few out of each packet. Im struggling with a bad back too so quite limited on what I can do without asking for help, and i hate asking for help especially from OH and DS who have no interest what so ever. Maybe I should buy a cocoa bean plant tell them I'm growing chocolate ..id get their interest then !!

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        • #5
          Welcome cazzaahh, some great people on this site with plenty of help and ideas

          Maybe you could buy a small plant instead of seeds? That way you already have the head start and you could try something you might never have thought of before, i've just got 3 cucamelon plug plants so i'm really excited to see if they do anything, in the greenhouse atm. They are from a post on this site with on offer for 3 cucamelon 3 squash tromboncino 2 habanero pepper 2 patipan squash, £1.99 instead of £19.99 , +£4.99 p+p. I only ordered them 9 days ago. If this interests you at all, to see the post search james wong suttons , and the code is S16BANK

          Good luck with whatever you decide, oh and who are OH and DS? lol can't work it out x
          ''I've left all my belongings on the side of the road and i'm hoping my mind can be free.'' --- Hanami - Bolesworth Blues


          http://www.hanamimusic.co.uk/

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          • #6
            Helloooo cazzaahh!!! . Welcome from me too ..!!
            Lovin the chocolate bean scenario ..!
            Just grow a bit of what you fancy, gal! Enjoy the moment when your carefully sowed seeds start germinating and flourish - try some flowers too - I have for the first time this year, just a few, and it gets you hooked!
            Enjoy yourself, and just try different free seeds - you never know, you, OH, kids might even like them!
            ~~~ Gardening is medicine that does not need
            a prescription ... And with no limit on dosage.
            - Author Unknown ~~~

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            • #7
              OH. Other half
              DS - dear son ...??
              ~~~ Gardening is medicine that does not need
              a prescription ... And with no limit on dosage.
              - Author Unknown ~~~

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              • #8
                Welcome to the vine,you will soon be a seedaholic like a lot off us,good luck with getting another greenhouse,have you tried looking for a 1 going free somewhere.
                sigpicAnother nutter ,wife,mother, nan and nanan,love my growing places,seed collection and sharing,also one of these

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                • #9
                  Hi there...and welcome to the Vine from me too!
                  "Nicos, Queen of Gooooogle" and... GYO's own Miss Marple

                  Location....Normandy France

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                  • #10
                    Hello Caz & welcome to the Jungle.
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                    • #11
                      :-)

                      Decided Im off shopping tomorrow to buy a few more seeds / plants.. .My daughter has just been given keys to her new house yesterday so will be helping her the best I can but no matter what im still doing my garden on the plus side I now have her garden to design ..wonder if she would let me have a veg plot there too lol

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                      • #12
                        A very warm welcome to the forum, dear soul
                        Pain is still pain, suffering is still suffering, regardless of whoever, or whatever, is the victim.
                        Everything is worthy of kindness.

                        http://thegentlebrethren.wordpress.com

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                        • #13
                          Hi and welcome to the vine.

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                          • #14
                            Hello and welcome from me too
                            Last edited by sparrow100; 17-06-2016, 06:33 AM.
                            http://mudandgluts.com - growing fruit and veg in suburbia

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