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03-04-2007, 09:21 AM
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 I'm a dad!! My first seedlings have started to show their faces!! I've got four courgettes just starting to break the surface of the compost. I'm so proud, my first ever grown-from-seed plants. Woohoo!      |
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03-04-2007, 10:10 AM
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| Many congratulations! wonderful feeling isn't it |
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03-04-2007, 11:04 AM
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| Congratulations I'm glad I'm not the only one who regards my plants as my babies. I always feel really proud when one of my babies grows up and leaves the nursery. Hope you have many more  Tracy |
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03-04-2007, 12:16 PM
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| It's just the best thing -'It's a kind of magic....' not one we can achive on our own.
__________________ Denise xox Learn from the mistakes of others because you'll never live long enough to make them all yourself. -- Alfred E. Neumann http://irchesterplot.blogspot.com Last edited by denise; 03-04-2007 at 12:17 PM. |
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03-04-2007, 12:33 PM
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| Courgettes too. They'll grow into big kids Wayne. Well done. You never stop getting excited either!
__________________ Earth laughs in flowers. Ralph Waldo Emerson www.vegheaven.blogspot.com Updated November 30th - Mr Stinky's Excellent Adventure (and a Christmas Cake) Last edited by Flummery; 03-04-2007 at 12:42 PM. |
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03-04-2007, 12:36 PM
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Planted the rest of my potatoes too at the weekend - fingers crossed. Speaking of which, is there a rule of thumb for how many potatoes each seed (potato) produces? |
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03-04-2007, 12:43 PM
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| I don't think so Wayne, the yield depends on the variety. Seed catalogues usually say something like Yield - Moderate or Yield - High but they don't define it.
__________________ Earth laughs in flowers. Ralph Waldo Emerson www.vegheaven.blogspot.com Updated November 30th - Mr Stinky's Excellent Adventure (and a Christmas Cake) |
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03-04-2007, 01:48 PM
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| Congratulations Hey Wayne. Yes it is a wonderful feeling - and know what? -you never lose it no matter how many seeds you germinate. I think that's why we all do it. Hope you get a bumper crop of courgettes.
__________________ From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs. |
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03-04-2007, 02:17 PM
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| I hope you DON'T get a bumper crop of courgettes....after picking them every day for a fortnight, you'll wish you'd only grown one! (I'll still put 3 plants in tho...one for me, one for the slugs and one for luck)
__________________ ~ What do I think of Western civilisation? I think it would be a very good idea ~ Gandhi |
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03-04-2007, 02:44 PM
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| Hey Wayne Congratulations! It's such a fab feeling isn't it?  Blessings Squash Muppet  |
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03-04-2007, 11:08 PM
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| It never fails to amaze me how each year I get more excited about my seedlings! |
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03-04-2007, 11:32 PM
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| Well done Wayne! Its a FAB feeling isnt it? I nip into my greenhouse am and pm (B4 and after work) and see what has happened! I still wonder how those little seeds can germinate, then grow into the wonderful veg we eat from our plates! Brill eh?! Bernie aka Dexterdog
__________________ Appreciate the little things in life because one day you will realise they are the big things |
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03-04-2007, 11:46 PM
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| Oh and I was hoping the excitment of seeing *New Babies* never wanes. I thought I was the only mad one and have been sneaking out and peeking in the greenhouse when everyone else was preoccupied and wouldn't notice me *ohhh-ing and arrr-ing* at my new babies :-)
__________________ "A good gardener always plants 3 seeds - one for the bugs, one for the weather and one for himself.” - Leo Aikman Lauren |
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03-04-2007, 11:46 PM
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| congratulations HeyWayne, isn't it a wonderful feeling? Just watch out, now the worry - too much water, too little light, not warm enough. When you find yourself going about in pjs in the dark after a warm day to cover the babies up - you know you're really hooked!
__________________ Regards, Jane What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy? The creative adult is the child who has survived. Ursula LeGuin http://www.etribes.com/madderbat |
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04-04-2007, 09:22 AM
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| oh so cute, can't wait for mine to germinate
__________________ Belgrave-allotments.co.uk |
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04-04-2007, 11:16 AM
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| Ahh! Must get my courgettes in - I have a marrow I'm SO proud of! Sad, innit?
__________________ Earth laughs in flowers. Ralph Waldo Emerson www.vegheaven.blogspot.com Updated November 30th - Mr Stinky's Excellent Adventure (and a Christmas Cake) |
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04-04-2007, 07:20 PM
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| Just got home to check on the boys (or girls, it's too early to tell), and they're coming on great guns! Even been joined by another. Also, my sprouts have started to come up - exciting times!!! I've got about 5 little baby sproutlings poking through. Can't wait for the rest to appear. |
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04-04-2007, 08:12 PM
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| I know the feeling Wayne this morning 2 out of my 38 parsnips seeds have popped their heads above the compost.
__________________ Bren |
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04-04-2007, 08:41 PM
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| Good news Wayne! Looking at their current 'homes' it won't be long before they're moving on.....they grow up sooo fast!!
__________________ Manda. "Wouldn't it be nice For maybe an hour To not have a care." Last edited by smallblueplanet; 04-04-2007 at 08:41 PM. |
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05-04-2007, 09:23 AM
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I've saved a load of vending machine cups from work which I'm planning to turn into little plant pots (after making drainage holes in the bottom). |
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05-04-2007, 02:22 PM
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| Hi there Haywayne, congrats on becoming a 'dad', we all know how exciting it is when the seedlings show their heads. Derek and I became Grandparents again back in Feb when aprox 300 Musselburgh leeklings, aprox 50 Unwin Exhibition Onions and about 30 Ailsa Craig onions showed their tiny heads. All doing very nicely too. This w/e we will be planting out our maincrop potatoes (Maris Piper) to join our early spuds, Maris Bard and Int Kidney. Then over the next few weeks we will be starting to sow peas, runner beans, broad beans and various cabbages, caulis, carrots etc.
__________________ Vron, Tara & Harley. (The black beastie) "The more people I meet, the more I like my Dogs" |
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05-04-2007, 02:35 PM
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