Grow Your Own Magazine

I Thought (as the growing season is under way an all) it might be a good idea to start a thread off for them of us that are new to this growing veg stuff, and are already learning the error of our ways.
Feel free to point and larf, join in with your words of wisdom you more experienced Grapes.

I will kick us off with...

Next year i will make sure i sew my container grown carrots and parsnips straight into their permanent containers and not in small pots to be moved on later.
They really don’t appreciate being pricked out and moved on.

Wren

Ooooh this is going to be such a funny thread

Next year I will not sow 2,000 Nicotiana plants in one tray and have to spend every waking hour pricking them out.
Next year I will have got to grips with how many herb seeds to sow in a pot so I don't have too many or too few in it.

things i will do different(ly) this year
ALMOST EVERYTHING

things I will do differently.
I will always label everything immediately, and not leave it till after a cup of tea and forget which seeds went into which tray.
Kath

Next year I will not kill my broad beans.

Next yr I will have more time and make sure I have dedicated space for my veggies

I'm with you on that Kath - I'm already struggling to make out if it's courgette or a squash in some of my pots...time will tell I guess!

Next year I will have Jan, Feb & March, on the lottie which will be a big bonus and help me be more prepared.

I'll also have a full itinerary of our family veg needs so I can but endeavour to meet it.

Next year I won't sew overwintering broad beans a month too early, under a nice warm cloche, so that they put on two feet of growth in the very mild autumn and curl themselves into mad corkscrews inside the cloche, then bend and go nasty when i try to straighten them and tie them to stakes and end up having to resew anyway!! Grrrr

next year I will not assume I can remember which part of which windowsil contains which potao variety.. :P even the desiree, which looked nice and red initially now look identical to all the reast.. doh!

I will also learn how to type.. potato variety.. and who knows where that 'a' came from in 'rest' :P

next year i will organise myself and my time better and not decided right at the last minute after seeing lets grow veg in asda and buy it and then decided in april that im endevouring to grow veg lol. i will also hopefully by then either have an allotment or a garden i can dig up or some kind of patio raised bed!

lawless

Oh my goodness!! some of these are too funny an my face hurt from laughing. Keep them coming folk

Wren

I will not be thinking that 30 lettuces at a time will be 'just enough' for 2 people.

next year I will label things as soon as I plant them instead of saying to myself 'ooh i will remember that I planted those onions/potatoes/spinach there. I now have no clue as to what row contains what as the little shoots are just so tiny!!

will also label all the seeds i have sown on windowsill for exact same reason!

Next year I will not sow my mange tout so early so that they are too tall for the guttering they are in and keep falling over, prompting me to plant them out the day before it snows! and then panic that I have killed them.

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pjh75

We sow the seed, nature grows the seed, we eat the seed.

I will also learn to be patient generally.

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pjh75

We sow the seed, nature grows the seed, we eat the seed.

When you learn the secret of patience - please do tell.

Next year I will not start everything off two months too early for the North.

But this was my resolution last year. And the year before. And the one before that.

February is soooo boring and dull... Nothing else to do but plant said doomed seeds. Good thing that you get lots in the packet!

Next year I will make sure I have plenty of pots before I start, and not have to go to various garden centres trying (in vain) to get 2 1/2" or 3" pots.

Next year I will not oversow my seeds - 15 cabbage seeds per (admittedly large) module means lots of pricking out. And I did that to brocolli, brussels sprouts, cabbages, caulflowers, and almost as bad with lots of tomatoes!!

But at least next year I now know how to prick out!!!! Thanks to the peeps here on the Vine

Next year, I will make sure that I get time to remove couch grass roots from the plot as I dig. (I knew that one this year, just no time to do it).

Next year I will not assume that I can manage to own the National Collection of climbing beans!

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Earth laughs in flowers. Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Updated November 17th - The Big Dig

I will have finally got round to making an Asparagus bed........I could be eating it by now!!!!!

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Always aim for the best result possible not the best possible result

Next year I'll make concerted efforts to finish one job before I start another!

That way I shouldn't finish up with an allotment full of half finished projects!

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My Majesty made for him a garden anew in order
to present to him vegetables and all beautiful flowers.- Offerings of Thutmose III to Amon-Ra (1500 BCE)

I will not tip a whole packet of leek seeds into one seed tray as they were a bit old, it looks like there's been an earthquake in there!
I will also, like dajeleh and no doubt many others, not plant loads of poor doomed seeds in febuary , only I probably will as soon as I can get into the poly withoug a balaclava on. Planting, it's just so exciting!
I will not decide that rotavating loads of grass and weeds straight into a new patch "will be fine", I now have some serious hoeing muscles!

:next year i ....will stop being seen by my nieghbours acting a bit wierd around my hanging baskets of toms,like tucking them up each night an talking to em,an running round the patio with a bloody great piece of fleece over my head looking like an extra from ghostbusters each time some halfwit on the bbc says the word FROST!!,all the nieghbours now think im a right nutter...............