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    I'm new to all this, only started in July and have managed to grow some potatoes which are now nicely roasted and in the freezer. I had cucumbers in the plastic greenhouse until it blew down and I now have a tiny plastic greenhouse with some spring onions and 1 carrot in it.

    Is there anything I can plant now. I ideally want to plant in tubs as the ground is just soaking and doesn't seem to be draining at all.

    Thanks in advance.

  • #2
    Well done you! I'm planting winter salad leaves all the way through if I can - outside with cloche type things on. All mine are in pots (you can keep them warmer that way too). And garlic!
    I don't roll on Shabbos

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    • #3
      Has to be broadies methinks. I'll be sowing two lots this weekend!
      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)

      Diversify & prosper


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      • #4
        You could grow some salad leaves and pea shoots with some protection - or on the windowsill. You could plant some garlic and shallots in containers.

        From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.

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        • #5
          Originally posted by knittywittywoo View Post
          Is there anything I can plant now. .
          you can get some broad beans in. Aquadulce is a good over-wintering variety, Sutton isn't so good but is dwarf, so less liable to wind damage
          All gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.

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          • #6
            Originally posted by Two_Sheds View Post
            you can get some broad beans in. Aquadulce is a good over-wintering variety, Sutton isn't so good but is dwarf, so less liable to wind damage
            Most beans cause some wind damage - speshally baked ones.

            Anyhoop, I'd go with garlic, onions (if yer quick), and broadies. I've had trouble with peas and mice (sounds like something else I say!), so will leave them until the spring.

            Good luck, and well done thus far.
            A simple dude trying to grow veg. http://haywayne.blogspot.com/

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            • #7
              Thanks very much. I will look into it this weekend.
              I have plenty of the small plastic greenhouses that woolies were selling off for £4 so I could put a few tubs in there.
              I have my spring onions, pansies and my lonely carrot in one. ( something pulled up all the carrots I planted in the ground, this is the only one I managed to save.) I open it during the day so rain can get in and close it at night for protection against the wind.
              If I don't still look interested Hubby won't get me a glass greenhouse next year.

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              • #8
                Just keep posting on here, and show him your post count in the spring and it will show him you're interested.

                I'm sowing broadies, peas, leeks and more winter salads & chicory this evening.

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by zazen999 View Post
                  Just keep posting on here, and show him your post count in the spring and it will show him you're interested.

                  I'm sowing broadies, peas, leeks and more winter salads & chicory this evening.
                  Like the idea of sowing a batch of leek seeds each month! Just wondered..........do you have many bolters with this method?
                  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)

                  Diversify & prosper


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                  • #10
                    If they bolt, they go into a bed in the border for next year's seeds.

                    I had a few last year, but they were truly in there for most of the summer and the winter and bolted around march/april time.

                    My new idea...is to sow a few every month, and to harvest them smaller. - which means you need more but hey ho!

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                    • #11
                      I was thinking something like that, my idea was to sow some every(ish) month in a big pot, use some from the pot and transplant some on. I've noticed they grow very well when they are all stuck together.
                      I sowed some on the 16th October in a pot in the greenhouse and they are coming on nicely.
                      "Orinoco was a fat lazy Womble"

                      Please ignore everything I say, I make it up as I go along, not only do I generally not believe what I write, I never remember it either.

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                      • #12
                        They do, they do...they look nice all grown in a pot as well.

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