Yeah!!!!seed ordering time is here..

Don't buy seed with"PVP" on the package or catalogue listing. It means: illegal to save seed or otherwise propagate the plant. www.seedsofchange.com

 

Im growing the usuall so,

Peas
Onions
Cabbage
Leeks
Potatoes
Carrots
Beetroot
Lettuce

Im going to add a new row of raspberries and try different salad leafs
going to move the blackcurrant bush
and am going to take a wild blueberry bush and try and plant it in a shady place in my garden

 

Hey Ripple, how are you doing?

Are we talking blaeberry here? I would ask you to think again as they are becoming increasingly rare in the wild. Better you leave it where it is and go and pick the berries rather than up root it and run the risk of it not taking. Blueberry bushes are reletively cheap from a garden centre and you can even get them as bogofs in Woolies!

I will do the usual too(peas, string beans, onions, shalotts, leeks, beetroot, broad beans,parsnips, carrots, kale, cabbage) - but no tatties this year as we got blight last year - I will just get them from the farmer down the road and use the ground to grow other things.

We put in a lot of native tree saplings along one side of the garden to encourage birds and other wild life. We have also been building bug retreats and bumble bee houses.
If you garden organically I would encourage everyone to give wildlife a helping hand as they really help the gardener.

We are about to build some cold frames so will grow some courgettes (zuchinni) and tomatoes, aubergines (eggplant).

Herb wise? Well our herb garden is well established now but the seasonals we will plant - like corriander.

Are we still seed swapping this year guys?

Been busy so havent been on the forums for a while.

Hope you are all doing well. Oh and before January is our a Happy New Year to all : )

 

Hey seabreeze, great to see you again! Happy new year to you too.

The bushes I was talking about certainly arent rare, but you are right. Id be as well just go into the country and pick them anyway, its a fine excuse for a walk


My gardens a bit of a haven for wildlife too, Ive got piles of sticks that are too big to go on the compost heap - im sure the hedgehogs have a home in there. Im going to put up more bird boxes this year too, bringing the total to 6!

 

hay Dilli,how are ya man. your garden plans sound good.i allso love ordering and planing this time of year.
peace
frog

 

am good wf. hope all is well with you,, not seen ya round in like forever...

made little teeny greenhouses today n planted broccoli. cabbage, cauliflower wonderberries n huckleberries.

yarrow and rhubarb were ones i forgot to mention

the cabbage i ended up just buying locally for. baker creek was out n i was a lilbit worried about trying to figure out how to get seed from a cabbage anyway..

 

R U growing GARDEN huckleberries, dilligaf? I just read an uncomplimentary report of 'em here:
http://www.liseed.org/solanunusual.html
(sorry to say!)

I started some cabbage seed in the house and now have LOTS of little cabbage plants with nowhere to go. So hopefully they'll be okay by the time it's warm enough to plant them outside.

I liked the comment about 'can't have too many herb seeds!' I'm still looking at buying MORE seeds. But I really have to figure out how to grow a few things we use a lot, like potatoes and onions.

 

thanks mmobs.. i have actually read more than just that one on them saying much the same
no worries... i figured that we would try them and if they are something that are truly yuckity then they will make a nice planting for the critters and birds to nibble off of and be planted somewhere strategically located away from the normal gardens...I would rather have tried something and not have liked it than to never have tried it at all and in my own mind nothing is ever truly a waste...either human or critters could use the foods it will provide...

 

Hay, ya its ben awile benn hard to find time lately.
Glad ya got some seads goin,your garden this year is gonna fantastik.
Imma get my eggplants,tomatoes,brockly and maybe a few others goin soon.im runnin late on time this year. We opened a new bizz. Barely had time to get straw on the garlic beds. I scaled down the garlic to 2 beds ( 10x 50 feet) still got about 50 pounds in.4 veirietys insdtead of 9.gonna perfect these verietys ,and they are more adaptid to my zone (zone4).
Gettin lots of snow this winter and temps on some days goin down to -27. then again some weeks up to 37 or even 45.
gonna be a big spring this year with all the watter.our heb gardens and garlic will be lovein it. Oh and the morrell huntin this spring is projected to be the best its benn in years. i cant wait
have a good rest of the winter...
mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmspring
peace