Thursday 1 April 2010

I have been gardening!!!

This is not usually a activity I partake in often - We sometimes grow a few tomatoes in the garden but that's about it and I would normally but the plants already half grown. This year I decided to see it through from start to finish - or until I manage to kill everything off which is more likely!

So last week with my shopping list, wrote by the children of course. I went off to the shops to buy us some seeds and mud. (I resisted the pretty vintage looking watering can, That can come later!)

A week later and this is our efforts so far -




Ok so its not going to make us self sufficient just yet but its a start, Right? lol

So does anyone know what I do with the courgettes next? Im sure they aren't supposed to look like that!

5 comments:

  1. I'm not sure what you do next, but yours are looking better than my efforts so far. I have one tiny shoot coming through on my chilli plant, and nothing on the carrots and onions.

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  2. You need to pot them on, they could have done with a bigger pot right from the start, looks like they've been competing too much so they're long and thin instead of sturdy - wait until this harsh cold weather has gone before you plant them outside (they'll do ok in a grow bag if you haven't got a veg patch but beware they get very very big!)

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  3. Where have you got your pots? The seedlings look a little long and leggy as if they're stretching towards the light. If they're on a windowsill, try turning the pot a quarter turn each day so that the stems grow evenly.

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  4. I've just repotted them into bigger pots and now they are in the kitchen windowsill, Hopefully I'll be able to save them

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  5. They are bigger than mine, ive got hem growing in the greenhouse an nothing so far, although it has snowed up here in bonny Scotland this week!!

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