Comments on: Sunday on the Plot

By: Stephen

Stephen — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 19:19:36 +0000

I had the same problem I was suppose to plant i in the autumn but I did not get down because of weather and work comitment.
I did not get it planted until february and it has really grown.
At the moment I am sowing some parsnips.But the rain has interfered.
Stephen

By: PETER HAYES

PETER HAYES — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:55:31 +0000

THINK YOU SENT MY BOOKS BEFORE YOU GOT THE ORDER FANTASTIC SERVICE JOHN LOOKING FOWARDS TO THE NEXT BOOK LOW COST LIVING

By: Roger

Roger — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 10:23:54 +0000

John

Thanks for my copy of your book, arived in double quick time.
My garlic went in last October, all through and growing well.
hav’nt got my shallots in yet, perhaps next week.
keep up the good work.

By: Tracy

Tracy — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 22:55:36 +0000

Thanks for the book John. It’s a good read. Like you my shallots and garlic only went in a couple of weeks ago and on Monday there were about 25 little green shoots coming up in the garlic section. Fingers crossed as it’s my first attempt on the garlic front.

By: Jon Wright

Jon Wright — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 20:04:25 +0000

Got the new book John, thanks for the super quick delivery.

On the Garlic front i did mine around this time last year and got a great crop. I also managed to plant some in November and there also looking pretty good as well.

Like you John i’ve just got my Shallots in although the flying rats and a Dog Fox are having fun pulling them out. Can’t think the Fox likes the taste that much but it still keeps digging them out. It was Potatoes last year. Anybody else had similar trouble with the Fox?

By: Duncan

Duncan — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 14:20:56 +0000

Just thought people would like to know Wilkinsons’s are selling a large PVC polytunnel cloche about 2ft wide by 1 and a half foot in height by almost 10ft long for only £5.99. Similar cloches cost about £20 in a nearby upmarket garden centre. I’ve got some ‘Castella’ melon seedlings I started in a heated propogator and put them on a sunny windowsill backed with kitchen foiled on a piece of cardboard. I will pot them on from the 3″ pots to a 5″ when needed and take them up to the greenhouse sometime in April. In mid-may, then plant them out through the professional weed membrane and then cover seedlings with the Wilkey’s cloche. The soil is well enriched with rotted manure, blood, fish and bone, etc. Fingers crossed for a decnt summer and I might just get some melons in August/september.

By: dwtomo

dwtomo — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 19:59:07 +0000

Just thought you would like to know that Wickes are doing 4 bags of multipurpose compost for just over 11 pounds the price would be 15 + if bought separately and it seems to be quite good stuff in 75kg bags

By: David

David — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 22:26:24 +0000

Strange thing Garlic. Like you I thought I would plant mine in the previous autumn. I didn’t.

I did try to get it going early though so I put some of my best saved Garlic cloves in the ground at the end of January.

Nothing happened, and I thought I had lost the lot to cold, wet or mice, so I went out and bought some new Cristo variety specially for growing. Planted them around the area where I put the others.

Low and behold! Over the last couple of weeks not only have the new ones come up but the first lot as well, all at the same time.

What can you say apart from “patience”!