Have you started on you 2011 vegetable garden plan yet?

[grawrc]

I have started inasmuch as buying the over wintering broad beans and peas,the patch for next year`s onions has had a garlic drench and the path I take to the new compost bin will be well trodden down for the sprouts
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What's in the garlicdrench Stephan? My onions and shallots were greT but garlic largely succumbed to White rot. I suspect the roots I bought were infected

[grawrc]

[pigeonseed]

Jeannine said

I started the squash last week,got to get an early start on them

Really? You start them off now and then keep them indoors over winter? Tell me more!

I've started planning! It's something about the time of year. And I'm trying to move to a more systematic crop rotation system, so needed to think ahead over the next couple of years! (sorry that makes me sound so anal   ::)  ;D)

[Jeannine]

So somebody finally noticed my joke..ha ha, I start them at the same time I put the Brussel sprouts on to cook Christmas dinner

XX Jeannine

[pigeonseed]

I wasn't sure whether it was a joke - people do such different things! So do you really start them off at Christmas or are you teasing again you cheeky girl!  ;D

[pigeonseed]

PS who's your new avatar, Jeannine?

[Digeroo]

I start them at the same time I put the Brussel sprouts on to cook Christmas dinner

So if you start squashes off at Christmas when do your plant them outside.  Don't they go on a take over bid of the house?  Is there some way of keeping them small.

[Jeannine]

O eck, I am not real good at jokes..I am getting myself in too deep here.

No I don't plaat then now or at Christmas.

1.Here now with no space

2'UK  with space and 5 greenhouses

3.Canada before when I had acreage.



3, I sowed about April , potted on in 5 inch pots and planted in garden in May. Mild weather and long growing season took over.

2. I started early to allow for the cooler weather and shorter season.So I sowed in February in a heated  greenhouse , in heated propogater , potted on into gradually bigger pots till in the end I was in 5 gallon buckets, by this time I had very large  healthy plants when  UK weather was  good enough to put them out on the lottie, big hole dug and whole bucketful went in with shovenful of manure at bottom of hole. Covered with polytunnel if needed. This way I could get almost anything to maturity even in Hull unless it was cold wet summer then it came down to the earlier ones and a bit of luck.

1. Started inside under lights(but late this year) potted on till weather was OK and in garden as usual. no home greenhouse here so am juggling a bit. Next season can start earlier so should be back to normal except I lack the space.

So it really depends on your own situation.

XX Jeannine

PS My new picture is another doll I have just finished, the last one scared someone  who pm'd me so I changed it. Iam gradually unpacking boxes and working on UFO's..(unfinished ongoing ) projects.

[Digeroo]

I had this image of your house completely covered in squashes trailing about the place.

One year I had absolutely huge fruiting courgettes and tomatoes in the front window.  Had a visit from the police who thought they were pot plants. 

[calendula]

my plans began a while back on a scrap of paper - usually keep it in my head but next year's plans just follow on smoothly from this year - much the same crops but just moved round and moved drastically if ground didn't seem suitable - taking note of mistakes to correct and leaving room for new ideas and experimenting - never stops really  ;D