wish you had not done this year but did.
following on from my earlier thread about what you wish you had done, is there anything you wish you hadnt done?
I wish i hadnt accidently sown dwarf french beans in my three sisters bed instead of climbing ones as i should have :P kicking myself now. not technikly a disaster but a "doh" moment. ;D
Wish that I had known more about Horsetail, then I would have used a spade instead of a fork to dig.
Because of the HT, just digging the 8x4 beds was a really bad idea as it has grown around the edges and is a real pain the pull out.
So next year/end of this year before the soil gets to wet/heavy, it'll be me and my trusty spade, starting in one corner of the plot and digging till it's all dug................
:(
Put 3 Constoluto Fiorento toms in a growbag, not enough room really.
Grown squash in the greenhouse. Never again! :-[ :-X
planting a sweet pea plant on alternate canes to the runners which have got lost in an absolute forest of sweet peas. next year they're getting separate beds of their own.
;D
Wish I had created a shade bed for my seeds that I want to sow now. Next year I will create something similar to my brassica cage, but use shading material over the top so I don't loose all of my freshly germinated carrots, pakchoi, turnips, kohl rabi and lettuce! :'(
Wish we'd taken the time to erect posts for the raspberries instead of banging them in and getting on with other stuff.
Now have raspberries flopping about all over the place, two lovely treated posts lying on the floor and not an inch of space to work to put them into the ground.
But this autumn...
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Wish I'd sown more long term never-done-before veg (brassicas); watered instead of expecting the plants do dig deep for water themselves; realised that OH would be of no help whatsoever and gone on and sorted the shed out myself; weeded more constantly and gone chemical-crazy a bit earlier.
Wish I had remembered to net the redcurrants before the birds got to them! busy_lizzie
Wish I'd:
Dug more beds/ground when it was still cool enough to do so.
Added more manure/compost/leafmould to the bits I did manage to dig.
Been more thorough in getting the couch grass out.
Remembered to sow sweet peas.
Made some kind of shady bit to sit under at the lottie.
Planted the rhubarb instead of letting it shrivel in the shed.
Put guttering on the shed so I could collect rainwater more easily.
Sowed more leeks.
Got my PSB to germinate.
Left enough room for a cutting garden.
As you can see from this list, I've got a busy winter ahead...
Cheers,
Rob ;)
glad its not just me then! funnily enough i have done most of the things you mention, except it was the sweetpeas that shrivelled up in the shed. definately wish i had done more while it was cooler. except it was raining then if i remember rightly. ???
(and yes I'm shouting and tearing my hair out at the roots)
WISH I'D NOT INVESTED IN PEAT-FREE GROW BAGS
(whew! feel better now)! These have been such a fiaster (cross between fiasco & disaster, originally a typo but hey! some good's come out of it if I've invented a new word ;D)
Dreadful stuff.
been too generous to slugs and snails. The beer just has not been enough this year. Going to try coffee later and may have to tune into a murderous barsteward if that does not work.
QuoteThe beer just has not been enough this year.[ /quote]
thats what my o/h says constantly!
its not supposed to be for you clanger-its fort'slugs!
kitty
Can sympathise with you on the slug and snail issue, redclanger! I've used an arsenal of weapons on the little beggars this year....beer traps, Slug Stoppa, cheapo coffee granules....and my trusty weapon of choice...the metal skewer (my local blackbird and thrush population get a slug kebab for breakfast each morning!). ;)
The slimey invaders have won the battle so far (though this dry spell is helping). They seem to enjoy eating all my lovely veg first, then get thirsty....and decide to have a refreshing beer to wash it all down >:(. But however many I manage to kill/drown/poison/impale....there is always another squadron coming over the front line (my garden wall) the next evening.
So...I wish I hadn't balked at the price of nematodes (for my tiny garden)...and I wish I had bought them, and benefitted!
Carys
Slug pellets and the heel of a boot (with eyes closed and fingers in ears).