bit of advice please

[Norm]

Leave some green showing. By the time you've finished, the profile should be something like 18 inches across the bottom and 1 foot high with the the greenery poking about a foot out of the top.
Some growers earth up completely as soon as the spuds go in. I've tried both methods and there doesn't seem to be any difference in yield.
Now I grow spuds in blue plastic 56 gallon drums cut in half with the top and bottom cut out.

[nick the grief]

The way to test the ground to see if it's ready to plant is to drop your kecks & sit bare bottomed on the soil If you don't jump up quickly your are either suffering with Sciatica or it's OK .... don't try this till you've cleared your plot as thistle & nettles can confuse the result

I've not got all my tatties in yet so don't worry

[Burnzie]

Hi Percy T, dont worry about it, there is still plenty of time for planting out your potatoes. My soil is still quite cold and wet up here on the north-east coast, however a couple more days like today might get me "dropping my kecks"

Tony

[Flummery]

You should be able to harden your lettuce off now. I put mine outside in the day and bring them back inside the greenhouse at night. A couple of weeks of this should toughen them up enough to take the plunge.

[Percy T]

Thank Flummery,

I really need to get them outside I need the room in the green house only trouble is I also need to get the beds ready to plant when the have harden off. Hope to get some work done this weekend

[nick the grief]

What you need Percy is my Acme temporary coldframe

http://www.warkcom.net/live/images/c...ntro/frame.jpg

[Percy T]

thanks nick

two little problems

1 it would appear I have to build it

2 dont know where to put it.

but thanks any way maybe I have to sweet talk OH maybe he will build it for me.

[nick the grief]

The beauty of it is it can go anywhere. My other one is just a 4 frames but covered in thick polythene and you can put a frame heater in if you are overwintering stuff.

[Percy T]

Ok so I have seen many pics of plots etc so thought I would let you all have a little look at mine.

Ok I would if I could figure out how to attach photos

Ps Nick Lidl have a special on next week and am going to get a could frame have figured out where it can go. yippee

[Percy T]

Thanks for the help LJ

soo here is may alloment before and after

1st one is the plot next to mine, mine was like this one before I started.

2nd one shows mum sunning her self one afternoon at the alloment

3rd one shows a couple of my beds

4th one is all my little seedlings in my conservatory including 280 lettice plants

hope this has worked

Wow you learn something new everyday dont you

[dexterdoglancashire]

WOW! PT you've done an excellent job! well done! I love seeing B4 and after pics! So you like lettuce, sorry, love lettuce....what else do you plan growing?
Bernie aka Dexterdog

[Percy T]

Hi dexter

On those shelfs are also tomatoes onions pumkin peas broad beans french beans sugar snap peas sweetcorn celery corriander chives parsley.

pansy, staceys, marigolds, carnations and some I cant remember lol

and i still have a box full of seed to sow.


Think I have been a little overzelous

[dexterdoglancashire]

Go for it PercyT! I would, well, actually I have been. I only planted one set of seeds last year - but my back garden was really small! (as you may see on my picture of Dexter the dog looking cool on my smallest bit of the garden!). This year I've got a half lottie, so am trying, well, trying successional? sowing.
Sowed a lot of seed four weeks ago and now they have sprouted have planted a few more today. Will do the same thing in four weeks. Hopefully, the first ones will be out on the soil just as the second are ready and so forth. I'll see.
Good look with yours - keep sowing!
Bernie aka Dexterdog

[Flummery]

By heck, you've made a difference there lad! Well done!