My first potatoes and other things

[lumpyjumper]

Hi all, me again.....

Just found out I'm number 2 on the waiting list for a lottie!!! Risen from 6th to 2nd since the beginning of December, however, January was renewal month so there may not be much movement here after......

Anyway, bit of advice, I've bought some Pentland Javelin and a potato planter to put them into on the patio. If I just stand the seed potatoes on a tray in a bright cool room will they chit or do I need some way of balancing them upright? I haven't managed to get my hands on any eggboxes or apple trays etc.

Also, because the weather was so glorious last weekend I planted 8 Rondo peas and a few Bedfordshire Champion Onions into little seed module thingies, and I've kept them in the utility room all week, how often should I be watering them and have I started too early....I got all enthusiastic!

Thanks as always

LumpyJ

[snake the squadie]

lumpy dont worry about getting a lottie there is loads of things that can be done on the patio and in pots and stuff. my sister grows loads of stuff just in her garden borders with out distroying her lawn

[scarey55]

Hi LumpyJ,

I don't think I've said this before so "welcome".

I would have thought that if you stuff them all together in a container they will lean on each other and stay upright that way.

If you're anything like me, by next year your utility room/workshop in my case will be full of old toilet rolls, egg boxes, mushroom containers, lolly sticks.....

[snake the squadie]

i bet yours looks just like mine

[scarey55]

Yup, and half of the other Grapes on here

[lumpyjumper]

I've been collecting the toilet roll inners and my plastic fizzy pop bottles (for making cloches again!) Makes a nice change for the utility room to be cluttered with my stuff and not Mr LJ's!!!! He's already got the entire garage, why oh why must he also use inside the house as well! LOL!

[scarey55]

You'll be like the rest of us in no time at all. Everyone has to have at least one?? room full of gardening clutter

[snake the squadie]

the best thing is though its that you loose half of your stuff in there so you end up buying twice as much and your room gets fuller(is that a word) and then you loose more stuff etc etc its a conspiracy by the gardening shops/supermarkets

[moggssue]

My house/garden/shed are full of black holes .... theres one for seeds, one for pages ripped out of mags, one for socks, and wellie even has one for sausages dont you dear!

[snake the squadie]

is it just me or does every one else loose the odd sock in these rooms. but you keep hold of it in the hope that one day it will be reunited with its parntner

no

must just be me then

taxi for snake

[shirlthegirl43]

is it just me or does every one else loose the odd sock in these rooms. but you keep hold of it in the hope that one day it will be reunited with its parntner

no

must just be me then

taxi for snake

Thought it was just me - I have about 3 carrier bags of odd socks! when the menfolk shout that they have no socks they are given the bags and told to go sort them!

[lumpyjumper]

Washing machines and tumble driers not only eat socks but also change their colour, It also doesn't help if one's dear husband only wears black or navy blue socks!!! I have no idea what matches with what so they get thrown on the bed and he has to sort them, often they remain there for months!!!!

Anyway, back to my spuds, so if I group them together so they stand up that will work better? I'could prop them up in an empty ice cream tub....

What about my peas and onions should I be keeping the compost damp???

[snake the squadie]

stop going on about your bl~*&y spuds socks are far more intresting.
all my socks have little pics on them bart simpson, golfing. christmass trees etc etc, that way you look even more of a idot when your pics dont match

[snake the squadie]

sorry. i have no idea about your peas and onions as i find it a lot easier to by onion sets and i just saw peas straight from the packet(have been told loads of wierd and wonderfull things about what to do to peas. the spuds should be fine like that i did it last year but would prefer to have them so they are not touching each other(personal choice nothing more)

[lumpyjumper]

Maybe I should put the spuds into the odd socks that would be more interesting wouldn't it they could sit happily upright in an assortment of navy blue and black socks.....