Biggest mistakes in 1st year

[momol]

Don't keep digging up your garlic bulbs every few weeks to find out if they've sprouted... they will, they just take their time... and if you keep digging them up, they'll never come to anything...
(actually, this wasn't me, it was my mum! Flowers are much more her speciality)

Lol, I did it too, it was my first time garlic growing. I didn't actually dig them out but just softly removed the surface soil and have a peep and them cover it back immediately .

[marialittlebzz]

My biggest mistake was thinking that my soil was good enough, simply because it has a nice color! actually nothing has grown, and I just ran to the shop and bought a few books to get a bit more science behind my will !
Know a lot more now but still this is my first real year of growing veg so I know that there will be a huge difference between the garden I have in my imagination and the one which will actually be!

[Growem]

Last year was my first year and although I planned where I wanted things, I didn't plan very well, as there's no easy way to do crop rotation now. So as much as possible I'm going to forget last year and plant things in groups this year so it won't be so higgledy piggledy where I can put things.

My purple sprouting broccoli was doing just fine until I transplanted it to elsewhere on the plot, so this year I'll leave it alone.

Not realising how quickly slugs can eat a crop of fresh new salad seedlings. I didn't have any protection for them. One evening they were there, the next day they were not. That was depressing because it was the first things that I had sown and first to pop up.

[Growem]

Oh, the other mistake I made just on the weekend is don't leave your seedlings on your bed to get a bit of sunlight when you have a stealthy 1 year old about the place!

[Winged one]

I forgot to sow my sweetcorn. And to sow more than 1 lot of lettuce or spring onions.

One really good thing I had heard when I was JUST starting was to only dig one section at a time, do it really well, and then plant it up immediately (as in - plant it as soon as there was something to plant, not to run off and dig everything in sight before planting anything - the weeds will have come back on the first bit again and only depress you totally).

And in year 1, grow lots of what you like to eat and only a few experiments. There are plenty of years for those.

[Matt.]

My mistake was rotovating my plot without applying roundup style weedkiller. I multiplied the numbers of horsetail weed and am still suffering the consequences. Follow the guide by Pigletwillie and don't rush into your new allotment.

Oh long term lesson don't get a plot next to a river, stream, brook, beck or any other form of flowing water that might flood onto your plot...

[vegnut]

Lol, I did it too, it was my first time garlic growing. I didn't actually dig them out but just softly removed the surface soil and have a peep and them cover it back immediately .

HAH...I DID THAT TOO

[Minty]

My mistake was telling the Sunday night chat that i was listening to Chris De Burgh, now no one answers my posts Minty

[Seahorse]

My mistake was telling the Sunday night chat that i was listening to Chris De Burgh, now no one answers my posts Minty

Yeah Minty, your street cred is GONE!

I think I already know what my worst mistake is... seeing my huge lottie and thinking 'yippee, I'll buy every seed known to mankind' but forgetting I need to clear it properly first

[Minty]

Yeah Minty, your street cred is GONE!

I think I already know what my worst mistake is... seeing my huge lottie and thinking 'yippee, I'll buy every seed known to mankind' but forgetting I need to clear it properly first

You were the sole one i thought i could rely on.
Even the Samaritans keep hanging up .
I`m gonna hide in my shed,self harm and play my Pogues/REM/Bob Marley collection(any more credible?)until i am better again.
Once again i am so so sorry. Minty

[Seahorse]

You were the sole one i thought i could rely on.
Even the Samaritans keep hanging up .
I`m gonna hide in my shed,self harm and play my Pogues/REM/Bob Marley collection(any more credible?)until i am better again.
Once again i am so so sorry. Minty

Hmm, throw in Kirsty MacColl and The Levellers and I *might* just forgive you...

[raine]

Main one was thinking that I'd remember what everything was and not bothering to label
Second was not learning from that mistake and doing exactly the same last year.Also just about all the above ! Oh well - the only way is up!!

[Minty]

Hmm, throw in Kirsty MacColl and The Levellers and I *might* just forgive you...

Yep, i will buy my cred back with TRUTHFULLY admiting to being a Levellers fan(Simon used to busk outside a shop i used to work at in Derby) and have a fond memory of New England as a song as i grew up(not forgetting fairytale of New York )...............Can i be forgiven yet ???????????

[Seahorse]

Yep, i will buy my cred back with TRUTHFULLY admiting to being a Levellers fan(Simon used to busk outside a shop i used to work at in Derby) and have a fond memory of New England as a song as i grew up(not forgetting fairytale of New York )...............Can i be forgiven yet ???????????

Aw, I luvs ya really

[smallblueplanet]

My mistake was telling the Sunday night chat that i was listening to Chris De Burgh, now no one answers my posts Minty

Lol! to do it once is a (big) mistake, but to do it twice duck?!