Questions

[argkrg]

Hi, Every one.
I am new to the web site & this is my second season in container gardening.
currently i have early potatoes,(which are looking great, no flowers out as of yet).
Runner beans growing well. currently enjoying first crop of radishes. spring onion on the way.
in my little 4 tier green house I have butternut Spuash waiting to be planted out.
I have a couple of questions.
1) when do i plant out the butternut spuash & is it ok to use chicken pellets as feed?
2) the rhubarb that i transfered to a larger pot seems to be giving up the ghost. any suggestions would be gratefully received as to how i may rescue the rhubarb & where i went wrong?
& finally but not least.
3) I am planning to put rasberry canes in at the end of the season, has any one got suggestions as to best variety, grow media & fertiliser.

sorry to ask so manny question, on my fist visit. but i would appreciate any advice that you have to offer a novice gardener. I look forward to you replys.

[zazen999]

Hi

You posted this at the bottom of another thread, and nobody saw it. I've moved it out onto its own so that you can get some answers.

[Hazel at the Hill]

1) when do i plant out the butternut spuash & is it ok to use chicken pellets as feed?

Depending on where you are (if you put your location in your profile it will help), plant them out now, and you can use chicken feed on squash (although others will advise on whether this is the best feed to use)

Not sure on your other q's - but welcome to the vine.

[bluemoon]

Not sure about the rhubarb, but chicken manure will be fine for the squash, they're very hungry plants so any feed is welcomed. As for the raspberries, I'd recommend an autumn variety if you're growing them in containers as they fruit on the first year's growth and so you wouldn't have to mess about keeping the fruiting canes going for two years. They fruit prolifically then you just cut them down and wait for them to come back next spring - simples! Autumn Bliss is the one I grow (admittedly on the allotment), but there are others including a yellow one called Fall Gold which I'm growing for the first time this year, largely because it's supposed to make a lovely wine.

[argkrg]

many thanks every one for your help, I am learning as i go along where web sites are involved.
(my knowledge of computing matches my gardening experience!) But i am enjoying tinkering around the pots!
i will get the butter nut squash out this week & will keep them well fed & watered.
I will also look out for the autumn variety of raspberrys.
again many thank
from an appreciative novice,

[Two_Sheds]

3) I am planning to put rasberry canes in at the end of the season, has any one got suggestions as to best variety, grow media & fertiliser.

The best variety are the free ones! Can you beg some canes off anyone? I grow Autumn Bliss (I think?) just down the road from you, and I get big fat berries every year, despite never feeding or watering them.

(Of course, you'll have to water yours regularly if they are in containers)

[Two_Sheds]

in my little 4 tier green house I have butternut Spuash waiting to be planted out... when do i plant out the butternut spuash

If they've been in a greenhouse all their lives, they need to be hardened off gradually before being stuck outside.
Put them out daytimes, take them in at night, for a week. You get some nasty cold winds up on that coast