To make you feel better about your gardening prowess...

[bradlo]

I have a greenhouse...and am an absolute novice at growing anything...so I have made a blog, just to advertise my inadequacies!
Please feel free to visit...and wonder in amazement at the incompetence that is....

Bradlo's Greenhouse

[Matt94]

your a bit early with your runners

[Capsid]

Nice size. Are you going to try and heat it? I'm following with Google reader so I shall look forward to seeing those shelves fill up.

[braders]

Looking good bradlo...keep at it....

[bradlo]

your a bit early with your runners

I expect you are right...but I was sooo keen to get started!!!!

[bradlo]

Nice size. Are you going to try and heat it? I'm following with Google reader so I shall look forward to seeing those shelves fill up.

Hi Mark...don't think I will attempt to heat it ....I must try to walk before I can run !!!! (Just watering it in the summer will be challenge enough for me !!!)

[plymouthred]

Nice one. Like you I am a total novice and last weekend my greenhouse was finally erected in the garden. Will be following your blog with interest.

I have this week sown indoors 3 different types of tomato seeds, a couple of peppers and some marigold and nastutium (sp) seeds. Big learning curve.

[donnakebab]

You don't need to sew Nasturtium indoors. They are one of those wonderful plants that happily seed outside once the weather has warmed up a bit. Once you have them in an area of garden or allotment they will usually self seed every year. I collect seeds at the end of the season if I want them to grow somewhere else.

Might be a nice little experiment for you though. I'm not sure how well they transplant.

Don't know which Marigold you are growing. I grow Pot Marigold and they are the same as Nasturtiums in that they will reseed every year.

[plymouthred]

Ah already had done a seed tray full of Nasturtium 'Burning Embers' now under cover in one of those nice cheap 'supermarket beginning with M' plastic props but yes it is now a little experiment and I shall report back my results.

Got different types of Marigolds ready to go, I only bought one set, but people at work know how keen I am so they have bought me some seeds in as well (French Petite Mixed, African Crackerjack Mixed, Naughty Marietta and Dwarf Double Mix).

How do they actually reseed?

[Feral007]

Good luck with your blog - I'm a miracle of incompetencies myself so will enjoy reading someone else's troubles. We're thinking about trying to do some sort of undercover manouvre this winter to make the growing season a bit more useful - but between the snakes (loving the warm and humid) and the wind which feels like it will take the house some days we're still scratching our heads over what and how. Ali

[singleseeder]

Got different types of Marigolds ready to go, I only bought one set, but people at work know how keen I am so they have bought me some seeds in as well (French Petite Mixed, African Crackerjack Mixed, Naughty Marietta and Dwarf Double Mix).

How do they actually reseed?

Ooops, your question seems to have been missed.

Most plants will reproduce from seed, generally with little help from us if the climate is right for them. The flowers begin to 'die' and the seedheads will be left (think dandelion clock); once ripe the seeds will fall to the ground, be blown in the wind or eaten and 'distributed' by birds. If the conditions are right they will germinate the following year. Cutting out the middle man, the gardener.

The marigolds you have been given are French Marigolds and not the type to reseed (generally) in this climate. They are 'half hardy' which means they need to be protected from our early cold spring. You can still collect the dry seed heads at the end of the season for the following year though. Just start them off indoors in the spring.

The pot marigolds (Calendula) will happily drop their seeds to the ground to be germinated the following year. You will probably find you have so many that you are pulling them up.

[Bigmallly]

Good luck with your blog - I'm a miracle of incompetencies myself so will enjoy reading someone else's troubles. We're thinking about trying to do some sort of undercover manouvre this winter to make the growing season a bit more useful - but between the snakes (loving the warm and humid) and the wind which feels like it will take the house some days we're still scratching our heads over what and how. Ali

Welcome to the vine Ali, it's good to see another grape from down under. There is a section below if you fancy introducing yourself, they don't bite here. Well not usually.

[Nicos]

Well done! I'm impressed

Just a bit of guttering on each side- and a water butt or two .....and you'll be sorted for the summer!

[plymouthred]

You don't need to sew Nasturtium indoors.

Might be a nice little experiment for you though. I'm not sure how well they transplant.

Transplanted four for a friend and they are doing fine (so far).

Mine have gone loopy and too cold to put out at the moment so going to put in the greenhouse next week when, touch wood, the weather gets a little warmer then plant out at their final stations.

Lost a few though but not by anything other than the wife whereas I mentioned you could eat them in salads and yes you have guessed it I came home from work to a lovely salad and near on a tray of soil where the Nasturtiums were happily growing away

[Pa Snips]

To make yourself feel better about your gardening prowess....live amongst my neighbours!
They think gardening means hacking the brambles back once a year, and if any of you happen to be one of my neighbours... "Hi, lovely garden".