GYO Resolution for 2012 - what's your's?

[binley100]

label issue with me too. Either the writing wore off (sun or rain) or when I potted things on forgot to put the label in too...

[solway cropper]

don't do resolutions. They always get broken so what's the point

Having said that, I would like to end the year knowing more than when I started.

VVG if you have trouble growing parsnips try what I do
the recycled gardener: easy parsnip growing

[bearded bloke]

After much thought I resolve to stop blaming Steve

[VirginVegGrower]

Interesting SC I may resort to containers if I fail in soil. I do now think I sowed too early...must sit on hands.

[bearded bloke]

Hey VVG,just had a quick look at SC link,have a look in skips on building sites & grab any rainwater downpipe lengths/offcuts cut to 18" & tie in bundles fill as per link & sow 1 'snip in each,germination seems to be improved if seeds are set in a thin layer of sand

[VirginVegGrower]

Thanks BB we have some leftover down pipe, I will give it a whirl.

[bearded bloke]

No prob's VVG,you can also get good size carrots that way

[Glutton4...]

I'm with Zaz and Potty on the White plastic labels and Pencil. Just a pain when the Pup runs off with them!

My resolutions? Erm, well, I never keep them, so don't bother making them. Must try harder! That's what they used to put on my School report!

[Potstubsdustbins]

Well I have just been on Heirloom Tomatoes site and am ordering two new (to me) varieties of tomato so thats my resolution up in smoke.

Colin

[veggiechicken]

Thanks for all your advice, chaps & chapesses, about labelling. Since you mostly all agreed that pencil and white plastic labels were the way forward, my new resolution is:-
To label everything with a pencil and white plastic labels!
(Bet you thought I'd say something completely off the wall like cockle shells painted with nail varnish - now there's an idea.)

[VirginVegGrower]

No prob's VVG,you can also get good size carrots that way

Who's the three members of the alien force?

I get good sized carrots in a compost bin of compost and sand 50/50 mix. That's what I used this year as it put them three foot in the air!

[northepaul]

Mainly to grow more efficiently - ie planning well, sowing well - so we can live off our own veg without having to buy too much from the supermarket (certainly during the summer/autumn.)


Its much harder than you think!!

We're gonna have an experiment next summer of living off what we produce entirely - (obviously not things like flour etc) and be pretty much without meat and in some of our cases, dairy too....!!!

Thats the plan anyway!!

[Snadger]

I don't really do resolutions but...........

Less experimentation is on the cards and sticking with tried and tested varieties that I know work well in my region would be a start I suppose......

[chris]

To label all my seed trays and with something that does not wash off. Still looking for a way to do this!

Not read the whole thread, but I use a pencil - at the end of the year you can either rub, or bleach it off

[chris]

.... and I just read up and have seen that the pencil has already been mentioned :/