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moggins

Joined: 24 Feb 2005
Posts: 942
Location: Gloucester

Posted: Tue Apr 12, 05 11:18 pm Post subject: It's all coming up

Sorry to sound like a big kid but no one else understands my excitment!

Most of the stuff I planted into the garden under netting and my make shift cloche has showed it's lovely head. I appear to have an overabundance of lettuce so I guess I'll have to thin those out.

The only thing that is slow to appear are the carrots which didn't get to go under the cloche

One day there was nothing, the next it had all appeared. And I never knew that beetroot seedlings came up a reddy green sort of colour

oldhibberd

Joined: 09 Mar 2005
Posts: 118

Posted: Tue Apr 12, 05 11:48 pm Post subject:
Good for you, all I have 'comming up' is acres of Brambles, nettles, and various other vicious weeds. I'm sure I'll be just as excited if I ever get anything 'useful' to grow.

Mrs Fiddlesticks

Joined: 02 Nov 2004
Posts: 10460

Posted: Wed Apr 13, 05 6:37 am Post subject:
Oh but we do understand!! I planted up the 1st part of the cutting garden, the rose area and started edging the small seating area, even if I say so myself it looks brill! And I'm really excited about the fact that our greenhouse is being delivered Friday!!! Then I can really get sowing - got a new radio and cofee mug for it all ready! The carrots will catch up, the ground is getting warmer.

mochyn

Joined: 21 Dec 2004
Posts: 24585
Location: mid-Wales

Posted: Wed Apr 13, 05 7:56 am Post subject:
Don't worry: I've been a horticultural professional for years, been to hortic. college, bought the t-shirt and I still get excited by seedlings! I smiled when reading your post: my old lecturer would have had a fit: you don't plant seeds, you SOW them! What does it matter, as long as they grow? Don't people get hung up over silly things?

moggins

Joined: 24 Feb 2005
Posts: 942
Location: Gloucester

Posted: Wed Apr 13, 05 8:06 am Post subject:
Oops, yes I did make a bit of a booboo in my excitement didn't I? (Sowing was never my strong point LOL)

Fee

Joined: 21 Mar 2005
Posts: 15922
Location: Earth

Posted: Wed Apr 13, 05 8:43 am Post subject:

Totally understand the excitement, my new veg plot in the garden (pretty small, but it's a start) is full of little green shoots too (and some purpley turnip ones)

I got another one of those plastic covered small greenhouse things (3 tier shelf thing to add to my little 2 shelf one) at the weekend, and it was so hot in there it wilted my cauli seedlings and some cuttings overnight

I've left a little breathing gap at the bottom now, hasn't done any more damage since.

Fee

judith

Joined: 16 Dec 2004
Posts: 22789
Location: Montgomeryshire

Posted: Wed Apr 13, 05 10:08 am Post subject:
It's when you stop getting excited that it becomes time to hang up the trowel. Unless it is peeing down with rain, my morning routine always includes a trip down to the veg patch with my cup of coffee to see what has come up since my last visit.

bagpuss

Joined: 09 Dec 2004
Posts: 10507
Location: cambridge

Posted: Wed Apr 13, 05 10:20 am Post subject:

oldhibberd wrote:

Good for you, all I have 'comming up' is acres of Brambles, nettles, and various other vicious weeds. I'm sure I'll be just as excited if I ever get anything 'useful' to grow.

but you get lots of useful things from nettles and brambles surely

oldhibberd

Joined: 09 Mar 2005
Posts: 118

Posted: Wed Apr 13, 05 10:35 pm Post subject:

bagpuss wrote:

but you get lots of useful things from nettles and brambles surely

Yup, I won't count the stings and scratches, the Blackberry & Apple jam is good!

snowball
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 6240
Location: swindon

Posted: Thu Apr 14, 05 9:01 am Post subject:
Your excitement is totally understandable. I have six artichokes in my container they've never done anything before. My radishes and beetroot need thinning. No sign of the basil or carrots yet though.

ButteryHOLsomeness

Joined: 03 Apr 2005
Posts: 770

Posted: Thu Apr 14, 05 6:37 pm Post subject:

mochyn wrote:

Don't worry: I've been a horticultural professional for years, been to hortic. college, bought the t-shirt and I still get excited by seedlings!

i get all excited too, i call them 'my babies' and talk to them...

maybe it's a pagan thing, or maybe i'm just a nutter, possibly both

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 45460
Location: Essex

Posted: Thu Apr 14, 05 6:40 pm Post subject:

Snowball wrote:

My radishes and beetroot need thinning.

Don't forget both are edible, add to a salad if they're really small or cook with some greens

Loopy Lou

Joined: 02 Apr 2005
Posts: 263
Location: Northamptonshire

Posted: Thu Apr 14, 05 6:44 pm Post subject:
I am so glad this thread is here - I sowed some seeds on onday (have always really disliked gardening but something in me has changed recently ) and some are growing!! I can fully understand your excitement - your grin is probably as big as mine!!!

joanne

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 7100
Location: Morecambe, Lancashire

Posted: Thu Apr 14, 05 6:53 pm Post subject:

ButteryHOLsomeness wrote:

i get all excited too, i call them 'my babies' and talk to them...

maybe it's a pagan thing, or maybe i'm just a nutter, possibly both

Well I'm pagan and a nutter and I call them my babies too

- think thats why I've so many tomato seedlings - can't bear to kill any of them off if they've made the effort and germinated for me

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