Mistakes you make year after year after year

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AlaninCarlisle

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Mistakes you make year after year after year
« on: July 03, 2015, 10:20 »
My mistake that I make year after year is getting carried away by an early mild spring, starting loads of stuff in the propagator (French, Runner and Borletto beans are typical examples) and then running out of room and having to plant them out in May, just in time for a late cold spell.

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Re: Mistakes you make year after year after year
« Reply #1 on: July 03, 2015, 10:43 »
Where do you want to start Alan :lol:

I do the carried away bit with the seeds.  I am also convinced each year that my greenhouse is a tardis and of course will have space for those extra tomatoes or peppers in there.  I grow loads of leek seedlings then feel duty bound to plant the lot, so end up with acres of them.   I'm finding I'm getting the same way over onions as well.  Must be an allium thing  ::)  .....  the list goes on ......

I love it all, chaos, mistakes and triumphs  :D

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Re: Mistakes you make year after year after year
« Reply #2 on: July 03, 2015, 10:47 »
Yep... ordering a kilo of onion sets when all i need is half a kilo, or a pound in old money.
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Re: Mistakes you make year after year after year
« Reply #3 on: July 03, 2015, 11:02 »
Planting a row of Rocket when all we really need is a few leaves now and again.

Planting a row of Snowball turnips and watching them grow to basket-ball size as we only eat a couple per week

Growing 24 tomato plants because I can't bear to throw seedlings away

Growing three cucumber plants when one would suffice

Sowing carrots too early and then losing them in the weeds

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Re: Mistakes you make year after year after year
« Reply #4 on: July 03, 2015, 11:06 »
Oh yes. Forgetting all the maths - and buying enough seeds to plant fourteen acres. PLUS forgetting that there are only two of us - I could feed the five thousand with salad left over! Buying 'weird stuff' for a laugh - and ending up with...'weird stuff.' Like Walking Onions...Google it!   ::)
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Re: Mistakes you make year after year after year
« Reply #5 on: July 03, 2015, 12:02 »
I think we all do the sowing too many seeds - well you never know if the weather/slugs/snails/birds will leave you with enough to grow on, do you   ::)  :lol:

Not potting on in time is my particular failing - everything seems to get root-bound before I get round to it  :blush: and it's not good for the plants  :(

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Re: Mistakes you make year after year after year
« Reply #6 on: July 03, 2015, 12:09 »
I think the worst mistake is when you think 'Now I remember, that also happened last year and I made a mental note to try it like this next year.  Oh well maybe next year I'll remember!"

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Re: Mistakes you make year after year after year
« Reply #7 on: July 03, 2015, 12:50 »
Courgettes.  Nuff said..

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Re: Mistakes you make year after year after year
« Reply #8 on: July 03, 2015, 12:54 »
Courgettes.  Nuff said..

One of my fellow plot holders was telling us all the other day about his first patch of 10 courgette plants and his second one of 6 courgette plants  :ohmy:

There were looks being exchanged that needed no words - just a silent message of 'run if you see him coming in a few weeks' :lol:

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Re: Mistakes you make year after year after year
« Reply #9 on: July 03, 2015, 13:18 »
Not labelling pots properly  ::)

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Re: Mistakes you make year after year after year
« Reply #10 on: July 03, 2015, 13:19 »
Collecting seeds
Sowing too early
Sowing too late
Sowing too much
Sowing whats left in the pack as I think the seeds are naff as the first couple of sowings done nothing
Not potting on early enough
Keeping spare plants just incase (that are still lurking almost/completely dead 6-8 months later)
Thinking my greenhouse is bigger than it is
Thinking I will actually eat it all if I grow it
Planting too close
Not watering enough
Not feeding enough
Not securing netting at every possible miniscule point

And yet they still grow  :D  :D  :D

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Re: Mistakes you make year after year after year
« Reply #11 on: July 03, 2015, 13:42 »
Collecting seeds
Sowing too early
Sowing too late
Sowing too much
Sowing whats left in the pack as I think the seeds are naff as the first couple of sowings done nothing
Not potting on early enough
Keeping spare plants just incase (that are still lurking almost/completely dead 6-8 months later)
Thinking my greenhouse is bigger than it is
Thinking I will actually eat it all if I grow it
Planting too close
Not watering enough
Not feeding enough
Not securing netting at every possible miniscule point

And yet they still grow  :D  :D  :D
ALL OF THE ABOVE! 😤😤😤😤😤

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Re: Mistakes you make year after year after year
« Reply #12 on: July 03, 2015, 14:16 »
Reading your lists, guys, I realise I am not alone.

My additional annual error is growing more chillies than we can possibly eat  :lol: :lol:
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Re: Mistakes you make year after year after year
« Reply #13 on: July 03, 2015, 14:36 »
I always start my tender plants too early. I always grow too many greenhouse plants and try and keep them all until my greenhouse looks and feels like a jungle.

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Re: Mistakes you make year after year after year
« Reply #14 on: July 03, 2015, 16:29 »
Planting too many onions - I just love to see something growing then realise I've left no space.
Tender stuff too early.
Not netting stuff.
Not picking things...
Overenthusiastic seed and plant ordering so I run out of space.



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