Hi, My growing is doing well, but I have numerous questions for you all.
Today I bought some lovely looking salad leaf plugs. Little gems and oakleaf. I've planted the larger plugs and left the smaller where they are in the green house. I've planted them into a wall mounted trough so chicken and slug protected, but will the wild birds eat them? I have some strawberry netting I could cover them with. Also do I need to harden them off so should bring them into the green house tonight?
Radish I sowed a trough a couple of weeks ago and the seedlings are a couple of inches and doing really well. Is it worth transplanting or just thin and give the seedlings that don't make the grade to the chooks?
Brussels - I bought some plugs of these today, I've got to harden them off over the next few days and I'm just preparing where they will live, but as a rough guide, what on earth do I do with them, how far apart etc? Never grown them or anythign similar before.
Toms - I have a number of plants, some seedlings from a friend who are growing on slowly but nicely, stil only a few inches. A cherry tom plant that has a few flowers opening on now and I've not done anything with this since I bought from the centre a month or 2 ago and then yesterday I inherited the neighbours 2 huge plants, again starting to flower, big bushy things, look really healthy, put all mine to shame. I've grown tome int he plast but not properly and left them to their own devices. What I want to is to grown them properly this year, so what's all this pinching out, setting, etc etc I read about I have no clue. I can take pics of the plants if that would help?
Cues - never had a greenhouse before, so this is all new. I have 3 plants, looking healthy enough. I've them in growbags currently, but been realing about them, so I'm thinking I have some small builders trugs, I think I'm going to put holes in the bottom of them, get an oblesik thing and train them up that - would that work? Then what, do I need to do anything to them or leave them to get on with it?
Melon - my hubby turned up with one of them for me yesterday! I need to repot - into what? I have an empty compost bag I could use? Perhaps sit it in a tray and water from the bottom? Do I need a trellis or something for it? I have spare pea netting and spare weldmesh I could rig up?
Sweetcorn - ready to go out yet, or should I repot into larger pots first? Again hubby brought home yesterday so about 10 stalks in a tiny tub but all healthy looking.
Would you believe this isn't all I'm growing and the other things I know what I'm doing. Really going for it this year!
Any help much appriciated!