tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4793702278130036246.post155790070932986704..comments2024-03-28T09:25:14.379+00:00Comments on Veg Plotting: That's ShallotVPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02732971362066784175noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4793702278130036246.post-12956350219570675492010-02-26T15:14:54.067+00:002010-02-26T15:14:54.067+00:00Petoskystone - and they'd take up a lot of roo...Petoskystone - and they'd take up a lot of room in your tiny space too...<br /><br />Karen - strangely I just can't get going with beans, though I do like Bolotti ones. I grow them more for drying though. I'm with you on the awfulness of runner beans, though everyone up at t'plot thinks I'm daft not growing any!<br /><br />Anna - I'm sure my going down the cell route has tempted the sun out, out of spite!<br /><br />Kate - welcome! Chitting's definitely an indoor job. A cool windowsill with plenty of light like my north facing one is just the job!<br /><br />Monika - I saw Bintje for sale at Bruges market last year! And yes, you've rumbled me - that's shallot is the most dreadful of puns, staning in for that's yer lot. I thought it particularly apt because I don't seem to have stopped collecting things to grow like sweets in the veg line so far this year...<br /><br />Colleen - you're quite right. If only I could have exercised the same self restraint!VPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02732971362066784175noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4793702278130036246.post-74121778748929140422010-02-25T23:31:28.636+00:002010-02-25T23:31:28.636+00:00I'm jealous that you have such a rang eof pota...I'm jealous that you have such a rang eof potatoes. But I've got too many with only 4 different types. But I'm going to be disciplined, not least because I'm sick of blight.colleenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02484411878651364981noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4793702278130036246.post-24129398191636850422010-02-24T14:44:09.544+00:002010-02-24T14:44:09.544+00:00I've got my seed potatoes already (Bintje, hei...I've got my seed potatoes already (Bintje, heirloom), though it's way to early to plant them. I'm going to try the container method! And, "That's Shallot" sounds like it's a play on words or summink of an expression I don't know. ??Monica the Garden Faeriehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06369882350990949968noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4793702278130036246.post-9239649701359853152010-02-23T18:49:21.002+00:002010-02-23T18:49:21.002+00:00Your potato trial sounds interesting. I'm grow...Your potato trial sounds interesting. I'm growing potatoes for the first time this year and have only just found our what 'chitting' is! I notice you are chitting on your windowsill. Now I'm wondering if I should bring mine inside!K M Kellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09801740095715755112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4793702278130036246.post-20134884454814764152010-02-23T18:25:44.579+00:002010-02-23T18:25:44.579+00:00Your post title made me smile VP. Have not got my ...Your post title made me smile VP. Have not got my shallots in yet - no desire to go the allotment at all when it's so cold and damp . May well go down the cell route myself. Roll on spring !Annahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10794392333038962798noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4793702278130036246.post-41063562839139037352010-02-23T15:52:05.221+00:002010-02-23T15:52:05.221+00:00PS Beans is my thing ... I seem to have 7 differen...PS Beans is my thing ... I seem to have 7 different varieties of climbing / french beans (not sure how that happened), and 4 different broad beans!<br /><br />No runners - don't like them<br />KKaren - An Artist's Gardenhttp://www.artistsgarden.co.uk/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4793702278130036246.post-59497297711637551002010-02-23T15:49:53.411+00:002010-02-23T15:49:53.411+00:00Shedman is in charge of our potatoes this year - h...Shedman is in charge of our potatoes this year - he went pale when I told him you were growing 10 varieties! (we have 3)<br /><br />I am looking forward (as ever) to following your lottie progress this year.<br /><br />I am chomping at the bit as well - especially for the kitchen garden. Everything is SO late this year. Like plant mad Nige my daffs are an inch high.Karen - An Artist's Gardenhttp://www.artistsgarden.co.uk/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4793702278130036246.post-30947903927539448942010-02-23T15:30:20.557+00:002010-02-23T15:30:20.557+00:00how busy you are! i haven't tried any shallots...how busy you are! i haven't tried any shallots or potatoes as they require full sun--one would hope that root vegs didn't require as much as tomatoes> ;)petoskystonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01633621111274495078noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4793702278130036246.post-39011372019201262232010-02-23T15:17:52.311+00:002010-02-23T15:17:52.311+00:00Nige - good question. I'm hoping I can plant t...Nige - good question. I'm hoping I can plant them out soon so their roots haven't filled the seed tray cells. If I can, then bolting shouldn't be a problem, especially if I can get a nice tilth of soil on the allotment for them.<br /><br />Esther - there's no harm in doing that. It's important that the garlic gets a period of cold to encourage clove formation in the new bulb. If there's no chance of either you or Ming getting out on the allotment soon, then starting them off in pots now is the thing to do. I once left my garlic planting until March so that the soil wasn't cold and wet when they were planted. BUT there wasn't any frost, so my crop that year was bulb shaped garlic which turned out to have no individual cloves.<br /><br />Michelle - I was congratulating myself on how 'good' I've been this year. Surprisingly I've not found much to tempt me in the seed and plant catalogues nor at various garden centres and nurseries this year. I got quite a bit of a shock when I turned my attention on the vegetable side of things. I've definitely over compensated in this area instead!VPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02732971362066784175noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4793702278130036246.post-27881292920667214852010-02-23T14:49:38.258+00:002010-02-23T14:49:38.258+00:00I have an overwhelming tendancy to over buy or col...I have an overwhelming tendancy to over buy or collect all plants and vegetables!!! When I look through my seed catalogs I cirle hundreds, perhaps thousands of things. I really want to try them all out to find out the best!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08778054413371087920noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4793702278130036246.post-19785554167323615272010-02-23T11:18:35.910+00:002010-02-23T11:18:35.910+00:00When I read about your garlic in pots, I wondered ...When I read about your garlic in pots, I wondered if I should have done that too. With Ming hurting his back, our garlic didn't get planted. We haven't looked at potatoes. I've been trying to persuade him to give up the allotment - on the grounds that his back is more important than it (the allotment) - but, when I say that, he looks at me with the kind of let-down horror that he might be expected to use were I to say I'd murdered the children.<br /><br />Esther<br /><br />P.S. I'm having blogger troubles and can't see your pictures - I'm sure they're lovely though!Esther Montgomeryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05412078991551799972noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4793702278130036246.post-38396751934400504252010-02-23T09:19:55.567+00:002010-02-23T09:19:55.567+00:00whoops! the 'on day' at the end of the co...whoops! the 'on day' at the end of the comment should read: 'once, a few years back.'Plant Mad Nigehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01051715161395516677noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4793702278130036246.post-77412769089357154872010-02-23T09:18:11.819+00:002010-02-23T09:18:11.819+00:00I can't believe how cold, sodden and backward ...I can't believe how cold, sodden and backward the land is, this year. By late Feb last year, it was mild, I was planting up spring things and the rhubarb was coming on fast.<br /><br />This year, I haven't even mown the grass, so far. The vegetable garden is like a bog and the perennials look dead as mutton. Our snowdrops are now about 50% in bloom and the aconites a little less. Not so much as a daffodil bud yet - the shoots are barely an inch high. 'February Gold' my foot!<br /><br />Do you think the move, from pot to bed will stimulate bolting, with your shallots? I always worry about that, having caused an entire crop of leeks to flower prematurely, on day.Plant Mad Nigehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01051715161395516677noreply@blogger.com