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Veg plans for 2020

  • 21-01-2020 11:57am
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    Well,
    I thought It might be helpful if people posted their plating plans for 2020.
    I'd consider myself a newby so been trying to figure out what and when to plant.
    I have winter set onions up now and 2 rows of garlic.
    We did plant 2 rows of radish + some leafs just to have something in the (new) beds over winter.Couldn't look at them empty after building them.
    On the cards

    -Sweet pea
    -Corn
    -tomatoes
    -courgettes
    -Pumpkins (never had much joy with them in the previous small garden)


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  • #2
    [Deleted User]
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    Chiili's already planted indoors.

    On the cards:

    -potatoes
    -onions

    If I get my hydroponics set up going - lettuce.


  • #3
    Harry Palmr
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    Been thinking about this. probably going to put in a new raised bed and deploy a bag or two for potatoes
    I'll go for carrots, usual mixed salad greens, a few tomato plants, onions, chard.


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    Harry Palmr wrote: »
    Been thinking about this. probably going to put in a new raised bed and deploy a bag or two for potatoes
    I'll go for carrots, usual mixed salad greens, a few tomato plants, onions, chard.

    I've a big raised bed planned myself but I'll be filling it from the pond I'm planning so It won't be ready till the end of the season I'd say.

    Our chillies/bell peppers have survived in the greenhouse until this week,they are looking a bit sad now :(


  • #5
    cuculainn
    Registered Users Posts: 800 ✭✭✭cuculainn


    BrownFinger wrote: »
    Well,
    I thought It might be helpful if people posted their plating plans for 2020.
    I'd consider myself a newby so been trying to figure out what and when to plant.
    I have winter set onions up now and 2 rows of garlic.
    We did plant 2 rows of radish + some leafs just to have something in the (new) beds over winter.Couldn't look at them empty after building them.
    On the cards

    -Sweet pea
    -Corn
    -tomatoes
    -courgettes
    -Pumpkins (never had much joy with them in the previous small garden)

    Quick question for you on the Garlic, when did you sow and how much is it up?
    I planted garlic bulbs in November and only one or two are starting to appear now. They were up much more this time last year.......they grew so well last year i would be p'ssed off if they didnt grow this year. i used bulbs from what i grew last year


  • #6
    cuculainn
    Registered Users Posts: 800 ✭✭✭cuculainn


    I am in the process of building three raised beds from stone from an old shed.......harder work than i thought it would be!!

    I have winter peas and beans up in one bed and filled the other bed i had last year with strawberry plants.


    In the new beds i plan on
    Carrots
    parsnips
    courgette
    Peas
    lettuce
    beetroot
    spinach
    kale

    Not sure i will get to all this but at least ill enjoy trying!!!


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    cuculainn wrote: »
    Quick question for you on the Garlic, when did you sow and how much is it up?

    Good question,I dont remember when but they are all up about 200mm (20 or so shoots).
    Its my first time trying them,just planted cloves from aldi.

    I've read with regards to garlic,
    Plant before the shortest day and harvest before the longest day .


  • #8
    cuculainn
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    BrownFinger wrote: »
    Good question,I dont remember when but they are all up about 200mm (20 or so shoots).
    Its my first time trying them,just planted cloves from aldi.

    I've read with regards to garlic,
    Plant before the shortest day and harvest before the longest day .

    Are they outside or in a tunnel? 200mm is great growth......


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    cuculainn wrote: »
    Are they outside or in a tunnel? 200mm is great growth......

    No,exposed to the elements.
    I'll take a few snaps at the weekend.The only time I see the garden under daylight at the moment.


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    Got my seeds today


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    Harry Palmr
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    denartha wrote: »
    Chiili's already planted indoors.

    On the cards:

    -potatoes
    -onions

    If I get my hydroponics set up going - lettuce.

    I'm vaguely interested in this as a method, I've seen vids where growers working on a small plot have a smallish tunnel which produced enough for commercial purposes at very little expense in terms of time once it's been set up.


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    BrownFinger wrote: »
    I've a big raised bed planned myself but I'll be filling it from the pond I'm planning so It won't be ready till the end of the season I'd say.

    Our chillies/bell peppers have survived in the greenhouse until this week,they are looking a bit sad now :(

    Have you a light in there?


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    Harry Palmr wrote: »
    I'm vaguely interested in this as a method, I've seen vids where growers working on a small plot have a smallish tunnel which produced enough for commercial purposes at very little expense in terms of time once it's been set up.

    My dad bought me a kit for Christmas. Its a plastic box about 40cm cubed. You add stone pellets in the top, add nutrients and plant what you intend to grow among the pellets, then theres a pump which sprays the water + nutrient combo over the plants. Lettuce apparently works really well. I love the idea of free, fresh organic lettuce all year round.

    My vague plan is to get one of these, put it in the corner of the living room, and install some lights on a timer.

    Edit: The thought of being raided by the drugs squad because they think Im running a grow house, and revealing my lettuce to them, really amuses me.


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    denartha wrote: »
    Have you a light in there?

    Light as in grow light ?
    No,
    Do have a small heater that keeps it slightly above 5 degrees.


  • #15
    pconn062
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    I have big plans this year if all goes to plan. I'm expanding the garden as we speak and getting a delivery of about 2 tonnes of 2 year old cow manure to build new beds in the next few weeks.

    At the minute I have overwintering onions and garlic in the ground split between outside and the polytunnel. Also have an overwintering bed of spinach and 5 good sized purple sprouting broccoli plants. Just planted my first early potatoes in the polytunnel at the weekend which I can fleece up if needed. Will soon be sowing early carrots, leeks, lettuce, broad beans, peas, chillis and peppers. The plan is to fill the polytunnel with French beans, borlotti beans, tomatoes, squash, cucumbers, courgettes and peppers.

    Will also have a brassica bed and a good sized area for main crop spuds (Sarpo Mira, Setanta, Kestrel as well as early Charlottes and Queens) which I am going to grow in 30l containers. And then main crop carrots and parsnips for storage. My goal is have enough in store to do us until next spring if possible.

    Have a good season everyone.


  • #16
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    That sounds fantastic !
    I had to google brassica,Post a few pics if you can.


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    BrownFinger wrote: »
    Light as in grow light ?
    No,
    Do have a small heater that keeps it slightly above 5 degrees.

    Doesn't have to be a grow light. Any kind of light would do.

    I had a great crop of chillies last christmas using just a small desk light and a 60 watt bulb.


  • #18
    kylith
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    Finally get a garden I can grow stuff in, and the soil is fecking clay. Have dug over a bed and added leaf mulch and hay, but don’t know how that’s been going with the rain ( garden was flooded last week. Have no idea what i could grow in it :(


  • #19
    Harry Palmr
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    If it's horrible clay from turf to subsoil I'd not spend any time trying to rehabilitate it, I'd just go up, foot deep raised beds with fresh topsoil mix.


  • #20
    kylith
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    Harry Palmr wrote: »
    If it's horrible clay from turf to subsoil I'd not spend any time trying to rehabilitate it, I'd just go up, foot deep raised beds with fresh topsoil mix.

    We went down about 2.5feet putting in a fence post and it was clay all the way. I’ve postulated with Himself about raised beds, but those things are not cheap.


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    You can totally make them on the cheap from posts and wide boards.then line them with a tarp.
    I have one made out or real sleepers,while it looks really nice it's not high enough and cost loads.


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  • #22
    uck51js9zml2yt
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    Make them out of pallets


  • #23
    uck51js9zml2yt
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    https://www.suttons.co.uk/Gardening/Garden-Equipment/Garden-Accessories/Seed-Tins/Pea-and-Bean--Seed-Tin----with-Veg-Seed-10_265525.htm#265525

    Code GY220 gives them to you for total of £4.99 postage to ROI.

    A bargain:)


  • #24
    MacDanger
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    Novice gardener here, thinking about trying these this year in a ~60m2 plot:

    Early potatoes
    Carrots
    Brocolli
    Sprouting brocolli
    Cauliflower
    Celery
    Leek
    Rocket
    Onions
    Garlic
    Some herbs (parsely, thyme, rosemary, coriander, lavender, sage, chamomile)


  • #25
    The Red Ace
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    I have just got in some of my seeds for this year, cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli,peppers,carrots, parsnip, usually buy the lettuce plants. Will also be planting the spuds and plenty onions . Will be preparing the ground shortly for this years gardening and adding in some well rotted seaweed


  • #26
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    Karlee Magnificent Valve wrote: »
    https://www.suttons.co.uk/Gardening/Garden-Equipment/Garden-Accessories/Seed-Tins/Pea-and-Bean--Seed-Tin----with-Veg-Seed-10_265525.htm#265525

    Code GY220 gives them to you for total of £4.99 postage to ROI.

    A bargain:)

    cheers

    how did you find that


  • #27
    uck51js9zml2yt
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    keeffo2005 wrote: »
    cheers

    how did you find that

    Veggie group on Facebook :)

    Also seed parade are having a flash sale at the moment on seeds


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    Karlee Magnificent Valve wrote: »
    Veggie group on Facebook :)

    Also seed parade are having a flash sale at the moment on seeds

    What's the link to the group?


  • #29
    uck51js9zml2yt
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    keeffo2005 wrote: »


    What's the link to the group?

    Can't remember. I'm part of a few gardening/ allotment/ no dig groups found in the UK and Ireland


  • #30
    CelticRambler
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    cuculainn wrote: »
    Quick question for you on the Garlic, when did you sow and how much is it up?
    I planted garlic bulbs in November and only one or two are starting to appear now. They were up much more this time last year.......they grew so well last year i would be p'ssed off if they didnt grow this year. i used bulbs from what i grew last year

    This year is going to be "interesting" seeing as we've had no real winter. Garlic likes a good cold spell and although I have a few feral plants from bulbs that escaped being harvested last year, I'm not hopeful of a good crop this year from anything that needs a hard frost.

    On the other hand, I already have a drill of potatoes growing nicely - it's an experiment, to see if I can have new potatoes for St. Patrick's Day! :D They're the last 3m of my autumn crop, which had already sprouted before I got to lift them (probably due to one cold-ish week at the beginning of December). I'm heaping grass clippings on top of them, expecting the heat from decomposition will protect them from any future frost.


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  • #31
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    CelticRambler wrote: »
    This year is going to be "interesting" seeing as we've had no real winter. Garlic likes a good cold spell and although I have a few feral plants from bulbs that escaped being harvested last year, I'm not hopeful of a good crop this year from anything that needs a hard frost.

    On the other hand, I already have a drill of potatoes growing nicely - it's an experiment, to see if I can have new potatoes for St. Patrick's Day! :D They're the last 3m of my autumn crop, which had already sprouted before I got to lift them (probably due to one cold-ish week at the beginning of December). I'm heaping grass clippings on top of them, expecting the heat from decomposition will protect them from any future frost.

    Planted my garlic last October and it's coming along nicely.
    Don't know what part of the country you're in not to have had a hard frost in recent weeks.


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