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Growing => Vegetables => Topic started by: Lesley Silvester on April 23, 2012, 11:47:37 pm

Title: I'm excited.
Post by: Lesley Silvester on April 23, 2012, 11:47:37 pm
Got up this morning to find three of my ten squashes and around 30 bean plants have germinated.  They're all on window sills.
Title: Re: I'm excited.
Post by: Fleecewife on April 23, 2012, 11:54:10 pm
I think that is the most exciting bit of growing veg - when you wait for them to come up and suddenly there they are  :)  Please send some vibes to my cucumbers which haven't appeared yet  :cucumber: :cucumber:
Title: Re: I'm excited.
Post by: Bert on April 24, 2012, 07:40:12 am
well done  :thumbsup: some of my runners have started to stick there little heads above the compost but none of my squashes have yet. I do enjoy walking into the green house on a Monday morning after the weekend off because every thing seems to have grown lots. None of the veggies I grow are for me  :'( .
Title: Re: I'm excited.
Post by: Lesley Silvester on April 25, 2012, 11:22:50 pm
Now up to forty seven beans and five squashes.
Title: Re: I'm excited.
Post by: Fleecewife on April 26, 2012, 12:03:09 am
Now up to forty seven beans and five squashes.

 :thumbsup:

...and my cucumbers came up the very next day  8)
Title: Re: I'm excited.
Post by: Lesley Silvester on April 26, 2012, 11:37:01 pm
Must be catching.  ;D
Title: Re: I'm excited.
Post by: Lesley Silvester on April 27, 2012, 06:11:36 pm
All ten squashes have now germinated.  Hope I can find enough space for them.  I usually grown them in the manure heaps but don't have so many plants.  97 out of 101 bean plants growing well too.
Title: Re: I'm excited.
Post by: deepinthewoods on April 27, 2012, 08:11:08 pm
thats alot of beans!!  i havent sown mine yet! i better do some tomorrow, ta.
Title: Re: I'm excited.
Post by: goosepimple on April 27, 2012, 08:26:17 pm
Remember when you were 17 Mad Goat, and you got all excited over a different type of squash?  What goes around comes around.. ;)
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Post by: little blue on April 27, 2012, 09:01:23 pm
*jealous!* going out to the greenhouse to have words with my slow veg seeds!
Title: Re: I'm excited.
Post by: Lesley Silvester on April 27, 2012, 11:20:09 pm
Mine are on window sills and our house is very warm.

Yes, it is a lot of beans.  Last year I didn't do very well so planted extra this year.  They're all heritage climbing French beans and yesterday my OH said, "Oh aren't you growing any runner beans?  I love runner beans."  Last year he preferred French.  Can't win on either count,
Title: Re: I'm excited.
Post by: simba on April 29, 2012, 01:09:02 pm
one of the best things in gardening is seeing germination then next best thing is picking the fruits of your hard labour and the taste of good clean not straight or watery veg