Nee such thing as a daft question if you don't know the answer marra. I'm always asking for advice for the garden. Lots of people happy to help. As Phil says really. Female always have a tiny cucumber behind them. Male just on a thin stem. Easy to tell the difference when you see them.
If they are falling, they are ready marra.
Bramleys are normally October, but there are lots of cooking varieties, and it has been a strange year weather wise.
I'm a bit ahead of you, being in Devon, and had our first Apple and Blackberry Crumble last weekend. Just been chomping blackberries about 20 mins ago when I took the dog up to the woods for his walk.
Let the tree tell you marra. If you twist them and they come off easily then they are ready, or you could just gather the windfall as they drop.
Thank you, I will gently twist and see.
As kids we used to do that all through the summer holidays. We'd camp out, and go pea podding about 3 or 4 in the morning, and then nick milk and yoghurts left outside the dairy for collection.
That is a really shit thing for someone to do
Pollen from Morocco has been known to lightly seed cannabis plantations in southern Spain.Next year get feminised seed.I might be overthinking this. When frowning weed, the females are what we need.
A friend of mine had 2 females growing and a neighbour grew a male (without knowing) and it impregnated my mates 2 plants for 3 doors away
Would this be the same?
I bought a tent and will be trying autos through the winter. It’s a lot of fun but my god it stinks. Im going to work smelling like a pot head (and I don’t smoke the stuff)
Carbon filter+decent fan=0 smell.
Similar here. Too many tomatoes to know what to do with. Had a bad year for corn but picked the last of it and had it with tea, along with some of the best and sweetest carrots I’ve grown.Love this time of year.
Mrs had insalata caprese for lunch with my Buffalo toms and Basil.
She made a load of ratatoulle with my toms, courgettes and onions and aubergines and garlic.
We had curry tonight with my toms, ginger, onions, peppers, and garlic.
Shes making corned beef, leek and tattie pie the morn with my leeks and tatties.
Corn on the cob straight off the plant tomorrow lunchtime
It really is payback time at this time of year.
Even though they just held up the law (in court) to stop people growing personal
I thought the bed was high enough to avoid them but clearly not. I'm going to go for a resistant variety next year.
Haven't grown carrots in a long time, as the ground is a bit stoney causing them to be all sorts of shape underground even if the tops were great. One time i found little white maggoty grubs on the carrots... would that have been down to carrot fly?All my carrots succumbed to carrot fly
Same here Toms have been great but corn 50% down on last year, cucumbers were good and peppers but our aubergines have failed badly for the first time as they have grown great in pots and in the ground in the greenhouse in previous years.All the wet weather has been good for the Brassicas plus grew some Romanesco for the first time and it has just produced heads in the last couple of weeks and tastes quite nice.
i always get poor peppers and aubergines. @Georgewhitt give a tip about cutting the growing tip when fruit starts on the aubergines, so I'll try that next year.
I think that is carrot fly. This year I had mine in the same bed as my kale, and had a fine mesh net over it all. I don't know if that is the difference.
Me too. Always get some, but they tend to be smaller than I would like.
