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Calling SMB veg growers

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Stubbs ftm said:
My strawberries, peppers and tomatoes were a massive failure last year for some reason
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Were your tomatoes outside? If so it could be potato blight, they do fine until mid / late july and they are looking great, tomatoes forming then black patches form and the plants quickly die🙁
 
Wild Card said:
Chilean guava, also know ...I think....as the Strawberry Myrtle.
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I've got a few of them, fruit about November, delicious but lots of tiny seeds, taste like the smell of strawberries, a fragrant taste.

Wild Card said:
Anyone else like growing anything odd?
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I love doing this, got edible honeysuckle (honey berries), boysenberries & kiwiberry that should fruit this year (4 year old) 🤞avocado tree from seed. I like the unusual varieties too, like pink blueberries, red gooseberries and yellow raspberries. Tried watermelons last year but was a disaster, I'll try again this year.

Got my onion sets today too, just to lift this horrible, never ending January limbo mood, looking to get my potatoes from LIDL and use them as seed potatoes as I can't find that variety anywhere else.
 
Georgewhitt said:
Does it need protection in the winter?
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Bit off topic now, but you can get the brown turkey variety for the UK. Supposed to tolerate minus 30 and still produce decent fruit.
High Entropy said:
I've got a few of them, fruit about November, delicious but lots of tiny seeds, taste like the smell of strawberries, a fragrant taste.



I love doing this, got edible honeysuckle (honey berries), boysenberries & kiwiberry that should fruit this year (4 year old) 🤞avocado tree from seed. I like the unusual varieties too, like pink blueberries, red gooseberries and yellow raspberries. Tried watermelons last year but was a disaster, I'll try again this year.

Got my onion sets today too, just to lift this horrible, never ending January limbo mood, looking to get my potatoes from LIDL and use them as seed potatoes as I can't find that variety anywhere else.
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Do you have a greenhouse for that? I have never had one due to either a small or slowed garden but fingers crossed from this summer onwards I will finally have a garden that will accommodate one. Quite excited about it.
 
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Wild Card said:
Do you have a greenhouse for that? I have never had one due to either a small or slowed garden but fingers crossed from this summer onwards I will finally have a garden that will accommodate one. Quite excited about it.
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The Chilean guava ?

No, they're very hardy, had them in pots for ages then put them in the ground when I got my allotment. The biggest is about 2ft tall now, berries only about 8-10mm big atm but so tasty.
 
Wild Card said:
All the fancy berries like the kiwi berry and stuff like that
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I always get the hardy varieties, they need to sit outside all year.

kiwiberry 'Issai" (-10)
Boysenberry (-20)
honeyberry (-40!)
Chilean Guava (-10)
Edible Chinese dogwood (-20)
Brown turkey fig (-10)
raspberries, gooseberries, strawberries, blueberries, currants, blackberries, apples, plums, pears & cherry are also hardy to at least -10, I even got a hardy peach tree 'crimson bonfire' that is supposed to go to -10 but this is it's first year so we'll see if it survives.

I only have a small polytunnel and that is for annuals, like tomatoes, cucumber, peppers and hopefully this year, melons.
 
High Entropy said:
I always get the hardy varieties, they need to sit outside all year.

kiwiberry 'Issai" (-10)
Boysenberry (-20)
honeyberry (-40!)
Chilean Guava (-10)
Edible Chinese dogwood (-20)
Brown turkey fig (-10)
raspberries, gooseberries, strawberries, blueberries, currants, blackberries, apples, plums, pears & cherry are also hardy to at least -10, I even got a hardy peach tree 'crimson bonfire' that is supposed to go to -10 but this is it's first year so we'll see if it survives.

I only have a small polytunnel and that is for annuals, like tomatoes, cucumber, peppers and hopefully this year, melons.
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Thanks for that! Gunna give a few of them a try.
 
gasman said:
Will be starting to sow a few varieties of tomatoes shortly.
Will definitely be growing some crown prince squashes this year, they’re lovely eating.
My garlics shooting up.
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Too early for my tomatoes. I can get them germinated ok in a heated propagator - but I cant keep them going through the cold until its safe to get them outside and in my polytunnel. Good luck with yours.
 
PigtheBilly said:
Too early for my tomatoes. I can get them germinated ok in a heated propagator - but I cant keep them going through the cold until its safe to get them outside and in my polytunnel. Good luck with yours.
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The issue I had last year was that it was such a cold start to the year my peppers and toms went a bit leggy before they could go outside. I'm sure we were getting nights close to zero in April and almost into may?
 
Hair Flick said:
Bit of silicon in that glazing and it’ll be right as rain.
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Day off today anarl.
Thats my lazy day fucked. 🙄
Just cleaned the bassa at the weekend anarl. 🤣
Might have to give up on a greenhouse.
It's the only place I can put it to get full sun, but it's too exposed.
This is the 3rd time in 10 years its had a battering. The winds here, on the edge of Dartmoor are pretty intense, and I cant stop this from happening.
Shame, cos the greenhouse is my favourite bit of the veg thing.
Might just turn it over to flowers and shrubs, and give up on the veg.
Pissed off with it tbh.
 
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Georgewhitt said:
Day off today anarl.
Thats my lazy day fucked. 🙄
Just cleaned the bassa at the weekend anarl. 🤣
Might have to give up on a greenhouse.
It's the only place I can put it to get full sun, but it's too exposed.
This is the 3rd time in 10 years its had a battering. The winds here, on the edge of Dartmoor are pretty intense, and I cant stop this from happening.
Shame, cos the greenhouse is my favourite bit of the veg thing.
Might just turn it over to flowers and shrubs, and give up on the veg.
Pissed off with it tbh.
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Aye same for us in Brittany would love a greenhouse out there but we get those Atlantic gales sweeping up the Bay of Biscay and you struggle to stand at times. Not a cat in hells chance of a greenhouse or poly tunnel surviving.
 
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