Charmless Man
Striker
pillars of hercules
Striker
For the first time ever, i walked into my polytunnel and didn't feel any warmer. It was a weird feeling.
Salad crops.
Beet, chard, spinach. Or a nitrogenous crop like mustard to replenish the soil.
Butcher's Coat
Striker
Just part of the ripening marra. All to do with the sugars in the chilli pod itself.
It will go red.
SAFCOldie
Striker
Cheers for info, does this mean they've already been green or does that occur next?
Butcher's Coat
Striker
Nah, they have been green.
I take it that they are a cayenne type variety?
SAFCOldie
Striker
Cheers for that, yep cayenne variety. It's only a small plant I must have missed them being green, was distracted by the little flowers popping up which I also didn't know occurred.
PTR
Striker
Toms are coming through at last.
Cut off loads of leaves and thinned then right down. Good feed, and hopefully they'll fly.
Chilies lol shit again. Just didn't grow upwards at all. Again. Will give up on them this year and try another variety next year.
Lettuce are doing OK. 3 small plants growing and 3 seedlings to come.
Spring onions not great.
Carrots just never appeared.
Peas are a write off. Current theory is that birds are eating them.
Strawberry plants are growing. Trying to send runners constantly, so a weekly prune to stop that. No fruit since May though. Hoping for a second crop at the end of summer.
Blueberry tree and raspberry Bush are growing. Next year for those though.
Need to learn how to prune raspberry to get a good bushy plant, and how to take cuttings as I want 3 or 4 more plants
Cut off loads of leaves and thinned then right down. Good feed, and hopefully they'll fly.
Chilies lol shit again. Just didn't grow upwards at all. Again. Will give up on them this year and try another variety next year.
Lettuce are doing OK. 3 small plants growing and 3 seedlings to come.
Spring onions not great.
Carrots just never appeared.
Peas are a write off. Current theory is that birds are eating them.
Strawberry plants are growing. Trying to send runners constantly, so a weekly prune to stop that. No fruit since May though. Hoping for a second crop at the end of summer.
Blueberry tree and raspberry Bush are growing. Next year for those though.
Need to learn how to prune raspberry to get a good bushy plant, and how to take cuttings as I want 3 or 4 more plants
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High Entropy
Midfield
What do you fellas put in the ground for over the winter ?
I'm gonna have a go at onions (toughball) put the seeds in last weekend as per the packet.
I'm gonna have a go at onions (toughball) put the seeds in last weekend as per the packet.
Kevsgreat
Striker
Planted everything too late. Again. Took forever for what I did plant to come up. Half me peas didn't bother. No idea what's going on with the potato me and the boy planted. It's like a tree. And loads of plants that usually flower just haven't bothered this year.
Green fingers.
Green fingers.
It’s been a bit of an oddball year this year to be fair like with the drought and the heatwave.
We’ve been dotting backwards & forwards to France a lot this year to make up for the previous two years so didn’t really set a lot off. Apples are looking good out here this year, pears ok back home but any mainstream crops we just didn’t bother with.
Georgewhitt
Midfield
Done ok to be fair. Only really salad leaves that didn't like the heat. Everything else has done well.
None veg related post here but funnily enough I was talking about JaneyP today, (the op for those that might not know her), really chuffed to see her thread still going, kudos to all of you involved, used to love having veg crack with her (hence the reason she started this thread)….she’s a big miss to the board imo, if she’s lurking, JaneyP please come back!
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Politics forum apparently….had enough of getting grief…a real shame as she was/is a very intelligent poster with some great views and was able to have excellent debates. Funny as well.
Politics forum went mental over Brexit.... and just carried on.