Wild Card
Striker
Peppers we ok, low yield but tasty went for the gypsy type.
Tomatoes not great, I think I planted them a bit late and didn't give them the tlc they need.
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Peppers we ok, low yield but tasty went for the gypsy type.
Tomatoes not great, I think I planted them a bit late and didn't give them the tlc they need.
phil
Striker
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
High Entropy
Midfield
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.
Georgewhitt
Winger
Just letting it age and blend in with the rest of my countryside estate.Ya fence wants creosoting. Haway man standards
Non of your downmarket suburban creosote in this neck of the woods my man..
Wild Card
Striker
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.
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)
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.
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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High Entropy
Midfield
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
Striker
All the fancy berries like the kiwi berry and stuff like that
High Entropy
Midfield
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.
Wild Card
Striker
Thanks for that! Gunna give a few of them a try.
PigtheBilly
Full Back
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.
Georgewhitt
Winger
Wild Card
Striker
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?
Bit of silicon in that glazing and it’ll be right as rain.
Georgewhitt
Winger
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.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.
Butcher's Coat
Striker
I always start off my tomatoes in a heated propagator on St. Valentines day or there abouts.
The love apple.
Do you play them a bit of Barry White to get them going?
Butcher's Coat
Striker
Of course.
Don’t you?
Wild Card
Striker
Always serenade my tomato seedlings in the style of eddie Murphy when he is trying to sing Nepalese on the flight in golden child. Seems to work.
Butcher's Coat
Striker
Agree.
It works, and the moneymaker thrive on it.
