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Calling SMB veg growers

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YorkMackem said:
Chocolate cherry tomatoes are now ripe and are lush. Thin skin and a little sweet.

My lemon drop chillies are struggling with only 1 fruited after a late planting.

I have my own body weight in cucumbers and gherkins.
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Growing Cornabel (Andean long tomato) and Ceour de Beouf (Beef) tomatoes, we're going to need another freezer for all of the tomato sauce. Weighed one of the Cornabels, admittedly the biggest, 948 grammes but, to be fair, there's been one or two (dozen) a similar size.
Only two cucumber plants and I'm sick of the sight of cucumbers, we've pickled some, given away loads and we still can't keep up. Our Belgian neighbour makes soup from them
 

little e said:
Growing Cornabel (Andean long tomato) and Ceour de Beouf (Beef) tomatoes, we're going to need another freezer for all of the tomato sauce. Weighed one of the Cornabels, admittedly the biggest, 948 grammes but, to be fair, there's been one or two (dozen) a similar size.
Only two cucumber plants and I'm sick of the sight of cucumbers, we've pickled some, given away loads and we still can't keep up. Our Belgian neighbour makes soup from them
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Been a good year.

Onions bolted, but apart from that, George is a very happy gardener this year. 😁
 
Georgewhitt said:
Been a good year.

Onions bolted, but apart from that, George is a very happy gardener this year. 😁
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Yer similar here had a decent year, turnips were a bit if a disaster tbh(2 sowings both shit), we’ve had mountains of strawberries, tomatoes and cucumbers and all my onions are done and ready to be harvested dnd dried etc. by far my best year growing.

My next job is to finish the re design of my garden and get my chickens sorted.
Cheers to those that contribute to this thread it’s an interesting thread when everyone is posting their progress etc.

We get ready for next spring now!
 
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Wilfy said:
We’ve had a load of stuff bolting this year. Pak Choi, broccoli, cauliflowers, even some of my beetroot have. Hoping for a cooler, wetter year next year!
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Beetroot nexy year try a vaiety called 'Bolthardy', youll guess why from its name. Scab on your potatoes - dig a trench - line the bottom with well rotted manure - space your potato setts on the manure - 2 gallon bucket full of water - add 4 tbsp Jeyes Fluid - pour over the trench of potatoes - cover potatoes with soil. You'll have the cleanest potatoes ever, no scab no worm holes no creepy crawleys.
 
socrates said:
Beetroot nexy year try a vaiety called 'Bolthardy', youll guess why from its name. Scab on your potatoes - dig a trench - line the bottom with well rotted manure - space your potato setts on the manure - 2 gallon bucket full of water - add 4 tbsp Jeyes Fluid - pour over the trench of potatoes - cover potatoes with soil. You'll have the cleanest potatoes ever, no scab no worm holes no creepy crawleys.
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I grow Bolthardy every year (can be very hot here) always get a good crop and tasty too. Favourite sweetcorn is Incredible, needs a lot of water but excellent.
Excellent bit of advice on the taties, does it work with all root crops?
 
little e said:
I grow Bolthardy every year (can be very hot here) always get a good crop and tasty too. Favourite sweetcorn is Incredible, needs a lot of water but excellent.
Excellent bit of advice on the taties, does it work with all root crops?
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only potatoes as far as I'm aware, the Jeyes is held by soaking it into the marure. Dont know how it would work with root crops. When I had an allotment I was never bothered with carrot fly because I had a method of using Bromophos, but its banned now because of links to cancer. Used it in the holes I planted my brassicas effectively as well.Pevented root fly. Brassica collars are excellent for that
 
YorkMackem said:
Chocolate cherry tomatoes are now ripe and are lush. Thin skin and a little sweet.

My lemon drop chillies are struggling with only 1 fruited after a late planting.

I have my own body weight in cucumbers and gherkins.
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I tried twice with cucumbers and both time failed - I think next year I’m going to just plant them in the allotment and neglect them and they’ll probably thrive. Tomatoes were a disaster too - usually use tomato grow bags but went with decent compost this year and utter shite 🤣
 
Shandy drinker said:
Can’t get me san marzano to redden
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Love a.i me

To help San Marzano tomatoes ripen, provide the correct temperature (68-77°F), avoid too much nitrogen fertilizer and direct sun, and reduce watering once the fruit has reached its full size. To speed up the process, you can pick the tomatoes when they have a hint of color and ripen them indoors in a paper bag with a ripe banana, which releases ethylene gas that promotes ripening.
 
My outdoor tomatoes have been better this year than the ones in the greenhouse. Carrots are the best for quite a while, and the tatties (in old compost bags) have been ok.
 
I’ve had the best tomatoes ever this year, crimson plumb F 1 is the variety. This year though I started them in my sauna grow room but used biobiz light mix soil to start them in, biobiz produce soil/nutrients etc mainly aimed at cannabis growers so, although it is a bit more pricey than bog standard compost at £10.99. For 50 litres, it’s really good stuff and as I said I’ve had the best tomato harvest everthis year, ditto the cucumbers that were started in the same soil.

I’ll be using it again next year for my toms and cucumbers.
 
tonyfromalnwick said:
My outdoor tomatoes have been better this year than the ones in the greenhouse. Carrots are the best for quite a while, and the tatties (in old compost bags) have been ok.
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Maybe too hot? When I was growing them a few years ago the temperature guidelines were under 6 degrees c will probably kill them, under 10 degrees c will stunt or stop growth and over 35 will stop growth as well?
 
Nookie Bear said:
I tried twice with cucumbers and both time failed - I think next year I’m going to just plant them in the allotment and neglect them and they’ll probably thrive. Tomatoes were a disaster too - usually use tomato grow bags but went with decent compost this year and utter shite 🤣
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I remember your greenhouse at home got wrecked in a storm, but you need cucumbers and tomatoesin a greenhouse, at home. They need the warmth and regular watering.
 
Beetroot have done fantastic in a sunnier spot, won't pull them for months yet though. Huge crop of big red jalapeños, all my cayennes have come at once and the habañero paper lanterns are absolute fire :cool:

Massive excess of tomatoes at the moment. Cucumbers have struggled, unusually.
 
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Nookie Bear said:
I tried twice with cucumbers and both time failed - I think next year I’m going to just plant them in the allotment and neglect them and they’ll probably thrive. Tomatoes were a disaster too - usually use tomato grow bags but went with decent compost this year and utter shite 🤣
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Always plant toms and cues in large pots od good compost in the gh, with a couple of handfuls of chicken manure mixed in.

Feed with Tomorite twice a week after first fruit has set.

Never failed .
 
Nookie Bear said:
I tried twice with cucumbers and both time failed - I think next year I’m going to just plant them in the allotment and neglect them and they’ll probably thrive. Tomatoes were a disaster too - usually use tomato grow bags but went with decent compost this year and utter shite 🤣
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Good advice from Georgewhitt, you could also try this:-

I was once given the advice about cucumbers ‘the plant wakes up each day looking for ways to die’.

Cucumbers are susceptible to various diseases, one of which is stem rot. Stem rot is a fungal disease that can cause serious damage to cucumber plants, eventually leading to plant death if left untreated.

I always plant cucumbers on a raised mound (cut the bottom out of a big plant pot) and plant on top of you final growing area. Water the bed, never the raised pot and this gives me great results, the dry raised soil around the cucumbers stem stops the fungal infection taking hold.
 
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