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Calling SMB veg growers

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socrates said:
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.
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We replaced that greenhouse , have had them in there this summer - watered every evening and the cucumbers just shrivelled and died with flowers on but no fruit , replaced them and same happened. Tomatoes were poor too but I didn’t start them until quite late , previous years they’ve been very prolific but this year just not been happy at all.
 

Nookie Bear said:
We replaced that greenhouse , have had them in there this summer - watered every evening and the cucumbers just shrivelled and died with flowers on but no fruit , replaced them and same happened. Tomatoes were poor too but I didn’t start them until quite late , previous years they’ve been very prolific but this year just not been happy at all.
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I grow Cucumbers from seed but just buy established tomato plants aroud 1/6 so they go straight into greenhouse. Both go into 18" diameter pots with peat based compost, or contents of grow bags. Never into growbags.

Cucumbers always an 'all female' type so no bother nipping male flowers off. The way to water cucumbers is bury a large plant pot in the middle of you big pot, bury to just above soil level, plant a cucumber either side and grow them up canes. Wter by filling the central plant pot. Cucumbers love water but dont like water around base of stem. Variety this year were 'femspot F1' from ebay. Tmatoes were 'shirley' and 'gardeners delight'.
 
socrates said:
I grow Cucumbers from seed but just buy established tomato plants aroud 1/6 so they go straight into greenhouse. Both go into 18" diameter pots with peat based compost, or contents of grow bags. Never into growbags.

Cucumbers always an 'all female' type so no bother nipping male flowers off. The way to water cucumbers is bury a large plant pot in the middle of you big pot, bury to just above soil level, plant a cucumber either side and grow them up canes. Wter by filling the central plant pot. Cucumbers love water but dont like water around base of stem. Variety this year were 'femspot F1' from ebay. Tmatoes were 'shirley' and 'gardeners delight'.
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I will refer back to all these helpful hints in the spring - I had the same varieties of Tom’s too , bought them when well established they just didn’t thrive but I think I didn’t feed them enough having been used to growing in tomorite bags in previous years. Even my jalepenos were rubbish - my green fingers have turned black but hope it’s a one off
 
socrates said:
I grow Cucumbers from seed but just buy established tomato plants aroud 1/6 so they go straight into greenhouse. Both go into 18" diameter pots with peat based compost, or contents of grow bags. Never into growbags.

Cucumbers always an 'all female' type so no bother nipping male flowers off. The way to water cucumbers is bury a large plant pot in the middle of you big pot, bury to just above soil level, plant a cucumber either side and grow them up canes. Wter by filling the central plant pot. Cucumbers love water but dont like water around base of stem. Variety this year were 'femspot F1' from ebay. Tmatoes were 'shirley' and 'gardeners delight'.
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Have you tried your name’s sake?

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Great plants, two phased supplies of cucumbers, small but plentiful and all female, I grow these with Robinson's Cucumber King George, this gets me through the growing season with cucumbers from only two plants.

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Have you tried your name’s sake?

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Great plants, two phased supplies of cucumbers, small but plentiful and all female, I grow these with Robinson's Cucumber King George, this gets me through the growing season with cucumbers from only two plants.

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I'd never heard of them. Maybe next year
 
Just destroyed a large plate of tiger toast topped with lashings of butter, a light scrape of garlic, Gardener's Delights and Heritage Girls fresh from the vine, sprinkled with about a third of a finely chopped habanero paper lantern :cool:

Given my veg growing doesn't yet extend to an olive tree, I had to smother it all in a deep green and grassy olive oil from my mate's father in law's olive grove in Patras, Greece.
 
Nookie Bear said:
We replaced that greenhouse , have had them in there this summer - watered every evening and the cucumbers just shrivelled and died with flowers on but no fruit , replaced them and same happened. Tomatoes were poor too but I didn’t start them until quite late , previous years they’ve been very prolific but this year just not been happy at all.
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Sounds like a compost problem. I can't seem to stop the buggers growing. They're prolific to say the least.

Are they well drained?
 
PIDD said:
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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My cucumbers are grown outdoors them and the courgettes have always been prone to mildew. Sprayed them at the beginning of the season with well diluted Neem oil, greenest and best plants we've had, only needed to spray them once more when we had a few days high 30's low 40's.
I grow the cucumbers up an inclined trellis so the fruits can hang through. Much easier to pick and the fruit stays shaded
 
little e said:
My cucumbers are grown outdoors them and the courgettes have always been prone to mildew. Sprayed them at the beginning of the season with well diluted Neem oil, greenest and best plants we've had, only needed to spray them once more when we had a few days high 30's low 40's.
I grow the cucumbers up an inclined trellis so the fruits can hang through. Much easier to pick and the fruit stays shaded
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Yeah, neem oil is the mutts like. My chilli plant's leaves were riddled with avids and one spray sorted them out
 
Az* said:
Finally pulled the last bed of onions, I didn’t look after the beds as good as I could have this year, need to take more care next year. Still enough to last us a while like.

I’ll start to clear the whole allotment next week, probably…

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I’m just waiting for a delivery of my autumn planting onions. Need to do a bit of weeding in the bed and rotavate and feed.
 
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Wilfy said:
I’m just waiting for a delivery of my autumn planting onions. Need to do a bit of weeding in the bed and rotavate and feed.
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Very nice mate, beetroot looked csnny

As I said I didn’t take proper care of mine so lost a few that didn’t grow very big. I struggle a bit physically these days and as a consequence my allotment has suffered a bit, hopefully next year the boy can help me a bit more, he’ll be a year older and a tad more capable.
 
Never been able to grow cabbages because the wood pigeons always decimate them. This year I built a cage to net them off but they are terrible. Twelve cabbages and only one looks like it's going to form a heart. The others all have some sort of lurgy. What's the diagnosis SMB? Do I need to smear them in lion shite?

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Hansel said:
Never been able to grow cabbages because the wood pigeons always decimate them. This year I built a cage to net them off but they are terrible. Twelve cabbages and only one looks like it's going to form a heart. The others all have some sort of lurgy. What's the diagnosis SMB? Do I need to smear them in lion shite?

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Haven’t seen mine for a week so hoping they’re ok. I’ve got them netted off but an odd cabbage white was still finding a way in. They’ve grown ok but didn’t seem to be heading up. What sort of netting did you use?
 
Wilfy said:
Haven’t seen mine for a week so hoping they’re ok. I’ve got them netted off but an odd cabbage white was still finding a way in. They’ve grown ok but didn’t seem to be heading up. What sort of netting did you use?
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The netting gap is about 3/4 inch. Didn't stop the butterflies, I watched several folding their wings and getting in.
 
Hansel said:
The netting gap is about 3/4 inch. Didn't stop the butterflies, I watched several folding their wings and getting in.
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I’ve used scaffold netting. This sort of stuff.

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I have two 8ft cages butting together so there must be a gap big enough for them to get through. Haven’t had any problems with caterpillars as such mind. Just wish everything was as easy to grow as beetroot!
 
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