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gray_b
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tahir
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gray_b
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These were block planted in the soil, having been started in the greenhouse in pots with bought in compost.
I did wonder about the compost. As I know that if there was any residual weedkiller or other chemicals from the green waste, it can cause distortion in stems.
Cannot remember variety, but they grow 6ft tall, and all of them only have only 1 cob on them.
Watering has not been a problem, as no hosepipe bans this year.
I can understand duds due to lack of pollination.
We will see if the problem re-occurs, as I have another later batch (by 1 month) growing of the same variety. They are just sheding pollen, so hopefully might be ripe before the frosts.
This year has been a bad year for other vegetables. I've already pulled out my 10 varieties of tomatoes, due to having watery, pulpy, tasteless fruit. The only varieties worth it were Alsia craig and Chocolate, but I threw thwm away as well.
Leeks, Butternut Sqash (blossom end rot), Cucumber (blossom end rot) and Broad Beans (flower drop) terrible
Cauliflowers (no cabbage whites) and Runner beans are looking good.
Early potatoes in ground were terrible, but in tubs they were fantastic.
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tahir
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Slim
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Nicky cigreen
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Mistress Rose
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NorthernMonkeyGirl
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gray_b
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tahir
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Mistress Rose
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