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dpack



Joined: 02 Jul 2005
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Location: yes
PostPosted: Sun Jul 03, 16 8:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

lettuce , about ten plantings of different sorts on 3 occasions= a couple got to just showing,fell to the slimey hoard

garlic, over wintered= just about alive but very small bulbs so far

radish ,on 6th planting at 10 day plantings= mostly good with one dismal planting

big boy toms planted out in may i think= growing like jacks beanstalk,plenty flowers.

spuds ,planted late last year and forgotten,came up early may,earthed up by 500 mm in 3 goes = huge ,healthy,just removed lots of flower heads ,looking ace

50 onion sets for spring onions = a bit slow to start but 1st box eaten two to go ,not bad

have not planted any beans this years as not much space,

most odds n ends herbs etc doing well

overall better than last year but im using half guinea pig compost half peat based potting medium from last year so not a fair comparison.

Bebo



Joined: 21 May 2007
Posts: 12590
Location: East Sussex
PostPosted: Sun Jul 03, 16 9:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Third lot of plants in the ground and seem to be taking off a bit now. We're inundated with rabbits this year and they are decimating everything.

Nick



Joined: 02 Nov 2004
Posts: 34535
Location: Hereford
PostPosted: Sun Jul 03, 16 9:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

[quote="Bebo:1464360"]Third lot of plants in the ground and seem to be taking off a bit now. We're inundated with rabbits this year and they are decimating everything.[/quote
At least you have ninety percent left.

wellington womble



Joined: 08 Nov 2004
Posts: 15051
Location: East Midlands
PostPosted: Sun Jul 03, 16 10:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

My carrots didn't grow either. I've a sinkful in the greenhouse doing fine, but not one outside. Lousy year for peas, too. No idea why.

Midlandsman



Joined: 22 May 2014
Posts: 116

PostPosted: Sun Jul 03, 16 10:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I don't get supermarket prices. £4/kg fresh broad beans - so £16/kg by the time they're podded.

But £1.60/kg for frozen podded ones.

Bizarre!

MM

Slim



Joined: 05 Mar 2006
Posts: 6533
Location: New England (In the US of A)
PostPosted: Sun Jul 03, 16 11:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Midlandsman wrote:
I don't get supermarket prices. £4/kg fresh broad beans - so £16/kg by the time they're podded.

But £1.60/kg for frozen podded ones.

Bizarre!

MM


machinery doesn't cost much in the way of salary & benefits...

Try not to think about the higher nutritional value of the frozen ones

OtleyLad



Joined: 13 Jan 2007
Posts: 2737
Location: Otley, West Yorkshire
PostPosted: Mon Jul 04, 16 5:34 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

My broad beans, that are usually reliable croppers, have been rubbish too.
I might end up with one meal's worth from the whole crop.
Just sown french beans a few days ago - hoping I'm not too late.

At this moment it looks like Turks Turban squash is going to be this years star performer.

Mistress Rose



Joined: 21 Jul 2011
Posts: 15539

PostPosted: Mon Jul 04, 16 6:43 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

My sweetcorn sown indoors didn't even germinate because it was too cold in the house, slimey hoards have had most of the beans, and the outside leaves of the cabbages, but they are growing through it I think, only roots that did anything are the salsify, and havn't looked at last weeks sowing yet. Some leeks seem to have survived the birds dust baths and the potatoes aren't bad.

mousjoos



Joined: 05 Jun 2006
Posts: 1986
Location: VERY Sunny SW France
PostPosted: Mon Jul 04, 16 6:43 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Carrots & parsnips are better than at any other time since changing the siting of the garden.
Radishes went mental; really mental. Enormous but hollow....& tangy.
Leeks doing well. Spuds thriving despite neglect.
All the herbs planted have gone to seed very very quickly.
Beans late to show anything, but now flowering; but this is the third planting as the two previous plantings produced nothing....didn't even shoot.

Hail destroyed the crops of several people we know here; also cherries have been a disaster.

Certain Geo-engineering conspiracy theorists I know have that "I told you so" look in the eyes.....

Woo



Joined: 19 Sep 2011
Posts: 787
Location: Mayenne, Pays de Loire
PostPosted: Mon Jul 04, 16 7:43 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

[quote="Nick:1464362"]
Bebo wrote:
Third lot of plants in the ground and seem to be taking off a bit now. We're inundated with rabbits this year and they are decimating everything.[/quote
At least you have ninety percent left.


best you explain yourself Nick, the expression has been miss used for centuries!

snowball
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Location: swindon
PostPosted: Mon Jul 04, 16 10:55 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Peas and broad beans brilliant yields, despite black fly on broad beans.
Runners and French beans two batches failed to germinate beyond a few leaves. Then the leaves were eaten over night.

Bebo



Joined: 21 May 2007
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Location: East Sussex
PostPosted: Mon Jul 04, 16 11:07 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

[quote="Nick:1464362"]
Bebo wrote:
Third lot of plants in the ground and seem to be taking off a bit now. We're inundated with rabbits this year and they are decimating everything.[/quote
At least you have ninety percent left.


Pedant

Bebo



Joined: 21 May 2007
Posts: 12590
Location: East Sussex
PostPosted: Mon Jul 04, 16 11:09 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

[quote="Woo:1464378"]
Nick wrote:
Bebo wrote:
Third lot of plants in the ground and seem to be taking off a bit now. We're inundated with rabbits this year and they are decimating everything.[/quote
At least you have ninety percent left.


best you explain yourself Nick, the expression has been miss used for centuries!


He doesn't need to explain to me. I'm aware of the way that the roman army applied military discipline.

Edit to add - he's still a pedant though

Woo



Joined: 19 Sep 2011
Posts: 787
Location: Mayenne, Pays de Loire
PostPosted: Mon Jul 04, 16 12:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I learned it from a consultant I worked with.
no one else in the room had the faintest idea either.
got to love a pedant though!

gardening-girl



Joined: 25 Feb 2009
Posts: 6024
Location: Somerset.
PostPosted: Mon Jul 04, 16 4:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Rubbish germination with peas, runner beans and carrots. Those that came up have been eaten by the bastard bunnies, who have eaten through the net cover.
Spinach is doing well, and we have kept ourselves in salad stuff.
French beans in the polytunnel are really doing well.

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