Lupins

[Mazza42]

Hi, been lurking for a few weeks and thought I'd seek some expert advice as been made redundant and have been reacquainted with my garden! I will be asking plenty and hope you don't get fed up with me!

Firstly, my lupins have seeded and I have collected them. Any advice when i shold plant or should I store them for next year?

Also have been given an aubergine plant - do I need another for it to fruit?

Thanks in advance guys

[rustylady]

Hi Mazza, welcome to the Vine. Could you add your location to your profile please? Then it will show up on your posts and save us keep asking.

[Mazza42]

Hi Rustylady. profile updated. Thanks

[taff]

no idea about lupins but you don't need another aubergine to fruit. They do need very high temps, their flowers are self-polinating like tomatoes, so if it doe shave flowers, just give it a shake or a poke with a brush if you feel like.

[Mazza42]

Thanks Taff.... i shall go out for a brew and give it poke now

Just picked some sweetcorn and cucumber seeds from the pound shop and a lovely poly tunnel cloche. The world is my oyster!

[rustylady]

I think you're too late for sweetcorn this year - save your seeds for next year!

[Mazza42]

Hi Rustylady

Yes I realised, once I'd read up on the cucumbers and sweetcorn that I was too late for this year so I've put them away for next year.

I seem to have loads of very small white flies around my veg - hoping they won't ruin my crop and not sure what, if anything I can do about them. Is anybody else having the same problem?

[sewer rat]

If your lupin seeds are still in the pods, hang the stem of pods upside down and collect the seeds when the pods have dried. Put the seeds in a paper envelope and store them til next Spring. You might find baby lupins appearing all over your garden as they are pretty good at self seeding.

[Two_Sheds]

I had a lovely blue & white lupin one year (two years ago?) and I saved 100s of seed from it. Not a single one ever germinated

My neighbour's common old pinky/purply lupins come back every year

[Flummery]

I've grow lupins from seed and got them to come true. It depends on the lupin! Worth a go though. We've got several Son-of-Lupin plants around the village that came from mine. Then it pegged it! I'm saving the seeds from them to get my own back so to speak. I sow them as soon as they are ripe and dry. If you sow in the autumn of one year you can get flowers the next season.