Pinching Out

[Grow Own]

What does "Pinching Out" mean?

[Grow Own]

that post was meant to say what does pinching out mean

[marchogaeth]

First thing you can edit posts - bottom green bar on each post.
Second it will help everyone give you advice if you add your location to your profile.
Thirdly,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RD3t...E&noredirect=1
and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RD3t...E&noredirect=1 half way down the page.

If you have specific plants you are not sure about do come back and ask.

[Lumpy]

If its broad beans remove the top of the plant the bit that looks like a small flower of leaves - it helps with the forth coming aphid invasion.
If its toms, put your hand out flat and imagine a very small, skinny finger growing between your thumb and index finger (in the L shape) - remove it to stop the side shoots growing and lessening your tom harvest.
If its climbing beans remove the top of the plant to stop it getting taller and encourage it to get bushier.
Cucumber - remove the flowers that have the small sausage shape behind the petals - they are male and will not give you Q's
It would help if you let us know which veg you were thinking about.

[Grow Own]

First thing you can edit posts - bottom green bar on each post.
Second it will help everyone give you advice if you add your location to your profile.
Thirdly,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RD3t...E&noredirect=1
and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RD3t...E&noredirect=1 half way down the page.

If you have specific plants you are not sure about do come back and ask.

Firstly the edit post feature doesn't work.

Secondly how will that help if I tell people I live in worcester?

Thirdly thanks for the vid

[rustylady]

Why so defensive Grow Own? It helps to know your location because advice given for North of Scotland is vastly different to that given for Cornwall.

OK, doesn't apply specifically to pinching out, but presumably you may have more queries in the future

[marchogaeth]

Firstly the edit post feature doesn't work.

Secondly how will that help if I tell people I live in worcester?

Thirdly thanks for the vid

1. I could see you are fairly new to posting so I was trying to be helpful.
2. As Rusty said - it's common forum practice to ask people to put a geographical location if it's not on their early posts.
3. See 1.

[veggiechicken]

Could I suggest, Grow Own, that you get yourself a good gardening book and sit down and read it.
Whilst we're happy to help new gardeners, if you ask for answers to every single question on your website, people will get tired of answering. Terminology - Grow Own
In addition, using our answers on your own website - especially without acknowledgement of the source, will be frowned upon. You may also be infringing the Intellectual property rights of GYO magazine and the Copyright rights of the members.
http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...tml#post586286

[WendyC]

Bl@@dy cheek! Good spot VC.

[Lumpy]

See I try and be nice and may just have been treated like a complete sprat. Only the questions author knows the truth!

[Potstubsdustbins]

Comes here acting like a beginner and goes off to pretend to be an expert. Should have said nowt VC just PM'd us with the info then we could have adjusted our answers. Like.........................

Question what is a dibber............................... Answer A haemorrhoid removal tool.

[marchogaeth]

Could I suggest, Grow Own, that you get yourself a good gardening book and sit down and read it.
Whilst we're happy to help new gardeners, if you ask for answers to every single question on your website, people will get tired of answering. Terminology - Grow Own
In addition, using our answers on your own website - especially without acknowledgement of the source, will be frowned upon. You may also be infringing the Intellectual property rights of GYO magazine and the Copyright rights of the members.
http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...tml#post586286

Iesu mawr! Only just read this. What a cheek. Well done to who ever spotted that manoeuvre, (Enough difficult spelling for this time of the morning).

V will you let people know if they have been quoted without being asked as I would request removal if I had been quoted without permission? M

[Kristen]

There does not appear to be a Comment facility on that website. Perhaps deliberately ...

[Grow Own]

Why so defensive Grow Own? It helps to know your location because advice given for North of Scotland is vastly different to that given for Cornwall.

OK, doesn't apply specifically to pinching out, but presumably you may have more queries in the future

I'm not being defensive?

You've just confirmed that my location has nothing to do with the original post.

I was pointing out that the edit post feature doesn't work as marchogaeth seemed to be annoyed that I posted twice.

1. I could see you are fairly new to posting so I was trying to be helpful.
2. As Rusty said - it's common forum practice to ask people to put a geographical location if it's not on their early posts.
3. See 1.

It seemed like you were annoyed, rather than trying to be helpful. I apologise if I misinterpreted the original post from you.

Again I don't really see what difference it makes where I am in the world.

Could I suggest, Grow Own, that you get yourself a good gardening book and sit down and read it.
Whilst we're happy to help new gardeners, if you ask for answers to every single question on your website, people will get tired of answering. Terminology - Grow Own
In addition, using our answers on your own website - especially without acknowledgement of the source, will be frowned upon. You may also be infringing the Intellectual property rights of GYO magazine and the Copyright rights of the members.
http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...tml#post586286

I have got some gardening books, but the whole reason I am starting my own website is because it's so confusing. I'm not advertising my website it's just for my own reference.

I can't see how someone telling me what something means is infringing IP rights.

Comes here acting like a beginner and goes off to pretend to be an expert. Should have said nowt VC just PM'd us with the info then we could have adjusted our answers. Like.........................

Question what is a dibber............................... Answer A haemorrhoid removal tool.

How am I coming in "Acting like a beginner" ?

I am a beginner.

I'm not pretending to be an expert either.

The website is a private website I have created to help me learn.

I don't see how giving incorrect information, however funny, would be helpful?

Iesu mawr! Only just read this. What a cheek. Well done to who ever spotted that manoeuvre, (Enough difficult spelling for this time of the morning).

V will you let people know if they have been quoted without being asked as I would request removal if I had been quoted without permission? M

I haven't "quoted" anyone.

There does not appear to be a Comment facility on that website. Perhaps deliberately ...

This is because it's a private website.

Honestly, I thought these forums were for newbies who are hoping to learn how to grow their own vegetables not for people on a witch hunt.

[Jungle Jane]

Grow own everyone on this forum are the nicest bunch of people you could talk to,why is it a witch hunt that people want to know who they're talking to & what you're doing with people's replies to your questions,why not be up front & say you're making a website & would like some help etc? If it's for your personal use why is it online & not in a word document,notebook-writing actually helps the brain absorb information. I think it's a bit of a cheek to be honest,you should have told people what you're doing with their information they're giving you,obviously it's not public because it's not complete,I'm grateful that vc pointed this out to us,it's our words,we have the right to know where they're being used don't we? Marchogaeth didn't seem annoyed at all,was actually being really helpful to you in the beginning & you replied in an unkind,defensive way that seemed rude to me & probably everyone else? People talk to each other with respect on here,be careful how you write things,read what you write before you submit replies & see if it could look sarcastic or friendly. The same goes when you read replies,don't take things the wrong way.