Aubergines 2020

[veggiechicken]

It seems that everyone (except Thelma, Bren and I) can grow aubergines.

Starting to feel like a failure................

[Urban]

It seems that everyone (except Thelma, Bren and I) can grow aubergines.

Starting to feel like a failure................

Have you tried Bonica? It always does really well for me. But I've gone off growing them now. Aubergines always seem to attract lots of aphids into my greenhouse. And was giving most of them away anyway. it was fun growing them. But not worth it for me for the amount I was using

[Small pumpkin]

It seems that everyone (except Thelma, Bren and I) can grow aubergines.

Starting to feel like a failure................

I can guarantee you will never be a failure................ever

Not even a little bit

[chillithyme]

I always grow aubergine plants,but whether I get aubergines or not is another story! I’m trying to chit seeds in a wet paper towel in a plastic box,on top of a hot water bottle,all inside another larger box. Why make it easy with my heated propagator when I’ve got an experiment to do
They do well in a small plastic mini greenhouse,it gets very humid and helps the fruit to set.

[chillithyme]

If it makes you feel better I haven’t grown any decent lettuce in the ground yet VC It’s slug food

[veggiechicken]

I can guarantee you will never be a failure................ever

Not even a little bit

..........and if I am, I won't tell anyone! Don't want to ruin my reputation.

[Bren In Pots]

It seems that everyone (except Thelma, Bren and I) can grow aubergines.

Starting to feel like a failure................

I even tried growing them on year on the sunny kitchen windowsill as well as in the GH, but still no aubergines.

[Thelma Sanders]

It seems that everyone (except Thelma, Bren and I) can grow aubergines.

Starting to feel like a failure................

Small Pumpkin: I can guarantee you will never be a failure................ever

So it's just Bren and I that are failures ? .............................oh well pffft!

[quanglewangle]

Theodore Roosevelt on failing to grow aubergines

Theodore Roosevelt on failing to grow aubergines. He doesn't actually mention them but I am convinced that is what he is talking about.

A bit gender specific, but it dates from about 1910 when things were different.
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It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, and comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

[veggiechicken]

Never mind, Thelma, we can't all be perfect failures at growing aubergines

[veggiechicken]

Theodore Roosevelt on failing to grow aubergines. He doesn't actually mention them but I am convinced that is what he is talking about.

A bit gender specific, but it dates from about 1910 when things were different.
.

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, and comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

We say "Dyfal donc a dyr y garreg" - Tapping persistently breaks the stone / If at first you don't succeed try, try again
Or, from the Latin, Don't let the aubergines grind you down.

[Thelma Sanders]

Theodore Roosevelt on failing to grow aubergines. He doesn't actually mention them but I am convinced that is what he is talking about.

mwahahahaha!

[greenishfing]

We say "Dyfal donc a dyr y garreg" - Tapping persistently breaks the stone / If at first you don't succeed try, try again
Or, from the Latin, Don't let the aubergines grind you down.

Or, up here in Yorkshire, we stop tapping and go fetch a sledgehammer.

[Muddy_Boots]

By the sound of it this is a challenge I need to be a part of ......... challenge accepted.

Think its now time to polish both heated propogators off and look at going through my seed packets for some suitable candidates to attempt this one. Never grown them and they sound difficult to get going but its a challenge I can't let slip by.

Actually I hate the things, to me they taste like pencil lead and look unappealing but some of my asian friends will snap my hands off at the thought of some free ones lol.

[Urban]

If it makes you feel better I haven’t grown any decent lettuce in the ground yet VC It’s slug food

Try some of the red Lollo Rosso. The slugs and snails seem to avoid it. Don't know why though. Because it taste lovely