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What is giving you hope for this year?
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What is giving you hope for this year?Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you are probably right.
Edited: for typo, thakns VC
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Oooooh whats that flower singleseeder? Looks pretty hopeful to me!Ali
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They look very healthy SS and it's something to look forward to. I have courgettes just about to be picked. Haven't planted out my squash yet but hopefully tomorrow. Despite some failures I am cautiously optomistic I'll have potatoes, runner beans, 3 other types of beans, mange tout, 3 x cucumbers, salad leaves, spinach, chard, cabbages, carrots, parsnips (only 11 germinated but growing nicely if not eaten by slugs and have sown some more) oh and tomatoes and strawberries at home. I also have transplanted raspberries which have taken well on my new allotment and just planted a self sown asparagus bed and a new strawberry bed. Leeks are growing on at home to be planted out but they are very small and I may buy some from our site shop. I also have kale, PSB and another variety GSB seedlings (not grown these before) waiting to be planted out. Everything which produces a crop grown this year will be a bonus. On my old small plot I have just harvested a small crop of garlic (had rust so doomed to be small), and broad beans and a lovely crop of onions are almost at the point of harvesting. Already thinking about next year!A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rowsComment
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We've got a similar variety on the go - Floridor F1. I'm grateful to it; it's the only courgette that's doing anything this year. AGB and the usual stalwarts have completely fallen by the wayside. Lovely looking plants singleseeder!I don't roll on ShabbosComment
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Pfft.
Mine are no where near that stage yet.Comment
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My courgette look like the middle picture. Only growing one variety, but have 3 plants. That's encouraging in itself, But what's realy makes it all worthwhile are my sprouts. Hmmmmm.Sometimes you just have to scratch that itch and get dirt under your finger nails.Comment
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Nor mine Chris .......Originally posted by chris View Post
S*d the housework I have a lottie to dig
a batch of jam is always an act of creation ..Christine Ferber
You can't beat a bit of garden pornComment
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nor mine. In fact, I optimistically planted one out in a barrel to try and keep the nasties off. We'll see....Comment
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No courgettes (never grown 'em but thinking about it for next year).
The small amount of crops I have got going are actually doing OK, some may be smaller than usual, or later than usual (harvested my first spring cabbage today!), but no infestations or real slug problems YET.....
If the river hasn't reached the top of your step, DON'T PANIC!Comment
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nor mine....got about 6 plants on the go but we shouild soon catch up when the warmer weather arrives!
I'm chuffed cos we finally have a successful sowing of French beans which have not been eaten ( so far) by slugs/mice/voles/pheasants
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Carrots..... they've given me hope. Grown them in a deep container in my greenhouse and they look fantastic! Also my purple sprouting broccoli... some small heads already appearing. YAY!
Onions.... some are enormous!
But the thing which has given me most hope so far are my raspberries, full to the brim with flowers (and bees) all we need now is some sunshine.Comment
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Tomatoes for me! i always look forward to the tomatoes and after a bad start they seem to have picked up and are flowering well!Comment
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They are all courgettes and I'm pretty chuffed that they are doing so well. They are inside my large greenhouse on the plot. I've put only one outside and several squash/pumpkins, but I don't know how well they will do after all of this rain. Last year, I got 40kg from 5 Astia.
The tomatoes have flowers and a couple of tiny green toms, so fingers crossed things will catch up.Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you are probably right.
Edited: for typo, thakns VCComment
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This is my reason.
Raised beds I sorted out at the end of last year with Turnips, bolted pak choi, Carrots, Beetroots and shallots.Comment
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I have got tomatoes forming on both my golden peardrop and balconi red tomato plants
I did buy these as plants and they had already started flowering, but I am still very excited! When I noticed the most perfect little pear shaped fruit on the golden peardrop one I got so excited! The ones I am growing from seed are still thinking about whether they want to produce flowers.
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