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Do You Prune Your Sprouts?
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If it works I'm guessing that the leaves are putting out some type of hormone which slows down sprout development - the stalky bit at the Base might not produce it, or at least not as much.
Just a guess and possibly incorrect but I just wanted to make it look as if I was paying attention.Last edited by Jay-ell; 18-04-2017, 09:43 AM.
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The bottom leaves do snap off easily when they start yellowing & are ready to come off. The leaves higher up don't break away so easily & I use my secateurs. I cut as close as I can to the main stem of the plant,about one inch,that little piece of stem eventually becomes squashed within the huge sprouts. I don't think the man in the video leaves his leaves on long enough,he cuts them too soon & pests would just destroy the upper leaves more....Location : Essex
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Originally posted by 1Bee View PostOkay: I just give them a sharp tug and they come off in my hand.
See?
Or is it just that you have a filthy mind
New all singing all dancing blog - Jasons Jungle
�I have not failed 1,000 times. I have successfully discovered 1,000 ways to NOT make a light bulb."
― Thomas A. Edison
�Negative results are just what I want. They�re just as valuable to me as positive results. I can never find the thing that does the job best until I find the ones that don�t.�
― Thomas A. Edison
- I must be a Nutter,VC says so -
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Originally posted by Bigmallly View PostI've never had what I could call a successful yield of Sprouts but this morning I came across this & I'm gonna give it a go. Do you prune yours?
BBC Radio 4 - Gardeners' Question Time, 70th Anniversary Special
Can listen without laughing.Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made
By singing-'Oh how beautiful!" and sitting in the shade,
While better men than we go out and start their working lives
At grubbing weeds from gravel paths with broken dinner-knives. ~ Rudyard Kipling
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By that's a grand accent MrBE.sigpic“Gorillas are very intelligent, but they don't have to be as delicate as chimps -- they can just smash open the termite nest,”
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