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How are the veggies coming along?


Mick Dempsey
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8 hours ago, Ty Korrigan said:

Put this El Cheapo polytunnnel up yesterday.

If it is even moderately successful then Mrs Lee might well give the nod for an 8x4 then we can really go to town on the 🍅🍅🍅🌶️ 🌶️🌶️ and 🍈🍈🍈.

Need to then prepare for preserving, especially tomatoes as prepared puree and sauce.

I lost all my Giant Mongolian sunflowers 🌻🌻🌻 to slugs as well as the emerging tops of my Jerusalem artichokes.

I've now treated the area with organic slug pellets.

Weird thing is you don't see dead slugs or slime trails.

Apparently they feel crook, return to their hideout then discretely die.

Nematode treatment next for carrot fly.

My latest plant order has been lost in the post...

 

 

 

 

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try the resister fly carrot verity, trying them myself this year  

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I know it's probably about 6 months after you southerners, but finally got the tomatoes into their final pots in the greenhouse, and it's now all homemade compost, which looks ok after it's gone through some mesh

 

Good crop of rhubarb too, even with the lack of weeding!!

 

 

 

 

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Note to self ; don't take photos at dusk!!!!

 

Decent amount of apple blossom, including on some poundstretcher trees which only went in start of 2022

 

 

 

 

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8 hours ago, scbk said:

I know it's probably about 6 months after you southerners, but finally got the tomatoes into their final pots in the greenhouse, and it's now all homemade compost, which looks ok after it's gone through some mesh

 

Good crop of rhubarb too, even with the lack of weeding!!

 

 

 

 

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Not me, not this southerner, (well midlander).

Non of my seedlings did anything, that dodgy compost must have had something bad in it.

 

As a last resort I had to go out and buy a load of young plants at the weekend; toms and cucumbers. Unheard of, outrageous! They'll be very late into final pots but hopefully they'll catch up enough to get some crop at least.

 

These poor runts were about 2 months old;-

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Spose in this game we should not be buying compost any ways as well rotted chip seems better.. I did get a bit carried away his year with about 3 tonne off the bottom of the pile and another 4 tonne of horse shit to find the rotavator would not start so had to improvise … last time I used the grinder as a rotavator it was mint for de stoning but messed up the soil structure… will see if the manure blend works in a few months !

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Seems to be a French tradition to plant Gladioli to mark rows of veg.

I was sent some everytime I ordered seeds n shit.

I go up to the place every couple of days to water, weed and to be. 

I find being there incredibly relaxing.

I left at 11pm a few nights ago after getting there at 8pm after work.

I've inadvertently entered into a conflict with my neighbour over cutting back his invading vegetation.

I put in a root barrier on my side to stop his bamboo from encroaching and with his verbal permission cut back everything that crossed the boundary.

I did rather go to town on the cutting back and this is what has angered the neighbour as it exposes an area of garden he uses for growing cannabis (last image)

 

 

 

 

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