How Does Your Garden Grow?

[Pigeon_Droppings2]

Decided to pick a small one that looked the right colour...it could do with a few more weeks but from what I read you can eat them green if you want...just won't taste the same!


I was determined to eat at least one of them! So much can go wrong...too cold, too much rain little critters etc etc!

 

[Onoff]

Decided to pick a small one that looked the right colour...it could do with a few more weeks but from what I read you can eat them green if you want...just won't taste the same!


I was determined to eat at least one of them! So much can go wrong...too cold, too much rain little critters etc etc!

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Do you cut or snap them off?

 

[Pigeon_Droppings2]

Do you cut or snap them off

Advice on line was to cut and leave an inch of stalk....but that's aimed at storing them over the winter I think.

 

[prepman]

I had a heartwarming moment yesterday.....I planted a mulberry tree (not bush) and it barely stayed alive over the last 10 years. Still a 'whip' from being in a tree-tube. Every year rust-mould/bacteria made all the leaves drop. This year I took all the infected leaves (there's only about 30 in total) and feed it with liqud fertiser around it's base.
The result has been amazing. The leaves are green and healthy (all 15)....doubt I'll be around if it ever fruits though.
The old nursery rhyme relates to how difficult they were to grow in the UK when attempts were made to produce silk.
Going around the mulbbery with flaming torches on a 'cold and frosty morning' was a real event, to stave off the frost.

 

[Kram]

@Onoff did you have any luck with your trees?

 

[Onoff]

@Onoff did you have any luck with your trees?

Other priorities at the minute tbh.

 

[Onoff]

Not sure if mine is ready or not. RHS Harrier F1 variety?

The packet:

Looks a bit green to me:

https://flic.kr/p/2qgfet7

 

[DanZac]

Not sure if mine is ready or not. RHS Harrier F1 variety?

I'd give that a few more weeks yet. They're normally quite tolerant of the colder days, and a bit of sun will ripen it up a treat.

 

[Onoff]

I'd give that a few more weeks yet. They're normally quite tolerant of the colder days, and a bit of sun will ripen it up a treat.

What about the spots?

 

[DanZac]

What about the spots?

Hard to tell. looks a bit like somethings had a go at nibbling on it. As long as it's not rotting on the plant I'd just leave it be to ripen up.

Being the laziest man in NATO I tend to just leave things to get on with it and if they grow they grow and if they don't . So you might want to get a second opinion.

 

[Onoff]

So you might want to get a second opinion.

@DAPPH will be along shortly...

 

[Pigeon_Droppings2]

One of mine got damaged but it healed itself so they may be tolerant to a bit of damage I think.

 

[DAPPH]

@DAPPH will be along shortly...

Put a fleece or blanket over it to prevent it getting frosted or too cold . Take the fleece down to the ground to contain ground heat over night . Remove it in the day if possible once it has warmed up from cold nights .

One year I had my marrows & squashes on foot deep beds of clean straw and gave then a six inch covering once the night were forecast to get colder. T'was one of the best years I've ever had , as my ex wife also legged it ,

 

[prepman]

Mulberry tree in all it's sad glory (best ever) and for comparison the Lidls' apple tree planted around same time which has been cropped and pruned recently (prior to pic)...weighted down to ground with apples. Supposed to be cookers but look like eaters. Felled a shading sycamore to produce a gap (pun intended) for sunlight and 12" dia logs for fire.
Variety?

 

[Onoff]

One year I had my marrows & squashes on foot deep beds of clean straw and gave then a six inch covering once the night were forecast to get colder. T'was one of the best years I've ever had , as my ex wife also legged it

Well I'm growing squashes. Not so sure I'll be so lucky ref SWMBO.

 

[Pigeon_Droppings2]

The butternut squash I picked wasn't that great so I'm going to leave mine until either the leaves have fallen or we are due a frost. Reckon they just need a couple more weeks (hopefully).

 

[DAPPH]

Today I've finally cleared the green house ( now storing a 240AC / 110 AC /12 volt DC volt generator , a small 5.5 cu ft compressor with a broken high pressure outlet pipe housing & an engine driven power washers in it AW repairs & time ).
The peas were harvested 16 days ago , shelled and dried in the airing cupboard resulting in 12 x 100 gram vac packed & sealed bags for food and a jar for next years seeds . Beetroot are doing well too , but the kohlrabi got slug slaughtered despite an application of nematodes & several applications of slug pellets .

My initial stock plant dates back to 2010 , perennial kale aka Chou du Au Benton has been made into green lace nets over night early last week .... yet again , found some reasonably priced bug & caterpillar killer at Home Bargains . Every garden centre or othe the big store hadn't any as they are stuffed with Halloween & chrimbo crap including minced pies. Yuk y really Tacky stuff, As soon as the kale recovers & gives me half a dozen or so branches that cam be peeled off and dipped into hormone powered I'll start a new set of plants off. we just love the soft greenery it produces almost all year round

All the curbits but one have been harvested , climbing French beans are doing great but not quite as good as the kidney runner beans . Have collected the broad beans , hope to freeze some as well as set aside nine for next yrs seeds .
Our carrots .....station sown have gained exhibition quality & size if the first two nine inch long almost 3 inch diameter ones I harvested are any thing to go by.
All the set onions have been harvested The Stuttgarter giants have done well giving up numerous 3 inch dia bulbs.
As an experiment I sowed the remainder of use by 2024 packet of spring onions in early July They grew into spring onions then turned into half inch golden onion sets , which I hope to plant out in mid April next year .
The strawberries are still producing a dozen or so berries every day ,,had some great home strawberry ice cream & strawberry Daiquiris with them . Still got almost a pint of the pulped & sugared berries in the fridge for something tomorrow evening

 

[RaceDiagnostics]

After a day of grouting the new paving, its time for a relax in the garden with a low strength beer.

The garden is enjoying this unexpected September warmth.

 

[Onoff]

The butternut squash. Had a few blood 'n bone feeds now:

https://flic.kr/p/2qhJHCs

The one big one, the little nicks seem to have sorted of healed themselves. Or is it rot?

https://flic.kr/p/2qhKedv

The next biggest, came from nowhere (ignore the bird turd):

https://flic.kr/p/2qhCqpK

Now these two that I had hope for:

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There's 3 of 4 plants in that tub, I haven't traced them back to see what plant is good/bad.

I've been neglecting the beans in the ground a bit on the watering front. Maybe the cause of this:

https://flic.kr/p/2qhCqE4

 

[DAPPH]

After a day of grouting the new paving, its time for a relax in the garden with a low strength beer.

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The garden is enjoying this unexpected September warmth.

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Do the Indian banana plants survive UK winters . Three have appeared in one of our front south facing raised flower beds don't know how it got there unless it was an over ripe nana I chopped up with the trowel & dropped in the bed in March this year .