July Update: What are your growing in 2006? (Tips on fruit/flowers/veggies)

Icemaiden

Got 10 bags of Rhubard in my freezer, about enough for 20 pies:eek:

Carrots doing well, toms flowering, first batch of lettuces have nearly all being eaten, Strawberries ready anyday now:j
Spring onions very disapointing, they are next to the carrots, grew a little bit then stopped

Found a apples tree on my walkabouts yesturday, have no idea what type it is and the apples are still very small but will be keeping an eye on them. Does anyone know if they will be okay to cook with and can I slice them up and freeze?

Also in wilkinsons today all seeds were half price even the veg seeds most with 2007 dates.

voodoozoe

Icemaiden wrote:

Found a apples tree on my walkabouts yesturday, have no idea what type it is and the apples are still very small but will be keeping an eye on them. Does anyone know if they will be okay to cook with and can I slice them up and freeze?

I also found an apple tree on a public footpath today and wonder if anyone knows when they will be ready to harvest??????:D

annie-c

Help!!

The upper branches on my baby apple tree are crawling in ants... though I can see none around the base.

What shall I do? Organic solutions preferred, but I'll be interested by any responses,

Thanks

Annie

tootles_2

Apples usually ready late Sept early October, you need to find out if they are eaters or cookers...........you know when they are ready if you twist them in your hand they should come off the tree easily.............

Ants on the apple tree, leave them......... you could spray with a drop of washing up liquid in warm (not hot) water, but they will climb up again......

Joscar

I was thinking of getting a blueberry bush as the fruit is so expensive to buy. I do not have much room so would have to grow it in a container. Do they grow OK in containers? Is there anything I should know or look for when choosing a variety? Will one plant produce enough fruit or should I get more than one?

tru

We've got tomatoes, lettuce, cucumbers, radishes, peppers, onions, runner beans, rhubarb, sweetcorn, sprouts, cauli, purple sprouting, potatoes, strawberries, peppermint, spearmint, marjoram, rosemary, dill, basil and pumpkins. I don't know what to do with pumpkins - except carve scary faces into them lol - but we grew them just to see if we could

wigginsmum

I'm thinking of getting a blueberry too ... according to my Dobie's catalogue, Bluecrop grows up to 4' and Earliblue to 6' in a container. Container should be pretty large (they are supplied in 1.5L pots) and they must have ericaceous (limefree) compost - will fruit in 2-3 years (July time). Bluecrop is especially frost-tolerant so that'll be the one I go for. They also do lingonberry bushes with the same conditions.

vastsarah_2

i have ants in my cherry tree,our neighbour has told me to use a wax band around the trunk as the ants will bring affids to the tips of the leaves and milk them! i dont know if it will work but im going to try.

Lulubells

Joscar,

I have just a blueberry plant from ebay, it's called "tophat" and is supposed to be a heavy cropper and can be grown in a container as its a compact shrub.

HTH

Lulubells

Josiegirl

Hello all, my agave attenuata is just finishing flowering and so will die off very shortly. Am sad about this as I've had her for years in a pot, given away all her babies to friends and family, but now would like to try to save some seed. There are lots of green pods, will these turn brown and harden? Any pre treatment of the seeds required?

Thanks in advance for any advice.