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

kjl26

Thanks Joscar, that's all really good info. Doesn't have a label unfortunately but looks to me a bit like the ones I have seen in M&S...maybe I will go and sneak a look at one of the labels in there. I am prone to overwatering things so thanks for the tip! Might just leave it as it is for now then and repot when the flowers die off.

Maybe I will experiment with potting it into a nook in the sycamore at the bottom of the garden :rolleyes:

thriftmummy

Hi there,
On my allotment things are coming along nicely. My second patch of potatoes are almost ready, as are a couple of my turnips. Carrots doing ok, still a way to go though. Having a constant battle with the slugs on my lettuce and have given in and used slug pellets! Totally against my beliefs. In my garden I have a few nice green tommies growing nicely as well as onions, lettuce and radish. Was very suprised the tommies have grown as I'd almost given up on them as they were looking really sad. I've heard a lot of people say this, so it must be the norm before they start producing fruit.

Ta ta for now.

brokenwings

my lettuce are really hearting up now
second patch of potatoes are ready
carrots need thinning out a bit
have just planted 100 leek plants which i grew from one packet of seed
onions laid over
tomato plants ( greenhouse) now laden with fruit just starting to ripen

my beans are my problem - theres hardly any blossom on them though i can see no sign of white fly or any other pest - only thing i can think of is that it could be the birds pecking it off ( huge new family of goldficnhes) though someone else said that as we have a LOT of bees here ( top of garden full of hollyhocks, lavender and suchlike ) that they are too fat to get into the bean blossom from the front so they chew it off from the back. anyone any wiser than me on this?

mirakl

my courgettes are all coming up at the one time so I'm coming down with courgettes.

I'm having the same problem with my beans that there's not many flowers on the stalks at all which is a bit of a worry.

My basil is terribly sad looking and the slugs and I are having a turf war over them at the moment.

I can't keep up with my raspberries and tayberries they're producing fruit so fast.

Rhubarb doing brilliantly including some I dug out of my grandads garden and threw into mine that I never thought would survive.

My peppers and chillis are just starting to show me some fruit but it's still teeny tiny.

annie-c

Hello all

After months of enthusiasm, I've had a very lazy month so far, barely mustering the energy to water my garden... , but I've been catching up with all your posts and am getting back on the wagon this weekend - I have lots of deadheading and thinning and feeding to attend to. Thanks for all the updates - later this week I'm going to dig out a digital camera and put up some photos of my first efforts at gardening....

Annie xx

wigginsmum

My Dwarf French beans are looking a little sorry for themselves too; my runners are flowering but I think they may be too close together to do much. Of my autumn raspberries, only one cane has produced any leaves so far.

Just about to harvest Swiss chard and some tumbling tomatoes. Strawberries on a daily basis. Just got some white alpine strawberries delivered so I'm looking forward to trying them. Basil and coriander that I sowed a few weeks ago is ready for picking.

glenstan

we have just added to the frame work for our french beans, they are flowering and still going strong the 3 fennel plants flowers are starting to die away, so hope i will be harvesting in the not to distant future.
the onions i planted are very dissapointing only got 3 out of 9 pots planted

hilary1

My easy grow blueberry bush has died :rotfl:

kjl26

Help! My courgette plants have mildew!! (All of them .) Does anyone know any organic solutions? All the ones in the garden centre look pretty nasty. Apparently it's caused by combination of dry soil (a good daily soaking in this weather still leaves them dry later in the day) and humid weather . Any advice gratefully received...

KatrinaC_2

I got a free pumpkin plant at the Gardener's World Live Plant stall and put it in the garden to see whether it would grow. It's now rocketing away and I have loads of flowers on it, plus one baby pumpkin.

Are pumpkins one of these plants which should only grow one fruit so that it concentrates all of it's energy on that one, or can I just leave it to get on with it and hope that I get a few?

Ta,

Kat