veg growing Newbies- Feb 2010! lets learn together!

heynonnynonny

Evening growers.

Just pulled off the first lot of flowers on my gardeners delight toms and hoping I've done the right thing, there are a couple of little leaves near the bottom of the plant below the main lot of stems shall I pinch them off too??

kimmee

lynzpower wrote: »

What size pots are they in and are you feeding them?

They're in 5 inch pots (was going to transfer them to larger pots when they finally go outside full time) and no, I'm not feeding them. I thought they only needed feeding when the flowers form?

Thanks

Edit:
Have just brought them inside and the mini bels are also effected - seems to be white patches on the leaves - I'm really worried about them - can anyone help please???

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Lotus-eater wrote: »

Nice photos, I'd really like a look at your Mulberry sometime please, I've been trying to grow one for a couple of years, but it hasn't done much.

It's pretty big now. When I got it it was in about a 7inch pot. My friends bought it for me for my 5th wedding anniversary (cos it's wood!) and on the 19th I have been married 9 yrs so it's only 4 years old I calculated wrong. Perhaps it just feels like I have been married 10 yrs.:rotfl:

Will be able to take a photo of it tomorrow and post it on here for you. To dark and rainy today

x

misskool

kimmee wrote: »

Great photos sarymclary - your garden looks so tidy!!! Wish my radishes looked like that

A bit of advice please peeps - I've been hardening off my toms since last weekend and they're looking decidedly sorry for themselves. I'm growing Gardeners Delight and Mini Bels. The Mini Bels seem to be ok but the Gardeners Delights are looking a bit pale! The top leaves are a nice green but the lower leaves are very pale and a bit droopy, infact some leaves seem to be dying :eek: HELP!!

Any advice very gratefully recieved as I've never grown toms from seed, always just had plants from my mum that are ready for planting out.

Are you tomato plants in the right size pots? Have you been potting them on? Otherwise, can you post a picture of what the yellowing looks like? Did you splash water on them and the sun would have scorched it?

Is the yellowing from the central vein?
http://vegetablemdonline.ppath.cornell.edu/PhotoPages/Impt_Diseases/Tomato/Tom_Magnesium.htm
If so, it might be a magnesium deficiency, water some epsom salts in.

kimmee

misskool wrote: »

Are you tomato plants in the right size pots? Have you been potting them on? Otherwise, can you post a picture of what the yellowing looks like? Did you splash water on them and the sun would have scorched it?

Is the yellowing from the central vein?
http://vegetablemdonline.ppath.cornell.edu/PhotoPages/Impt_Diseases/Tomato/Tom_Magnesium.htm
If so, it might be a magnesium deficiency, water some epsom salts in.

Thanks misskool - I think they're in the right sized pots. I've potted them on twice and they will go in big pots if I get to plant them out. It seems more like white patches rather than yellowing, I looked at the link you gave me and it's not like that. White patches on the lower leaves. I only water them when I bring them in at night, not in the sunshine so I'm at a loss

misskool

kimmee wrote: »

Thanks misskool - I think they're in the right sized pots. I've potted them on twice and they will go in big pots if I get to plant them out. It seems more like white patches rather than yellowing, I looked at the link you gave me and it's not like that. White patches on the lower leaves. I only water them when I bring them in at night, not in the sunshine so I'm at a loss

Sorry. Maybe it's not anything bad, sometimes the lower leaves stop being used and they die off naturally. Can't think of anything else it might be

kimmee

misskool wrote: »

Sorry. Maybe it's not anything bad, sometimes the lower leaves stop being used and they die off naturally. Can't think of anything else it might be

Thanks anyway, I'm going to have a go at googling tomato probs and see if I can find anything. Fingers crossed that it is nothing bad

vatic

Can anyone give any recommendations of places to get 30" containers on the cheap for my courgettes? They've definitely outgrown their little pots that I sowed them in and need to move them up to bigger pots this weekend!

stilernin

vatic wrote: »

Can anyone give any recommendations of places to get 30" containers on the cheap for my courgettes? They've definitely outgrown their little pots that I sowed them in and need to move them up to bigger pots this weekend!

30" containers seem a bit excessive for a courgette plant. Are you getting this measurement from the planting distance for courgettes? This spacing is because of the spread of the leaves, not necessarily the spread of the roots.

I have grown them very successfully in 15" patio pots and plastic storage boxed which are quite cheap. You'd need to line with black plastic (bin liners) if the plastic was clear.

Just look around for anything you can fill with compost really.

love2love_x

Hi,

I am wanting to start growing my own veg am I too late to start for this year and what is the best thing to start with, I am a total newbie to this, I have a a few places I could start in garden one area is quite boggy should this be avoided and do I need to do anything to the ground before planting

Thank you for any help x