Help MBE grow his dinner 2011

jamanda

diluvsdiscounts wrote: »

My plum tree has got that much fruit on it that a huge branch snapped off over the weekend.
Will the fruit still ripen or shall I get rid of it altogether.
At the moment I have left the fruit on the branches.
Any advice would be appreciated.

I'd leave it alone - I think the plums will ripen anyway, and then you can tidy the tree up later.
J

diluvsdiscounts

jamanda wrote: »

I'd leave it alone - I think the plums will ripen anyway, and then you can tidy the tree up later.
J

Sorry I didn't explain myself properly.
The branches are off the tree they snapped at the weekend into the garden at the bottom of ours(over the fence) so DH had to go and saw them off but I've left the fruit on the branches and wonder if they will ever ripen?

Lotus-eater

If they are close to the ripening time anyway, they may well ripen, but if not, then they will shrivel up and fall off probably. You don't lose anything by waiting and seeing what happens.

lemonjelly

Tomato plants still alive - I'm having to pull branches off all the time though. Still, doesn't appear to be the dreaded blight, so fingers crossed.

I gave up on the peas & ripped them out. Will try again next year.

Still waiting for the peppers to actually flower. I assume they have to do that prior to fruit appearing?

mrbadexample

lemonjelly wrote: »

Still waiting for the peppers to actually flower. I assume they have to do that prior to fruit appearing?

Yep. Might be getting a bit late, but there's probably still hope. I've got some fruit, but still lots of flowering going on.

adelight

I wanted to try "fish, blood and bone" on my plants for more phosphates, it's a gritty powder and i tried to improvise the instructions by watering, sprinkling, watering but I appear to have killed off all the plants it touched!!! Two of my three spaghetti squash and most of the little broccoletto sprouts I planted at the weekend have withered and died overnight.

Little_Vics

Am away for a couple of weeks, so lovely neighbour is looking after Percy the pepper with his 3 offspring and keeping an eye on the rest. I've counted at least 10 small chillis growing, a good couple of handfuls of tomatoes, I have 3 sugar snap peas (don't laugh - I'm impressed!), healthy potato plants (even though I didn't plant them), some great strawberries and some garlic.

I'm in good spirits, feeling positive, and am contemplating doing some more growing-stuff next year, even though it is highly emotional and traumatic.

lisa26_2

I have quite a few peppers and they now appear to have finished flowering. Can you strip the leaves etc off and over winter them for an early start next year like you can with chillies? i might try anyway, nothing to lose!!!

I was watering my potatoes in bags last night and noticed I could see one poking through the surface of the compost!! I tried to move a bit of compost to cober it and found another one just below the surface! I'm hoping that means I could have a good harvest as the bags are very tall (a good 2 foot I'd say) and the seed potatoes were right in the bottom. I can't wait to harvest them now but I'm trying to be patient for a few more weeks!!!

Tomatoes are finally starting to ripen. I had to rescue them yesterday, the gardeners delight were just too tall and heavy and fell over! I've now put horizontal wire across the edge of the greenhouse and tied them to that. I'd guess that each plant probably has atleast 60-80 toms on and still some flowers too! I'm giving them loads of food!!! That's only on 4-5 trusses per plant too! Most trusses have got 20+ tomatoes on!

My green tiger tomatoes are less prolific and seem to be slower to ripen too, we're getting there slowly though!!

last night we had a salad of lettuce, toms, cucumber and spring onions, all from the garded....Can't beat it!!!

pinkcandyflossprincess

:j
just had a rummage around garden to see if i got anything to go with dinner, got lots of new potatoes so will have some today and tommorrow, some peas, carrots and courgettes!
the kids are over the moon and helped pick and wash it all for dinner.
eldest is off to her friends to donate greens to her friends rabbit

witchwoopiggy

i have a ripe chilli and loads of unripe ones just wondered how do you keep them? ie for use in the winter months the chillis not the plants lol

thought you might like to see how the allotment is doing as well