Help MBE grow his dinner 2011

katholicos

mrbadexample wrote: »

I really wish I had some flowers on my tomatoes. I can't wait much longer.

Are they supposed to have flowers on by now then :eek:

Mrs_Veg_Plot

Evening all

MBE the garden is looking good . Thanks for sharing the photos.

Four of my onions have flower buds growing on them but the onions are not ready to pull yet. The plants look green and healthy. Any ideas?

Have planted half of the strawberry bed up. Will be using the other half for beans this year as I did not not plan where everything was going very well in my haste to plant things.

Toms and snack cucumbers are all in their final pots but think the snack cucumbers will not survive. Still they have two chances.

misskool

mrbadexample wrote: »

I really wish I had some flowers on my tomatoes. I can't wait much longer.

Mine are budding and the first one will open in a few days.

Would be great if they weren't only in their 3" pots still.

mrbadexample

Mrs_Veg_Plot wrote: »

Four of my onions have flower buds growing on them but the onions are not ready to pull yet. The plants look green and healthy. Any ideas?

First year growing onions, so no idea, sorry.

Mrs_Veg_Plot wrote: »

Toms and snack cucumbers are all in their final pots but think the snack cucumbers will not survive. Still they have two chances.

What's up with the cucumbers?

Sambucus_Nigra

Mrs_Veg_Plot wrote: »

Four of my onions have flower buds growing on them but the onions are not ready to pull yet. The plants look green and healthy. Any ideas?

You may as well pull them and use them - they won't store and the bigger the flower stalk gets the less actual onion you have.

I've started pulling my overwintered onions last week I think......we grow alot of onions so the first onion of the year is always a great day

mrbadexample

katholicos wrote: »

Are they supposed to have flowers on by now then :eek:

If I'd sown mine about 3 weeks earlier, I reckon I'd have flowers.

Misskool's got flowers. I want flowers.

misskool

Mrs_Veg_Plot wrote: »

Four of my onions have flower buds growing on them but the onions are not ready to pull yet. The plants look green and healthy. Any ideas?

They are bolting. snap the flower head off as they will now put all their energy into growing the flower head to produce seed (unless you want to collect onion seed). It won't bulb up much anymore, just pull them up

Most of mine have bolted this year

misskool

mrbadexample wrote: »

If I'd sown mine about 3 weeks earlier, I reckon I'd have flowers.

Misskool's got flowers. I want flowers.

When did you sow yours? Mine were mid-march.

mrbadexample

Question:

If I grow two types of runner bean next to each other, and they cross-pollinate, is the resulting bean a mixture of the two, or does that only apply to the seed? :huh:

mrbadexample

misskool wrote: »

When did you sow yours? Mine were mid-march.

April 3rd. Could have done with being 2-3 weeks earlier, which hopefully I will remember next year.