Help MBE grow his dinner 2012

Drea

mrbadexample wrote: »

Use slug pellets.

I am! They don't seem to effect them anymore, I just sent about 50 on a salty swimming lesson...

annie123

Having had a blight watch text, when I got back I went over each plant carefully, and so far all toms and tatties are fine.

Its the first time for ages I've been out for anything other than picking raspberries and strawberries so it was nice to see that several tom plants have little green toms, my greenhouse cucumber seems to be coping ok with being outside, the now 2 peas left that the snails didn't eat have given me my first 2 pods :j there's another 3 to come and that's it, smallest harvest I've ever had :rotfl:
And after moving various pots to get to pots/tubs at the back I found what I thought was courgette No 4 is in fact either a cucumber or a squash as it has tendrils and it's trying to climb up the fence
I also found a 3" pot with 6 x 5" sungold toms in it (I forgot I was given 2 pots ) so will plant them out somewhere, they'll just have to put up with where they're given at this time of year.
My biggest courgette has 4 single males plus 1 double male flowers and 2 female flowers that should open tomorrow, it's going to look like a very yellow bouquet!...........please let it be dry, just for a few hours tomorrow.

And I picked 8 more cherries with another 4 to pick over the next few days, add that to the 5 I've had already and that's this years cherry crop:rotfl:

aliasojo

annie123 wrote: »

Having had a blight watch text, when I got back I went over each plant carefully, and so far all toms and tatties are fine.

My biggest courgette has 4 single males plus 1 double male flowers and 2 female flowers that should open tomorrow, it's going to look like a very yellow bouquet!.

I've had blight watch emails every second day just about. One of my toms has those weird brown leaves again but I just cut them off again.

How do you know which is female and which is male? (I have huge yellow flowers on the ends of some small courgettes.)

annie123

male/female courgette pictures:
http://www.gardenaction.co.uk/fruit_veg_diary/courgette_zucchini_care.asp

aliasojo

Thanks annie. Mine are mostly female.

Angelfeathers

Pond looks great, MBE!

I feel your courgette pain, Drea! Something – either ants or slugs – has completely killed both courgettes and is now eating all my beetroot and turnips starting from one end of the bed. The other end is fine, even though there are definitely ants there. And I can't see any slugs or slug trails. Weird, and annoying!

I think I got my garlic confused. The garlic I thought was the early kind, I think is actually the normal kind, which would explain why it's so small! Unfortunately, I've had to pull it up anyway because the sweetcorn desperately needed its space. :-(

So I have small 'regular' garlic and may well get enormous 'early' as that's still in the ground, though only for a few more days!

Getting a few strawberries, though a lot are getting eaten by slugs and birds. Had a good crop of early peas, and now finally getting a few more flowers on them just as I was about to give up hoping for a second crop. Beans of various kinds are finally starting to flower. Brassicas are all doing well. Lots of tiny yellow flowers on my gardener's delight tomatoes – and huge, bushy plants! Spaghetti squash and pumpkin doing well.

Sorted out the greenhouse this morning – aubergines look like they're doing okay, though I've not grown them before so I don't know what they should be doing. Peppers okay, though the ones in the ground outside are starting to flower first. Three huge sprouting broccoli seedlings waiting for space to plant out – one seems to think it's autumn already and is flowering! Lots of small sprouting broc and kale seedlings needing to be potted up.

mrbadexample

There was a ray of sunshine yesterday evening, but I spoilt it. Even though it had rained earlier in the day, I thought I'd take a chance and mow the lawn.

Within 10 minutes my patio was flooding, and the rain was bouncing off the table:



Serves me right really... :rotfl:

mrbadexample

It's kind of nice to know that the VFTs don't get it all their own way.

annie123

I've had a sh*t day and thought I'd cheer myself up by looking at my courgette flowers.................only 3 have rotted! they looked lovely yesterday, already to open, petals and the inside bits, I'm guessing too wet, not a lot I can do about the non stop rain since April 4th

There is a glass of baileys with my name on it tonight, can't be wine don't have any.

pink_poppy

Sorry about the sh*t day & courgette flowers, annie I don't know how these things work Do the flowers have to be on a certain amount of time & then you get courgettes??

Ps. enjoy your Bailey's & hope tomorrow is better.

I put my marigolds, sweet peas & nasturtium outside yesterday & caught a young blackbird digging the sweet peas out today ~ think it's managed to snap all of them And I thought I had to look out for slugs & snails, nobody mentioned daft baby blackbirds!! :rotfl:

Ooh & I have 2 strawberries that have a bit of a pink blush to them ~ I do know I have to beware the blackbirds for them, must get some netting pronto.