Help MBE grow his dinner 2012

Fay

I do empathise with everyone who is fed up right now with gardening because of the weather. This week has been a total wash out and it looks set to continue for the next few weeks too I am actually thinking of taking everything out of the plot and digging it over and leaving for the year.
I am so busy at work and leave the house at 7.30am and get home at 6pm and I just haven't been able to get out there and do much because of the weather.
The greenhouse needs a really good tidy up which I might get chance to do today-maybe not because of all the jobs that need doing in the house (we also think we have rising damp in the lounge, argh). The weeds have definitely taken over the whole garden and are romping away, as are the slugs and snails despite using every weapon I can find!
And to top it all off I have just been out for a look around-before the rain started again, very black here right now; and I am pretty sure I have potato & tomato blight Can people confirm this?
Potato


Tomato's outside




So if it is blight, and it is isn't it, what do I do? Do all the potato's have to come up? The tomatos thrown away or burnt? I could actually cry, but won't!

Lotus-eater

Not blight, just take off the yellowing leaves and they should be fine.

Probably a lack of nutrients from being grown in pots. The potato is not blight either, you can take off the yellowing leaves if it makes you feel better.

Fay

Oh thanks Lotus-eater, I really felt fed up when I spotted that! Do you think some Epsom salts would help the toms? I can't do much because of the weather-another warning today for heavy rain here

Lotus-eater

Fay wrote: »

Do you think some Epsom salts would help the toms?

I really don't know tbh. I would just give them a normal liquid feed.

Re the pots, It could be the normal die back, if they have been planted a long time.

Sambucus_Nigra

Just make up a seaweed feed and give them some whenever you can. Try not to leave them standing in water but if you do, pop some seaweed feed in the water and they should get a good dose from that.

Any yellowing/dodgy looking leaves, take them straight off.

Lotus-eater

I have mad bean jealousy btw @ Johns beans.

Sambucus_Nigra

Lotus-eater wrote: »

I have mad bean jealousy btw @ Johns beans.

John's Wife's beans - you mean :D

Lotus-eater

Sambucus_Nigra wrote: »

John's Wife's beans - you mean :D

Well I'm sure she helped do the actual work...... but it was at Johns direction. I don't think we should allow too much kudos to the labourers.

After all Brunel built all those things, didn't he


Anyway, I wish I had some bean flowers

mrbadexample

Lotus-eater wrote: »

Well I'm sure she helped do the actual work...... but it was at Johns direction. I don't think we should allow too much kudos to the labourers.

Nah, John was laid up. Wife did it all herself. Splendid job. :T

I hope you've told her how impressed we all are, John?

Fay

Thanks guys, I have some seeweed feed so will give them some. I haven't left them standing in water but they are really wet because of all the rain we have had-predicted another 14ml today too I might have to borrow Annie's umbarella trick!

I also have bean envy as well as feeling a little envious of everything else too John. Although I noticed today that I have flowers coming on a couple of runners and amazingly on one french bean. I have no idea how it has the energy to produce a flower as it has one leaf left and has been chewed beyond belief by the army of slugs and snails that have set up camp in the garden. Plucky little french bean