Daydream fund challenge part 4

Davesnave

Better_Days wrote: »

My tomatoes got blight last year - which are the best blight resistant ones Dave? (You have probably told me this before but I forgot treat your wisdom with the reverence it deserves and write it down )

Courgettes did well last year as did the radishes but the latter were a bit bland. Know any good 'knock your socks' off varieties? Old dog has perked up considerably :D:D:D

Good for Old Dog!:T

"Blight proof toms? No such thing!" I thought....but...

https://www.rhs.org.uk/plants/plants-blogs/plants/december-2014/tomato-crimson-crush

Those will be expensive! :eek: Of the 'ordinary' resistant sort, people seem to like 'Ferline.' I know nothing about them though.

Same for radish. I just grow Saxa, Sparkler and French Breakfast 3 (sounds like a film!) I don't mind if they are a bit bland, as they'll still be better than supermarket ones. I grew Mooli last year and it had a bit of bite.

Just read that Gary Glitter got 16 years. Seems :eek::eek::eek: now, but back in the day, I invited him to read stories to my class in Celebrity Book Week, as I knew he was staying nearby!

Fortunately, he declined. :T:j:beer:

He was the only refusal we had.

RAS

Ferline - grew it and it was a lot better than many of the others but succumbed before ripening.

I now try to grow some very very early varieties from Real Seeds as well as some older ones.

However, I keep the older ones in the garden because the potato fiends on the plots get 100% blight and burger off on holiday for the whole of August. They get back to brown sticks covering 70-85% of their plots and then dig in the waste and leave the rotten tatties on the surface. And use the tatties that survive to plant the next year!

One or two people they like have started to use bordeaux, so we may see some improvement in time but I am in the middle of blighters.

DawnW

Davesnave wrote: »

Good for Old Dog!:T

"Blight proof toms? No such thing!" I thought....but...

https://www.rhs.org.uk/plants/plants-blogs/plants/december-2014/tomato-crimson-crush

Those will be expensive! :eek: Of the 'ordinary' resistant sort, people seem to like 'Ferline.' I know nothing about them though.

I don't know if they have had any specific claims made for being resistant to blight, but I grow a bush variety called 'Garden Pearl', which seems to be happiest outside and produces loads of small, pinkish red coloured, sweet cherry tomatoes. I grow them in big pots, as they get quite big plants - not tall, but quite a wide spread. I have found that they seem to be less likely than most other varieties I have tried to succumb to blight.

Davesnave

RAS wrote: »

I now try to grow some very very early varieties from Real Seeds as well as some older ones.

I usually grow those, but not this year, as I don't have much time.

They don't get blight, but mine always look unhealthy after a time and the leaves discolour. That's why I scrap them when the ordinary ones start to crop well.

I bought some Norli mangetout peas today. Apparently, they are very short and easy compared with the monsters, like Bijou. We shall see.

Better_Days

Thanks for all the tomato and radish advice everyone. T&M have a free p&p weekend so I think I will be ordering some seeds along with some plug plants. Tempted to get some fuchias for my baskets and tubs, the ones I got last year did so well and flowered their hearts out. No idea what variety they were though

Lucky escape with Gary Glitter Dave. Shudders.

Maggie - some exciting news in the ME research field if you haven't seen it. Large study in the US identifying immune changes in people with ME. The research seems to show that in some people their immune system doesn't switch off properly after contracting a virus resulting in ME (not a new theory) - but this research appears to show that the elevated immune response lasts for about 3 years, and then tails off as the immune system becomes exhausted. Reported here in the Telegraph http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/11440372/First-biological-proof-that-ME-is-real-found-by-scientists.html

Prof Lipkin is a highly respected researcher, so hopefully this research will be duplicated. What makes this really exciting is that the Canadian Criteria was used to identify people with ME so we can be pretty sure they were actually studying ME and not 'fatigue'. Longitudinal studies are proposed which will hopefully identify markers as the disease progresses.
Link to the article http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/1/1/e1400121

I_have_spoken

A rather depressing day for me. Just home from visiting elderly father who is laid up in bed with another bladder infection and seeing equally elderly mother now unable to cope.

Anyhow, will be onto the out-of-hours care services tomorrow, but after down-sizing them to a ground-floor flat 5 years back must now start down the path of looking at care homes etc.

I think they are now the last of their generation, having outlived friends in the town, former work-colleagues, nephews and nieces etc.

Having moved job in 2012, at least I'm only 60mins drive away - previously was at other end of the country.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

IHS...


how old are your parent?? I am dreading the day hubby and I have got to make decisions like that...


the weather is grey, and a misty type of rain so far... I think its going to be a 'limbo land'type of day due to the weather they have forecasted ...


monthly farm auction is today, but not going, and the general auction that we put some 'stored crap. oops I mean stored equity' is on today too, again not going to that either, but I will be itching to find out what our stuff sold for.. only bits and pieces, so not expecting a lot, but every penny counts..


Davesnave, how is little one? is he ok now? how are they coping?


Does anyone know where the cheapest place to buy 100+ 8f bean canes? going to ask the local nursery/garden centre ( independent shop in the next village) to see how much they are with him.. ( he is normally pretty good with prices, especially if you buy bulk) just want to try and get the best deal on everything at mo...


I know its way to early to be thinking about runner beans and those mangy toos, lol, BUT I want to get the area/bed ready and all dunged up ready for them...


do you know id rhubarb have grow in partial shade/ shaded part of the day? as I want to get my rhubarb that I split last year in a final position soon...


right another cuppa, and put more wood on the fire.. as I think its goingto be a damp and cold sort of day here..

Davesnave

I_have_spoken wrote: »

...must now start down the path of looking at care homes etc.

Some of us older ones have already been on that journey.

From experience, I'd say it's a fairly depressing task, but there really are some good places out there.....It's just finding them.

Davesnave

Rhubarb likes partial shade, CTC.

Bean poles are probably best sourced locally because of postage.


Sam is much better and has put on good weight, thanks, but he still has tummy probs.

He is very keen to go shopping and stuff like that, where he can look around at new things. Not so keen on being static and sleeping! He sounds a lot like his Mum was.....:rotfl:

Got your PM. Thanks!

COOLTRIKERCHICK

cool, glad he is coming on great, and is turning out to be a right character, didn't want to say his name, just in case names might have been one of the un-written rules of not mentioning/copyng on the thread..


Thanks re- pm ( smiley face here)


I got quite a few split rhubarb crowns to plant up, up at the ranch.. silly thing is its only me and my parents that like it lol...


think it might be a potential income earner, I am sure I could sell a few sticks of it for a few pennies somewhere lol..


'locally grown rhubarb, fed with locally reared pig poo' lol..


I know its expensive in the supermarket for a few sticks, but in reality how much can you sell rhubarb for??