Show Us Your Veg Patch - You Know You Want To!! (Merged Thread)

nodwah

Love those carrots!!

Disaster in my garden - picking the last few strawbs and there was a wasp inside one of em!! Aaarrgghh!

Now there's wasps everywhere, even attacking DH's prize goosberries that he's lovingly nurturing for the horticultural show.

Isn't this quite early for wasps though? I usually expect them end Aug/ Sept

carole.uk

nodwah wrote: »

Love those carrots!!

Disaster in my garden - picking the last few strawbs and there was a wasp inside one of em!! Aaarrgghh!

Now there's wasps everywhere, even attacking DH's prize goosberries that he's lovingly nurturing for the horticultural show.

Isn't this quite early for wasps though? I usually expect them end Aug/ Sept

we havel ots of wasp hanging around my plum tree right next to the front door:eek: my son made 2 wasp traps last night and when i looked this morning there was quite a few in there . i know he googled it , here is the link he used i think http://www.eartheasy.com/live_natwasp_control.htm sorry still can't do a clicky

~Chameleon~

I've only seen one wasp this year so far. There do seem to be a lot of the large bumble bees around at the moment and they scare me more as they always seem to chase me as I walk past the shrubs where they're grazing :eek:

I much prefer the smaller variety that just go about their business even if you're sat closeby to them

hathor

While we're on the biology front, my sweet pepper plants, grown indoors on window ledges, are now beginning to flower.
Should I buy a paint brush and brush inside from one flower to another to spread the pollen about (not that I can actually see much in the way of pollen) to encourage peppers?

And I have been wondering, how is it, given that these have been grown from seeds saved from peppers I ate, in new pots, filled with new compost mixture, only ever on window ledges with no other plants, that they've got greenfly? Oh, the wonders of nature!

~Chameleon~

hathor wrote: »

While we're on the biology front, my sweet pepper plants, grown indoors on window ledges, are now beginning to flower.
Should I buy a paint brush and brush inside from one flower to another to spread the pollen about (not that I can actually see much in the way of pollen) to encourage peppers?

If they're indoors and not getting the benefit of insects to pollinate for you then yes, I would

And I have been wondering, how is it, given that these have been grown from seeds saved from peppers I ate, in new pots, filled with new compost mixture, only ever on window ledges with no other plants, that they've got greenfly? Oh, the wonders of nature!

I had exactly the same problem with a basil plant last summer! I reckon the pesky things go searching and then bring all their family and friends for a feast once they've found a suitable plant :rolleyes:

I didn't even have an open window for them to enter the kitchen by so they must have travelled right through the house to find my poor basil plant :rotfl:

JWF

You only need one greenfly to start a plague, as they can reproduce asexually and are in fact already pregnant with further offspring when they are born. The joys of nature indeed. You'll quite often see the big greenfly with a trail of small dots behind it, they're lickle baby greenflies!

ukdutypaid

I've never had any luck with carrots, boy if one could eat the foliage though!..
My tomatoes are hopeless this year also.
Peas, I had a handful. Same with strawbs.
Lettuce, I'm sick of eating.
Daren't go for lifting the spuds, in case there's nothing under their either..
I've had one beetroot in about 3 years.. Size of a golfball, hard as a rock and about as tasty as a raw turnip.
What else.. Oh yes the 3 foot high raddish, with something the size of a pea at the bottom.....
I've had herbs for about a week, then they all faded off.
All summer you have to wait, if you do get anything you have to eat it all in about a week and a half..

Come the revolution, I'll definately be starving to death....
(Jack's Mummy and Chameleon. Yes ladies you have monster carrots there. I've never been so impressed, as for the Rodin's Lover's statute, up there.. Well that simply beggars belief)

kazwookie

Hi

Just caught up with you all,

Well done Jack's mummy.

Yesterday visited my father, and it seems his allotment is going mad, left with a hugh box of marrows, corgetts, 2 types of green beans, and some yummy lettuce, he has been selling the excess off to local tourists and still has loads left over.

I think my spuds are about ready for a firkle!!

~Chameleon~

ukdutypaid wrote: »

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What else.. Oh yes the 3 foot high raddish, with something the size of a pea at the bottom.....

Oh, I forgot about my radishes!!! Yes, mine also grew to around 3ft high with barely anything to show under the ground :rolleyes:

I think I managed to harvest a few baby leaves for salad before they shot up and got too tough and one single radish, the rest got pulled up and shoved in the compost bin :rotfl:

connacher

potato plants and other veg they the potatos took over






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before the potatos took over