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Post by cernunnos on Jul 29, 2022 20:55:05 GMT 1
Garden , still doing well , we are giving away cucumbers and courgettes. Send us some parsnip seed please
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Post by Deleted on Jul 30, 2022 6:38:57 GMT 1
Our weeds are doing great this year.
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Post by cernunnos on Aug 8, 2022 12:52:28 GMT 1
The veg. garden is a green oasis , eating every day from it now . It wouldn't work without the spring water, it can't be easy for those without a good source or well. First sweetcorn on the plancha last night , can't get better. Sowing winter root veg now, expecting rain to arrive and the temperature to drop the coming weekend ( or so they say)
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Post by exile on Aug 8, 2022 15:49:33 GMT 1
"it can't be easy for those without a good source or well".
It isn't and we don't have either.
We are nevertheless cropping new potatoes, green beans, courgette, tomatoes etc..
The gaps I fear will be later in the year with probably poor crops of root vegetables and brassicas. Our broad beans were sown over two weeks ago and are now only just showing their heads through the very dry soil.
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Post by JohnnyD on Aug 17, 2022 12:56:11 GMT 1
What's happened to apples this year, not one on the tree is edible, they all seem to have been attacked/affected by something, they were like it when small so it happened a few months ago now.
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Post by Aardvark on Aug 17, 2022 15:47:52 GMT 1
Same here with our apples. Two trees planted several years ago and we haven't managed more than 3 or 4 edible ones yet. I'm thinking its just rubbish soil. Plenty of pollinators here so I doubt that is the problem.
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exile
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Post by exile on Aug 17, 2022 18:05:06 GMT 1
This was due to be a Bramley year but the severe hail damaged or knocked off the majority of the crop.
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Post by woolybanana on Aug 17, 2022 18:17:05 GMT 1
I have record Bramleys on a three year old tree and have steadily been picking and cooking,ahead of any violent storms. Cox’s seem good, ripening fast. Not sure yet about late raspberries; I suspect a drought reduced crop but having just had a good sort out in the freezer I do have a few packets in hand plus some I juiced to make space last year.
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Post by Nifty on Aug 19, 2022 4:30:16 GMT 1
What's happened to apples this year, not one on the tree is edible, they all seem to have been attacked/affected by something, they were like it when small so it happened a few months ago now. Coddling moth? Think grease bands. Spray with stuff that I have forgotten the name of, prymethin? Too lazy to check, judicious pruning etc.
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Post by houpla on Aug 19, 2022 6:38:17 GMT 1
If the apples are maggotty it is likely to be codling moth. Grease bands don't really help. Clear the infected fruit and bin it. Get some pheromone traps on Amazon or in a GC and hang them in the trees in early spring next year. They catch the male moths, so no mothy hanky-panky and no larvae. I think you can still get permethrine or cypermethrine but the traps are still useful as a heads-up when the moths are active. If it's scab or bitter pit, a fungicide spray or watering with diluted Epsom salts are the respective 'cures'
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Post by houpla on Aug 19, 2022 6:45:30 GMT 1
Had a decent crop from the new apple trees, but the problem here is hornets. The fruit's not even ripe when they start raiding it. Pick the apples and they start on the pears Squashes are incredibly early this year. The 'second flush' of summer veg planted on the veg plot to replace the heat-stroked stuff in the polytunnel is producing now, but no green beans this year. Not one single bean germinated, so reckon it was mice or pigeons that got the seed. The whole garden is looking tired and crispy after the silly heat over the last six weeks, but had 20mm of rain, so the weeds will be coming on nicely now
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Post by Nifty on Aug 19, 2022 8:26:19 GMT 1
I wish I knew what Houpla knows about 15 years ago. I must have lost tons of fruit over the years due to not having the time to pay enough attention to what else was going on in the garden.
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Post by dilly on Aug 19, 2022 19:42:59 GMT 1
Not one single bean germinated... Not quite as bad here but only 4 beans germinated this year
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Post by cernunnos on Aug 19, 2022 20:32:58 GMT 1
We have had a good harvest of runner beans , those that are left will be for beans in tomato sauce and seed for next year , the brown beans for drying are doing well , the first lot are starting to turn yellow , so nearly ready to pick . Harvesting sweet corn, tomatoes,peppers,courgettes,melons,aubergines and lettuce . Plenty to eat. Thinking about sending lambs next week , very late this year due to the drought.
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Post by houpla on Aug 19, 2022 23:33:54 GMT 1
I wish I knew what Houpla knows about 15 years ago. I must have lost tons of fruit over the years due to not having the time to pay enough attention to what else was going on in the garden. Knowing what the problem is and how to treat it is one thing. Having the necessary materials to counteract some of Nature's most fiendish adversaries is another altogether! I'm all for using natural (not necessarily native) predators rather than noxious chemicals, but they're mostly not available to the general public, or the conditions required for them to be effective are too specialised. Anyway, on the bright side, when you have a big harvest of something, some poor soul has to deal with it all!
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