**Grow your own 2012**
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Soldato
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My lot are down for the year. Severely lacking in space at the moment so everything is to remain in pots. Got:
1 x Strawberry
6 x Tomato
8 x Gem Lettuce
8 x Scotch Bonnet Chilli
4 x Apache Chilli
Thyme
Parsley
Coriander
Basil
Everything is coming on fine apart from the Scotch Bonnets which are taking their time, but is to be expected as I sowed them late.
1 x Strawberry
6 x Tomato
8 x Gem Lettuce
8 x Scotch Bonnet Chilli
4 x Apache Chilli
Thyme
Parsley
Coriander
Basil
Everything is coming on fine apart from the Scotch Bonnets which are taking their time, but is to be expected as I sowed them late.
The horrendous weather came just after I had sown some beans. Not meant to be good for germination rates. The parsnip germination rate from earlier in the year has been terrible. Probably about 1 in 4 have germinated leaving me with an incomplete row.
It's a nightmare isn't it, I had a bed raked over and ready for my parsnips and some early carrots at the end of march and I've not had a days nice weather when I could get up there and plant anything not that it would really have been worth it given the cold that followed!
My first earlies Have popped up 3 or 4 inches and been earthed up but they've been in 6 weeks and should be shooting up really and it's a similar story with my strawberry plants which are just sitting there looking miserable.
The only plus side is I've got lots of stuff started in the propergator at home so hopefully the weather will break soon and I can start making up for lost time!
should have put a shot glass full of water inside it so the mositure would keep everything alive
Got some more on the go, put them in big pots in the conservatory, but away again this week. It's a nightmare, trying to keep things going. Still hopefully they'll survive in big pots, runner beans and sweetcorn are a good 4" tall know. Tge rest of the stuff are still small seedlings.
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Anyone using Iron Phosphate Slug Bait which is meant to be organic? Its saying some where that there is something else added. So iron is easily released in the digestive system of not only slug and snail but anything that eats it. Else where its saying using caffeine to repel slugs and snails is effective.
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I'm growing cape gooseberry some of them are flowering. I grew the seeds in a propagator and planted them outside. Well on the seed packet it says harvest between August to November.
This is a photo a few weeks ago. There is nothing edible on there yet.
One of the few I planted outside:
07/10/2012
Not a lot has ripened. Only has a few in a couple of days. I was meant to sow the seeds in February to April and plant them out in end of May to June.
The petals fall out, a green calyx grows (it looks like a lantern) and it turns green to golden coloured. I keep picking them too soon....
This is a photo a few weeks ago. There is nothing edible on there yet.
One of the few I planted outside:
07/10/2012
Not a lot has ripened. Only has a few in a couple of days. I was meant to sow the seeds in February to April and plant them out in end of May to June.
The petals fall out, a green calyx grows (it looks like a lantern) and it turns green to golden coloured. I keep picking them too soon....
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I tried using Slug Gone pellets made from sheep wool. I don't think they work and they do smell a bit.
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I gave up completely this year. Glad I did. Can't see anything thriving this summer.
I imagine the potatoes are scabby as anything.
I imagine the potatoes are scabby as anything.
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Had first lot of potatoes and they were really good, The Sweetcorn is looking really good so far, also had my first crop of peas they were excellent. French bean and Runner beans are looking good another week or so.