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- Wed Jun 20, 2007 2:22 am
- Forum: Best practices
- Topic: Pinching out tips of broad beans
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2845
broad beans flower up to a certain point. the tips eventually seem to go back to just producing green spindly leaf growth. you will see this in early sown crops. So pinching out tops does not effect overall yields. For sown crops (late march say) its common for tops to still be growing out flowers w...
- Wed Jun 20, 2007 2:09 am
- Forum: Best practices
- Topic: Remove male courgette flowers?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 6715
Actually pollination is important in courgettes. i think the unpollinated courgettes don't develope very well. they don't fill out, and go tuff quicker, with kinda hollow cores. ie its also common for rot to set into the fruit at the flowering end. Maybe pollination is not the reason, but from exper...
- Tue May 22, 2007 3:06 am
- Forum: Best practices
- Topic: Leggy Peppers
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2661
yes you can pinch out the growing tip of peppers/chillis to make them bush out. they readily put energy into side shoots. Joy Larkom recommends doing such if plants are tall and spindly. You will loose out the earliest peppers on the plant. But i have heard the view that; the peppers at the growing ...
- Mon May 21, 2007 1:36 am
- Forum: Best practices
- Topic: Cucumbers flowering in the house
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2084
Hey people. Cucumbers are probably the least hardy of all the common veg plants we grow. Outdoor types still want to be kept above 16c all the time ideally. i don't know how you plan to do this with cloches. all looks like sheer folly to me! You can keep them in the house. harden off during the day ...
- Sun May 20, 2007 5:38 am
- Forum: Best practices
- Topic: Paling tomato leaves under cloches
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4392
- Sun May 20, 2007 5:34 am
- Forum: Best practices
- Topic: Paling tomato leaves under cloches
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4392
- Sun May 20, 2007 5:32 am
- Forum: Best practices
- Topic: Paling tomato leaves under cloches
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4392
again primrose: why are you doing things so early? outside tomatoes should really only go planted outside in june at earliest in british isles. i would say the leaves are gong paler , due to getting acclimatised to new conditions, but in a cool enviroment. If you see them start to take stock and gro...
- Sun May 20, 2007 5:18 am
- Forum: Best practices
- Topic: Beetroot seedlings on their side ??
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3219
i have grown a mixture of plants for salad leaves. Rocket,mizuna, 3 types of oriental mustard greens,komatauna...list goes on. but 'rudy chard' and 'bulls blodd- beetroot' also. i find that its very easy for the chards and beetoots to suffer from over-head watering and collapse in a 'damping-off' lo...
- Wed May 16, 2007 4:59 am
- Forum: Best practices
- Topic: Flowering pak choi
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3633
I have 5 plants of 'canton dwarf in my polytunnel boarder. I think they are about 8 weeks old now. They are starting to go to flower too. A bit too early for my liking as havn't fromed tight base yet. This is my first experience with 'canton dwarf'. I have grown the bigger 'joy choi' for last couple...
- Wed May 16, 2007 4:50 am
- Forum: Best practices
- Topic: A Debate: germinating Brassicas and other seedlings.
- Replies: 19
- Views: 8379
So i took your advice people. and sowed a batch of 'Red Russian' Kale' and 'F1 Candissa' late summer cabbage, about ten days ago. I made a cold frame, but constructed a fleece cover frame, instead of the usual glass/plastic lid. The seeds are up now, and i must say i am very happy with them. The ste...
- Wed May 09, 2007 1:51 am
- Forum: Best practices
- Topic: A Debate: germinating Brassicas and other seedlings.
- Replies: 19
- Views: 8379
I reply to Johnboy: So if you were starting off say a batch of 'F1 hispi' summer cabbage in early febuary you would not put on a propagtor. You say that 'Brassicas do not need heat'. I am going to be a bit nit picky here, but do you start in tunnel or polytunnel. surely that is heat? which starts me...
- Wed May 09, 2007 1:31 am
- Forum: Best practices
- Topic: A Debate: germinating Brassicas and other seedlings.
- Replies: 19
- Views: 8379
Shading. the following is my hunch. Shading probably does make sense say in a tunnel or greenhouse to reduce day time peak temps. So say early on in year(eg:early march), with say brussel sprouts. i put on a propagetor set at 13c min temp. i semi-shade drom the south with a big piece of cardboard be...
- Wed May 09, 2007 12:56 am
- Forum: Best practices
- Topic: A Debate: germinating Brassicas and other seedlings.
- Replies: 19
- Views: 8379
- Wed May 09, 2007 12:53 am
- Forum: Best practices
- Topic: A Debate: germinating Brassicas and other seedlings.
- Replies: 19
- Views: 8379
- Wed May 09, 2007 12:45 am
- Forum: Best practices
- Topic: A Debate: germinating Brassicas and other seedlings.
- Replies: 19
- Views: 8379
It might be worth pointing out that there could be two forms of leggy seedlings in brassicas. 1)those germinated in dark which get stretched looking for light. 2)those who at germination look perfect, but seem to grow too fast later until true leafs form. heat?? issue 1) is a common occurance across...