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- Thu Jun 29, 2017 9:55 am
- Forum: Harvesting Q&A
- Topic: Red versus Yellow tumbling tomatoes
- Replies: 11
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Re: Red versus Yellow tumbling tomatoes
I'll do some research and see if I can find out for you Primrose.
- Thu Jun 29, 2017 9:47 am
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Early Summer bits and bobs - 2017
- Replies: 241
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Re: Early Summer bits and bobs - 2017
Thought twice about moving my outdoor potted toms indoors in case they are already affected (although they look healthy). Worried that if they are they might spread it to the plants in the greenhouse. Decisions, decisions! It's not easy being a gardener!
- Thu Jun 29, 2017 9:42 am
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: The Giant Marrow Topic!
- Replies: 98
- Views: 13093
Re: The Giant Marrow Topic!
Cut Mervin 2 this morning. Thought I might as well make use of him before he becomes inedible!
Lady Lettuce has been very guarded about progress with her plant, which leads me to believe she might be quietly confident!

Lady Lettuce has been very guarded about progress with her plant, which leads me to believe she might be quietly confident!
- Wed Jun 28, 2017 4:04 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: The Giant Marrow Topic!
- Replies: 98
- Views: 13093
Re: The Giant Marrow Topic!
Well I've had a clean slate - or roof tile - of failures so far chaps!
- Wed Jun 28, 2017 3:55 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Early Summer bits and bobs - 2017
- Replies: 241
- Views: 30791
Re: Early Summer bits and bobs - 2017
Well you have the honour of being the first among us Pa Snip, but not the last!
- Wed Jun 28, 2017 3:26 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Early Summer bits and bobs - 2017
- Replies: 241
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Re: Early Summer bits and bobs - 2017
Nothing at the moment Geoff and certainly not for use by we amateurs, but I'll keep my ear to the ground.
- Wed Jun 28, 2017 1:14 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Early Summer bits and bobs - 2017
- Replies: 241
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Re: Early Summer bits and bobs - 2017
Hi Colin. Unfortunately as other forum members will tell you, potatoes and tomatoes with blight usually succumb very quickly and the old copper-based fungicides that used to offer some protection are now banned. Choosing blight resistant varieties such as the Sarpo potato range and tomato varieties ...
- Wed Jun 28, 2017 12:48 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Early Summer bits and bobs - 2017
- Replies: 241
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Re: Early Summer bits and bobs - 2017
It needs two consecutive days above 10C and with 6 hours in each of those days with a relative humidity of 90% or above to create a Hutton Criteria (formerly the old Smith periods which we learned about at college many moons ago).
- Wed Jun 28, 2017 10:54 am
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: The Giant Marrow Topic!
- Replies: 98
- Views: 13093
Re: The Giant Marrow Topic!
Arthur: "Marvin, any ideas?
Marvin: "I have a million ideas; they all point to certain death."
Marvin: "I have a million ideas; they all point to certain death."

- Wed Jun 28, 2017 10:38 am
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: The Giant Marrow Topic!
- Replies: 98
- Views: 13093
Re: The Giant Marrow Topic!
Disaster has struck. Mervin 2 has botrytis on his snout! Doomed I'm afraid. Now it's all down to Mervin 3 - a shadow of Mervin 2's magnificence. 

- Wed Jun 28, 2017 10:36 am
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Early Summer bits and bobs - 2017
- Replies: 241
- Views: 30791
Re: Early Summer bits and bobs - 2017
Just had a blight warning for tomorrow in my area! Will be moving the few tomato plants I can move that are outside in pots, inside soonest!
Wow, some serious kit there Geoff - but what a super garden you have! Very jealous!

Wow, some serious kit there Geoff - but what a super garden you have! Very jealous!
- Tue Jun 27, 2017 5:13 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Early Summer bits and bobs - 2017
- Replies: 241
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Re: Early Summer bits and bobs - 2017
I may well some of them Peter, but I'd need a plot of about 2 acres to use them all up! 

- Tue Jun 27, 2017 11:18 am
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Early Summer bits and bobs - 2017
- Replies: 241
- Views: 30791
Re: Early Summer bits and bobs - 2017
Primrose - you've hit the nail on the head! Yes it will take chainsaws and long ladders to tackle it now...and then it's having to get rid of all those prunings! Which is the main reason I'll be getting someone in...they have a big chipper that can 'disappear' the mountain of waste! I don't have roo...
- Tue Jun 27, 2017 9:40 am
- Forum: Best practices
- Topic: Mint - is there scientific proof that growing different types together affects the individual flavours?
- Replies: 8
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Re: Mint - is there scientific proof that growing different types together affects the individual flavours?
I can't really see how growing the two together would make a difference to the flavour of either plant and have never seen any scientific proof that it happens. The flowers certainly might easily cross pollinate to produce inferior/mixed tasting seedlings and of course if you accidentally mixed them...
- Tue Jun 27, 2017 9:34 am
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Early Summer bits and bobs - 2017
- Replies: 241
- Views: 30791
Re: Early Summer bits and bobs - 2017
Hedges too. We have a mixed hedge down each side of our narrow garden and over the years they have gradually got higher and wider until one must be 5ft thick and 9-10ft tall. They are clipped twice a year, but without realising I and neighbours have left a few inches more each time I guess until the...