oldherbaceous wrote:Well the courgette crumble has been eaten and enjoyed.

I'm glad - the responsibility was weighing heavily.

Our plums were about a month later in flowering and are about the same length of time late to crop. For the first time I can remember we have a plum moth maggot problem especially in the Victoria plums which don't seem to have formed as they should. The earlier Oullins Gage is less affected but we s...

Dear glallotments, cook is making your crumble suggestion today, so thank you for the recipe. Also, my Mum makes a lot of chutneys using apples as the main ingredient, now, do you think these could be substituted for courgettes? And if so, do you think they would need peeling first? If this is poss...

FelixLeiter wrote:Bountiful Buddleias brimming with British butterflies. Makes me wonder what adult butterflies subsisted on here before Buddleia was introduced, given what an irresistible draw it is.

There were maybe more native plants growing then

We have had hundreds of peacock butterflies on buddleias on the plot - some were much smaller than I would expect peacocks to be. We have had a couple of commas, a skipper and several gatekeepers, an occasional painted lady and lots and lots of large and small whites. After seeing a few small tortoi...

Glad you are OK JB

Weed wrote:You are not alone....this year I have given up on Spring Onions totally.

Year on year I have had only one or two geminate from a packet.... ironically many packets were the White Lisbon variety

Many of ours were White Lisbon too

Our runner beans are late but we now have lots of immature beans that have set. Our problem has been with setting just that the beans were late flowering.

It's our first time with Cobra but we have picked quite a few. The purple and yellow French beans are now also producing well.

Here's my tuppence worth: don't use growbags. I stopped using them 15 years ago and I've not experienced BER since. The tomatoes in the garden greenhouse that are suffering from BER are not growing in growbags but the ones that are BER free at the plot are growing in growbags with ring culture disc...

Just to chip in again...I've only every experienced BER with plum tomatoes even though there have been other varieties alongside. These are quite big tomatoes with a lot of flesh and not much juice. I interpreted it as meaning that plum tomatoes need more water (or calcium) than other varieties. As...

Or if poor compost is the culprit. I always struggle with BER on my plum tomatoes. I wondered that too but the plot tomatoes are growing in the same brand compost - although it is a different batch of bags. We are feeding the plants as usual using Tomorite. We've been growing tomatoes for years and...

alan refail wrote:I have tried to contact Johnboy on the two private e-mail addresses I have for him. Will post any replies I get.

I have too. Maybe he is out of Internet reach.

Metal is a prize acquisition isn't it? We had a dustbin type burner that had a burnt out base which was stolen. Could only have been for the metal content.

If you have a glut of courgettes try using them instead of apples in a crumble. I tried a recipe found on the internet and was really skeptical but it worked. I've posted about it on my blog if you are interested http://glallotments.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/its-not-just-crumble.html

Has anyone else had problems with blossom end rot on their tomatoes? We haven't had one BER free ripe tomato from our garden greenhouse but tomatoes in our allotment greenhouse are fine. If it's a problem with erratic watering as is supposed to be the case our plot tomatoes should suffer not the gar...