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by Primrose
Thu Jun 12, 2008 11:46 am
Forum: Best practices
Topic: Tumbling Tom Tomato
Replies: 17
Views: 10323

I checked Suttons website and can certainly find no mention of Hundreds & Thousands seeds in their catalogue.

Looks like we'll all be creeping round Salimandre's garden after to dark to "borrow" a tomato, if ever her plants arrive!
by Primrose
Thu Jun 12, 2008 8:49 am
Forum: Best practices
Topic: Tumbling Tom Tomato
Replies: 17
Views: 10323

I've got three Sweet Million plants, but got interrupted when planting them out so now can't remember which are Sweet Million and which are Gardeners Delight! Am hoping that once they fruit I'll be able to recognise them as Gardeners Delight now seem to produce much bigger fruit than they did years ...
by Primrose
Wed Jun 11, 2008 2:21 pm
Forum: Best practices
Topic: Tumbling Tom Tomato
Replies: 17
Views: 10323

Thanks Salimandre. I saw the Hundreds & Thousands plants advertised by Suttons & thought they would be fun to try but they seemed very expensive when you compare the cost of growing them from seed and I haven't seen any packets of these available yet. However, when they are I'll give them a ...
by Primrose
Wed Jun 11, 2008 11:02 am
Forum: General chatter
Topic: What are allotments for?
Replies: 7
Views: 2706

Johnboy Good for you! I would love to have been a fly on the wall! The banks have had too much power for too long and just look how they've abused it by doing business so irresponsibly. We have had two allotments in the past (many years ago) and I don't recall either of them imposing restrictions on...
by Primrose
Wed Jun 11, 2008 10:51 am
Forum: Weeds, Pests and Diseases
Topic: Dwarf runner beans with yellow leaves.
Replies: 11
Views: 7950

I'm beginning to wonder if some of the cheaper brands of potting compost are responsible for some of the problems we're having. I don't know whether the suppliers buy bulk loads of it from Council Waste/Composting facilities and bag it up, but it occurs to me that if they do, the raw product could c...
by Primrose
Wed Jun 11, 2008 10:42 am
Forum: Best practices
Topic: Celery or celeriac?
Replies: 2
Views: 1773

I'm not a celery growing expert and last year grew celeriac for the first time, only moderately successfully. I found that a fair proportion the plants didn't bulb up, throwing up lots of upward stumpy stalks which made them look very like celery. It was only around Winter (January time) that there ...
by Primrose
Wed Jun 11, 2008 10:37 am
Forum: Best practices
Topic: Tumbling Tom Tomato
Replies: 17
Views: 10323

Tumbling Tom Tomato

I've been given a Tumbling Tom tomato plant with lots of sideshoots on it. As I've never grown a tumbling variety before and have no spare growing space:
1. What is the smallest size pot I can grow it in?
2. Are sideshoots removed in tumbling varieties or left to grow and bush up?

Thanks.
by Primrose
Mon Jun 09, 2008 4:25 pm
Forum: General chatter
Topic: Am I doing it wrong?
Replies: 7
Views: 3020

I guess there is a theory that perhaps the weeds are preventing the plot from drying out and also providing a degree of protection for the small plants. Also, where there are plenty of weeds, the slugs and snails have a choice of foods and won't necessarily head straight for the lettuce seedlings, a...
by Primrose
Mon Jun 09, 2008 4:15 pm
Forum: Weeds, Pests and Diseases
Topic: Aubergines in greenhouse getting eaten
Replies: 4
Views: 3388

It could well be the culprit. It's surprising how much damage one little snail can do. You have only to come and look at my lacey hostas !!
by Primrose
Sun Jun 08, 2008 5:34 pm
Forum: Birds, Animals and Livestock
Topic: Starlings
Replies: 12
Views: 4729

I know some people don't like starlings but I find them quite fasinating to watch, especially the babies. And the parents seem to be very hard working keeping their young ones fed so who could possibly deny them them having a nice refreshing bath? Nice photos PJ.
by Primrose
Sun Jun 08, 2008 5:25 pm
Forum: Best practices
Topic: Gooseberry plant has gone blind
Replies: 0
Views: 1707

Gooseberry plant has gone blind

Can anybody suggest what is wrong with my 4 year old red gooseberry bush. Last year it had only a few small fruits which mostly withered before they could be picked. This year it has no fruit at all although the leaves look very healthy. It has been well manured and is in a border where on the other...
by Primrose
Sun Jun 08, 2008 9:37 am
Forum: General chatter
Topic: Cars running on bio fuel
Replies: 3
Views: 1962

Cars running on bio fuel

I'm having a personal debate with myself as to whether I'll be doing less damage to the environment by keeping my 8 year old car which runs on petrol rather than swapping it (if I could afford to !) for a newer model which uses bio fuel. The more I read about the damage bio fuels are doing in terms ...
by Primrose
Sat Jun 07, 2008 6:25 pm
Forum: Best practices
Topic: Spraying against tomato blight
Replies: 13
Views: 4534

Catherine - I don't like using sprays but I dislike losing all my tomatoes to blight even more, so I spray with Dithane. You can buy it from Garden Centres in boxes containing about five sachets of powdered substance. Dissolve each sachet of powder in the recommended amount of water. I then put my d...
by Primrose
Fri Jun 06, 2008 5:37 pm
Forum: General chatter
Topic: Mowing the lawn
Replies: 12
Views: 3525

Alan, you are absolutely right of course and we in the western world here can't begin to imagine how difficult their plight must be. But doesn't it make one feel slightly ashamed to live in a country where our government was quite happy to send in the miltary to a country which had no weapons of mas...
by Primrose
Fri Jun 06, 2008 5:12 pm
Forum: Weeds, Pests and Diseases
Topic: Aubergines in greenhouse getting eaten
Replies: 4
Views: 3388

I wonder if it is snails? I've found two in my mini plastic greenhouse recently, both stuck to the outside of my aubergine pots where they had done some damage to the leaves. Usually they creep away after a heavy meal to some dark place so that is possibly why you couldn't find anything.