Update on the Trifid farm!!!

[retropants]

Hello CJS, looks like you are doing a splendid job so far!!

As far as your melon plant goes, it looks fine to me. I would, however, encourage it grow up some string to the roof, and also, mulch around it's base with grass clippings. The heat generated whilst beginning to decompose will help no end!

Enjoy the rewards of your efforts, there's nothing quite like it is there!!

[CJS]

Hello CJS, looks like you are doing a splendid job so far!!

As far as your melon plant goes, it looks fine to me. I would, however, encourage it grow up some string to the roof, and also, mulch around it's base with grass clippings. The heat generated whilst beginning to decompose will help no end!

Enjoy the rewards of your efforts, there's nothing quite like it is there!!

Surly the melons, if they set, will be to heavy?? Was told to day that I should have fertilised the female flower with a picked off male flower, confused and frustrated, is it to late??? Nothing quite like it . . . getting confused? Hanging melons? green shade is not good (I do understand I need to remove some vine leaves) . . . my Auntie Ivy used to make a ritual of painting the GH roof with a green wash . . . ?

I'm gona dig the courgettes up this evening, (complet with ring) stick them in the top of the compost heap, with a cane, they grew up as the picture shows, I only put the cane in as a support last week??? If they make it so be it if not tuff . . . No room outside for a dedicated courgette bed . . . not until I dig half the lawn up . . . major decision that . . .

CJS

[retropants]

Yes, the melons will get heavy. You'll need to support them with bits of garden netting, like a hammock of sorts.
Our melons have not been 'helped' at all, and we have 3 fairly large fellows nestling happily in their net hammocks.
I would take pics, but i am having an op on my foot the day after tomorrow, and I won't be going to the plot for a couple of weeks

[CJS]

Yes, the melons will get heavy. You'll need to support them with bits of garden netting, like a hammock of sorts.
Our melons have not been 'helped' at all, and we have 3 fairly large fellows nestling happily in their net hammocks.
I would take pics, but i am having an op on my foot the day after tomorrow, and I won't be going to the plot for a couple of weeks

Thanks 'retropants' take on board what you say, the die is set a bit this year, the way things are, so I will have to stick with the floor creeper. Been in the garden and green house this evening . . . removed a lot!!! 50%? of the vine leaves, I can see the difference in the light! hope the plants appreciate it.



Moved one of the courgette plants to the compost heap, neither want to lie down so this is how it is, they either get on with it or become compost? Fruits are forming up the stem . . .




Best of all . . . the melon plant has a Babbie!!! I'm a melon Daddie . . .



CJS

[oldherbaceous]

Evening CJS, congratulations on your happy event.

[Primrose]

Or could the tomatoes be Lidi/Ildi? I'm growing a couple of these. They seem to have lighter green leaves which are more "frilly" than other varieties. There are masses of flowers on each truss - far more than the usual cherry type tomatoes, (20 - 30?) and they are yellow.
You've certainly got a healthy lot of plants there. Where did you get your Growbag from?

[CJS]

Or could the tomatoes be Lidi/Ildi? I'm growing a couple of these. They seem to have lighter green leaves which are more "frilly" than other varieties. There are masses of flowers on each truss - far more than the usual cherry type tomatoes, (20 - 30?) and they are yellow.
You've certainly got a healthy lot of plants there. Where did you get your Growbag from?

I think you have cracked the Tomato conundrum, exactly as described, down to the light green colour of the foliage, thank you. The Grow Bags are B&Qs own £1.49 each.

Not sure its the bags? the picture shows my 'Sungold' tomato plants, they are animals in plant terms. But the fruit is wonderful, cherry type, yellow/orange colour, with a flavour that I can only describe as sweet and sour that bursts in the mouth . . . yummmm Recommended by Bob Flowerdew on Gardeners World 3 years ago. I had not eaten tomatoes for 20 years plus because of the flavourless rubbish in supermarkets. But Bob was so enthusiastic, in truth, its probably the event in my life that laid the foundation to my eventually start gardening with a passion this year. That and a friend who kept on about me clearing the 20ft green house, "what a wast of space" said he.

Its the same friend who gave me the 4 Ildi plants to have a go with + 4 Sungold, unaware it was my variety of choice to tinker with.

CJS

[retropants]

so pleased that you have a wee melon on the way! It'll double in size quite quickly, you'll see!!