This years growing so far????
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rhys gethin
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chico enrico said:yes. but runner beans are shite. who eats them? you may as well grow twigs in your garden.
Matter of taste, I suppose. Pick 'em young, cut 'em thin and they seem to me wonderful - lot better than French beans which are rubbery and lack taste. The point about doing your own growing is to eat what you want at the state you like it. I love small leeks, don't know why anyone bothers with big thick ones - keep them for hitting people over the head with at internationals!
northernhord
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zenie said:shite
What Nothing at all?
AnnaKarpik
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rhys gethin said:
We'll have no slander of French beans here, young man! If you are eating rubbery French beans you're either not eating them fresch or you're not cooking them properly. Probably the first if you've only had them from a supermarket.
Anyway, let's not start getting nasty about other people's veg choices; let's celebrate managing to grow anything this year
On another note; we conducted a direct comparison home-grown to shop bought beetroot yesterday and the shop-bought was better
how did that happen?rhys gethin
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AnnaKarpik said:We'll have no slander of French beans here, young man! If you are eating rubbery French beans you're either not eating them fresch or you're not cooking them properly. Probably the first if you've only had them from a supermarket.
Anyway, let's not start getting nasty about other people's veg choices; let's celebrate managing to grow anything this year
On another note; we conducted a direct comparison home-grown to shop bought beetroot yesterday and the shop-bought was better
I have never bought a French bean, but, because I don't like 'em, those I grow mostly go straight in the freezer. I have never cooked a French bean either - Mrs G likes them, so she cooks them, and she is an excellent cook, by common consent. They are just naturally rubbery - perhaps it is my soil.
I didn't start criticising other people's veg choices. If I did, cucumbers and
spinach would get short shrift. What I miss is asparagus - it was always perfect until The Beetle came!
northernhord
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zenie said:I take it back I've got toms...
I just don't think I have enough direct sunlight
Yeah soundz about right wih the light thing, unless youv'e been going out too much and neglecting them
northernhord
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Mr Tickle said:
Ive not done well with toms at all this year but the ones that are kicking have redenned in the last coupla sunny days
northernhord
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aqua said:well I've murdered off my cucumber (2 cucumbers on it and thats it, was starting to get mildew on it too)
if my tomatoes don't pick up in a week they're for the chop too
fucking useless this year, fucking useless
Fuckin shite innit Miss, loadsa root veg and a bit of fruit for me so far mainly
northernhord
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Mr Tickle said:
I think its the rain creating an ideal damp climate for the slugs, lil fuckers!
northernhord
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muckypup said:
Yeah Ive heard one of them is ok though one of the lots of organic slug killers doesnt work and Ive even heard of cases of slugs eating the stuff when its been well rained on
northernhord said:Yeah Ive heard one of them is ok though one of the lots of organic slug killers doesnt work and Ive even heard of cases of slugs eating the stuff when its been well rained on
The one Ive been looking at, the slugs/snails eat and it stops their metabolism so they die of hunger
I think the other one is the barrier method used around plants, which is rubbish cos i just want to kill them 
northernhord
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muckypup said:The one Ive been looking at, the slugs/snails eat and it stops their metabolism so they die of hunger
Same ere, bring on the Slugocide
rhys gethin
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Mr Tickle said:
We have never successfully grown basil in the garden - it obviously contains their favourite drug. It does very well on windowsills though.
rhys gethin
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muckypup said:The one Ive been looking at, the slugs/snails eat and it stops their metabolism so they die of hunger
Do the dead slugs pass this metabolism-stopping on the birds and frogs that eat the bodies? If not, where do I get this stuff?
northernhord
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aqua said:I can't grow corianderI don't water it properly or keep it in the right sun levels
it just bolts the first chance it gets
It likes bog standard soil and watering lightly
We've had a mixed bag this year.
The tomatoes are doing well, there's lots of tomatoes growing but not ripe yet. The major success has been the perpetual spinach, we've eaten loads and loads and it keeps on growing - at the moment it seems we can't pick it fast enough. The courgettes (rather lovely little yellow round ones) are doing well. we've had a few ready too eat and quite a few coming on nicely. the french beans have been good too, particularly how late they were planted.
on the other hand, the leeks are rubbish, the runner beans aren't doing too well either - far too eaten by snails. chillis finally becoming proper plants but no flowers yet.
The broad beans were doing fantastically well until they were completely battered by the hail last month. They were just about ready to pick, and then the hail tore the plants to shreds killing them. The beans were left hanging on dead plants, we ate them as quickly as we could but they seemed to have toughened up a lot. Now I just need to find something I can plant now to fill their space for the rest of the year.
The tomatoes are doing well, there's lots of tomatoes growing but not ripe yet. The major success has been the perpetual spinach, we've eaten loads and loads and it keeps on growing - at the moment it seems we can't pick it fast enough. The courgettes (rather lovely little yellow round ones) are doing well. we've had a few ready too eat and quite a few coming on nicely. the french beans have been good too, particularly how late they were planted.
on the other hand, the leeks are rubbish, the runner beans aren't doing too well either - far too eaten by snails. chillis finally becoming proper plants but no flowers yet.
The broad beans were doing fantastically well until they were completely battered by the hail last month. They were just about ready to pick, and then the hail tore the plants to shreds killing them. The beans were left hanging on dead plants, we ate them as quickly as we could but they seemed to have toughened up a lot. Now I just need to find something I can plant now to fill their space for the rest of the year.
Gavin Bl
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aqua said:I can't grow coriander
it just bolts the first chance it gets
I once saw this asian guy on a programme about allotments, he argued that this is just the way coriander is, and you have to plant plenty of it and frequently, and just get rid of it once it goes to seed.
He also claimed stones on the surface of the soil were good for it, as they warmed the ground up.
northernhord
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Gavin Bl said:
If it goes to seed then it is corriander for seed as opposed to the corriander you grow for leaves.
The clay soil bit figures, corrie loves the heat
