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« on: January 31, 2010, 05:58:10 pm » |
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After a great success last year I planted pumpkins to train across the front yard again. They are still the same size as when I planted them. I planted them where I grew the potatoes last year in fresh compost. It seems that pumpkins and potatoes are bad companions.
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Lovelee
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« Reply #1 on: February 01, 2010, 10:09:03 am » |
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Are they bad companions SP? Cos yer doing them one after the other. There is a lot of talk around about failing crops this year - not just what people have bought as seedlings or seeds, fruit trees too We grow a german pumpkim for the seeds - we make salad oil from the seeds, you cant eat the flesh. Tasteless, fodder for cows. They are in the same place this year - not doing too badly.
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Laughter is the best medicine, unless you've got a really nasty case of syphilis, in which case penicillin is your best bet.
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« Reply #2 on: February 10, 2010, 11:07:00 am » |
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To the flop list I will add Wando Peas. The peas on the 3 plants that I grew were really sweet and tasty but I must have sown 20 seeds 4 times to get that many plants Tomatoes are looking to be added as well. I have a dozen plants and should be inundated with tomatoes even thought I planted them a month later than usual due to the cold spring. There are tomatoes but they haven't ripened yet and there is not much more than a double hand full. Mum is having the same problem with hers.
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« Reply #3 on: February 10, 2010, 08:23:06 pm » |
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You got plenty of bees and bugs to move things around .. have you noticed bees around?
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Laughter is the best medicine, unless you've got a really nasty case of syphilis, in which case penicillin is your best bet.
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« Reply #4 on: February 10, 2010, 08:43:29 pm » |
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You got plenty of bees and bugs to move things around .. have you noticed bees around?
Bugger all in the way of bees. Bumble Bees aren't around much and I have seen one honey bee in my garden in the last month. That is not unusual since verroa. I did have a wasp nest near the vege patch and there are plenty of other bugs around. I have had to use digital control on caterpillars on the tomatoes. The green vegetable bugs and passionvine hoppers are sticking to the peas and beans so far.
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« Reply #5 on: February 11, 2010, 09:55:32 am » |
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Honest SP .. do yourself a favour and have a listen to the gardenning show on saturday morns, Radio live.
A lot of the stuff is general knowledge stuff - they have been trying to get to the bottom of why this is happening.
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Laughter is the best medicine, unless you've got a really nasty case of syphilis, in which case penicillin is your best bet.
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« Reply #6 on: June 30, 2010, 01:01:42 pm » |
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Another flop crop - Cauliflower var Cheddar.
This is an orange cauliflower and this is my second attempt.
Last year I got no heads at all, possibly planted too late or in too shady a spot.
This year I planted them in late Feb with broccoli and broccoflower.
The heads on all three are smaller than usual but the broccoflower was edible and I am still picking broccoli shoots. This Cauliflower did form tiny heads this year but they were so bad they weren't worth picking.
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