Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Welcome => New Across The Site => Topic started by: John on June 21, 2020, 17:20
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Winning on some things, losing on others. It was ever thus for the gardener. Nice cabbages!
Winning and Losing (https://www.allotment-garden.org/garden-diary/6943/winning-losing/)
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Lovely hispi - did you start them off in modules, and how far apart are they planted?
I lost 3 or 4 consecutive plantings (not even sowings) of beans in my front garden. I reckon the slugs hid under the lavender bushes around the garden, and snuck out to feast on the beans at night :mad:
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Very nice cabbages, mine a weeks behind yours :(
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I've a lot of old Hispi seeds so I started them by scattering some packets onto the compost in a seed tray, pressing them down a bit and covering with a little vermiculite. They were then pricked out into small modules and finally planted out in the raised bed about 10" apart each way.
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If you do get sick of fresh cabbage, I can recommend sauerkraut with lemon juice. The long life bottled stuff is fine and you need a couple of tablespoons per jar. I made lemon and pepper flavour a couple of years ago as an experiment and rarely make any other kind now. It is a complete game changer :)
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I forgot to mention that I'd got a thick layer of part-rotted sheep shed manure on the raised bed and planted through that :) Noticed this has broken down more under the cabbages than in the other half of the bed too, which is nice :) :)
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Lovely stuff! I cannot grow cabbages at this time of year it is just too hot... tried and failed :( but those would be right up my street! I will grow mine over the winter and into early spring when it is much cooler.
Another failure today was a whole bed of dwarf beans. I have thought for a while they were carrying something and a bit of investigation reviled what I think is mosaic virus... pulled the lot up :( They were grown from saved seeds. I don't know if it was the seed or they have been infected by insect vectors but hence forth no saved beans seed for me :lol: I never thought that seeds carried viruses but I have done a bit of research and it would appear that this particular virus is carried by the seeds on occasion .