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Growing => General Gardening => Topic started by: Phoenix on April 13, 2006, 07:04

Title: Whats the most u have ever thinned out?
Post by: Phoenix on April 13, 2006, 07:04

Well mine has got to be 1200 love lies bleeding yday 50 trays of 24 OMG my eyes lol they were so small lol

Title: Whats the most u have ever thinned out?
Post by: John on April 13, 2006, 09:38

I hate thinning out - I feel like I'm murdering my poor little seedlings.

Val pointed out to me that 100 tomato plants might be a few too many....

Title: Whats the most u have ever thinned out?
Post by: Phoenix on April 13, 2006, 14:55

ye i had 20 tomato plants last yr and that was 2! only gonna do 6 this yr lol gonna concentrate more on sweetcorn as that was gorgeous last yr! Have u ever grown them in the greenhouse? i found my GH sweetcorn were miles better than my outdoor 1

Title: Whats the most u have ever thinned out?
Post by: John on April 13, 2006, 15:18

I've never done sweetcorn in a greenhouse but I get fair results by keeping them under cloche until they grow too big for them.

Title: Whats the most u have ever thinned out?
Post by: GrannieAnnie on April 14, 2006, 22:22

I've got over 200 tomatoes coming up, but I'm hoping to sell some of them out the front when they are big enough, along with some of the other things I'm growing.

I tried sweetcorn for the first time last year, and although the results weren't huge, they were lovely.  How many cobs do you normally get on each plant?

Title: Whats the most u have ever thinned out?
Post by: John on April 14, 2006, 23:17

1 or 2 - depends on variety and luck!

Good luck selling the tomato plants - maybe more money in doing a Hugh Fearnly Whittingstall  (hope that's right) and selling hime made tomato chutney and ketchup.

Title: Whats the most u have ever thinned out?
Post by: GrannieAnnie on April 15, 2006, 21:43

Yes John, OH keeps telling me that I should be more like Hugh F-W and selling pigeon pitta pickets and bunny burgers!!!! lol

I make a mean pasta sauce, but haven't as yet made any chutney.  I was going to with the green tomatoes I froze last year, but they were lost when the big freezer went down!!!