Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: Potty Plotty Lotty on February 03, 2024, 17:20
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What is on your final warning this year?
Mine is aubergines. If they don't perform that is it! Never again! :nowink: :nowink: :nowink:
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I think it will be brassicas for me, though I'm gonna try and miss the butterfly season by picking young & early!
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Last year was the worst results in 14 years of GYO so can't be too demanding for this year but for me it is groundnuts. been trying for last 3 years each time getting a little bit further but no fully grown plants or hint of nuts.
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Celeriac. Despite following all instructions and copious watering I can never get them to grow larger than a walnut.
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Celeriac. Despite following all instructions and copious watering I can never get them to grow larger than a walnut.
Same here, I also gave up! ::)
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I gave the plot a final warning last October and it has a new tenant. Does that count?
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Celeriac. Despite following all instructions and copious watering I can never get them to grow larger than a walnut.
What variety did you grow? I grew them for the first time last year and they were awesome. Probably beginners luck and it will be walnuts for me this year :lol: The variety I sowed were Asterix F1 bought from Kings Seed.
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Celeriac. Despite following all instructions and copious watering I can never get them to grow larger than a walnut.
What variety did you grow? I grew them for the first time last year and they were awesome. Probably beginners luck and it will be walnuts for me this year :lol: The variety I sowed were Asterix F1 bought from Kings Seed.
I have tried several varieties, Monarch, Giant Prague and Balder, all to no avail!
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Butternut squash. Mine are always disappointingly small. Maybe it’s because I don’t devote enough space to the plants. One of my neighbours basically just does squashes, and they are huge.
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Celery already had it's final warning last year.
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Stem Broccoli for me, never get any results at all. Just bushy horrible plants with nothing on them. I give up !
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Is it a pH issue Bobby’s. Don’t know about your area for wales but when hiking in Pembrokeshire I noticed the soil was quite acidic. Could you try adding lime to the soil?
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Thanks Missmoneypenny, I'll try measuring the ph, I have a ph meter, not sure how accurate it is though ! Should give me some indication at least. Pretty sure it's not acidic, OP seem to be able to grow it, not many, but some.
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Scallions and other onions grown from seed. At least until I have time to figure out why the germination is so poor (maybe try again after retirement).
I'm still planting my 'zombie scallions', essentially re-growing scallions that have gone yellow in the refrigerator. They quickly grow new leaves and turn from something destined for the compost bin into a useful vegetable.
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Looking at you leaf coriander/cilantro. Your card is marked. Just one more fine one day, next morning lying down & barely even still there, just dissolving and see-through, & I'm done with you! :mad:
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Scallions and other onions grown from seed. At least until I have time to figure out why the germination is so poor (maybe try again after retirement).
I'm still planting my 'zombie scallions', essentially re-growing scallions that have gone yellow in the refrigerator. They quickly grow new leaves and turn from something destined for the compost bin into a useful vegetable.
I have been on the verge of giving up spring onions many times but then I get the occasional year when they do very well. I have absolutely no idea why! ::)
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I have given up on all types of broccoli this year, and parsnips are in their final, final warning. Celeriac is making a comeback, but it only has one chance!
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Has to be Celeriac. Mine were a bit better this year but they just don’t seem to fully develop into a ball, I just get the top half and then roots. Someone told me they must have a lot of water as they are growing.
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My lime tree, had it four years, never flowered
But this year it has, but too early for flies and bees to germinate the flower, pretty much the same as my fig tree,Kum quant plant/tree they are on notice
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I have given up on all types of broccoli this year, and parsnips are in their final, final warning. Celeriac is making a comeback, but it only has one chance!
Try Celeric Asterix F1. Last year was my first year and I got some super results. This variety is slow to bolt and disease resistant. Good luck.
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Celeriac. Despite following all instructions and copious watering I can never get them to grow larger than a walnut.
Ann try this method....
Dig your trench around 9 inches deep, fill with good compost/ rotted manure,back fill about 2 inches deep as it is too late prepare as below. Transplant seedlings into the row.
I prepare my trench in autumn and fill with veg scraps etc with horse muck, then back fill in mid December ready for the following season. Always works for me.
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Final warning to the thieving squirrel that sits on my shed roof. You've got too much attitude, pal.
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Final warning to the thieving squirrel that sits on my shed roof. You've got too much attitude, pal.
Send him over my way
I havent sen mine for months now
I dont mind him raiding my feeders, he keeps the pigeons away
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My pigeons and squirrels would work together ... :mad: