Best growing season for years?

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maxie

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Best growing season for years?
« on: July 21, 2013, 01:04 »
My stuff on my allotment is growing best for a few years,i honestly thought french beans were a thing of the past,my sweetcorns never ripened for two years.My salad stuff has been fantastic,peas,beetroot,carrots,broad beans,cabbage etc  love it,id forgotten how much stuff liked a bit of heat,what do you think?

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AnneB

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Re: Best growing season for years?
« Reply #1 on: July 21, 2013, 08:08 »
I agree completely.  I harvested a courgette yesterday, a yellow one.  It's the first one I have managed to produce since 2009.  Intervening years the plants have been got by slugs or never managed to fruit.  Last year I planted out a lovely Boston squash plant only to find next morning there was no trace of it at all and that happened twice.  This year I have one that seems to be growing at the rate of a foot a day in all directions! Here is yesterday's lettuce.  It is just fantastic all round.

Actually, I have just checked my records and memories play tricks.  It was only last year I didn't get courgettes, 2011 produced over 4kg of the things.  2012 was a very bad year!
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mumofstig

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Re: Best growing season for years?
« Reply #2 on: July 21, 2013, 08:18 »
I agree last year was dire, but the few before that were ok here weatherwise  ;)

This year the cold spring made many crops late and caused problems with rotations and follow-on crops, because the first crops were still in the ground when the second ones should have been planted   :(

Pumkins and squash went in later than usual, so I hope they have enough time to catch-up and mature.
They're loving this weather, though...............long may it continue  :D

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Auntiemogs

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Re: Best growing season for years?
« Reply #3 on: July 21, 2013, 08:22 »
I agree last year was dire, but the few before that were ok here weatherwise  ;)

This year the cold spring made many crops late and caused problems with rotations and follow-on crops, because the first crops were still in the ground when the second ones should have been planted   :(

Pumkins and squash went in later than usual, so I hope they have enough time to catch-up and mature.
They're loving this weather, though...............long may it continue  :D
My squash are steaming ahead compared to last year, so I have high hopes for a decent crop this year (fingers crossed!  ::)).  I was pottering on the deck earlier a got a whiff of a glorious fragrance, which my beak finally tracked down to a newly opened Uchiki Kuri flower.  Beautiful!  :)
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Ema

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Re: Best growing season for years?
« Reply #4 on: July 21, 2013, 11:35 »
Everything's growig nicely here too! Really noticeing the difference with the toms in my back garden last year they were slow and in October the remaining fruits started to split with all the rain from a heavy down poor



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