Swede

Paul Plots · « **Reply #30 on:** July 29, 2009, 22:30 »

Great to read everyone's postings but a Swede is a Swede is a Swede (unles it is like a wire coat hanger and mine are).... it was nice to read about everyone's everything else (and thanks to those people who mentioned Swede as in Re: Swede) but I really would like to know (if anyone knows the answer and wouldn't mind helping me out) how to stop my Swede being nibbled to death?...Please

This is desperate stuff folks.... I've very few surviving... Suggestions on a postcard will be too late

To stop my Swede being munched by some nasty little critter/s should I:

cover with fleece even though the leaves are already full of holes?
shove a jam-jar over each one?
spray with something deadly?
believe my dad when he says, "Swede can't be grown on that plot!"?
wait patiently (and politely ) for help from the forum?
give up and grow something else in their place?

Is it too late to try again and sow a fresh lot and cover with fleece from the start?

OK. I give up... My dad knows best

mumofstig · « **Reply #31 on:** July 30, 2009, 14:23 »

Don't give up..........they were growing till the damn critters got em!!

Well my baby swede look like they are being washed away

So it looks as if i will be sowing a new lot in pots ready to plant out hopefully when the monsoon season is over

So try again and cover with mesh from the beginning...(a lot of people on here use debris netting over a bit of a frame.)
May not get huge swede, but should get something i think

Paul Plots · « **Reply #32 on:** July 30, 2009, 18:02 »

Quote from: mumofstig on July 30, 2009, 14:23

Don't give up..........they were growing till the damn critters got em!!

Well my baby swede look like they are being washed away
So it looks as if i will be sowing a new lot in pots ready to plant out hopefully when the monsoon season is over So try again and cover with mesh from the beginning...(a lot of people on here use debris netting over a bit of a frame.)
May not get huge swede, but should get something i think

Thanks - I'll give it a go & I've been thinking about buying some debris netting for ages - can't decide which size would be most useful 2m or 3 width.

NASH · « **Reply #33 on:** August 23, 2009, 22:41 »

I planted a hundred seeds in a hundred small peat pots in April, I planted them out Mid May in their final positions and now they are all roughly 6" diameter at the mo, they taste nice too !

Paul Plots · « **Reply #34 on:** August 23, 2009, 23:28 »

Sounds good Nash..... I have one very short row...sown in paper-pots and planted out.

There's so few I almost dug them in the other day but I suppose few is better then none

NASH · « **Reply #35 on:** August 23, 2009, 23:45 »

How many did you sow Learner ?

Paul Plots · « **Reply #36 on:** August 24, 2009, 00:02 »

I stuck two seeds in each of around 20 paper pots..... I then transplated around 20 plants onto the plot....covered them with a foot high wire tunnel / frame as it was not being used and the pigeons are the size of ostriches around here.

My father (who had the plot for years before me) said he had managed to germinate them but not to grow them successfully in 50 years!

Club Root? Flea-beetle?

I wont give up.... I'll see how these do and then try again next year!

Not the same family - but I grow them in the same way...Beetroot = fantastic!

Thompson24 · « **Reply #37 on:** August 24, 2009, 08:55 »

Hi guys

I planted some seed in plug trays a few weeks ago, however I was taken into hospital and a neighbour jsut watered them and never planted out. Is it too late to plant them out in the garden now? and if its ok when will I likely get a harvest?

mumofstig · « **Reply #38 on:** August 24, 2009, 20:43 »

Well, i had some backup ones left...all the planted ones looked ok, so i've bunged in the 'extras' today, covered with a bit of netting......they've got 2 chances...live or die

So my advice would be give it a go....if the weather is kind, we should get something off them

jolly jen · « **Reply #39 on:** August 28, 2009, 16:17 »

Quote from: Bombers on July 29, 2009, 09:37

Quote from: DD. on July 29, 2009, 07:01
DON'T MENTION SWEDE!
mmmmmm... swede my little haul from Saturday...

However, I wish I could grow bl**Dy Cucumbers, I've tried everything.
I put it down to the rubbish weather!

i have no trouble growing cucumbers this year,,bit slower then last thou

Goosegirl · « **Reply #40 on:** August 28, 2009, 16:58 »

I grow quite a few root crops in modules and they seem to succeed as long as you don't delay in planting them. I did my swedes direct as they germinate so well and, in fact, after an April sowing, ended up with three massive roots - one cooked, mashed and eaten with mashed carrot in a thick white sauce (mmm) and two left. I sowed some more a month ago and, reading this, am pleased to know that they may produce a winter crop too. I did water plenty this year as my OH tells me I don't do enough of it and should do it every day when it's hot or every three days if it doesn't rain. I use raised beds and didn't realise how quickly they can dry out.

cudders · « **Reply #41 on:** August 28, 2009, 21:42 »

I just sowed three rows in a seed tray and transplanted when a few inches tall!

Worked a treat and now must have 70 in various sizes.. Taste great..!

Cudders

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