Things you wish you hadn't done this year.

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Re: Things you wish you hadn't done this year.
« Reply #15 on: August 05, 2014, 23:03 »
Planted 4 courgette plants!

With you there, MJ!

We've got six, and keep having to give them away to people who really don't want them!

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Re: Things you wish you hadn't done this year.
« Reply #16 on: August 05, 2014, 23:18 »
Planted 4 courgette plants!

With you there, MJ!

We've got six, and keep having to give them away to people who really don't want them!

SIX!! You must be off your trolley Growster!
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Re: Things you wish you hadn't done this year.
« Reply #17 on: August 05, 2014, 23:29 »
Planted 4 courgette plants!

With you there, MJ!

We've got six, and keep having to give them away to people who really don't want them!

SIX!! You must be off your trolley Growster!

Yup!

Trolley overloaded!

Silly, isn't it, but we make loads of friends - then enemies!


(Actually, I've just remembered, we have eight plants down there..;0)
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Re: Things you wish you hadn't done this year.
« Reply #18 on: August 06, 2014, 09:28 »
I wish I hadn't planted 2 kinds of runner and one kind of french beans all on the same frame. They have all intertwined with each other and now I can't tell the two runners apart (one was for picking and the other for drying) ::)
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Re: Things you wish you hadn't done this year.
« Reply #19 on: August 06, 2014, 10:01 »
wish we had been more alert when using our marker pen ( it wasn't permanent ) so now now idea what our 4 diff toms are or our 6 types of pepper etc etc ! Also overloading both the flower beds and window boxes/hanging baskets when seedlings were so small and not thinking about growth and spread !!  :ohmy:
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Re: Things you wish you hadn't done this year.
« Reply #20 on: August 06, 2014, 10:43 »
wish we had been more alert when using our marker pen ( it wasn't permanent ) so now now idea what our 4 diff toms are or our 6 types of pepper etc etc ! Also overloading both the flower beds and window boxes/hanging baskets when seedlings were so small and not thinking about growth and spread !!  :ohmy:
Oh dear! Sounds like I have to take note of this as well!

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Re: Things you wish you hadn't done this year.
« Reply #21 on: August 06, 2014, 10:55 »
Just left my plot for 7 weeks away with work as everything is growing and ripening!!! My friends will enjoy but I am a bit gutted!! Will try not to go away next summer!!!!!

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Re: Things you wish you hadn't done this year.
« Reply #22 on: August 06, 2014, 13:03 »
Just left my plot for 7 weeks away with work as everything is growing and ripening!!! My friends will enjoy but I am a bit gutted!! Will try not to go away next summer!!!!!

Gosh, all that work! I'm not surprised you're gutted. Have a good trip, though.

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Re: Things you wish you hadn't done this year.
« Reply #23 on: August 06, 2014, 15:25 »
not netting romanesco thinking i was safe and had found where a rabbit was getting in ... as the saying goes always next year. growing sprouts .... always next year, hmmm there is a theme going on don't want to think about this year any more ... always next year !!  :lol:
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Re: Things you wish you hadn't done this year.
« Reply #24 on: August 06, 2014, 18:03 »
I wish I had not used cheap netting that I bought from Ebay. Its good for covering the cabbages but its not good for the birds that keep getting tangled up in it. 3 birds have got tangled and died in the netting.

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Re: Things you wish you hadn't done this year.
« Reply #25 on: August 06, 2014, 20:10 »
Not labelled the row where my Ambo potatoes are  >:(
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Re: Things you wish you hadn't done this year.
« Reply #26 on: August 06, 2014, 21:21 »
By the look of it I should have stopped picking my rhubarb!
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Re: Things you wish you hadn't done this year.
« Reply #27 on: August 07, 2014, 07:01 »
Assumed the quinoa wouldn't need staking. The rain flattened half of it. :(

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Re: Things you wish you hadn't done this year.
« Reply #28 on: August 07, 2014, 07:23 »
wish we had been more alert when using our marker pen ( it wasn't permanent ) so now now idea what our 4 diff toms are or our 6 types of pepper etc etc ! Also overloading both the flower beds and window boxes/hanging baskets when seedlings were so small and not thinking about growth and spread !!  :ohmy:
Oh dear! Sounds like I have to take note of this as well!

I had the same problem, even permanent marker pens fade in the sun.

Next year I'm going to write on the label twice - once on the end that is above ground and on the other end that is in the ground where the sun can't bleach it - so once it's no longer readable above ground I can still see what it is - and perhaps even re-write the exposed end.

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Re: Things you wish you hadn't done this year.
« Reply #29 on: August 07, 2014, 08:10 »
I too wish I hadn't grown so many different varieties of tomatoes. 13 in total some of which I have 2 of and lots of them seem to not be doing so well  :(


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