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What can't you Grow???

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8doubles

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Re: What can't you Grow???
« Reply #30 on: June 29, 2010, 22:27 »
I think it`s a balloon shaped like a swede, it`s nearly lifting nipper off the ground.  :)
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Re: What can't you Grow???
« Reply #31 on: June 29, 2010, 22:28 »
Quote from: Jamie Butterworth on June 29, 2010, 22:12
thats one impressive looking sweede :tongue2:

thank you, it was my first ever swede harvested in February 2008 and looks much bigger when held by a small child  :lol:
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Re: What can't you Grow???
« Reply #32 on: June 29, 2010, 22:30 »
Quote from: 8doubles on June 29, 2010, 22:27
I think it`s a balloon shaped like a swede, it`s nearly lifting nipper off the ground.  :)

well you know what children are like, I told him to hold it up so he did on tiptoe  :lol:
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Re: What can't you Grow???
« Reply #33 on: June 29, 2010, 22:40 »
purplebean:

He's charming...and the swede is impressive.

How fabulous that he was out in the garden with his parents. Well done.
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Re: What can't you Grow???
« Reply #34 on: July 01, 2010, 17:17 »
ON our allotments there seems to be a problem with caulis - my biggest last year was about two inches across. And although everyone else did fine, my french beans grew two leaves then turned their little roots to the sky, as it were, and expired. Ah well, there's always next year.....
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Re: What can't you Grow???
« Reply #35 on: July 01, 2010, 17:21 »
Onions..... they have brought dying to a whole new level for me!
Shame as they do complete a salad a treat!

Where as Bamboo, mint and bindweed are all growing well!
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Re: What can't you Grow???
« Reply #36 on: July 01, 2010, 21:36 »
Ive never grown a good caulie yet,and dont think i ever will.
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Re: What can't you Grow???
« Reply #37 on: July 11, 2010, 22:35 »
Tried to grow a money tree but the damn pound coin wouldn't germinate.
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Re: What can't you Grow???
« Reply #38 on: July 11, 2010, 22:41 »
Butternut squash

Two flamin years on the trot the OH has hoed them off  :mad:
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Re: What can't you Grow???
« Reply #39 on: July 12, 2010, 08:37 »
Quote from: peapod on July 11, 2010, 22:41
Butternut squash
Two flamin years on the trot the OH has hoed them off  :mad:

so nothing to do with soil and location?
OH ? erm not something you can change easily then :lol:
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Re: What can't you Grow???
« Reply #40 on: July 12, 2010, 08:40 »
If he does it again - you just watch her!

Good job it wasn't the peas.  :ohmy:
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Re: What can't you Grow???
« Reply #41 on: July 12, 2010, 09:26 »
 :lol: :lol:
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Re: What can't you Grow???
« Reply #42 on: July 12, 2010, 10:14 »
Beetroot  :( Ive sewn beetroot for the last 3 years and naff all apart from nice looking foliage.
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Re: What can't you Grow???
« Reply #43 on: July 12, 2010, 11:02 »
all soft herbs i have read loads of books and tried lots of different ways they either dont germinate or get so far then wilt i just dont know why. its only my first year but everything else is coming on fine.
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Re: What can't you Grow???
« Reply #44 on: July 12, 2010, 11:43 »
A line that that made me chuckle from `The Simpsons'

  " couldn`t grow stink on a monkey"  :) :)

i hope nobody here falls into that category. :D
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