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Old 20-06-2008, 12:39 AM
fixerman fixerman is offline
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Originally Posted by old perennial View Post
If you planted them last autumn to be eaten in spring then they will be running to seed now. If they were planetd thisyear and are 'bursting' may be due to period of drout followed by heavy water. same happens with tomatoes.
They are not old plant as they were planted in the spring and were just reaching a nice size for harvesting. Going on your advice, for which I am grateful, it looks like it's down to drought followed by heavy watering which is exactly what happened.

Many thanks,

Fixerman
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