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First Harvest!
5 mange tout, 3 strawberries, 4 alpine strawberries, 6 redcurrants!
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5 mange tout, 3 strawberries, 4 alpine strawberries, 6 redcurrants! A good start! I have had only some broad bean tops and strawberries of the new season's crops. Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
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Stewart Robert Hinsley wrote:
5 mange tout, 3 strawberries, 4 alpine strawberries, 6 redcurrants! If you grow chives and rhubarb you can harvest them earlier than this. I also harvested a few beetroots that had survived the winter earlier in the year, and some leaves from last year's chard. I was forgettnig the rhubarb, we've been picking that for a while, but stopped a couple of weeks ago as it was starting to look a bit sad. I pulled all of last year's beetroots which we forgot to harvest last year, and have now gone to seed and threw them to the chickens - they had an absolute field day with them, although they've only munched through the leaves not the actual root (not too unexpected, I guess) If a Dandelion diet makes yolks super-yellow, I wonder what beetroot will do to them? ;-) |
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@mid.individual.net: 5 mange tout, 3 strawberries, 4 alpine strawberries, 6 redcurrants! Nice. I have been picking alpine strawbs for a couple of weeks now but are small, 5p coin size. They kept their foiliage all through winter along with many flowers, should I have maintained them? I thought about nipping here and there but decided not to. I grew them from seed and they are Mignonette, have you any advice for me please. Thanks PtePike |
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PtePike wrote:
I have been picking alpine strawbs for a couple of weeks now but are small, 5p coin size. They kept their foiliage all through winter along with many flowers, should I have maintained them? I thought about nipping here and there but decided not to. I grew them from seed and they are Mignonette, have you any advice for me please. None at all, really, I'm afraid. I grew mine a bit by accident about 6 years ago, in a big pot, and they've kept going ever since. Mine stayed leafy and with a couple of flowers, too, but they don't seem to have suffered from it. 5p size isn't that bad, really. They /are/ alpine strawberries, they are meant to be small. I think mine are a little bigger than 5p size (well, 5p on the main bit, but a bit elongated), but not much. Noticed another handful have ripened since yesterday! I don't actually like them, they're just there for the kids to go rooting through when they remember. :-) Oh, one thing to note - vine weevil seem to really enjoy them, so watch out for vine weevil grubs,a nd don't d othe silly thing that I did before they went in the pot, which was to plant them under a grape vine! |
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: PtePike wrote: I have been picking alpine strawbs for a couple of weeks now but are small, 5p coin size. They kept their foiliage all through winter along with many flowers, should I have maintained them? I thought about nipping here and there but decided not to. I grew them from seed and they are Mignonette, have you any advice for me please. None at all, really, I'm afraid. I grew mine a bit by accident about 6 years ago, in a big pot, and they've kept going ever since. Mine stayed leafy and with a couple of flowers, too, but they don't seem to have suffered from it. 5p size isn't that bad, really. They /are/ alpine strawberries, they are meant to be small. I think mine are a little bigger than 5p size (well, 5p on the main bit, but a bit elongated), but not much. Noticed another handful have ripened since yesterday! I don't actually like them, they're just there for the kids to go rooting through when they remember. :-) Oh, one thing to note - vine weevil seem to really enjoy them, so watch out for vine weevil grubs,a nd don't d othe silly thing that I did before they went in the pot, which was to plant them under a grape vine! Thanks for your reply. I think after your comments that I have grown something I dont like too much either! I took the plunge and planted a grape.....guess where! We live and hope that not too much damage has been done. Thanks PtePike |
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PtePike wrote:
I think after your comments that I have grown something I dont like too much either! Heh. They're a bit of an aquired taste. Certainly not big and juicy strawberries. But they do have a much longer growing season! (start earlier and keep going much later - although last year was a bit odd with our real strawberries growing into late November, iirc!) I took the plunge and planted a grape.....guess where! :-) You may be lucky, and you can get things to treat vine weavil that you just water on, if you're that way inclined. I got sent to pick them out by hand, cos it was "my fault" for putting the strawberries in. :-( Not a pleasant job. |
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: PtePike wrote: I think after your comments that I have grown something I dont like too much either! Heh. They're a bit of an aquired taste. Certainly not big and juicy strawberries. But they do have a much longer growing season! (start earlier and keep going much later - although last year was a bit odd with our real strawberries growing into late November, iirc!) I took the plunge and planted a grape.....guess where! :-) You may be lucky, and you can get things to treat vine weavil that :you just water on, if you're that way inclined. I got sent to pick them out by hand, cos it was "my fault" for putting the strawberries in. :-( Not a pleasant job. In future dont get caught hehe. |
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wrote in message ... 5 mange tout, 3 strawberries, 4 alpine strawberries, 6 redcurrants! You are 18 items up on me!(:-( Alan -- |
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On Thu, 17 Jun 2010 20:17:20 +0100, "alan.holmes"
wrote: wrote in message ... 5 mange tout, 3 strawberries, 4 alpine strawberries, 6 redcurrants! You are 18 items up on me!(:-( I've had loads and loads of lettuce and radish -- (¯`·. ®óñ© © ²°¹° .·´¯) |
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"®óñ© © ²°¹°" wrote in message ... On Thu, 17 Jun 2010 20:17:20 +0100, "alan.holmes" wrote: wrote in message ... 5 mange tout, 3 strawberries, 4 alpine strawberries, 6 redcurrants! You are 18 items up on me!(:-( I've had loads and loads of lettuce and radish Lucky beggar! Alan -- (¯`·. ®óñ© © ²°¹° .·´¯) |
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