On Saturday, September 22, 2012 2:36:46 PM UTC+1, Ophelia wrote:
"Baz" wrote in message

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Ophelia, you could ignore these trolls.

They feed off of responses and renew their lurch.

Just ignore them, or more precisely, one poster who shifts his or her

nym.

My advice, to be clear, do not respond.

Start a new thread on your subject?



You are quite right! I have said i will post more on that subject and I

will not!



Now let me see ... a thread on my subject ...



My flipping courgettes came to nothing and I have chucked the lot in my

compost bin You do realise I am the only person in the world to have had

a failure with courgettes???? The fact that I was very late sowing the

seeds might have had a lot to do with it, as well as the weather



Not a very interesting topic but I am sulking about it!



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Strange you are happy to go with flow on a thread relating to these operators, and seem to think those who investigated them recently are not telling the truth!

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Ophelia wrote:



My flipping courgettes came to nothing and I have chucked the lot in my
compost bin You do realise I am the only person in the world to have had
a failure with courgettes???? The fact that I was very late sowing the
seeds might have had a lot to do with it, as well as the weather

You're not. I have done that so often that I have given up on
ordinary courgettes - but, THIS year, even the normally reliable
Little Gem, Trompetta d'Albenga and a New Zealand hubbard type
have done very badly. I had to bin one of the Trompetta before
getting any, because of blight, and another has produced NO
courgettes.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

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In article ,
Ophelia wrote:



My flipping courgettes came to nothing and I have chucked the lot in my
compost bin You do realise I am the only person in the world to have
had
a failure with courgettes???? The fact that I was very late sowing the
seeds might have had a lot to do with it, as well as the weather

You're not. I have done that so often that I have given up on
ordinary courgettes - but, THIS year, even the normally reliable
Little Gem, Trompetta d'Albenga and a New Zealand hubbard type
have done very badly. I had to bin one of the Trompetta before
getting any, because of blight, and another has produced NO
courgettes.

Thanks, Nick! It is comforting to know it is not my inexperience that
caused my lack of ...

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Ophelia wrote:
My flipping courgettes came to nothing and I have chucked the lot in my
compost bin You do realise I am the only person in the world to have had
a failure with courgettes???? The fact that I was very late sowing the
seeds might have had a lot to do with it, as well as the weather

I failed utterly with both courgettes and beans this year. Nothing got
past the slugs. It's been very depressing watching everyone else's plants
going for it and mine just turning to skeletons, and no idea why mine are
so much tastier to them than the rest. :'(

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Ophelia wrote:
My flipping courgettes came to nothing and I have chucked the lot in my
compost bin You do realise I am the only person in the world to have
had
a failure with courgettes???? The fact that I was very late sowing the
seeds might have had a lot to do with it, as well as the weather

I failed utterly with both courgettes and beans this year. Nothing got
past the slugs. It's been very depressing watching everyone else's plants
going for it and mine just turning to skeletons, and no idea why mine are
so much tastier to them than the rest. :'(

Thanks, Vicky. It helps to know i am not so totally inadequate.

Oh BTW I can't say mine were munched because wasn't anything much to
munch As for yours, you probably grow them to be so delicious they were
irresistible!!!
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Nick wrote

In article ,
Ophelia wrote:



My flipping courgettes came to nothing and I have chucked the lot in my
compost bin You do realise I am the only person in the world to have
had
a failure with courgettes???? The fact that I was very late sowing the
seeds might have had a lot to do with it, as well as the weather

You're not. I have done that so often that I have given up on
ordinary courgettes - but, THIS year, even the normally reliable
Little Gem, Trompetta d'Albenga and a New Zealand hubbard type
have done very badly. I had to bin one of the Trompetta before
getting any, because of blight, and another has produced NO
courgettes.


It never ceases to amaze me that in such a small country people could have
such different conditions and failures. Our Courgettes have been superb this
year, not able to pick them all before them became too big. The Butternuts
have also done well after a very slow start and the fruit are huge this
year, the problem is, will they get a chance to ripen before the first
frost.
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Regards. Bob Hobden.
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In article ,
Bob Hobden wrote:

It never ceases to amaze me that in such a small country people could have
such different conditions and failures. Our Courgettes have been superb this
year, not able to pick them all before them became too big. The Butternuts
have also done well after a very slow start and the fruit are huge this
year, the problem is, will they get a chance to ripen before the first
frost.

It's not the size of the country, actually - the same is often true
between two gardens a mile away. Microclimate, soil and microflora
and microfauna are all nearly as variable over that distance as they
are over large chunks of the country. That is why we have so many
wild plants that grow in every county, but are local everywhere!

But I agree that it is amazing. I find it particularly so when it
happens over a distance of a mile with no apparent reason - I may
syspect microflora, but that isn't much more of an explanation than
saying gremlins ....


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

Nick wrote

Bob Hobden wrote:

It never ceases to amaze me that in such a small country people could have
such different conditions and failures. Our Courgettes have been superb
this
year, not able to pick them all before them became too big. The Butternuts
have also done well after a very slow start and the fruit are huge this
year, the problem is, will they get a chance to ripen before the first
frost.

It's not the size of the country, actually - the same is often true
between two gardens a mile away. Microclimate, soil and microflora
and microfauna are all nearly as variable over that distance as they
are over large chunks of the country. That is why we have so many
wild plants that grow in every county, but are local everywhere!

But I agree that it is amazing. I find it particularly so when it
happens over a distance of a mile with no apparent reason - I may
syspect microflora, but that isn't much more of an explanation than
saying gremlins ....



A good example of that is a neighbour at home who still has a superb row of
tomatoes out in his garden covered in fruit and no sign of blight (or
Bordeaux Mixture). Yet on our allotments a mile or so away I am the only one
with any tomato plants still alive (just) everyone else lost theirs months
ago.
--
Regards. Bob Hobden.
Posted to this Newsgroup from the W of London, UK

In article ,
Bob Hobden wrote:

A good example of that is a neighbour at home who still has a superb row of
tomatoes out in his garden covered in fruit and no sign of blight (or
Bordeaux Mixture). Yet on our allotments a mile or so away I am the only one
with any tomato plants still alive (just) everyone else lost theirs months
ago.

I have exactly the same problem. My problems with spraing and
eelworm are explicable, but I have not the slightest idea why my
garden is a blight trap.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

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On 2012-09-22 17:05:11 +0100, said:

Ophelia wrote:
My flipping courgettes came to nothing and I have chucked the lot in my
compost bin You do realise I am the only person in the world to have
had
a failure with courgettes???? The fact that I was very late sowing the
seeds might have had a lot to do with it, as well as the weather

I failed utterly with both courgettes and beans this year. Nothing got
past the slugs. It's been very depressing watching everyone else's
plants
going for it and mine just turning to skeletons, and no idea why mine are
so much tastier to them than the rest. :'(

We have sprawling great mounds of courgettes leaves and precious few
courgettes. They seem to have pollinated very badly and while a few have
turned into ugly round marrows while unwatched, they really are very few.
But they're still flowering like crazy, especially the ones that got
dumped on one of the compst heaps last year!

Mine got plenty of leaves and flowers but not actual growing courgettes
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"Bob Hobden" wrote in message
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Nick wrote

In article ,
Ophelia wrote:



My flipping courgettes came to nothing and I have chucked the lot in my
compost bin You do realise I am the only person in the world to have
had
a failure with courgettes???? The fact that I was very late sowing the
seeds might have had a lot to do with it, as well as the weather

You're not. I have done that so often that I have given up on
ordinary courgettes - but, THIS year, even the normally reliable
Little Gem, Trompetta d'Albenga and a New Zealand hubbard type
have done very badly. I had to bin one of the Trompetta before
getting any, because of blight, and another has produced NO
courgettes.


It never ceases to amaze me that in such a small country people could have
such different conditions and failures. Our Courgettes have been superb
this year, not able to pick them all before them became too big. The
Butternuts have also done well after a very slow start and the fruit are
huge this year, the problem is, will they get a chance to ripen before the
first frost.

Pah ... it's ok for some!
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Pah ... it's ok for some!

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"The charity provides direct, practical support to wounded, injured and sick Service personnel, veterans, and their families."

I wonder if this is indeed the case, why ex service people are obliged to use cheap poorly fitting Chinese made artificial limbs supplied by the MOD?

Seems worrying that H4H seems to be telling blatant lies on its merchandising site, unless of course they feel that flashy new buildings are reflective of a desire to provide "direct, practical support" to ex service people?

If even 10% of those helping with fund-raising for H4H were to question where the money actually goes, then I think its pretty that more money would be directed into practical support, and perhaps a little less interest in nice little earners from new build projects?

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It's not the size of the country, actually - the same is often true
between two gardens a mile away.

Or two allotments next to each other!

My neighbour who used to have a plot near ours (before they were ours) said
her husband could never grow beans, but had no problem with carrots and onions.
We have never (till this year!) had a problem with beans, but have always had
whiterot with the onions (which may have come in after she left, I guess) and
slugs and carrot fly with the carrots - to the point where there is barely any
carrot in the carrot!

Bob Hobden wrote:
A good example of that is a neighbour at home who still has a superb row of
tomatoes out in his garden covered in fruit and no sign of blight (or
Bordeaux Mixture). Yet on our allotments a mile or so away I am the only one
with any tomato plants still alive (just) everyone else lost theirs months
ago.

Ah, but that could be difference of variety. Some are a /lot/ more susceptible
to blight than others. And despite what whoeveritwas on tv said, some of the
varieties seem a lot better at 'holding it off' out of the fruit whilst the
stem and leaves lower down have been infected!

Ophelia wrote:
We have sprawling great mounds of courgettes leaves and precious few
courgettes. They seem to have pollinated very badly and while a few have
turned into ugly round marrows while unwatched, they really are very few.
But they're still flowering like crazy, especially the ones that got
dumped on one of the compst heaps last year!

Mine got plenty of leaves and flowers but not actual growing courgettes

Remind me, must nip to the allotment later, cos last time I was there it
looked like the one remaining squash-type-plant (which I had assumed was
a trailing courgette or a pumpkin or possibly a butternut) had managed
to start looking fruity, and it had some tiny patty pans on it! So I may
actually /finally/ get a little squash or two this year!

(The boys will be sad at the lack of pumpkin carving this year, though)