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Weird growing year!
Is it just me or has it been a weird growing year. Very hot and no rain
meant 6.30 am visits to the allotment to water (watering cans only allowed) yet despite that all ripe tomatoes so far have had blossom end rot and especially Indigo Rose. That and Tom Brooks are supposed to be early tomatoes so they miss the blight, not had one ripe fruit off them yet. Last year most of our chillis went red, this year, although the plants have grown huge and are covered in chillis, not one red fruit. Brassicas have done well and Tenderstem Broccoli is worth a recommendation even if it's difficult to find the seeds. Of course the peas Early Onward and beans were hit by the heat so about a half crop. Potatoes have grown well and the earlies were excellent, we did water them by throwing buckets of water between the rows. Now at home I notice that the Muscari are growing leaves, obviously confused, unless I've got some that flower twice. -- Regards Bob Hobden |
Weird growing year!
On 31/08/2018 15:43, Bob Hobden wrote:
Is it just me or has it been a weird growing year. Very hot and no rain meant 6.30 am visits to the allotment to water (watering cans only allowed) yet despite that all ripe tomatoes so far have had blossom end rot and especially Indigo Rose. That and Tom Brooks are supposed to be early tomatoes so they miss the blight, not had one ripe fruit off them yet. My outdoor tomatoes for once have done unexpectedly well. In a normal year it really doesn't get hot enough for them. But this year it did! Last year most of our chillis went red, this year, although the plants have grown huge and are covered in chillis, not one red fruit. Chillis are also monster plants but mine are ripening OK. Courgettes on the other hand are barely hanging on - in a normal year we would be heartily sick of them by now but this year we have yet to get a first fruit that grows to an edible size before it drops off. Brassicas have done well and Tenderstem Broccoli is worth a recommendation even if it's difficult to find the seeds. Brassicas were massacred by the cabbage white - the only butterflies in garden until last weeks hot spell. BTW saw a hummingbird hawkmoth last night so things are looking up in the fun butterfly department. Of course the peas Early Onward and beans were hit by the heat so about a half crop. Peas and beans never really got going here. Blackcurrants were OK if a bit small. Raspberries useless and blackberries also pretty hopeless. Potatoes have grown well and the earlies were excellent, we did water them by throwing buckets of water between the rows. Spuds are still in the ground. I should dig some up soon. Apples and pears have branch breaking levels of fruit on them. Now at home I notice that the Muscari are growing leaves, obviously confused, unless I've got some that flower twice. Chaenomeles is back in flower so it is very confused. Other spring flowering things look like they might come back into flower too. -- Regards, Martin Brown |
Weird growing year!
On 31/08/2018 15:58, Martin Brown wrote:
Chaenomeles is back in flower so it is very confused. Other spring flowering things look like they might come back into flower too. I've got Kerria japonica and Berberis x stenophylla flowering at the moment. The other thing this year has done is cancel my autumn raspberry crop. They're now forming flowers, but I expect the frosts will get them before the fruits mature. -- SRH |
Weird growing year!
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@meden.demon.co.uk says... The other thing this year has done is cancel my autumn raspberry crop. They're now forming flowers, but I expect the frosts will get them before the fruits mature. My rapsberries are fruiting noow, not got many canes as they were new last year, but the fruit is qite large and juicy. -- Roger T 700 ft up in Mid-Wales --- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. https://www.avg.com |
Weird growing year!
On 14/09/2018 22:51, Stewart Robert Hinsley wrote:
On 31/08/2018 15:58, Martin Brown wrote: Chaenomeles is back in flower so it is very confused. Other spring flowering things look like they might come back into flower too. I've got Kerria japonica and Berberis x stenophylla flowering at the moment. The other thing this year has done is cancel my autumn raspberry crop. They're now forming flowers, but I expect the frosts will get them before the fruits mature. I have a well established hypericum against a north facing fence. It usualy flowers spectascularly in late spring. This yearb it began to flower as usual, butv then stopped. I n the last week or so it has just begun to flower. Peculiar behaviour Malcolm, on the south coast close to Portsmouth --- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. https://www.avg.com |
Weird growing year!
On 03/09/2018 09:42, Roger Tonkin wrote:
In article , says... Is it just me or has it been a weird growing year. Certainly a strange one for blackberries (wild ones). We've been picking them here now for a month, and they are just coming o an end in the local fields. In Oxfordshire a couple of weeks ago they were only just starting, as they were on the Gower last week. - Now I know that no doubt there are differing varieties that fruit at different times, but in all my many years of picking, I've never picked in August before, usually Sept/Oct and I even remember one year picking into November, at which my mother threw a wobbly, because it was after Halloween! Also got a second crop of peas coming, I did not get round to clearing them after we picked them all, then noticed new shoots coming out with flowers and now pods on them. Slightly similar with the broad beans. I cut them down when finished and leave a short stalk and the roots in the ground until I dig in the Autumn, but again this year shoots have appeared and flowered - not sure if they will ripen though. There seems to be plenty of berries/rose hips etc around, which according to the old wives tale shows we are in for a bad winter :) Yesterday I noticed that 2 of my Rhododendrons are in flower, the heads are only carying around 6 flowers each but both shrubs have around 15 to 20 heads in flower. |
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