August 2010 Blog Posts (24)

Friday, 27 August 2010

Did anyone see the size of the giant pumpkin plant on Gardener's World last Friday? That Toby fellow was a big grinning fool, very pleased with himself! I'll own that the scale of the thing was quite fascinating, it had radiated stalks out for many metres in every direction, covering maybe 5 sqm.…

So far this summer all my squashes have produced are masses of foliage and male flowers. There is not a sausage fruit wise. Searching this site, I found myself coveting Andy Smith's handsome fruit http://ukveggardeners.com/profile/AndySmith?xg_source=activity]

I wander out…

With the encouragement of Magic Cochin I thought I'd write a bit about vegetable breeding. If you want to see what I've been up to in greater detail, the additional pages on my blog - www.vegheaven.blogspot.com will give you more.

I won't try and say it all - you'd nod off! This time I'll do tomatoes. I didn't find it terribly easy when I did my first tomato cross 2 years ago. Since then I've been prescribed reading glasses! You…

It's a war out there. That's what.

We (and by that I mean our plants, but they are so much a part of us that it may as well be our very human selves that I speak of here) are attacked constantly from all sides and there is no platoon 'watching our 6' no, we have to have sharp wits about us and fight tirelessly in each of our battles. We have so many enemies, so many opposed to us growing and eating our own. They come from underground and eat the roots, there is the…

The welcome drop of rain over the past few days combined with the continued flannel-like humidity has put me on blight watch in my garden and up at the plot. I have a number of tomato plants here at home, plus quite a few maincrop varieties of potato up at the allotment all in a potential state of vulnerability. At least my wuthering and worrying has been calmed down a little by the discovery of a really useful website called…

I need some help with this one; I'm growing these squashes in my south-facing front garden. Currently got about 5 of these and they are getting quite large (size of a small football). Can someone tell me what it is called as I've lost the original package. Also, can I eat it? Not a problem if I can't…

As someone in her mid twenties I'm currently stuck (as millions of others are) in the mid way of not wanting to rent, but not being able to afford to buy a place of my own. This has resulted in my partner and I moving in with her parents, which isn't as bad as it sounds, but the biggest downside, (as the in-laws are both keen gardeners) is the total lack of control I have over the garden and therefore very limited to what fruit and veg I can grow!

So long story short I have…

Little Lucy and Isabel, two of my Lavender Pekin Bantams, especially for 'Threadspider'.

Sue…