How Does Your Garden Grow?

[DennisCA]

Got 150kg of apples this year, turned into 72 liters of fresh pressed juice (do you call this cider like the americans do?)

 

[Seadog]

Got 150kg of apples this year, turned into 72 liters of fresh pressed juice (do you call this cider like the americans do?)

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Only if it's fermented.

 

[DAPPH]

No, it was once common practise but it was no better than leaving it open plus it prevents growth from eventually callousing over. I did buy a pot and tried it on a couple cuts of a neighbours tree with the rest left open. It will be interesting to compare over time.

There is a method I would like to try which is when removing a limb, to take the cambium layer off and graft that over a cut, essentially sealing it in a natural way and greatly reducing the open time. However it may be time consuming and delicate. It would probably require a flush cut (bad) for the graft to sit properly. If the graft takes, all is good. If it doesnt and decay sets in, a flush cut removes the barrier that would otherwise stop decay moving down the trunk.

Alison uses such stuff a lot of the time on her Bonsai trees , so far in 12 or so years we've not had any problems with cut ends being protected ,, However she does use neat meths to sterilize the wood area to be cut and her cutting tools so as not to transfer infections . ..we tend to do the same in the glasshouse when using securers to trim up or harvest our toms too..

 

[DAPPH]

No, it was once common practise but it was no better than leaving it open plus it prevents growth from eventually callousing over. I did buy a pot and tried it on a couple cuts of a neighbours tree with the rest left open. It will be interesting to compare over time.

There is a method I would like to try which is when removing a limb, to take the cambium layer off and graft that over a cut, essentially sealing it in a natural way and greatly reducing the open time. However it may be time consuming and delicate. It would probably require a flush cut (bad) for the graft to sit properly. If the graft takes, all is good. If it doesnt and decay sets in, a flush cut removes the barrier that would otherwise stop decay moving down the trunk.

Idea ????

Have the flap hanging down and use stainless steel pins & stout nylon washers / strips to hold it tight to the main cut bark area then go daft with a roll of cling film to properly bind the flap to the tree ? . Check it after say a month to see if it has taken ?

 

[Kram]

Young small wood like a bonsai should have no problems callousing over. Thenproblem of decay is when removing 3" plus sized limbs it will take forever to close up.

Mangos replanted in slightly bigger pots and with a perlite mix to help drainage and aeration, the compost was very wet after yesterdays rain. I hurt the big one, the tap root snapped off surpised how little root growth there was.

I have a 3rd mango seed that has sprouted a root so I have potted that too.

 

[Sergei Slovenija]

First tea from the first grass harvest. Let's see how the day goes. Horse dose of phytoecdysteroids.

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[Sergei Slovenija]

Now I have a lot of my own seeds for next year. I need to sharpen the shovel and buy drip irrigation. There will be a lot of work. In the first year, the grasses are very weak and spend energy on root growth.

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[Seadog]

Well here's a new one to me. Prickly ox tongue.

 

[Onoff]

@DAPPH Towers as I've christened it is loving this rain:

https://flic.kr/p/2qbSq5N

Not sure how I'm going to support the fruits inside:

https://flic.kr/p/2qbSq5n

The outside ones should be easy enough:

https://flic.kr/p/2qbKva8

I've found you have to be quite attentive that they don't grow through small gaps where the mesh joins and strangle themselves:

https://flic.kr/p/2qbSqsm

 

[ukracer]

@DAPPH Towers as I've christened it is loving this rain:

https://flic.kr/p/2qbSq5N

Not sure how I'm going to support the fruits inside:

https://flic.kr/p/2qbSq5n

The outside ones should be easy enough:

https://flic.kr/p/2qbKva8

I've found you have to be quite attentive that they don't grow through small gaps where the mesh joins and strangle themselves:

https://flic.kr/p/2qbSqsm

My guess is that you won't get much of it this year as winter is closing in.

 

[Onoff]

My guess is that you won't get much of it this year as winter is closing in.

I was a bit late. Mind I was late last year. Had a small crop of small fruit but the taste was amazing.

 

[ukracer]

I was a bit late. Mind I was late last year. Had a small crop of small fruit but the taste was amazing.

I meant many food items grown in the UK are late this year. My tomatoes in the garden are full of yellow leaves.

 

[Pigeon_Droppings2]

Finally the aubergines have started to appear...I was getting worried that I wouldn't get any this year!

 

[Pigeon_Droppings2]

Chilli was an experiment...seemed to do quite well and produces about half a dozen for not much effort.

 

[Onoff]

Finally the aubergines have started to appear...I was getting worried that I wouldn't get any this year!

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Do you have to grow them in a greenhouse?

 

[Pigeon_Droppings2]

Do you have to grow them in a greenhouse?

Before I had the greenhouse I used to grow them outside - definitely doable but then you need a bit of luck with the weather to get a good amount of return. They really need a good couple weeks of hot weather to get them producing.

They seem to be a bit late this year...theres other people on the allotment growing outside and they've also got good fruit.

 

[Onoff]

A couple of yellowing leaves on my butternut squash:

No I've not watered the leaves in strong sunshine, just the soil. The only time the leaves have gotten wet is when it's rained:

https://flic.kr/p/2qcgcgP

 

[Pigeon_Droppings2]

A couple of yellowing leaves on my butternut squash:

I've not had luck growing in containers...seems to constrain growth (or I'm doing something wrong!). My cucumbers were in containers and they just weren't happy so I just stuck them in the ground and away they went.

Is yellow a sign of nitrogen deficiency?...I can't remember for sure....it looks healthy enough but got a way to go I would think based on when mine looked the same.

I've also got squashes on the go this year....it's my first year growing them so not really sure what I'm doing yet!

 

[Onoff]

I've not had luck growing in containers...seems to constrain growth (or I'm doing something wrong!). My cucumbers were in containers and they just weren't happy so I just stuck them in the ground and away they went.

Is yellow a sign of nitrogen deficiency?...I can't remember for sure....it looks healthy enough but got a way to go I would think based on when mine looked the same.

I've also got squashes on the go this year....it's my first year growing them so not really sure what I'm doing yet!

Bit tricky to plant mine in the ground now.

I did mean to make a bucket of nettle soup, the one that reeks of wee as it rots. Then dilute at 10:1. Supposed to be a great nitrate rich fertiliser.

Is it too late I wonder?

 

[droopsnoot]

Threw out a tomato plant and several chilli or pepper plants. None had any flowers on, so even if they appear now I doubt they'd have had time to turn into actual fruits. They certainly won't now, and it saves me going out to the other greenhouse to water them. Some more aren't far behind them - they have flowers, but nothing else.