2017 GROWING THREAD

Amaze-balls! It set!? From asda honeydew melon!


Sugar baby set!?


So friggin' excited!

 

I like your melons Linz, can't wait to see em swell

 

First picking of runners this morning. The previous 2 years my locations earmarked for runners got waterlogged and didn't dry out towards the end of June, so last autumn I covered up a patch, removing the polythene in late May and rotorvated to a fine tilth, then overnight there was torrential rain that turned it into 6" deep mud.

 

Had a good look at my red and black currant bushes today as to why I have no berries, lots of growth but not a berry on either.
They have been covered with berries for the last 2 years.


Not a sign of any starting at all what's gone wrong, the smaller one we did move last year to make way for building work.

 

Did you prune them @Jimcub ? They only fruit on old wood

 

Tend to agree with Zigs....both bushes look "over" pruned Jimcub.
Even so I would have expected one or two though ........no birds around? Blackbirds? Squirrels?
Look delicious Zigs

 

Blah-stard birds have pulled out all my recently sown peas.. not a happy bunny Netted the first 3 lots.. lesson learned: must net all blinking peas Didn't touch my leeks, though!

 

Mozzaic Virus, it's all over for my melons

 

Thats a shame zigs!

 

You been smoking?

Rubber glove method should help pevent contamination

 

Read about that ^^ too..

Ah Zigs! If it any consolation I just ripped my melons off their "supports" and re done them, they look awful.

 

That sounds painful, @Linz

 

It was..

Still is.

 

No never pruned we had so much building work and it's not finished yet, a lot of jobs in the garden never got done.
Old bones don't help as well.

I will prune this autumn and wait till next year.