my veggies so far

I'll just link them as I'm not sure if we are allowed to post pics?

Green beans

Flower on the green beans - anyone recognise them? What are these types called?

aubergine

Courgette

Broccoli

 

Ok, I think I have my courgette and aubergine mixed up??

 

Yes :hehe: ...................... but never the less your produce all looks very well :gnthb:

 

I've always wondered!!! Shame I gave my friend an "aubergine" plant... actually a courgette!

 

Good stuff. My courgette (planted in the ground) also have the white discolouration following the veins, do you know if this is something I/we need to worry about?

 

Thank you JWK, I posted another thread about my caterpillar nibbled broccoli :( I will go look for some netting - would it be a garden centre or hardware type store like B&Q?

I know there's too many broccoli... ridiculously I planted the whole packet of seeds lol then when they all grew I didn't want to just dig some up and bin them, I'd already given some away! Lesson learnt for next time!

Skinmonkey, I have always wondered about the discolouration, I did post about it when the plants was very small and was told not to worry, hopefully they will be ok.

 

lol yes JWK... the whole packet and by the looks of it, they all grew! I did the same with sunflowers.... I ended up with almost 30 plants - Oops!

The caterpillars have this morning moved onto planter number 2 of broccoli, so I'm just going to let them eat them in the hopes that they leave my other veg alone.

 

Looking good Snowbaby.

I once planted a whole packet of rhubarb seeds, thinking they wouldn't all germinate.
Now what can you do with 50 rhubarb plants.
Talking of getting things mixed up, I once gave a sunflower plant to a mate, telling him it was a marrow. He complained that it was trying to grow upwards so i told him it needed pinning to the ground as it grew. Ever seen a 6 foot horizontal sunflower ?

 

LOL ziggy, that made me giggle!!!!

I've lost a lot of my broccoli & aubergine plants between the torrential rain yesterday and the caterpillars. I have 2 aubergine plants and 2 broccoli plants left in the bricked area now :( I bought a bug spray this morning, and sprayed everything. I couldn't get netting (too difficult with a 17month old investigative girl on tow!). So I'll keep going out and checking them. I picked off (ewww!!! ok, flicked off) around 15 caterpillars this morning... they "accidently" fell into the bucket which had a bit of rainwater at the bottom...

 

I wouldn't worry about the courgette leaves Skinmonkey - you're not going to eat the leaves. I find courgettes crop very well no matter what state the leaves are in.