THE VEGETABLE GROWING THREAD 2018

I've put over 50% of my spring planting onion sets into modules to bring them on quicker than planting into cold, wet, soggy, clayey soil.

 

Best find out when they are in flower before you get too excited

 

Hi @Zigs these look like meat sticks you would add to a barbecue

 

Well @Zigs it's a good size mate ....reminds you of an organ on the male gender

 

More willy spuds today

 

Rhubarb is rhubing

 

@Zigs Your mind wants a good out

 

Your words should have been @Zigs Two more male cockerels

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Warming the onion bed before planting out next week

 

@Zigs is it warm your end then

 

A pot collonised by syphilis.




Ok, Ok, you've heard that one before.

Ahem, Physalis peruviana - a plant which produces an edible yellow fruit the size of a small cherry tomato wrapped inside a paper-like lantern casing.

The seeds were sown in early January.

There have been threads about it before but none showed its progression towards maturity.

So, will these produce fruit this year, and will I get at least 1kg of them...?

 

I'll be interested in this and I hope you do get that kilo

 

9c going up to double figures next week

 

I tried them while back, they grew about 1.8m high inside a polytunnel, had to be tied back to avoid blocking the central path, and not a single berry inside the lanterns developed to a usable size, even if they had ripened.