Vegetable Growing 2024

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  1. infradig

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    Your profile does not say where you are; a region or just the first part of a post code suffices.
    No its not too late, would happily plant sucessive crops up until August 10th, in fact doing so covers the possibility of runner beans suffering if drought persists through July as it did last two years. Its not a big expense after all, especially if you save your own seed year on year. In fact , would be a good reason to grow the later crop just for seed, if you are fed up with beans by then
     
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      Super, I will do that this weekend. Thankyou
       
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      Ha ! Suffolk, land of my fore-fathers.
      Granny was a teacher at the National School, Somerleyton in the late 1800s.
       
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      Thanks for the info, I'd start it in modules under cover and plant out after a month so they should grow away from the flea beetles with them diminishing during summer. I think they'll be fast enough to get a crop here, certainly the quicker varieties.
       
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        Fantastic crop @Allotment Boy ! Unfortunately since I moved from Nottinghamshire to Wales I've found strawberries to be much less prolific. I think the lack of sun is the problem. Also flavour poorer. Marshmello used to be stunning back there, but now, it's meh. Which one do you grow?
         
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        Climbing beans have 4 flowers, 2 white and 2 red. That's it! We had our first big harvest of 1kg (lots for us) by the end of July last year. Just can't see that being the case this year - sad.
         
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          I use to live quite close to Somerleyton, know it well.
           
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          Thanks @CarolineL , I am growing a collection from Marsha**s , Vibrant, Marshmello and Vibrant, supposedly early, mid and late, but typically the early and mid are cropping at the same time. This is their 3rd year since making a new bed and restocking, so this may be peak cropping. I cut off all runners in the first 2 years to get the plants build up.
           
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          I had grown other varieties but found Marshmello to have the best flavour. As I don't have a big sunny patch for them now, I'm contemplating a tower instead. Never tried Vibrant. But raspberries love it here - the canes are full of young fruit.
           
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            I actually prefer Raspberries, but I need to move and renew that bed too. The patch is in decline and being overwhelmed with bindweed, I tried cleaning them up a couple of winters ago, but I really should move them to a new spot. Another winter project looms.
             
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            Picked our first tomatoes today! 5 Sungold from two plants. Very sweet and delicious.
             
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              Just catching up…
              I haven’t yet but if the leaves haven’t increased now they’ve been out all week, I probably will. I usually see a flush of male flowers before the female ones start.

              Tomato plants are finally greening and growing - but all so late.
               
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              Gosh that's early, @Tidemark! My have only just started to flower. They are outside.

              Your strawberries look wonderful @Allotment Boy. The birds keep eating mine. They are eating the mulberries too, but I don't mind, there are masses and I can't reach most of them.

              We had our 3rd helping of sugar snap peas tonight. I just hope we can eat some of the broad beans before we go to the UK next week. Have had 2 lettuces and there are 2 more crispy ones ready to eat.
               
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                Oh @Busy-Lizzie mulberries! I got a plant for my last garden but moved before it started cropping. Was yours there when you got the garden? Or if not, how long did you have to wait?
                 
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                @CarolineL my mulberry is a big tree, been here for years, that's why I can't reach most of them. Someone planted it in a stupid place, right next to the house so I can't put the garden furniture on the lower terrace as mulberries make such a mess when they fall. I also have to have branches trimmed to stop them damaging the roof.
                 
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