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Morning Light: The Fetchland Gardening Wire

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Flatlander Aug 2017 3:36pm, 25 Aug 2017 833 posts	Quote Pin Flatlander I'm enjoying a glut of runner beans :-). Normally, I would have had to water them a lot to get that amount of growth, but this year - no watering at all! Thanks to a good amount of rain at the right times, combined with warm moderately sunny weather :-). I think that is going to be the story with most of my crops - sweetcorn is doing very well, and the brassicas are looking luxuriant.
Wriggling Snake Aug 2017 9:28pm, 27 Aug 2017 16,100 posts	Quote Pin Wriggling Snake Cavalo Nero has been excellent lots left. Courgette glut commencing soon. Parsnips could be good. Lettuce good andc radishes coming on. I should post some pics of my cosmos and fuscias.
Fizz :-) Aug 2017 9:33pm, 27 Aug 2017 2,326 posts	Quote Pin Fizz :-) We had dinner on Friday containing potatoes, onions, garlic, courgettes, tomatoes and basil, all from my little garden. I was very happy (The fish cake came from Tesco!) Oh, and a chilli.
Wriggling Snake Aug 2017 9:47pm, 27 Aug 2017 16,101 posts	Quote Pin Wriggling Snake My big failure this year has been peppers. Zilch. Nishmans.
Wriggling Snake Sep 2017 5:21pm, 16 Sep 2017 16,449 posts	Quote Pin Wriggling Snake Peppers better now. Bif failure has been corgettes. So wet they are rotting. Cabbage is still ace. I wish I had more. Radish and lettuce still going. Parsnips look great...will wait for frosts obvs.
Markymarkmark Sep 2017 6:51pm, 18 Sep 2017 5,755 posts	Quote Pin Markymarkmark My only real success in the garden so far this year has been the shed! I've missed too many critical times to sow, plant, thin, weed, harvest. In fact, of all of the things I've grown, the potatoes are still to harvest and the pumpkins are swelling nicely. There's always another year.
Flatlander Sep 2017 8:14pm, 18 Sep 2017 848 posts	Quote Pin Flatlander Now you've got the shed there'll be no excuse for not planting ;-). It should be a good potato harvest given the amount of rain there has been. The potato plants I dug up as and when I needed them for dinner have given a good yield :-).
alpenrose Sep 2017 8:17am, 19 Sep 2017 28,696 posts	Quote Pin alpenrose Hmm, not much of my garden left at the moment....
alpenrose Sep 2017 8:36am, 19 Sep 2017 28,698 posts	Quote Pin alpenrose
Markymarkmark Sep 2017 11:55am, 19 Sep 2017 5,761 posts	Quote Pin Markymarkmark Gosh, AR, that looks a bit serious! I've been reminded by MrsMMM - onions were good! And we got 3 caulifowers, which was a first. Maybe it's not been so bad.