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Gardening 2008

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see my PM but looking at the first pic again looks like insects to me. Spraying will save them and protect them from future attacks. keep a really close watch on them mate and repeat spray if you spot a return.

things like courgette and cucumber are prone to mosaic virus which is spread by aphids
 
I think GEMs right. One of the signs of insect attack is the leafs curling, which you seem to have.
 
Have you gardeners got your tenderlings covered?
Quite a lot of the UK is in for an early morning gound frost tomorrow.
 
Just to let you know, I managed to get my tree upright!
We loosened the soil around it and pushed it upright and tied it off.
Now its standing up its about 9 foot tall!!
 
My courgette plant looks like downsizers, what do I spray with?

Also my potatoes are in a big half barrel and coming along nicely. I keep on having to dump a an inch of soil on every couple of days. When would you think about lifting them? They have been in about 4 weeks now.
 
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Inch High PI said:
My courgette plant looks like downsizers, what do I spray with?

Also my potatoes are in a big half barrel and coming along nicely. I keep on having to dump a an inch of soil on every couple of days. When would you think about lifting them? They have been in about 4 weeks now.
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I use Pravado bug spray ready made up from B&Q. ! sprayed everything in the greenhouses and the garden I was bothered abut before leaving for my hols. Your spuds sound like mine, once you put the soil to the top of the barrel support the growth on cans around the sde of the barrel. Lifting depend on variety, I have a little grub around the bottom of early spuds when the flowers are in bloom and lift thm when thy are big enough. Maincrop let the flowers die first and the haulm start to die back.
 
On gems recommendation I bought that pravdo stuff and it seems to have arrested the problem...just waiting to see if they recover.
 
Inch High PI said:
My potatoes are in a big half barrel and coming along nicely. I keep on having to dump a an inch of soil on every couple of days. When would you think about lifting them? They have been in about 4 weeks now.
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Keep earthing them up until the barrel is almost full and keep them moist, in a tub they will dry out much faster than ones in the soil. Many views on when to lift them. Some say lift them around 12-16 weeks after planting, or for small spuds lift them just after the flowers have gone or for larger spuds leave them until the tops die down. I tend to lift mine just after the flowers have gone which gives nice golf ball size "new" spuds nice with a bit of butter and mint.
 
Tin basher said:
Keep earthing them up until the barrel is almost full and keep them moist, in a tub they will dry out much faster than ones in the soil. Many views on when to lift them. Some say lift them around 12-16 weeks after planting, or for small spuds lift them just after the flowers have gone or for larger spuds leave them until the tops die down. I tend to lift mine just after the flowers have gone which gives nice golf ball size "new" spuds nice with a bit of butter and mint.
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dead right about the watering TB. New spuds are usually ready from about 12 weeks but if you are gentle when the flowers are blooming you can uncover a few and see how they are progressing and cover them up again if not ready without arresting their growth. The beauty of growing in barrels is if you used decent compost when the haulm has died off and the ground is dry you can cover th barrel to stop water getting in and just lift what you need as and when you need them. I leave mine in the barrels till well into late Autumn.
 
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It's catching

It's catching

Checked my indoor peppers tonight leaves curling as others have said on closer inspection bl00dy green fly. Squashed loads with my fingers then sprayed just have to see if they are OK. Strangely just one plant affected the others are untouched.
 
Tin basher said:
Checked my indoor peppers tonight leaves curling as others have said on closer inspection bl00dy green fly. Squashed loads with my fingers then sprayed just have to see if they are OK. Strangely just one plant affected the others are untouched.
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Greenfly bloody love peppers and chillis. at the risk of sounding like an advert Pravado bug killer dos the business and is safe to use on veg plants.
 
I just harvested 90 bay leaves from the bush in our back garden.
I removed a small branch about 18" long two weeks ago. Hung it upside down in the kitchen, and today removed the leaves which are now nice and dry.
Wrapped up in a poly bag, and in my herb/spice drawer.
They should last me till next year.
Not bad for nowt.
 
Oh Feck

Oh Feck

It was all going so well. Indoor peppers, toms and chillies various all flying along. Outdoor stuff veg and flowers all going great guns, beans up to the top of my 6ft fence already, earthing up spuds, thinning out carrots, etc then I looked at my grow bags. Toms are poor they look like the indoor ones did a month ago but the peppers have been mashed. 3 to a growbag and at best they are 3 inches high (indoor ones 18 inches high) all planted indoors at the same time. The outdoor ones have been scoffed by something (Slugs??) only one left per bag now and they are in a right sorry state, twisted gnarled leaves and limp as wet spaghetti with stems like damp cotton, time to scrap the out door ones unfortunatley. Have I over watered them or is there a garden pest to blame?? Much the same happened last year but I put that down to the very wet summer. I reckoned they were to far apart and outdoors so ruled out damping off. Any thoughts???
 
Not sure mate, but if it's any conselation my outdoor toms are looking none to healthy either...only things thats going well is the spuds.
 
I've got 6 outdoor toms in 3 hanging baskets. They struggled last year as they caught potato blight, but this year they seem to be doing well................
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All seem healthy, with plenty of flowers considering the abysmal weather we've been having, but I do cover them with polythene at night, untill we get into June.
 
grumpyoldb said:
I've got 6 outdoor toms in 3 hanging baskets. They struggled last year as they caught potato blight, but this year they seem to be doing well................
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Interesting, I think I could have this on my toms...what would it look like?
 
Downsizer said:
Interesting, I think I could have this on my toms...what would it look like?
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Here you go mate.
Have a look at this..............

http://www.dgsgardening.btinternet.co.uk/potato.htm

Last year I had a big problem with it. It seemed to come with the damp weather.
I cut off all the affected leaves, and sprayed with diluted epsom salts on a daily basis for a month. I fed the plants with phostrogen once a week for 4 weeks until the plants recovered the foliage.
There are some people who will tell you not to give a nitrogen feed to tomatos, but when you have stripped a lot of foliage off, they need to recover.

I ended up with a bumper crop. I didn't weigh them, but at the hight of the season I was cropping 40 toms per week.
This year I hope to beat that, and puree and freeze the excess.

Good luck.
 
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Well the leaves deffo don't look like that, more of a yellowing...
 
Downsizer said:
Well the leaves deffo don't look like that, more of a yellowing...
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Could be a similar thing mate.
I would suggest a google search for tomato diseases untill you find an image which looks like your problem.

It usually isn't terminal. Just a bit of care and attention.

Sorry mate, that wasn't very helpful of me.
Have a look at the link. It explains the various pests and diseases, and how to cure them.
http://www.trygardeningwhich.co.uk/article.php?p_id=20&jlnk=csl0100

Hope you have luck with them.
 
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