Anyone with an allotment?

I didn't bother last year but I did miss them a little (so did the kids) so thought two plants would suffice. Should have actually stuck one in the ground but was rushing and unprepared as usual.

loving this. Pretty sure that a courgette bigger than my forearm counts as a marrow anyway

FREECYCLE

Could anybody use 10L of this (4 tins)

https://www.toolstation.com/cuprinol-garden-shades-exterior-paint-25l/p31147
?

Bought to paint shed and then moved house and gave up plot ( :( ) yours for £0.00 if you can come and collect, but I will accept interesting beers/produce/jams in trade. I’m in far flung SE, BR7 postcode.

I’ve inherited this pear tree. Does it need pruning? If so how?

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Any idea what these are?

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I'm gonna say apple, apple/pear, cherry, cherry

I agree ☝️

Cool cool cool. Do any of them need pruning or any special care?

The first Pear needs the high shoots bringing down and let the centre have some space back in them all. i.m.o.

Cherry can be pruned now iirc, Pear & Apple tends to be done in winter.

Definitely trying this!

Thanks for the advice. I should get some time for this tomorrow. It’s too wet to be moving horse manure around

@rhb has got it!
Take out any branches that are damaged first.
Then any that are crossing over each other.
Then have a good look round the tree and try and create some air flow in the middle. Make sure your clippers are clean and clean them again between trees.

Lettuce after potatoes seems to be going ok.

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Lovely those. Are they under fleece?

How are you stopping them being eaten?

Just under a mesh tunnel cloche, more to keep the birds off when I planted out the little seedlings than anything, but I feel it retains moisture a little better with that on than without. @Light_EDDed I put nemaslug down earlier in the year but I think the weather is doing most of the work for me. Barely a nibble.

Queensland blue squash doing some climbing. Little Uchiki Kuri in the background. One squash I thought was going to make it but seems to have died back in the heat. Anyone think half of it might still be ok?

Loving that almost every squash flower I look in has a bee in it.

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Little haul today. Also a few chillis and took home all the onions and garlic we’d strung up to dry.

Want to make chilli oil this year - dry or fresh chillis? Do I just pop them in or heat up the oil with them in?

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Do I just pop them in or heat up the oil with them in?

Heat, else botulism risk apparently.

Good to know, thanks

I moaned on here about a month ago about my sweetcorn being very poor this yr - at the time they were about 18 inches tall. The sunshine, a load of fertilizer and the recent rain have now got them up about 5 or 6 feet high so now happy

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Lovely. My sweetcorn has sadly been a total write off. Only looking like I would get 4-5 reasonable cobs off it and when I went up there yesterday about 4 of them had been eaten by something. Teach me to not prepare the ground properly. Genuinely gutted. Had such a great crop last year.

Noire de Crimee ...

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Why has my spinach done this?

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Looks like it has Bolted?

https://www.rhs.org.uk/vegetables/bolting