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Fee

Joined: 21 Mar 2005
Posts: 15922
Location: Earth

Posted: Sun Jul 08, 07 7:29 am Post subject:
I forgot about my cucumbers, them too

bingo

Joined: 26 Oct 2006
Posts: 4401
Location: The Games Room normally!

Posted: Sun Jul 08, 07 7:31 am Post subject:
We tryed to get away without using slug pellets. It dosen't work. We use them now.

marigold

Joined: 02 Sep 2005
Posts: 12458
Location: West Sussex

Posted: Sun Jul 08, 07 7:59 am Post subject:

bingo wrote:

We tryed to get away without using slug pellets.

It dosen't work.

We use them now.

Me too, bingo

. The slugs and snails are horrendous this year with all the rain...

chez

Joined: 13 Aug 2006
Posts: 35935
Location: The Hive of the Uberbee, Quantock Hills, Somerset

Posted: Sun Jul 08, 07 10:22 am Post subject:
Basil - grew to a delicious looking four inches then succumbed to greenfly waves sympathetically to Ruby Carrots - eaten by slugs Peppers - eaten by slugs Green beans - eaten by slugs. RIP all. Admittedly largely my own fault - haven't been keeping up with the slug management .

Vic

Joined: 16 Feb 2005
Posts: 387
Location: Sherborne, Dorset

Posted: Mon Jul 09, 07 9:44 am Post subject:
Fennel - 3 rows planted, precisely 4 came up (and one of those doesn't look all that healthy). French beans - one or two have come up and were promptly eaten by slugs. Our first few courgettes - also eaten by slugs (not the plants, tho they're looking frankly miserable) but the actual courgettes themselves. never thought it'd be July and we'd be short of courgettes...

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 45670
Location: Essex

Posted: Mon Jul 09, 07 9:45 am Post subject:
Chick peas 2 sowings, lentils. Slugs got fat...

Behemoth

Joined: 01 Dec 2004
Posts: 19023
Location: Leeds

Posted: Mon Jul 09, 07 9:45 am Post subject:
Pumpkins - rotted away.

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 45670
Location: Essex

Posted: Mon Jul 09, 07 9:49 am Post subject:
Most of my cucumbers, slugged.

cab

Joined: 01 Nov 2004
Posts: 32429

Posted: Mon Jul 09, 07 9:52 am Post subject:
Yep, cucumber plants seem to have disppeared one at a time, each just vanishing overnight Might have two left.

dododumpling

Joined: 14 Sep 2005
Posts: 40

Posted: Mon Jul 09, 07 10:05 am Post subject:
Carrots and lettuces never even sprouted. French beans have been very poor (and of the four plants that germinated, one has been eaten by ... something). Likewise cauliflowers. Raspberries are being eaten by the birdies before I can get to them. Pumpkins (or maybe they're squash, I can't remember what I planted where!) have rotted away.

judith

Joined: 16 Dec 2004
Posts: 22789
Location: Montgomeryshire

Posted: Mon Jul 09, 07 10:09 am Post subject:
My beautiful globe artichoke plants - flattened by last week's gales. Ditto half my broad bean crop. French beans, climbing and dwarf, bloodied, battered but unbowed. Runner bean wigwam has all but collapsed, but there is still life. One winter squash plant uprooted wholesale by the wind and flung across the garden.

Mary-Jane

Joined: 13 Jan 2005
Posts: 18397
Location: The Fishing Strumpet is from Ceredigion in West Wales

Posted: Mon Jul 09, 07 2:20 pm Post subject:

ruby wrote:

Basil grew well on kitchen windowsill - now has greenfly

Isn't that funny? I grow Aloe Vera plants and I always have one on our kitchen window sill and without fail, every year, it gets some bloody infestation. I'm afraid I've taken to using a 'bug gun' (supposedly organic) to kill 'em off.

Andy B

Joined: 12 Jan 2005
Posts: 3920
Location: Brum

Posted: Mon Jul 09, 07 3:23 pm Post subject:
My peppers have flower but no peppers, is it the rain keeping the bees and stuff under cover?

alisjs

Joined: 23 Jun 2006
Posts: 1497
Location: Conwy

Posted: Mon Jul 09, 07 3:27 pm Post subject:
chili plant......stripped to a stalk by snail......maybe I should have sprinkled chili flakes around the plant....bet snails don't like that much!

Vanessa

Joined: 08 May 2006
Posts: 8324

Posted: Mon Jul 09, 07 6:16 pm Post subject:

Hmmm, best cut the list short, as it's depressing thanks to the chilly wet weather.

Cherries, at least 4 different varieties ... fruit just disappeared (locals say it's because it rained on ascention (sp?) day, you don't get cherries if it does that!!) after what looked like it was going to be a bumper crop, can't blame the birds cos they were not even starting to ripen.
Tomatoes, 3 different varieties, blight.
Potatoes, blight.
Squash plants, all bar 2 courgette plants (and even they are small and weedy-looking) MIA
Sugar-snap peas, rotting on plant before they're ready to pick
That'll do ... hope we have better luck next year.

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