On my homour I promise to try and keep my Diary going all through the year.
So, here we are 7th. January 2012
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Just a bit to do, but the Greenhouses are tidy (but a bit too well ventilated at present !!!)
I'm certainly going with the three sister's again this year, but may put Courgettes in amongst them rather than Squash. Certainly the Sweet Corn last year was amazingly good, both in growth and in the taste. I have enough stored to last through to early Summer.
Richard
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Did you grow your sweet corn in the greenhouse or outside? I have never been able to get anything worth bothering with, so this year decided not to bother and will buy it instead. The season never seems either long enough or warm enough here
Chris xx
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I've always done reasonably well with Sweet Corn, but planting them outside in with French Beans and the Squash, they did famously. I didn't get so many Squash as normal though all be it they were enormous, I've still got one on the window sill ripening off now
For me, Squash seems to grow better in pretty rough soil. The best year I've had, they grew on an old bonfire. Best to mound them up a bit as well I've found.
Richard
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Hello Richard, Will you be sowing Broad Beans in pots in the greenhouse or outside? How are they affected by the frost?
On the subject of Sweetcorn, I've tried for the past two years growing some and failed. They grow nice and tall, but I always seem to get a lot of the sweetcorn that don't seem to get pollinated so only half of the cob is edible if you catch my drift. Both years they have been planted in a square shape to aid pollination. I don't really like the stuff that much to be honest so I think we'll buy ours from now on.
Planting out the sweetcorn in more square situations helps the pollonation without a doubt. I think I had plants in a 4 x 4 situation.
I shall be sowing the Broad Beans direct into the soil, but the climate is a little more friendly here in the south east pocket, so I've never had probs. The prob's come when the Black Fly do !! I've sown them in October once but with little success, late'ish January always works well for me.
On the climate / sowing, John Harrison, when living in Crewe, reckoned he was about 2 - 3 weeks behind East Kent Veggie wise.
Richard
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This is the weather for armchair gardening, you sit indoors and go through the seed packets and have lots of cups of tea and wait for the warm weather to come back.
Mum to Sox and Boo,and hens, Bramble, Belle,Bourbon,Holly,Ivy, May and June RIP Daisy my cat,and Spice, Clara, Alice, Biscuit, Cookie Clarice and Henrietta. Over rainbow bridge, but never forgotten.
Richard wrote:The prob's come when the Black Fly do !!
Richard I had AMAZING success with blackfly control last year. Get some yellow buckets and fill them with water. Place them at the ends of the rows of beans. Sorted.