what does anyone think?
brassicas when they went out
Frantic Gardener on May 22nd 2011
april 20th - over a month a go. they all look healthy!
argh do i have club root??
Frantic Gardener on May 22nd 2011
we have never had the problem here or in Leeds, so not exactly sure. However, we def has some kind of root prob. I commented before about how of the pak choi we have some looking brilliant, but most looking v sad. Most of the sad ones now dead, when i pulled them up there was negligible root. just one central spike. however, it didn’t look all clubbed and yukky, just not enough side branches.
Now the caulis are looking sad, gone yellow and wilty. [they are in the same bed] eep!!
Q - even if the roots are not all clubby, shall i suppose this is it, and pull up all the plants now that are not looking beautiful?
Q - or could it be that it has just been tooo dry for them to make good roots
odd tho that some in the same 4 foot bed looking really good
Q - since mostly brassicas in that bed, should i sprinkle lime on top anyway, just to help [carrots and peas right at the far end]
grateful for thoughts! oh, we have alot of farmland devoted to oilseed rape around.
Certainly next year i will pot them on until much bigger before planting out. Haven’t done that before as worried about giving them a ‘check’ but the RHS site suggests a 3.5 or 7″ pot, so worth a go. And will specifically lime the bed.
Currently have watered v well, and put rooster pellets down, and now considering whether to sprinkle lime
working a lot this week
Frantic Gardener on May 21st 2011
so not so much time to even garden frantically. a quick water is really all managing, but most do a weeding shortly! today spent a couple of hours on essential maintenance, tho could get called into work at a moment’s notice, so can’t do anything too big or get too messy!
Sown
the rest of the twinkle peas in situ. think none germinated before due to parched soil. so soil where sown is as mud, and will try and keep topped up with water!
Germinated
the second emergency sowing of pumpkins are germinating too. should have a lot in the veg bed then! The climbing bean blauhilde have germinated. when a bit bigger will plant out
awaiting the climbing bean cobra and the direct sown runnerbean…
Planted out
the rainbow chard, into bed 4. look v nice there. there are a few that didnt fit, so maybe DH will place in his square foot bed.
Harvesting
the rocket and a few salad leaves. the peapods on the first twinkle sown looking big, so hopefully not long, we have some green tomatoes and some green strawberries. i think the goosegogs nearly worth a try. 
the broad beans are some way off tho.
Maintenance
Need to keep those pesky rabbits off the veg! so have gone round the outside with chicken wire with 2 ad hoc ‘doors’. Wouldnt keep anything really determined out, but hoping that it will work for our domestic rabbits, as they have loads of other interesting places in the garden they can go [and lots of dandelions to nibble!]
Problems
1/2 our pak choi look really brilliant, 1/4 have died and the other 1/4 look pathetic. on uprooting one, there were hardly any roots. is this a pest? or just unfortunate??
something has been nibbling our pea leaves again, and it isn’t rabbits.
To Do:
1. plant out sweetcorn and the single pumpkin that is big
2. pot on all the new little pumpkins and squashes
3. get tomatoes supported.
dwarf gold french beans
Frantic Gardener on May 16th 2011
flowering in the greenhouse some early french beans for us - hopefully!
