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  • I don't have one personally,  but one of my fellow plotholders has one and it's very successful. 
    AB Still learning

  • Today's pick of tomatoes. 7lb . At last the Roma are ripening,  it's been a bad year for blossom end rot on them, have lost at least half.


  • GWRSGWRS Posts: 8,478
    @purplerallim , a good selection of Toms , should have a few waiting for us when we get back of hols 
  • I lifted the last of my late spuds the other day ,nearly half were riddled with slug holes.  It's going to be a lean winter. ☹
    AB Still learning

  • If I remember correctly your plot suffers a lot with slugs doesn't it? My spuds have been lifted, sweetcorn is all done and the cobbs that we had were very good after I thought this year wouldn't be any good for sweetcorn, courgettes slowing down now, couldn't keep up with cucumbers I think that more has gone to compost than has been eaten, runner beans cropping well now, borlotti beans look like a decent harvest after I hadn't seen any blossom, Autumn raspberries just coming into their own now, apples don't look much good and strangely most of my pears have disappeared again I can't work out where they are disappearing to, still have two sowings of lettuce and kohl rabi to eat, digging the plot over as the ground becomes vacant don't want to risk leaving it till winter.
  • GWRSGWRS Posts: 8,478
    @barry island, you need  wildlife camera to see what's happening to your pears 
  • My apples have skin damage,  but most are ok when cut into. The cucumbers have produced more than I can use, hence 16 × 2 portions of veg soup in the freezer. As hubby brought me two red peppers tonight,  tomorrow is tom soup/sauce day.
  • GWRS said:
    @barry island, you need  wildlife camera to see what's happening to your pears 
    That might go missing too.
  • The only thing missing in my garden is my tub of London Pride. I had a 12" pot full to overflowing that I had been growing on all year, and overnight it all went, not just pulled out but gone, root,plant, the lot. Just an odd leaf left, not like when birds pull it up and throw it about, nothing. And the next night even the odd leaf was gone. No idea what might have taken it.🤔
  • @barry island on our plots the obvious culprits would be  squirrels,  or (sadly) 2 legged predators.  
    AB Still learning

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