nick615 i post on usa forums too. but you uk ers are a stubborn and lack a lot gardening common sense. but I've seen this same basic question posted on vegetable message board in both countries. there have been many post like original poster lack math and temporal awareness of vegetable growth and maturing cycles and what effects it.
war garden 572: I deeply resent your assumption regarding my maths & temporal awareness. I have been gardening for over 65 years and have run a successful business for many of those years as well. I have never been rude to anyone on this forum as you seem so happy to be and on many of my queries I make them even though I know the answers because there are many "beginners" out there who may benefit from the knowledge of other more experienced gardeners who will respond to queries I (& others) raise. I was taught many years ago that to "Assume" make an ASS out of U and ME!
I have been seriously ill for some months and am just recovering but it meant a couple of things 1. I was very late getting back to my gardening & 2. Thought processes are not as quick as they once were so asking for help is a very good way of renewing my interest! Oh! and 3. The benefit to my wife who has been an absolute "Brick" (to use a typical British term) looking after me as she sees our garden blossoming and blooming again. John Harding (Original Poster)
@John Harding, I'm glad you're able to enjoy your gardening again. I thought your post was very valid considering the strange weather ( at least in the SE) that we've had so far. My peas are similar to yours, I'd put it down to the weather, but as you say it's interesting to hear from other experienced gardeners, we never stop learning. When I did my apprenticeship, many moons ago, one of the senior engineers used to say that he knew enough, to know that he didn't know everything . Wise words and something our WUM should take on board. I hope your recovery continues and good luck with the peas, I'll post when mine flower( sown on 22/4).
I think that this WUM does not actually "grow" vegetables but has an obsession with books/articles etc which he/she has accumulated over the years on how to grow them, therefore puts themselves forward as an expert?
War garden has been posting on US and UK forums for many years under various names that I know of … his old posts on gardening and cookery forums are easily recognisable for their style and content … the instruction not to pinch out tomato sideshoots and the correct spacing of sweetcorn appear regularly, and the only authentic way of cooking Chicken Maryland has been repeated ad infinitum … and then there was the Yorkshire Pudding -v- Popovers debate … I’m aware that he is no longer able to post on several forums … the only thing he seems to have learned is exactly how to walk a tightrope.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Hi Shauna2021, glad to learn my thread is useful to someone else. I will post on here the result (if any) of the Epsom Salts treatment. Probably safest to wait & see if I’ve killed mine off first!🫣 John H
My peas have literally just started flowering in the last couple of days - no dose of the salts required! Perhaps they heard us? Fingers crossed yours do too!
Hi Shauna2021, Just a line to let you know that despite the rude and offensive comments from war garden 572 it just demonstrates how wrong (he/she/it) is. My peas too have started flowering yesterday (8th June). I have decided to just ignore war garden 572 in future treating it with the contempt it deserves and will not respond in any way to its posts. Hope all goes well with your peas. John H
Thank you punkdoc. As I posted earlier Thompson & Morgan suggested Epsom salts diluted in water to encourage my Aubergines to flower and it worked like a dream. Peas may be a completely different issue but having given them some ES earlier this week they are now flowering OK (but that is quite possibly coincidence). I have some Potassium in stock so will also give that a go. I did put some farmyard manure in the bed before planting out the peas. John H
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I have been seriously ill for some months and am just recovering but it meant a couple of things 1. I was very late getting back to my gardening & 2. Thought processes are not as quick as they once were so asking for help is a very good way of renewing my interest! Oh! and 3. The benefit to my wife who has been an absolute "Brick" (to use a typical British term) looking after me as she sees our garden blossoming and blooming again. John Harding (Original Poster)
I hope your recovery continues and good luck with the peas, I'll post when mine flower( sown on 22/4).
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
flowering not magnesium sulfate.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border