Has anyone else found yellow Harlequin ladybirds feasting on their raspberries? This on top of wasps gorging themselves has left me with about 50% of my normal crop ????. I even found wasps eating my runner beans this year.
Just watched G/W from Friday and the RHS are asking gardeners to report certain pests , sorry can't remember them but might be worth having a look at there site
Some. (assuming you mean bananas!) All fruit and veg have at least a little, as long as they're fresh and raw. Tomatoes, peppers, blackcurrants and citrus are best. Potatoes too, but not much left by the time they're cooked.
All my swede/turnip seeds have been bought in France, which doesn't help to distingish between the two as the language on the seed packet is in French.
Sorry, GWRS, this doesn't answer your Q, but I get confused between a swede and turnip, I'm sure there must be a difference but not sure what this is, hopefully someone will be along shortly to answer both our Q's?
As for shape - some swedes are sort of egg-shaped rather than round - just the way they are. Is that how yours are GWRS?
Zoomer - I may be mistaken here, but I believe that the French don't consider swede to be suitable food for humans and its not grown there (other than on farms as fodder for cattle). So I suspect that your seeds may be turnips which are very popular in France.
I would point out that I consider the French to be mistaken - I will be tucking into my 'bashed neeps' (mashed swede) tomorrow with my haggis and leeks.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
One reason for sprouts 'bursting' is that the soil is not firm enough. I prep my soil in the autumn by digging an 18 inch wide and deap hole, filling it with compost, manure, lime and Growmore, tamping it down with the end of a small plank, bit by bit, as I go along. I also use that area where I am going to plant the sprouts as a walkway so that the soil becomes really firm. When planting the young sprout plants, I do so really firmly. I always plant 'Roodnerf' sprouts which grow to around 5 foot tall so need firm staking. I seldom have sprouts 'bursting' and the flavour is delicious.
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Has anyone else found yellow Harlequin ladybirds feasting on their raspberries? This on top of wasps gorging themselves has left me with about 50% of my normal crop ????. I even found wasps eating my runner beans this year.
Just watched G/W from Friday and the RHS are asking gardeners to report certain pests , sorry can't remember them but might be worth having a look at there site
StRuth , not encountered your problems
how much vitamin C is there really in bnanans?
Some. (assuming you mean bananas!) All fruit and veg have at least a little, as long as they're fresh and raw. Tomatoes, peppers, blackcurrants and citrus are best. Potatoes too, but not much left by the time they're cooked.
Swedes , most of mine are not round but thin , anybody any idea why ?
All my swede/turnip seeds have been bought in France, which doesn't help to distingish between the two as the language on the seed packet is in French.
Sorry, GWRS, this doesn't answer your Q, but I get confused between a swede and turnip, I'm sure there must be a difference but not sure what this is, hopefully someone will be along shortly to answer both our Q's?
http://topveg.com/2010/07/the-difference-between-swedes-and-turnips/
As for shape - some swedes are sort of egg-shaped rather than round - just the way they are. Is that how yours are GWRS?
Zoomer - I may be mistaken here, but I believe that the French don't consider swede to be suitable food for humans and its not grown there (other than on farms as fodder for cattle). So I suspect that your seeds may be turnips which are very popular in France.
I would point out that I consider the French to be mistaken - I will be tucking into my 'bashed neeps' (mashed swede) tomorrow with my haggis and leeks.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
One reason for sprouts 'bursting' is that the soil is not firm enough. I prep my soil in the autumn by digging an 18 inch wide and deap hole, filling it with compost, manure, lime and Growmore, tamping it down with the end of a small plank, bit by bit, as I go along. I also use that area where I am going to plant the sprouts as a walkway so that the soil becomes really firm. When planting the young sprout plants, I do so really firmly. I always plant 'Roodnerf' sprouts which grow to around 5 foot tall so need firm staking. I seldom have sprouts 'bursting' and the flavour is delicious.
We just call 'em all turnips up here pansyface
Mashed, with copious amounts of butter and black pepper is how you have them. I don't...but that's just me
Don't have haggis either
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Dovefromabove , some are indeed egg shaped but some are round !
Have to say Turnips have been great this year , the small ones o/h justs roast whole , Abosultely delicous
Had swede , turnip , spouts and artichokes from allotment with dinner yesterday
Did ask O/H to see if Morrisons had a Haggis , which I do Like but they where to big as she is not that keen on them , so didn't buy one
Happy Burns Night
ps do like a dram of Malt
or 2 