Comments on: Bitter Harvest

By: 2009: the Year in Numbers « Town Mouse

2009: the Year in Numbers « Town Mouse — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 16:32:33 +0000

[...] of unpleasant vegetable diseases contracted by survivors: [...]

By: Dream Garden « Town Mouse

Dream Garden « Town Mouse — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:11:54 +0000

[...] through seed catalogues and planning what will be next year when, of course, there will be no blackleg, and no slugs, and no sawfly, and especially no caterpillars, and everything will germinate and [...]

By: disgruntled

disgruntled — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 08:45:13 +0000

they taste way nicer than lettuce does. Which is fortunate…

By: Jane

Jane — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 21:31:33 +0000

To be honest I cannot believe that you are actually eating pea plants.

BTW I have *two* lettuces that have made it so far.

The pepper plants are doing quite well, at 50% survival against the slug/snail attrition. The main problem is hungry toads destabilising seedlings by snuggling down into the damp soil. I am willing to hazard a guess that slug pellets don’t dig up your vegetables.

By: disgruntled

disgruntled — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:42:48 +0000

It’s all this unacustomed hot weather that’s doing it… So far digging up and picking off the affected bits seems to be working
Nick – bloody Tescos barely stocks broad beans so I have to grow my own

By: Sarah

Sarah — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:55:25 +0000

My potatoes look a bit like that too. I think it must be spreading through the interweb…

By: itsagoatslife

itsagoatslife — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 11:34:49 +0000

Fantastic!

By: bringmesunshine

bringmesunshine — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 11:06:14 +0000

Ah, that is what’s wrong with some of my potato plants. I dug one plant up this morning as it was clearly on its way out, its neighbour looks a bit unhappy too. [insert expletive here]

By: Nick

Nick — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 08:30:14 +0000

Not me; I never said it was fun. Nasty job, rooting around in dirt, nursemaiding uncaring green things. Isn’t that what Tesco’s supposed to do for you?

By: Flighty

Flighty — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 21:11:54 +0000

That’s true but if the one you try is okay then the rest will be within a couple of weeks or so.
Sadly I don’t have that problem this year! xx