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Lucinda Nicholas – Sweetcorn Keiwa
have been trouble free. Wojtek also found them to be sweet and full of flavour. He sowed a small row direct at the end of June, these have been growing steadily, however in the heat wave he advised that they did wilt, and I had to water more than normal.
Lucinda Nicholas (Salisbury) is trialling the orange Paruche Tomatoes and has sent in a photo to show their progress.
A fuller report will follow from Lucinda post-harvest. Lucinda is also trailing the “Kiewa” Sweetcorn which
Jerry Sutcliffe – cucumber party time
Galloway) reported that his cucumbers “Party Time” have grown well in his aluminium greenhouse- foliage excellent - no pests or disease- good quality fruit and excellent quantity. Jeff started picking them 10th July- excellent flavour. One person he gave one to said it was the best tasting cucumber they had ever eaten. Bumper crop. Jerry has also grown the French Bean “Modesto” and reported that they have grown well in a raised bed- foliage
Wojtek Kuzniar – Beetroots boston
Graham Roberts (Peak District) has grown Celeriac “Neon”. Peter advised he had never grown celeriac before. There was good germination and Graham pricked them out into cells after a week and chose the ten best plants. They were doing really well and then one morning Graham found the slugs had culled four of them. So, the six are left growing well in their pot.
The aubergine “Patio Baby” had 100% very fast germination. Graham advised they are growing surprisingly well, being they ought to have been sown in February. He has a couple in the greenhouse, and four outside. Looking forward to seeing if they set fruit.
Graham’s Sweet Corn, Mirai Gold, he has found to be very prolific, in fact it’s catching up with his sowings of two months earlier ....very impressive. Graham has also found that the carrots “Topweight” had a good
is a super sweet bicolour variety which is looking healthy so far. Also growing the sweetcorn is Andrew Clark (Lancashire) and his daughter Abigail is happy with their progress. He had 100% germination and they are growing well on his allotment.
One person he gave one to said it was the best tasting cucumber they had ever eaten
excellent - pest free/ good length beans and plenty of them – Jeff started picking the French Beans in July and found them to have
an excellent flavour. Libby Archer (also grew the “Party Time” cucumber and “Modesto” French Beans. Libby grew the cucumbers both indoors and outdoors. Whilst her indoor plant suffered from an aphid
Keith Hine reported on
the Glassica lettuce he has
been trailing. Keith found that if grown to full size you get a very big juicy lettuce, but a bit too big for him, however he then grew 5 plants in a container and picked outer leaves as required, this method is better for Keith and they are still growing well, but both methods appear to have yielded very good results. Unfortunately, Keith had very poor germination from the leek seed so cannot comment too much on this product, he put it down to the compost he was using at the time, however.
Jerry (Jeff) Sutcliffe (Dumfries and
attack and is now recovering; her outdoor plant has been producing plenty of fruit. The Modesto French Beans have provided Libby with a big crop but has reported a strange look with a high number of twisted “double” beans with two tails (see photo which compares them to a normal straight bean). If anyone has an insight as to why some might be like this, please get in touch.
The DT Brown Seed trialists, as you know, had a slightly later start, but it’s very encouraging to see our members progress to date.
Peter Fitch – Brassicas germination
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