Comments on: Six on Saturday – June 30th – successes and failures

By: Paddy

Paddy — Sat, 21 Jul 2018 09:25:46 +0000

That’s a shame with your raspberries 🙁 No failure is good, but the failures for no reason has to be the worst!

Thanks – I thought it looked like a kind of thistle, but it didn’t seem to look like a true thistle to me!

By: Lora Hughes

Lora Hughes — Sun, 01 Jul 2018 12:12:10 +0000

Wow, you’ve had some hurdles in your garden, but hopefully you’ll get some fruit in the end. Your poor broad beans . . . I’ve wondered if having an allotment in a community allotment area makes it harder to protect your plants from pests. You’re a bit dependent on your neighbours to keep things under control. On the plus, I would imagine there’s more self seeding volunteers to choose from.

By: Jim Stephens

Jim Stephens — Sun, 01 Jul 2018 10:05:01 +0000

My broad beans didn’t get a single aphid or any of the other problems you had. They grew very well, to about three feet tall and had masses of flowers and eventually set about three pods per plant. And most of my autumn raspberries have just not come up this year. I hate the failures where there is no apparent reason for them.
I think 3 is possibly common knapweed.