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RE: Container Gardening Help - 7/14/2008 1:23:15 PM   
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I have a tomato turning yellow!! It'll be red soon.

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RE: Container Gardening Help - 7/16/2008 10:23:05 AM   
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Status: offline 		Nope, am still waiting on the strawberry. It's getting there though .

I have yet to find any tomatoes on my tumbling tomato plants. My Black Russian has flower buds, but they seem to be taking their time about opening . Nothing is happening with the other tomato plants yet.

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RE: Container Gardening Help - 7/16/2008 2:54:46 PM   
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Status: offline 		I've just found my first fruit on my striped tomato and it's been blooming forever!!! I guess sometimes it takes a while.

How long can I expect my zuc and squashes to produce? How many fruit would be average off a healthy plant? I have one zuc that is almost dead and I am not sure if it's just it's time to die or if it's diseased. All the other plants are fine.

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RE: Container Gardening Help - 7/16/2008 2:58:45 PM   
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How long can I expect my zuc and squashes to produce? How many fruit would be average off a healthy plant?
I've never grown squash so I don't know. All I can recall right now is you should cut zuc (I'll never get used to calling them that!) regularly to keep them producing fruit. I'll look in my book later and see what it says.

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RE: Container Gardening Help - 7/16/2008 3:04:14 PM   
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Status: offline 		When you say "cut", do you mean remove the fruit or prune the leaves (or another part of the plant?)

You can call them corg's if it make it easier on you. I know they are the same plant. I'll not call them that though until I can spell it with confidence.

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RE: Container Gardening Help - 7/16/2008 8:22:49 PM   
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Status: offline 		Does courgette (or however you were spelling it) = zucchini?? THAT would explain a lot of what I was reading but not understanding! Is that one regional, I've never heard it before.

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RE: Container Gardening Help - 7/16/2008 11:41:03 PM   
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Status: offline 		yes, and FYI aubergine=eggplant. They are what the English call those items. Aga may even say the correct name for those veggies.

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RE: Container Gardening Help - 7/17/2008 2:37:38 AM   
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Stacy - I was wondering about courgettes too.
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RE: Container Gardening Help - 7/17/2008 9:18:33 AM   
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RE: Container Gardening Help - 7/17/2008 10:20:25 AM   
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You can call them corg's if it make it easier on you. I know they are the same plant. I'll not call them that though until I can spell it with confidence.
That's pretty much the way I feel about the spelling of zuc

Sorry, cutting them is cutting the fruit regulary ~ and then enjoying the labours of your work

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They are what the English call those items. Aga may even say the correct name for those veggies.
I think for courgette/zuc we are both correct. One is from the French, the other from the Italian.

Aubergine is Arabic (via French and Catalan), eggplant is Persian.

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RE: Container Gardening Help - 7/19/2008 5:43:21 AM   
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Status: offline 		I found a tomato . Well, it's just a tomato ~ it's about 1mm diam! But it's there. Maybe more will follow soon ~ my big tomato plants look like the flower buds are about to open. I've several runner beans and a bunch of broad beans ~ one is about 10x the size of the others though! And I have a (single, solitary) flower on one of my climbing bean plants.

I ate my strawberry ~ and I discovered that one of the other plants (that's just sat there) has suddenly decided to go into flower! 'Bout time too if you ask me .

I'm not holding out any hope for my aubergine plant ~ can't find any flowers or buds or signs of them.

My cucumber are doing well though ~ my first one has lots of flowers. I pinched the growing point out on that. My second one (and third) doesn't have flowers yet (and I haven't pinched them out). I'm going to let the second one grow (without pinching it out) and see what happens.

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RE: Container Gardening Help - 7/20/2008 7:59:28 PM   
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I emtied my first bag of potatoes today .

They're classed as 'maincrop' and so shouldn't have been emptied until at least September, but I couldn't resist.

I did get some potatoes ~ and there were lots of teeny tiny (think pea size) potatoes too.

I will wait for a while longer before I empty my other bag!

And I have a whole bunch of tomatoes now

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RE: Container Gardening Help - 7/21/2008 12:53:44 AM   
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RE: Container Gardening Help - 7/21/2008 6:12:07 PM   
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RE: Container Gardening Help - 7/22/2008 8:57:25 PM   
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Oh well, back to regular old plants!

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RE: Container Gardening Help - 7/23/2008 3:27:10 PM   
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ORIGINAL: agapetos

Anything fresh from the garden is better than from shops...


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RE: Container Gardening Help - 7/23/2008 4:45:34 PM   
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Status: offline 		Can you tell a difference in squash and zucchini? I can't. I have experienced that with corn and tomatoes, though. In fact, my bff won't eat corn if it's not fresh from the garden. She says that after having it fresh it's so disappointing to have it stored and transported that she won't eat it.

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RE: Container Gardening Help - 7/24/2008 6:04:36 PM   
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Status: offline 		I won't eat corn unless it's fresh from someone's garden ~ it's taste changes rapidly, rather like peas (though I do buy them).

I think there's a big difference in tastes of most things when they're fresh, as opposed to a few days old (depending on where they're grown/sold). My courgettes taste better (IMO) but this could also be due to variety or the fact I picked them younger.

I can tell a difference with carrots! And strawberries.

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RE: Container Gardening Help - 7/25/2008 5:23:13 PM   
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Status: offline 		Hey, anyone know how you can tell when potatoes are ready to harvest? I dug some up this week because I needed some, but many were still very small. The plants have all pretty much died, the green part of them above ground. Is that normal for potatoes?
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RE: Container Gardening Help - 7/25/2008 7:00:02 PM   
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Status: offline 		I'm pretty clueless about potatoes. I've heard that you should dig them up after they've flowered and the plants have started to die, I've heard that you can dig them up a couple of weeks after they start to flower, I've heard that you shouldn't let them flower (so all the energy goes into the potato!

The potatoes may have been small due to other reasons than the plants dying off ~ not enough water, condition of the soil, etc.

Sorry I couldn't be more help ~ I'd have dug them up if the tops of mine were dying too though.

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RE: Container Gardening Help - 7/26/2008 2:10:49 PM   
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Status: offline 		Thanks agapetos, I've never seen my potatoes ever flower, though I'm assuming they do. lol. Must be pretty insignificant looking flowers.
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RE: Container Gardening Help - 7/26/2008 2:15:04 PM   
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Status: offline 		They're pretty little white flowers (mine are anyhow!). Something that I should have added, but forgot to was that I know a lady who grows veg and she said that she'd discovered there are some varieties that don't flower. Perhaps you've got one of those.

I'm thinking of trying to grow some new potatoes for Christmas. I have a couple of spuds from ones I bought (to eat) but I they don't seem to want to sprout, which is a bit annoying cos I normally have no probs getting them to sprout!

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RE: Container Gardening Help - 7/26/2008 2:25:56 PM   
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Status: offline 		Sprouting potatoes in my fridge every spring is what convinced me to grow them in my garden. Now they just come up every year in my garden. I think they are russets. I've heard some store bought potatoes are treated so they won't sprout.
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RE: Container Gardening Help - 7/26/2008 5:23:00 PM   
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Sprouting potatoes in my fridge every spring is what convinced me to grow them in my garden.

That's how I got mine planted, too. Dh saw my sweet potatoes sprouting and insisted that I try them in the garden. He's great with the I have an idea for you to implement ideas!

Do sweet potatoes flower?

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RE: Container Gardening Help - 7/27/2008 6:20:17 PM   
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