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Posted by Paul N (U6451125) on Friday, 1st October 2010
OMG, a whole hour of both Joe and his jokeness, and vegetables. What a waste (for me).
Normally I am not that bothered about veg growing because in the past I have had to do a lot of it.
However it was interesting for me to see what lengths some people go to to reach perfection. It was the people they showed and the tips they gave which held my interest.
It also shows that you cannot go on holiday in summer if you want to grow plants for showing.
I just hope they do one now on flowers, any flowers.
At least we got a GW I expected it to be cut for the aquatic golf...................
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More about veggies; PLEASE!!!!!!!!!
After a disasterous year trying to grow (any) carrots or leeks it is a delight to see the specimens others managed on tonights programme.
The other veggies were as normal, only these two failed to perform for me.
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Being in the area of the big leek competitions I know what work goes in to producing large vegetables only the rewards up here are large for the few who win.
For the rest the cost outweighs the bother of producing things you cannot usually eat, interesting though.
Frank.
To my mind these vegetables are nothing short of being freaks and other than mild curiosities serve no useful purpose. A bit like obesity.
Mind you I've tried and failed yet again to grow garlic, and have just pulled a few up as the tops had died down. The bulbs are(again) barely bigger than my thumb nail. Now if we could be shown how to grow decent sized garlic, I'd be happier.
My carrots (a first for me) have been small and tasty so far and shall grow more next year, not to show but to EAT.
I thought it was wonderful.......
A real feel good programme.
I grow to eat, rather than show, - but if you've got some good stuff, why not show it as well!
Paul N sounds like did feed you garlic correctly.
Was this a repeat?? either that or its deja vu on certain items!!!.
Still easy watching I suppose but still prefer to have seen some REAL vegetable gardening rather than overgrown and pampered "show" items.
Vasarra
From what I've just read garlic should ideally be planted in small pots this month, planted out in the spring then fed fortnightly from mid-June until picked in August. So it sounds as if it was my fault for planting them directly in the ground in the spring and not feeding them (doh)
Paul
I have always planted mine directly into the ground in autumn and never fed them. Always got more garlic that I could possibly eat from 1 bulb bought from the supermarket. The key is an early start.
GT
I wonder if the ground can be too wet to plant garlic. I'm in Glasgow and we have had quite a bit of rain recently and the ground is looking rather soggy.
I thought the 1/10 programme was the best I have seen. Well presented and full of useful down to earth information. Not always the case on GW.
Well done. Lets have more.
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