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Produce => Edible Plants => Topic started by: cleo on June 23, 2009, 16:41:34
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Any hints/tips??
I know they can be grown(indoors) as I have seen them just a few miles North of here but mine look pathetic.
They are in a soil bed against a west facing wall in one of my green houses-no that`s not a typing error,I had a house built to include a wall.
It`s not lack if water as the cucumber I have amongst them is going well
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I have some too. Lost the packet so started them off rather late. Been on a south facing window sill, and I forgot about them, but when I went to look they are doing remarkably well. Any hints very welcome.
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I bottled it... mine are still in the packet.. ::)
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Now that is the sign of a true seedoholic.
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:o Moi!
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Mine were a disaster last year, I put it down to the weather....................they 'aint doing much better this year!
Have them in full sun this year as I thought they love the heat! ???
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Mine are still in the root trainers as i have not got round to planting them out and they are going outside and can take there chances !
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Mine were cr*p last year, seedlings looked great this year, planted out and they disappeared this this year same as last year. >:(
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I tried them this year; they germinated and looked good on the windowsill, then keeled over and died as soon as they went to a mini greenhouse.
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This all sounds a bit like `okra`-the difference being I have seen them cropping..
Must try harder??
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Mine too. Nice healthy seedlings, turned their toes up as soon as they went outside.
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Mine are outside - started off on windowsill and planted out 2 weeks ago, round a wigwam and covered with a fleece wraparound. Took the fleece off today on the grounds the weather has got about as tropical as its likely to get! They look all right so far...... fingers crossed.
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Decided to grow them up some sweet corn. Twelve corns plants, twelve beans, seemed logical to put them together. If the beans fail I still have the sweet corn.
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failed last year and put it down to the weather. so this year planned to grow them in the greenhouse and started them nice and early in the conservatory where they were growing beautifully till greenfly took them out :-\. plan not to bother with them next year and to stop myself trying I'll put them in a seed swap later this year.
on another note my ohcro was doing especially well till i moved them into the greenhouse early June and into their final growing positions IE black buckets. then they all keeled over and well...... died ::).
but I'm willing to give them another go as i definitely saw these cropping in a greenhouse in Kent not far from my town.
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I had twenty four Okra... with true leaves, a first for me. I put 6 in the sale which sulked in the torrential rain and died. Planted 12 into the greenhouse border and all but 4 died. Put the last 6 into black buckets and have lost one, possibly two... I take it they hate being disturbed.... :-\
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I had twenty four Okra... with true leaves, a first for me. I put 6 in the sale which sulked in the torrential rain and died. Planted 12 into the greenhouse border and all but 4 died. Put the last 6 into black buckets and have lost one, possibly two... I take it they hate being disturbed.... :-\
Yes you may have a point there, i was also thinking this and was thinking to either sow direct into the black buckets next year or into paper pots which can then be planted with out disturbing the plants much. not sure how or if they would cope with being moved from the conservatory to the greenhouse though.
by the way when did you sow yours? i sowed mine back in Feb to give them as long a season as possible.
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I've always found that okra transplants with ease. What compost are you using?
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Just Multi-purpose Erisitc... but they were fine until we tried to do anything with them... are they prone to foot rots? :-\
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Mine failed like a big faily thing last year so I didn't bother this year - looks like they are a bit problematic
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well my okra were great last year (except i hated them)
as for yard long beans well we will wait and see,
at the moment they are growing in the ground and still alive.
they were started on the window cill
lbb
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well my okra were great last year (except i hated them)
How unfair is that.... :'(
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the flowers were so pretty as well, i think i went my saved seeds on to someone,
i hope they germinated :)
lbb
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Yard long beans........were a failure last year in my greenhouse, so mine are also still in the packet this year.
I have got okra to fruit though...... ;)
......just don't mention melon or watermelons...... :-[
Just shows, some years things do well, and you do exactly the same thing with them another year and they are pants. Ah, the joys of gardening! ;D
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melon melon melon melon melon melon melon melon :-*
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I planted my yard long beans direct into the soil around a wigwam on the 9th of June, they are about 6/8 inches high, I've never done these before, I don't even know where I got them from, I just found an envelope with them in in the draw. ??? Out of interest how high do they grow. :-\ :-\ :-\ ;D ;D ;D
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Did I miss something. What is the connection between melons and yard long bean.
Nice to hear they are growing outside Cprnykev. I have mine under cloches and I woulg to take it off. They only have a few inches more of space.
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melon melon melon melon melon melon melon melon :-*
Oooh, some people are just asking for trouble.......... ;)
Sorry it's my fault, see my post above on this thread, it's a running joke. I've been trying for years to grow decent sized melons and watermelons without success....but I'm still trying! ::) ;D
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Wasn't me... ;D
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Out of interest how high do they grow. :-\ :-\ :-\ ;D ;D ;D
quite high so they should be happy with a six foot plus wigwam
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Mine have started to grow again :o :o How far they will get remains to be seen, but they are all there. ;D
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So my three foot canes are a tad small, maybe I'll give them a f*g and stunt their growth a bit. :o ;D ;D ;D
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I planted my beans outside and much to my surprise considering all the comments they are still alive and looking quite perky. Quite attractive shaped leaves, but does not look like a bean at all.
When you mention okra I grew this once, but not very tasty at all. But had fallen in love with Chicken Gumbo soup. Came to the conclusion that the lack of heat had adversely affected the flavour.
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I went to the lottie to check on the yard longs and realised that it was my Cherokee beans that were 6/8 inches high, (cheers Shirl ) the yardys are about 2 inches high so I replaced the canes with 6 foot+ poles. ;D ;D ;D
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Thought I would restart this thread.
My yard long beans are growing slowly. Do not seem to mind being outside. But showing no inclination to climb at all. They are about a foot tall. If they produce a yard long bean it will be three times the height of the plant. Though no signs of that at all. Kept a couple underplastic but the sun scorched some of their leaves, but they are still alive and the growing tip doing well.
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Here is a pic of my yard longs, most of them now climbing up their canes. Continuing to keep fingers crossed!
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Is the fleece to keep them warm or for something else. Mine in a rather windy spot could give them a bit of fleece to keep them a bit warmer. Growing among sweet corn, but the corn will not mind the fleece.
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No, what looks like fleece is actually an enviromesh tunnel over swede seedlings and carrots. The beans are standalone!
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But that has given me a good idea. :) :)
A little wind protection fleece will give them a better time. Top of my site very wind the wind blows across the fields and then hits the hedge and some trees and blows along them, giving my runner beans and sweet corn a bit of a draught. Beans at the end of the row but some still get a bit of the breeze.
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Here is a pic of my yard longs, most of them now climbing up their canes. Continuing to keep fingers crossed!
i could honestly say i hate you ;) :) :-*