Help needed

[teresa]

I have cucumber and melon plants just potted up but forgot to lable whoops.
now both look the same one is a lighter green and the other a much darker green.
Any ideas which is which pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

[teresa]

[katynewbie]

 ???

Bear in mind that I am not growing either, and know very little, but does it really matter that you dont know? It will become obvious at some point!!

;)

[glow777]

your cucs may get knobbly stems when they are 4" or so. Melons will be more spindly

[Biscombe]

My cukes always seem darker than the melons, but don't take my word for it!!!!

[growmore]

I agree with Biscombe. Think you will find the darker ones are the cucumbers .Jim..

P.S.Let us know and see if we are both wrong ... :)

[teresa]

Ah bless you all,
No it does not relay matter as both are going to be grown on lottie, but embarsing when plot holders ask what I am growing and I say I dont know it could be ? or ?
They keep an eye on my plot because I try new things each year and I normaly know what I am talking about hee hee.
They cannot remember my name so call me the lady gardener bless I am the eldest woman down there not many of us hold plots in our name so a novelty for the older men.
Will let you know how they develope and what they are? hopefull with pics

[moonbells]

I was given some "purple sprouting broccoli" last year by one of the most experienced plotholders.

A couple of weeks later he wondered out loud if he hadn't given me caulis instead, as he'd not labelled them.

Sure enough... they were! So it happens to everyone - don't worry about it!  I use a permie marker to write on the trays. If you turn them into the light you can indeed read black-on-black... and it's a useful failsafe.

I've lost labels in the past thanks to the foxcubs on our plots. They love biting the tops off the standard types of label. I bought T-shaped ones in the end and they don't touch those... daft brushes.

moonbells

[Meg]

I do that all the time kind of adds a spice to life.

[weedbusta]

it's not the first time someone at the plots asked ' what's that' and been answered ' a wee surprise'  :-[ nice to know i'm not alone.

[teresa]

Well went to check them yesterday and sort of lable them? ha ha
Its like closing the gate after the horse has bolted hee hee. ;D
Darn me something has munched 3 of the dark green ones and not touched the light green ones? :o so got the slug pellets and sprinkled some around.
Then yes you got it forgot to do the lables oh blonde moments :-[

[Grant]

Have got my Cucumber and Melon plants in the smar place and I find Cucumber leaves are bigger.

[amphibian]

I am religous about labelling, but after planting out 60 corn plants and 30 squash plants, I suddenly realised that as soon as I get to the allotment I just bung stuff in and the labels are removed. I always figure I'll know them from their produce.

[Meg]

Potaoes are religously planeted and I draw a plan and put it on the calander so as not too loose and then I dig them up and mix them together just to waste all that technical ideas.

[littlegem]

i always think i've got a good memory! until i've got to remember something. grew 4 types of potatoes last year, threw away bags etc, not a clue what they were when wanted to get same this year! same with pin numbers! use one that i know i'll remember, then dont!  :-[
never write them down, for security reasons! so secure i dont know them myself! its the same with the 'safe' places you put wallets and stuff in! must be safe if i cant find them!!!    ;)

[moonbells]

Heh :)

I remember PINs easily.
However I have awful trouble trying to remember which PIN goes with which card so there's payback!!!!

moonbells

[OliveOil]

Teresa, I'm glad im not the onlly one who does taht!  All my cabbage, cauli and turnips look the same - only 1/2 are labelled. I hvae one lot of squashes not labelled as the chickens pulled them out when they had their feast. I have trays with no idea! I ALWAYS think i will remember and as i pot up i remind myself that i WONT remember, but still ignore myself anyway and think 'I'll do it later!'. LOL

[katynewbie]

 ;D

LOL OO, I do exactly that! Have a heap of brassicas at the moment, some Greyhound, some Hispi...no idea!!

;)

[carloso]

lol i have pumpkin - cougette - soeg squash - dawn squash all neatly done with a sticky label

the problem is the ink has run and faded with watering lol

ok ok so its not that bad but my young cabbage cauli sprouts kohl rahbi look the same also faded lkabels lol

is that a lucky dip lol

[teresa]

Well down lotti I sowed swede and cabbage no idea which is which lables gone missing but there growing.
Checked parsnip thought funny looks like lettuce comming up then I remembered I sowed lettuce on top of parsnip seed so I could see where I set parsnips just incase lable went missing.
carrot and beetroot lables stil in place but I know what they look like typical.
I did do a lottie plant then never got round to filling it in that will teach me. ha ha