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Plus netting to keep the birds and pigeons off!

I'm thinking that the amount of fruit you get will already have been determined by how many flowers you had and how many of them set fruit. I haven't looked at mine to check whether I'm right about the timing though.

I imagine you can marginally affect the quality of the developing fruit. The mulch will help to keep moisture in the soil which the growing fruit will need. And the weeding will help cut down competition for moisture and nutrients. And all of your proposed actions will help the long term health of the plant, so nothing to lose and all to gain!

Tomorrow I am going to weed, feed and mulch the gooseberries. Is it too late to do this? Or can I still get a good crop of my favourite fruit?

I just came back to take another look at your wonderful Voodoo Lily !    How's it doing today ?  Debbie 💐

That is wonderful progress Jeannine.  Thank you for doing this to safeguard this very rare variety.  Second potting on already, they must have grown very quickly.  And they should do very well with the way you can grow them.  Sounds like you ended up with quite a number of seedlings making it in the end. 

sorry

Just updating,  yesterday 1 potted on 4 plants , second  potting on, they are now in 1 gallon pots and in my greenhouse waiting for plant out time, so they are cosy and safe. The  rest have gone to my sons acreage, he has tons of room but no guaranteed way of isolating them. I am only growing this one so no problem here.

My fingers are still crossed but I feel pretty safe now.

I don't have a veggie garden as such, just my greenhouse and big pots so these plants are going in a flower patch, it is a long strip 30 feet maybe about 5feet wide and has things like snowdrops in it but lots of naked earth and it is in full sun.  It is the best I can do and I think they will be OK. Lots of room to ramble. I shall probably plant 2 at each end. I did think of planting in half wine barrels and then letting tumble over and  run free on the patch of land, not sure yet...they have to help me save them LOL

Had 1st small picking on Sunday.  Was down at the plot yesterday and noticed that it has started to come on strong now, so with current warmth hoping for next picking tonight or tomorrow.

And early! Nearly a week later mine has still not shown its head. But I shall look more carefully today.

I planted my rather withered Mayan Gold and Mayan Twilight yesterday. I'm wondering whether in future years it's worth giving some fridge space to over-wintering tubers of the two Mayan varieties as they seem to senesce sooner than most other kept seed potatoes. They always have carried on to produce though.
I have saved seed from Mayan Gold too but haven't yet tried it out. As it's an outbreeder I'm assuming it's unlikely to come true but on the other hand it's apparently quite difficult to cross a diploid with a tetraploid so I'm uncertain. It looks like I'm just in time to try it this year even though I thought I was at capacity!