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Whilst pruning and tying up some of this years tomatoes, I've noticed much heavier fruit set than previous seasons.

I'm putting this down to a longer period of cooler weather.

Anyone else the same?

Didn’t do veggies this year but my lawn is longer and greener than previous years. My plum tree does have more fruit than the previous three years combined

My plums seem a bit bigger too.

Brodlach wrote:Didn’t do veggies this year but my lawn is longer and greener than previous years. My plum tree does have more fruit than the previous three years combined

What type of plums Brod? (please say Satsuma, please say Satsuma)

Wedgie wrote:My plums seem a bit bigger too.

New glasses?

Wedgie wrote:My plums seem a bit bigger too.

The missus off you?

Footy Chick wrote:

Brodlach wrote:Didn’t do veggies this year but my lawn is longer and greener than previous years. My plum tree does have more fruit than the previous three years combined

What type of plums Brod? (please say Satsuma, please say Satsuma)

Satsuma



Red and yellow with red inside whatever that is

Brodlach wrote:

Footy Chick wrote:

Brodlach wrote:Didn’t do veggies this year but my lawn is longer and greener than previous years. My plum tree does have more fruit than the previous three years combined

What type of plums Brod? (please say Satsuma, please say Satsuma)

Satsuma



Red with yellow inside whatever that is

Not Satsuma. They're the only plums I like, most others are too sickly for me

Satsuma have dark red flesh and they're a dying breed, you can get decent Satsumas for about one month a year I reckon

Should be the most popular plum for home gardeners as it is self fertile (no cross pollinator required) as well as it's taste.

Loving my yield so far this season, thought I'd drop another couple of plants in yesterday.

Sounds like the old fashion "Two Wells fruitless tomatoes".

DOC wrote:Sounds like the old fashion "Two Wells fruitless tomatoes".

If I tried in my area mate even the seeds would get ripped off.

In my backyard a Satsuma, and two apple trees are loaded with more and larger fruit than ever before.
All are small trees - only about 2 metres tall - and were here before I bought this house in 2018.
None had more than a few small fruit until this year. So it may just that they are now the right age to start fruiting.

Lightning McQueen wrote:

DOC wrote:Sounds like the old fashion "Two Wells fruitless tomatoes".

If I tried in my area mate even the seeds would get ripped off.

Only got them to keep the nematodes away....

Tomatoes are going beautifully. Corn not so much.

Booney wrote:Tomatoes are going beautifully. Corn not so much.

Our corn was booming up until a couple of days ago when something, probably a rat, decided to eat about half of each cob. Bastard!

Kahuna wrote:

Booney wrote:Tomatoes are going beautifully. Corn not so much.

Our corn was booming up until a couple of days ago when something, probably a rat, decided to eat about half of each cob. Bastard!

Corn annoyed me, it's probably my favourite vegetable but you get little return for the amount of time and space they take up.

Picked my first cucumber yesterday. Normally swimming in them by now.

Basil just getting a move on.

The thing about corn is they need a truck load of water. Heavy mulch also helps.

Rats can be a real bugger to keep out. Ratsak all year. Sometimes sits there for weeks/months but they always come back.

I had posted elsewhere in here about my garden beds being useless to grow in as something was eating all the leaves of everything I planted in them.

I heard that ground coffee does the trick so I emptied the machine at work a couple of times and took the coffee remnants home to spread around the bases of my stalks for some new cuey's, tommies and cappo's, it bloody well works a treat.

Lightning McQueen wrote:I had posted elsewhere in here about my garden beds being useless to grow in as something was eating all the leaves of everything I planted in them.

I heard that ground coffee does the trick so I emptied the machine at work a couple of times and took the coffee remnants home to spread around the bases of my stalks for some new cuey's, tommies and cappo's, it bloody well works a treat.

A benefit of working in a pub, unlimited ground coffee.