I have a old (and rather grubby) Water butt and some plastic pots/trays, I no longer need if of use to anyone. I can leave them outside for contact free collection.
Help! Fungi are appearing on my runner beans and I don’t know whether I should throw them away or what?
I haven’t grown runner beans for many years and in the past always planted the seeds straight into prepared ground.
This year I followed a tip from the Internet and started them off in loo roll tubes. They were slow to germinate and now I have fungi appearing - maybe from the roots?
This was a new bag of compost and I don’t have fungi on anything else I planted using it. I planted sweet pea seeds on the same day, also using loo roll tubes. No fungi on anything other than the runner bean tubes.
The bean plants themselves appear healthy.
They are White Lady runner beans, planted 9th May. I bought the seeds from eBay but from someone with good feedback.
(Edit to clarify: I didn’t buy them from Sarah Raven. That’s something else back of shot.)
Let them dry out a bit and they will be OK, or better still get them in the ground as soon as you can.
It’s just the cardboard being constantly damp, it makes a great atmosphere for fungi… Although why it only affects the beans is a bit odd.
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Thanks @Foresthillnick. I’ll plant them out tomorrow. I only noticed them today and have been in a right fret. When I saw you had posted on the Shannon thread just now, I thought “Oh please, please let Nick see my question. He’ll know what to do!”
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Could anyone here spare some perlite please? It seems like the 100l bags are still available so I wondered if a gardener who uses it regularly enough to have a big bag might have some. I’m struggling to find smaller bags for a sensible price - 4-5 times the normal price is more than the plant I want to repot cost!
Am trialling growing a new tomato plant from a sideshoot I cut off a tomato plant. It seems to have developed one root - been in the glass a week now.
Might be useful (if it works) and you have only one of a type of plant, if you want some backups or where seed is expensive and you want to grow lots etc.
Will update with how it goes.
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I have got 6 or 7 in water but I do this most years to get a later crop. Normally i just stick them in a pot with wet compost and they root in a few days…
Fun though init??
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My lettuce are rotting. Any ideas why?
Rotting from the leaf edges or more in the middle\head??
At the moment anything that goes wrong is put down to heat!
Do you just do this with bush varieties or for cordons also? I’d try a few more but I think I cut everything off, though might try a sungold as I have a greenhouse now so can pop it in once I have a larger sideshoot.
Do you effectively sow less seeds with the idea of doing this each year?
I do it with indeterminate varieties like sungold - I am going to take them off regardless so I usually just pot one or two up for fun and for a later crop. I dont really plant less seed but I get some free plants!
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From the middle, some are OK, some just liquid.
Garlic Question - I’ve never really grown this succesfully but have hope this year!
I think I’ve lost 2 rows to white rot or some fungus, but they are far from my other garlic which is goign well with thick stalks and some leaves starting to now turn yellow.
I realise it’s very early to start harvesting (these are November plantings, mixture of hard and soft neck varieties, but with unusual period of hot and sunny weather could they be nearly ready?
So here we are time to put in a pot (well maybe that was a few weeks ago). Amazing how much it roots from a side shoot stem- makes you understand the value of getting the tomato plants planted deeper each time you pot on.
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Nice ! I had some last night as well - just butter on mine, and for lunch today cold with chives, eggs and mayonnaise- very good!
Have started pulling up some garlic and onions as think I have some white rot. Garlic looking better than last year so far, but got rid of quite a lot that was infected.
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I think they’re ash tree saplings.
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Thank you - I thought they may be some sort of tree.
