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    Hi, been lurking for a few weeks and thought I'd seek some expert advice as been made redundant and have been reacquainted with my garden! I will be asking plenty and hope you don't get fed up with me!

    Firstly, my lupins have seeded and I have collected them. Any advice when i shold plant or should I store them for next year?

    Also have been given an aubergine plant - do I need another for it to fruit?

    Thanks in advance guys

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    Hi Mazza, welcome to the Vine. Could you add your location to your profile please? Then it will show up on your posts and save us keep asking.

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    • #3
      Hi Rustylady. profile updated. Thanks

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      • #4
        no idea about lupins but you don't need another aubergine to fruit. They do need very high temps, their flowers are self-polinating like tomatoes, so if it doe shave flowers, just give it a shake or a poke with a brush if you feel like.

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        • #5
          Thanks Taff.... i shall go out for a brew and give it poke now

          Just picked some sweetcorn and cucumber seeds from the pound shop and a lovely poly tunnel cloche. The world is my oyster!

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          • #6
            I think you're too late for sweetcorn this year - save your seeds for next year!

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            • #7
              Hi Rustylady

              Yes I realised, once I'd read up on the cucumbers and sweetcorn that I was too late for this year so I've put them away for next year.

              I seem to have loads of very small white flies around my veg - hoping they won't ruin my crop and not sure what, if anything I can do about them. Is anybody else having the same problem?

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              • #8
                If your lupin seeds are still in the pods, hang the stem of pods upside down and collect the seeds when the pods have dried. Put the seeds in a paper envelope and store them til next Spring. You might find baby lupins appearing all over your garden as they are pretty good at self seeding.
                Rat

                British by birth
                Scottish by the Grace of God

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                • #9
                  I had a lovely blue & white lupin one year (two years ago?) and I saved 100s of seed from it. Not a single one ever germinated

                  My neighbour's common old pinky/purply lupins come back every year
                  All gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.

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                  • #10
                    I've grow lupins from seed and got them to come true. It depends on the lupin! Worth a go though. We've got several Son-of-Lupin plants around the village that came from mine. Then it pegged it! I'm saving the seeds from them to get my own back so to speak. I sow them as soon as they are ripe and dry. If you sow in the autumn of one year you can get flowers the next season.
                    Whoever plants a garden believes in the future.

                    www.vegheaven.blogspot.com Updated March 9th - Spring

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