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One of my Black beauty courgettes is growing with a weird split in its stem, do I just ignore it or should I cover the split stem over with compost.
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Cover it over - it will root into the compost with a new stem root. I had a partially snapped one - applied a sticking plaster and sank the join into below ground level and it is doing fine now.Whooops - now what are the dogs getting up to? -
Thanks Jeanie I'll nip out now and cover the split with compost.
its covered and the extra compost should help stop the plant rocking in the wind.Location....East Midlands.Comment
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*note to self .........remember sticking plasters for the lottie
I usually just cover over with compost but I like the sticky plaster idea Jeanie
S*d the housework I have a lottie to dig
a batch of jam is always an act of creation ..Christine Ferber
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The kids in the gardening club at school all thought I was nuts when I told them to put a plaster on it! Nothing I have done since has convinced them otherwise
Whooops - now what are the dogs getting up to?Comment
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and of course we all know that you're not a nutter.......
S*d the housework I have a lottie to dig
a batch of jam is always an act of creation ..Christine Ferber
You can't beat a bit of garden pornComment
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Hope you said "There, there, there" when you put the plaster on Jeanie!Granny on the Game in SheffieldComment
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Of course, Flo! I didn't kiss it better though, 'cos courgette stems are a bit prickly...Whooops - now what are the dogs getting up to?Comment
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Whilst I am impressed with your dressing Nurse...not entirely sure I would have buried the patient. I have always been given to understand that you never plant curcubits deeper than they originally were. Perhaps the application of a lollypop stick splint?Comment
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