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06-09-2007, 02:17 PM
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 Aubergine woes revisited My aubergine flowers are only just fading now. Will I even get a single small aubergine this year??? We're finally getting a teeny bit of summer weather now. My chillis however, have done pretty well. Lots of chillis ripening. vw      |
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06-09-2007, 03:35 PM
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| It has been a bad year for my aubergines in the greenhouse. I only got three fruit and I had three plants. They were very strange, too. I've never had a massive crop, but I thought this was a poor performance. I'm keeping my fingers' crossed about my sweetcorn - I hope this warm spell will ripen them. |
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06-09-2007, 04:36 PM
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| Well it's quite late, but you never know... |
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06-09-2007, 11:01 PM
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| I think it's been a very bad year for aubergines Veggiewomble. Getting some was one of my challenges for this year. It all started splendidly with the great weather early in the year then it all went to rubbish. They got botritis in the green house (not surprised, it was permanently cold and wet) and in the end I got 3 miserable little aubergines. Oh well, there's always next year. But I did get great chillies. No aubergines to show so have a look at the chillies. 
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07-09-2007, 06:41 AM
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| Yes, isn't it weird, chillis going like mad, aubergines, three varieties, all poor, I did have one outside which was producing well (moneymaker) and the slugs flung themselves over my slug pellet barrier, so eager were they to get to my aubergines and ruin them. Sue |
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07-09-2007, 11:08 AM
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07-09-2007, 01:48 PM
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| Think my slugs & snails are related to yours Sue. I put copper tape around the pot with my aubergine in & still found a snail chomping on the stem on two occasions, I think they abseil down from nearby plants! Here's my puny aubergine after it had been nibbled.
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07-09-2007, 10:14 PM
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| Sue A and Alice Do you think we have got some horrible slug superspecies or are they some crack SAS style force?? My main job tomorrow is slaughter, I am going over the ground round the raised beds with a tooth comb and every single slug, SAS or not is going down a chicken's gullet by sundown. There is no mercy on my allotment. I wanted to eat my aubergines not watch them disappear... Sue |
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08-09-2007, 12:00 AM
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| My husband informs me there are twice as many slugs this year as usual. He says it's official - he read it somewhere but I can't remember where. Anyway, it wasn't the slugs that did for my aubergines - it was the botritus in the cold, damp greenhouse. The peppadew peppers haven't been affected but the tomatoes are rubbish. I'll get a few but that's all. Looking forward to a better summer next year.
__________________ From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs. |
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08-09-2007, 08:49 PM
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 Got a bit excited the other day when I spotted one stripy Aubergine, tiny, but it was there. Then yesterday it had dropped off the plant.
__________________ All at once I hear your voice And time just slips away Bonnie Rait |
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08-09-2007, 09:42 PM
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| I feel abit better after reading your posts. We have grown lots of things for the first time this year (due to actually having a garden to grow in!!) and our aubs have been awful, had a few tiny seed filled fruits but that's it!! Bumper crop of toms and marrows though  |
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09-09-2007, 04:12 PM
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| I was really surprised by our aubergines. I fancied growing them but as we don't get the best weather here I didn't expect to get anything - even undercover! like everyone else they started off well but then were infested with white and greenfly and all the lovely flowers turned brown and fell off. I have to confess that they were then badly negelected, getting water the odd time - but that was it. My hubby and I were getting ready to dump stuff in the compost last week and imagine our surprise when a fruit was lurking under the foliage! I know it is pretty unimpressive but I was pleased!! Plus I wonder if the neglect had anything to do with it?? |
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09-09-2007, 05:57 PM
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| Mine are very thin and a bit pale. Like comedy pencils! I grew them once before - many years ago - but I can't remember what variety those were. These are Long Purple. Well, you can't fault the description I suppose, but Thin Purple might have been more accurate.
__________________ Earth laughs in flowers. Ralph Waldo Emerson www.vegheaven.blogspot.com Updated November 30th - Mr Stinky's Excellent Adventure (and a Christmas Cake) |
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10-09-2007, 01:11 AM
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| Did anybody have good aubs ? This is your chance to shine and share your secrets.
__________________ From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs. |
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10-09-2007, 09:26 AM
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| Yea we had a few good ones Ill get sue to post a picky tomra I got a camra phone now but dont know how to put them on hear  I used chikin pellits and tomaright (tomatto food) had musak for the first time and whent back for seconds I planted them early in pots 2 of the small stripy ones and 2 of the black ones I dont kow if we have done well or not as we dont have anything to comper it to you should see the cucumber 21" (the cucmber that is) and the huge parsnip
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10-09-2007, 12:55 PM
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| I got one, I got one!! Well I ate it yesterday but at least I got one LOL! There is another little baby one deep within a flower that I have high hopes for now and lots of flowers but I have no idea really what to do with them other than give them tomato food and chicken poo! I'll bring it into the house through the winter and nuture it for next year..it's the only plant that will be allowed in! |
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10-09-2007, 01:05 PM
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| Mine have done quite well, I think! I've got four plants with about 20 aubergines on them. I've already eaten a couple and am planning to make moussaka tonight. I haven't done anything special, they were raised in a plastic greenhouse and watered with my home made nettle fertiliser. I had an attack of red spider mite a few days ago, which was a bit alarming but after hosing them down with a water/milk/corflour solution (meant to wash most of them off and gum up and still left!) and isolation in the mini greenhouses, they seem to be ok. They're Calliope F1s, which have the huge advantage of being harvestable and edible quite small. I will try and do a pic later. Claire |
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12-09-2007, 09:15 AM
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I was ready to plant some more seeds Yes we got next years seeds already  spent £20 when wyvales had seeeds at 50% of
__________________ Some things in their natural state have the most VIVID colors Dobby |
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12-09-2007, 10:26 AM
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| Aubergine were one of the things I was going to try next year (along with peppers) but looking at this thread, the peppers sound to be the easier of the two. Has anyone had success with augergines outside, or are you all growing them in the greenhouse?
__________________ Hazel www.hazelandjanesallotment.blogspot.com update Sun 30/11/2008......Indoor Allotmenteering too!..... |
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12-09-2007, 10:59 AM
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| Hello Hazel, I bought 6 plants from the local "garden centre" and just stuck them in the ground outside and didn't fuss them at all. Sorry, not very technical but I did manage to produce 3 aubergines. I am not kidding myself that it was a bumper crop but I did get them big enough to make ratatouille with some of the many the courgettes (note to self: just 2 courgette plants next year )bisous, Scarey
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