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hi there just wondering has anyone out there grown sweet potatoes and have you heard of a hot bed just come from my allotment my cabages look like they could be used as a seive my carrots r the most unusual shape and my cookumbers got nobbles but the good news is i got no weeds or beetroot cos i accidently hoed them up i realy dont want to use chemicals on my plot so any ideas to stop these minibeasts from eating my veg wbw oh but iv got loads of toms in my greenhouse an they r doing realy well

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More like a question, Bogwitch, but we're flexible. I know of a couple of organic remedies for holey cabbage, but I have heard that they aren't available in the UK: spinosad and Bacillus thuringiensis kurstakii. Twisted and forked carrots are usually caused by too much rock or organic matter in the soil. Carrots like a lean, sandy, well sifted soil. The shorter kinds, such as 'Royal Chantenay', or 'Thumbelina', can take adverse soil better. I don't know what "nobbles" are, but many kinds of cukes have spines when they are growing, then get warts as they get older. There may be nothing wrong with them.

4 Aug, 2010

 

thanks for adv i think my nobbles r your spines im glad i havent cut them down now i no u can still eat them thise is my first year having an allotment im still trying to find diferent things to grow so its all trial and error but mostly error for me

4 Aug, 2010

 

That's how I learned! I think I've killed at least one of everything I know how to grow.

4 Aug, 2010

 

We are growing sweet potatoes. They haven't flowered yet. They like lots of water to get established at first and don't like the cold. will keep you posted on how they do!

5 Aug, 2010

 

that would be great i heard there r two types a vine and an earth like to no how u get on where u planted an when how long do u have to wait bf harvesting them thanx

5 Aug, 2010

 

Sweet Potatoes don't need to flower to produce, but the tubers don't swell until the nights are getting short. We usually harvest them here in late October, but I would be surprised if you could wait that long in the UK! There are probably varieties that do better in cool climates, but I don't know which ones they are.

5 Aug, 2010

 

IS THER DIFRENT TYPS OF SWEET POT I HEARD THAT SOME GROW ON A VINE OR IS SOMONE ON MY ALLOTMENT PULLING MY LEG

9 Aug, 2010

 

All the sweet potatoes that I have grown have been a more or less bushy vine. We normally just let them sprawl over the soil, but you can grow them up a trellis. Sometimes that interferes with mounding soil over the stems, though, depending on the situation.

10 Aug, 2010

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