Bees on allotment

[alanf]

Variable. Earlier varieties of plum caught the dry but sunny weather in March and have a decent crop, later varieties caught by frost. Similar apples, if they happened to blossom and set between the worst of the weather they have done OK.

Very wet until a couple of weeks ago and a lot of tomato blight around already. After a lot of late blight last year I thought I'd try some blight resistant varieties this year. They're behind schedule, but that's mostly because of the weather. Looks like being a serious test of resistance.

 

[psafloyd]

Everyone has lost their toms on our sites.

 

[madasafish]

Everyone has lost their toms on our sites.

My greenhouse tomatoes are doing very well. Should be a record crop

Don't grow outside: too cold.

Wasps? Saw lots of queens March. None since. No wasps on the rasps. Expect the wet and cold April and May killed most off..

 

[busybee53]

Makes sense about the earlier crops getting polinated in the nice weather we had earlier.

Yep we got blight here. I had one lot of potatoes with blight which I dug up and got a good few, but could have been twice the size if I had left them longer. Got another lot of potatoes which might have escaped.

Grown three tomato varieties. One is ferline (blight resistant). I notice one row seems to have got the blight. Now I wonder which row was which? Won't know till they crop, but I might pull out those that seem to have it bad so it does not spread.

I have heard that if you make sure they do not get wet then blight has no effect. This means watering from the bottom and erecting a sloping polythene roof over the plants. Bit too much work for me.

The toms I have at home look fine and are about as tall as me with loads of blossom. I am hoping for good things from them.

 

[Suzi Q]

With ferline I found they succumb to blight a couple of weeks later than non-resistant toms. (grown outside) I tried that sloping polythene roof a few years ago, it blew down