Chief Horticulturist @RHSPressOffice All views my own, I apologise for them in advance. Retweeting does not necessarily indicate agreement
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Often celery/celeriac defoliated in autumn by leaf miner but very late and few this year. They don't make much difference to yield at this late season, but so few are easy to squidge to reduce numbers for 2027. #allotment
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Cabbages are toughies, best crop this year. Savoy's usually the most difficult but best this year. Clubroot resistant 'Cordesa' April sown, late May planted in shallow trench filled with water from time to time. No whitefly unusually #allotment
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Digging holes to check rooting where plants unreasonably constrained by dry summer. Top 30ins in great shape full of roots but lacking worms (check pH). Below that soil damp but not yet soft enough to dig deeper. Now what did I do with my pickaxe? #allotment
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Seldom dig, but turning in this mighty weed crop is the quickest way to get ready to plant onion sets. Might as well ridge too to ensure good drainage. Weedfree until rains returned but no doubt rich in nutrients after dry summer. #allotment
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Not sure if this is very bad horticulture, or very good. Sowing broad beans into mypex left in place where overwintered onions were pulled in July weeding as I go. No soil disturbance just the trowel. #allotment
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Unwanted insects often surge in autumn, usually but not always when the crop is almost over as on these purple beans. Generally they decline to very low levels over winter but can get numerous in spring before ladybirds etc active. #allotment
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How much autumn colour has survived the storms? Most I would hope as abscission is not yet well advanced. Liriodendron at Wisley.
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And cauliflowers are back, bare root July transplants have grown remarkably with the rain, just in time as the summer crops go over. #allotment
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Guy Barter retweeted
Newly planted mini cyclamen wilting and falling over?
Check for vine weevil larvae pictured here. They eat the roots of many plants and this grower has failed to control this pest before selling them.
#horticulture #gardening
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Florence fennel swelling nicely, still 2 weeks behind where they should be due to late summer heat & dry but quality good. Frosts soon so fleecing needed before November. #allotment
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Guy Barter retweeted
Masses of pollen being shed - with my help - from male strobili on Atlas cedars now.
#conifer #trees #horticulture
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Hardy peas to overwinter (risky) & Italian ryegrass cover crop, need some rain to sow them, the ground being still very dry. Light rain at the moment, so perhaps at last? #allotment
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Meteorological summer has long finished but with falling temperatures this week we must say goodbye to horticultural summer. No more runner bean flowers (so no more watering, hurray!), but a last flush of the tenderest beans. #allotment
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