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I can't find much, but the RHS suggest that:

"There is very little resistance in most cultivars, but 'Ferline', ‘Legend’ and ‘Fantasio’ are believed to be resistant."

Unfortunately, we now have blight in our little spot of Birmingham. The tomatoes seem pretty badly effected. For some reason, the spuds (Pink Fir Apples) seem OK --- so far. It was the same story last year. So, so disheartening, the tomatoes were starting to look really good.

:-) Unfortunately, the wet August seems to have done for the tomatoes. I guess the lessons learned are to make sure we grow at least some under some kind of cover. I guess another thing is that we really need to be on the ball with preventative spraying. I don't particularly like the idea, but I lik...

Hi Rosendula :-)

Another small progress report, we harvested our early spuds today, or the first of them.

Going to have them boiled, with some of our beetroot and out own lettuce. OK, and a veggie burger from the supermarket, heh!

Hello from Birmingham, Rob :-)

Thanks Thurston Garden, red and Tim&Fatima !

Ratty, you did say to keep posted on progress, so here goes... We harvested the first beetroot yesterday. Very nice :-)

odsox: that is really interesting! I've never seen anything like that on any weather forecast here, even the more in depth ones you get on Sundays.

Lady Willow: that is good advice that I had not considered. Ours are pretty cramped, really, so I must try and do something about that.

Hi folks... Last year, the wet weather meant that all my tomatoes died very suddenly of blight. It was awful to see, just as the fruit was starting to set. I know that blight is a risk when the weather is warm and the humidity is high. My books tell me basically a wet July spells trouble. I guess I ...

Thanks Ratty!

With last years rains we figured it wasn't really a typical year so it wasn't too disheartening (a lot of people I knew had blight trouble last year, for example), and we think we have worked out at least some of what we did wrong.

Glad your patch is going well!

According to this page from the RHS that I just found, courgette plants tend to produce male flowers when day length is short, and switch to producing females as days lengthen. You can eat the male flowers, can't you, I think?

I'm currently trying the iron phosphate pellets, together with nematodes and beer traps. Slug damage doesn't actually seem too bad, but I don't know why. I've got beer traps in, but they aren't catching much at all. Could it be that there isn't much to catch? Seems rather unlikely, perhaps it's more...

Thanks!

I think we'll get to learn what does and what does not work for us, and avoid some of the mistakes. I'm hopeful that we'll have a better year than last year, anyway...

Hi folks, I am just saying "hello" from Birmingham. Fairly new to growing stuff to eat. We tried a few things last year, grown in pots and had a little bit of success with the potatoes and courgettes, but little else (the tomatoes all got blight and died, the root veg didn't really form ro...