Growing Sweetcorn, Rubarb, Watermelon HELP

I have started a vegtable patch for the first time. Last summer i tried growing watermelon but after the plant got about 3 inchs high with 2 little leaves at the top the all fell over, snapped and died. This year i have grown sweetcorn, Rubarb, Watermelon, Cucumber, Tomatoes and some others. They are all getting to about the high where they are looking like they are going to fall over a few started so i have propped them up with some sticks and gentally tied them with string. I am growing them inside at the moment in the side house which has a plastic see through roof so its kind of like a green house.

I have looked on many sites but non of them say that these plants usually cant support them selfs and to prop them up.

Has any one got any usful information that will help me.

Many thanks

Susie

 

Watermelon, Cucumber and Tomato [if they are Indeterminate/Cordon type, rather than Determinate/Bush type] need supporting - or be allowed to trail along the ground.

You need supports strong enough to take weight of both plant and fruit I use a bamboo cane, with the top secured to the top of my greenhouse to stop it falling over with plant, fruit and all

 

Thankyou thats great. When i checked on my sweetcorn yesterday one of them has reached about 8 inchs high and started to bend over as if it was going to snap, so i have propped it up.

Also my rhuarbarb is just green steam and leaves so far so i have proppered them up as they looked like they where goint to fall over. I will get sum piccys up 2night.

I am also growing pumpkin, radishs, carrots, strawberrys, tomatoes (with are very tiny and thin atm) mmm can rememeber what else. Any other info would be very much appriciated.

 

Sweetcorn and Rhubarb should be able to stand up by themselves (although the outer leaves, and stems, of a mature Rhubarb will flow down onto the ground).

Something wrong if your sweetcorn won't stand up! A picture would help

 

I was actually thinking about that earlia. I have started de weeding my very very over grown garden and am planning to plant them out side over the weekend. Do you think they need any covering over them because the weather is so up and down at the moment? I dont want them to die.
1st photo: Pumpkin
2nd: Rhubarb
3rd: sweetcorn
4th: cucumber
5th: melon

 

"I would say they are stretching for the light"

me too, the sweet corn should be more "stocky" than that.

Have them been on a window sill or similar?

If so I would make a "reflector" with tinfoil. Cur a cardboard box in half, the open side will face the window and have the plants in it, line the inside (which will be the back) with tinfoil, so that more light it reflected and provided to the plants. It doesn't need a lid.

They need to grow on a bit before planting out (and some need to be past last frost, but I reckon you are alight on that in Brentford - 1st of June is my target date to be past last frost.

 

Hi thanks thats great. I will deffo start putting them out during the day. The side house that they are in at the moment has a see through roof and one window on the side. Im so glad you said that, i was planning on just planting them straight out side soon. How long does it take for the sweetcorn to start flowering or growing?

 

Oh also i forgot to ask. Where im planting them do they need to be in full sun light all day?