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Post by sweetleaf on Sept 16, 2007 17:29:44 GMT 1
 sounds like you've been having fun cheery and been driven to two gc's is something I can only dream of  I need to go GC shopping for Onion sets, fat chance that that will be soon. |
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Post by emseypop on Sept 16, 2007 17:31:50 GMT 1
we got some from the kh show, very pricey tho!
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Post by alicat on Sept 16, 2007 23:04:38 GMT 1
I've been in the garden a lot this weekend  I know that it may seem wasteful...but I dug out my tomato and cucumber plants...we're heartily sick of both!...the peppers went as well...I've chopped up and frozen the peppers tho (for shoving in casseroles and chili)...The only things left are the sweetcorn (these look very nibbled)...I was going to say 'and the beans' but OH decided to pull them out of their pot! (got loads frozen...as you do) Yesterday I insisted that OH used his new sat-nav to take me to two GCs in Rutland... I treated him to lunch, and we bought some Japanese onions and spring cabbage plants..YAY!...needless to say I had to rush home and plant them! Came home and emptied the GH...scrubbed down the staging...repotted my lovely GINKO in a new terracotta pot (only a little bit bigger than the one it was in..but that one had split). It's settling into it's new home with lots of baby leaves still opening. I had a look at the two clematis cuttings that Plocket had done for me..they have lots of root so I put each one in a small long tom pot and put them back in the GH.... I've been planting loads of pansies for a bit of seasonal colour...I know that they're not grand flowers but I love their little smiling faces...all in white, blue and purple... My wallflowers, bellis and sweet william seedlings needed potting up, ready to plant out next week or the week after...also pricked out some delphiniums (pacific giants and chinensis blue butterfly) and some foxgloves (candy mountain).....Also did loads of weeding and stuff....I ache all over! but it's a GOOD ache...  Hi Cheery sounds like you had a great weekend, I don't blame you for ripping out the tom's etc. if they have gone over it's more effort than it's worth.  We have the winter veg to look forward to and next year's planning. - mind you I think this year was a let down with all the weather, it has also seemed to have gone far too fast. But I think our first proper veg year has been very good. A.x |
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Post by 4pygmies on Oct 13, 2007 11:59:17 GMT 1
Do you know, it's too hot out there atm! I've been filling up big pots with bulbs to dot about the garden when I've done the digging and I am boiling...that's amazing in October!
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Post by sweetleaf on Oct 13, 2007 19:51:59 GMT 1
I was looking at my garden today and my french lavender is flowering again and Hidcote and the unnamed little white lavender I bought at GWL, this just feels wrong.  |
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Post by sweetleaf on Oct 16, 2007 8:59:42 GMT 1
I decided to pot up the French lavender and put it in the GH border, and trim back the others as usual the weather is about to turn by all accounts and I dont want to lose anything. |
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Post by maggyd on Oct 16, 2007 14:31:10 GMT 1
I have just clipped back my lavender because it still had flowers! I leave the French lavender in Sweety its been in about 4 years, even the one in the front garden that I thought I had overpruned is still in flower but it is a bit untidy I wonder if I can take cuttings off it?
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Post by sweetleaf on Oct 16, 2007 14:54:36 GMT 1
I have just clipped back my lavender because it still had flowers! I leave the French lavender in Sweety its been in about 4 years, even the one in the front garden that I thought I had overpruned is still in flower but it is a bit untidy I wonder if I can take cuttings off it? I think theres not much we can rely on any more, even the seasons! It was spring this morning in my garden, summer at lunchtime and deeply into Autumn now, if you go by temperature, the plants are confused and so am I! |
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Oct 20, 2007 21:05:10 GMT 1
I tidied up the Gh today...and had a sort through the perennials as a few of them are over now so I wanted to cut them back...one of the euphorbia (blackbird I think) is flowering...and the hellebore niger !...
I pretended nothing was amiss and went about my chores...most of the tender stuff is undercover now... ;D
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Post by debbiem on Oct 24, 2007 7:45:23 GMT 1
In the past couple of weeks I've noticed a tomato plant growing in one of my containers housing a flowering currant - I've no idea how it got there but I take it that nothing will come of it? It's a bit late for all that isn't it?  |
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Post by sweetleaf on Oct 24, 2007 10:16:44 GMT 1
In the past couple of weeks I've noticed a tomato plant growing in one of my containers housing a flowering currant - I've no idea how it got there but I take it that nothing will come of it? It's a bit late for all that isn't it? No Debbie its not going to be anything, the cold will do for it soon, sorry. |
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Post by debbiem on Oct 24, 2007 10:28:31 GMT 1
In the past couple of weeks I've noticed a tomato plant growing in one of my containers housing a flowering currant - I've no idea how it got there but I take it that nothing will come of it? It's a bit late for all that isn't it? No Debbie its not going to be anything, the cold will do for it soon, sorry. Thought as much - thanks though! |
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Post by 4pygmies on Dec 8, 2007 12:40:08 GMT 1
It's raining quite hard now but I actually managed to get out into the garden for a hour this morning. The heavy rain had swamped the goats little concrete bit and new forms of life were appearing in the mud so I have cleared it all out and dumped it in a pile in the only weed free bit of the veggie garden. Then I redug the edge of the circular bed round one of Mum's apple trees so it's tidy for her to look at.
The good news is that there are loads of new buds on the Clematis round the arch which surprised me as it's quite exposed there and the Honeysuckle is covered with tiny burgeoning leaves - silly thing!
And I found a huge bird half eaten along the edge of the garden. I think it was a pigeon - I doubt if a cat could tackle a bird that size so it means the foxes might be about - I'll have to make sure I remember to shut Old Chook into the goat shed every night now....
It felt fantastic to get into the garden though. I don't feel right if I don't get out there regularly. I hope some of you manage to do a bit this weekend (if you want too obviously).
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Post by madonplants on Dec 8, 2007 13:02:19 GMT 1
I would love to get into the garden, but I am still feeling like death warmed up. The grass really needs a cut, but the lawnmower went to the shed in the sky and can't afford a new one, just yet. Maybe I should just try and get this one fixed to make the grass look better and see me through until money is easier. Couldn't do it today anyway, it's throwing it down. I really need to clear up some leaves that came off the big hornbeam at the front of the house. Lets hope no mice are cuddled up inside some of them!
I know what you mean about half eaten birds. We saw one on a walk a few weeks ago. Why don't they eat it all, or do they leave some for the crows? It could have been a cat, but more likely a fox.
Next weekend, is going to be garden weekend, or if I am better, sometime during the week.
Keith
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Post by Bennetts on Dec 8, 2007 14:25:40 GMT 1
 To be honest. This time of year the only time I get out into the garden is at weekends. Looking at the weather today, looks like I will not be out in it this weekend either.
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Post by mickthecactus on Dec 10, 2007 18:24:29 GMT 1
It's raining quite hard now but I actually managed to get out into the garden for a hour this morning. The heavy rain had swamped the goats little concrete bit and new forms of life were appearing in the mud so I have cleared it all out and dumped it in a pile in the only weed free bit of the veggie garden. Then I redug the edge of the circular bed round one of Mum's apple trees so it's tidy for her to look at. The good news is that there are loads of new buds on the Clematis round the arch which surprised me as it's quite exposed there and the Honeysuckle is covered with tiny burgeoning leaves - silly thing! And I found a huge bird half eaten along the edge of the garden. I think it was a pigeon - I doubt if a cat could tackle a bird that size so it means the foxes might be about - I'll have to make sure I remember to shut Old Chook into the goat shed every night now.... It felt fantastic to get into the garden though. I don't feel right if I don't get out there regularly. I hope some of you manage to do a bit this weekend (if you want too obviously). I got 5 minutes in the greenhouse Sunday AM and found the heater on and the thermostat stuck. God knows how long it had been running. There seems to be no time available at the moment. |
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Post by Sweetleaf on Dec 10, 2007 20:05:57 GMT 1
Im in the same boat as you Mick, lots to do and very little daylight time to get it done, most of my Cacti are in the Porch now because the temps stay even in there, only a few remain in the GH, and that is not really going to be for long, temps are due to drop like a stone over the next few days. |
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Jan 1, 2008 19:57:13 GMT 1
Rambling around the grounds today (!) I found, to my delight that several bulbs are putting out shoots...I lOVE ANEMONES... ;D cheered me up no end it did ;D
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Post by Sweetleaf on Jan 1, 2008 21:16:43 GMT 1
Someone broke two panes of my greenhouse, I had to fix it, but it was quite dark when I had finished, no gardening. |
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Jan 1, 2008 21:21:57 GMT 1
Someone broke two panes of my greenhouse, I had to fix it, but it was quite dark when I had finished, no gardening. aw petal....poor you...do you get much vandalism at the site?..or is it other lottie holders, jealous of your green fingers... |
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Post by Sweetleaf on Jan 1, 2008 21:26:46 GMT 1
Both my GH`s are at home Cheery, Im not allowed a GH at the plots, no glass at all actually, there is vandalism but its not the other plotholders. I think the GH was broken by a stray ball or something. |
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Post by 4pygmies on Jan 1, 2008 23:38:51 GMT 1
Oh that's a real pain isn't it? (No pun intended ;D) How very annoying....still at least you got out in your garden...I had to go walk round muddy ditches with my two...I'd much rather have been digging...
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Post by Sweetleaf on Jan 1, 2008 23:47:17 GMT 1
Me too, I wanted to dig up some of the Geraniums and put them elsewhere, possibly the compost) they are expanding out of their beds! I know I said I wanted to plant up the lawn area but this is too much of a good thing! |
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Post by dutchy on Jan 5, 2008 18:02:08 GMT 1
Why not treat them as grass ;D Use your lawnmower to cut them. They will grow back but look so much neater. I was planning on leaving the old stuff on as my garden is a wildlife haven. Just noticed today that I will have to do something as new shoots are appearing. And slugs  My daylily, the early bright yellow one, is all nibbled down to the ground again  |
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Post by canarycreeper on Jan 13, 2008 16:23:59 GMT 1
Slugs seem to be having a field day at the moment, Dutchy ... I noticed that one of my Echium's is being nibbled which is strange since they have really spiky leaves ... but at least copper tape seems to be keeping them away from the mini-GH - so far, anyway  |
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We have the winter veg to look forward to and next year's planning. - mind you I think this year was a let down with all the weather, it has also seemed to have gone far too fast. 
To be honest. This time of year the only time I get out into the garden is at weekends. Looking at the weather today, looks like I will not be out in it this weekend either. 
My daylily, the early bright yellow one, is all nibbled down to the ground again 