Paulus 541 Posted December 24, 2012 Report Share Posted December 24, 2012 What's up with you woman??....................ain't you got no wellies, oilskins & sou' wester?.................... :biggrin: :biggrin: Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted December 24, 2012 Report Share Posted December 24, 2012 No staying power, these women! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Paulus 541 Posted December 24, 2012 Report Share Posted December 24, 2012 Broke the mould when thay made Boadicea, Joan of Arc & Hattie Jacques............................................... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted December 24, 2012 Report Share Posted December 24, 2012 Paulus, when you make it to a Meet up, let me introduce you to babs Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Paulus 541 Posted December 24, 2012 Report Share Posted December 24, 2012 Sorry, forgot about Babs, that makes 4 of 'em!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
radfordred 6,284 Posted July 31, 2015 Report Share Posted July 31, 2015 Just planted some bird seed. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
radfordred 6,284 Posted September 5, 2017 Report Share Posted September 5, 2017 After watching this I'll be getting some spuds & some rose cuttings Wollo Park here I come Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted September 6, 2017 Report Share Posted September 6, 2017 I wonder what the potato does? I usually just stick mine in the pot as they are and they generally root over winter. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted September 6, 2017 Report Share Posted September 6, 2017 Here are a couple of Thorn Apple bushes that have grown from seed that has lain dormant in the old compost store for some years. I didn't deliberately plant these - they have appeared because I used the old compost in the new raised bed in the garden this year. They grow as short lived perennials in Southern Europe but as annuals here in the north of the UK. There will be seeds if anyone wants a few? The flowers smells slightly like Parma Violet sweets and the seed pod is the big spiky ball in picture No.3. 1. Two Thorn Apple bushes in the new raised bed: 2. The flower: 3. The seed pod: 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
NewBasfordlad 3,599 Posted September 6, 2017 Report Share Posted September 6, 2017 I might be wrong but I think the idea is that as the potato breaks down it is a source of energy for the rose cutting. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted September 10, 2017 Report Share Posted September 10, 2017 That would make sense NBL. I will give it a try this week and see what happens. Roses generally seem to take well from cuttings. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted October 9, 2017 Report Share Posted October 9, 2017 Posted in error - see below..... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted October 9, 2017 Report Share Posted October 9, 2017 it has been a mixed year in the garden but one thing that has done better than ever before are the leeks: Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted March 14, 2018 Report Share Posted March 14, 2018 Time to get out and brave the weather. This section of garden is badly in need of a weeding in preparation for the Dahlia's and Chrsyanthemums in May. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MargieH 7,607 Posted March 14, 2018 Report Share Posted March 14, 2018 3 hours ago, Compo said: Time to get out and brave the weather. This section of garden is badly in need of a weeding in preparation for the Dahlia's and Chrsyanthemums in May. Youre not wrong there, Compo! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
nonnaB 4,895 Posted March 19, 2018 Report Share Posted March 19, 2018 It looks more in order than ours. Today coming home from hospital I have to pass a lot of vineyards and the vines have just been pruned and I thought what a sad site . You wouldnt think them capable of producing even leaves never mind grapes for wine to be shipped world wide. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
NewBasfordlad 3,599 Posted March 19, 2018 Report Share Posted March 19, 2018 Still sat on my fingers here, hoping for double figures on the thermometer this week so I can get going 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jill Sparrow 10,307 Posted March 19, 2018 Report Share Posted March 19, 2018 24 minutes ago, nonnaB said: Today coming home from hospital I have to pass a lot of vineyards and the vines have just been pruned and I thought what a sad site . You wouldnt think them capable of producing even leaves never mind grapes for wine to be shipped world wide. And very good it is too. Had an excellent bottle of Italian red at the weekend! Yummy, slurp! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted March 19, 2018 Report Share Posted March 19, 2018 So, I received my box of 72 mini-plug bedding plants and duly potted them on - this was Saturday. Last night I put them in the greenhouse for safe keeping, not knowing that last night was about to become one of the coldest nights in over a year! This mornign my little plants were ffrozen solid and about half of them are now dead. So much for saveing money on bedding plants! At 8am today it was still -7°C and the ground stayed frozen all day. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
nonnaB 4,895 Posted March 19, 2018 Report Share Posted March 19, 2018 Had a bottle of red given to us Jill from a farmer . Barbera which is the only wine we drink as it's the wine from this area. It was superb lovely velvety taste. My husband is ordering 3 demigians . His cousin comes up once a year to buy his Barbera. He doesn't like Tuscan wines. Beginning of may we have the Barbera wine festival, fantastic atmosphere. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
plantfit 7,607 Posted March 21, 2018 Report Share Posted March 21, 2018 My efforts The arch blew down last year during the storms but I am training the climbing rose and clematis to work it's way along the top of the fence Rog 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
plantfit 7,607 Posted March 21, 2018 Report Share Posted March 21, 2018 Potato flower, we never really look at veg flowers but some of them are quite nice, I grew these in the greenhouse and we had the new potato's for Christmas lunch last year Rog 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
NewBasfordlad 3,599 Posted March 21, 2018 Report Share Posted March 21, 2018 Well I have made a start on the growing season, two trays of mesclun salad leaf in the GH today and the first new potato's in containers in the GH tomorrow along with peas chitting it is nice to start a new season. The days are now longer than the nights and it's just around the corner.... 3 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
loppylugs 8,429 Posted March 21, 2018 Report Share Posted March 21, 2018 Crazy here! One day it's in the 80s, the next it's down to freezing overnight. I've got some Taters in big pots like you suggested. They are starting to leaf but I have to haul 'em inside at night. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
NewBasfordlad 3,599 Posted March 21, 2018 Report Share Posted March 21, 2018 ^^^^^Or if you have left the room chuck compost over the haulm, it will grow through again quickly enough. With outside potatoes I always earth up gradually so if I get a late frost forecast I earth over the haulm and then lay some protection fleece over that. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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