I want some good quality Apple trees so going for 2 year old M27 root stock , so grows no bigger than 6 ft , Variety Scrumptious or Discovery for allotment
H Hog , I have rope tided to bricks 🧱 and looped over cloches and never had one blown over , so you should be ok
Interesting I was only reading the other day that M27 root stock is far superior to M26 in trials it gave much higher fruit yield.
Reassured that your rope and cloche system works GWRS gives me hope
"You don't stop gardening because you get old, you get old because you stop gardening." - The Hampshire Hog
Hubby moved most of the rest of the rubbish from shed removal. Planted herb garden seeds daughter gave me for Christmas and started half a tray each of Thimble lettuce and Speedo F1 carrots. Too windy to do any more and now raining too.
There has been a lot of business on here since I last posted.
I'm not gardening today, aching all over after yesterday's efforts in the veg garden. Anyway, it's raining. Manure and wet compost are very heavy! There is a lot of clearing up still to do and the 4th bed to make but the purple sprouting broccoli is in the way. I also want to make a herb bed in the middle and do something about the bits I walk on between the beds.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Been pottering on the balcony's this morning top dressing and feeding the troughs and pots of the clematis's and bamboo screening Fargesia scabrida "Asian Wonder".
Clematis "Bernadine" even has flower buds on.
"You don't stop gardening because you get old, you get old because you stop gardening." - The Hampshire Hog
I am afraid the wind and rain is keeping me in today, but over the last three weeks I have managed to tidy up the garden no-end. The first wheelie bin went last Friday (full to the brim) so next week should see loads more activity.
Made me laugh Plant it. You've certainly lived up to your name BL. I've been potting on seedlings today (too windy and showery to be painting fences). So far the following have been potted up
Having neglected it for three years, I gave my cotoneaster a serious haircut all over and shortened it at one end by a foot. Plus I sifted the gravel underneath it as it had built up a lot of leaf mould on top of the membrane which the weeds were loving.
Pulled up the second of the three roses that were in the garden when I bought the place. It's never been a great specimen, being a bit weak and lopsided. Although I've been procrastinating on it's future for a while, I wasn't planned and it came up with zero effort on my part. So it decided its own fate. A dog rose is now the only rose that remains. Not sure what I'm going to put in the gap but it's unlikely to be a new rose.
I have a load of fully hardy wild flower plants in 9cm pots; I think I'm going to risk planting them straight out rather than potting them up.
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Reassured that your rope and cloche system works GWRS gives me hope
"You don't stop gardening because you get old, you get old because you stop gardening." - The Hampshire Hog
Light tidy up of my rose bush.
Emptied a planter overrun with lords and ladies into bin.
Cardboard to the compost.
Tidied up some bulb pots.
...Need to move anemones and roses to front garden, rudbeckia will come to the back.
Ive got a few daffs dotted around that should be brought together too.
And my bird feeder to go up when the kids get back.
There has been a lot of business on here since I last posted.
I'm not gardening today, aching all over after yesterday's efforts in the veg garden. Anyway, it's raining. Manure and wet compost are very heavy! There is a lot of clearing up still to do and the 4th bed to make but the purple sprouting broccoli is in the way. I also want to make a herb bed in the middle and do something about the bits I walk on between the beds.
Clematis "Bernadine" even has flower buds on.
"You don't stop gardening because you get old, you get old because you stop gardening." - The Hampshire Hog
Not really done anything much this week - need too but just been called in for the rugby.
Pulled up the second of the three roses that were in the garden when I bought the place. It's never been a great specimen, being a bit weak and lopsided. Although I've been procrastinating on it's future for a while, I wasn't planned and it came up with zero effort on my part. So it decided its own fate. A dog rose is now the only rose that remains. Not sure what I'm going to put in the gap but it's unlikely to be a new rose.
I have a load of fully hardy wild flower plants in 9cm pots; I think I'm going to risk planting them straight out rather than potting them up.