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Anyone done any gardening today? Part 5

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  • purplerallimpurplerallim Posts: 5,287
    No gardening today, we are awash! Light to heavy rain since last night.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    If I tried to do any gardening today
    I’d either sink in the marsh that our garden has become, dissolve or be washed away 🌧 🌧 🌧 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • GWRSGWRS Posts: 8,478
    No gardening due to heavy rain and looks like it’s hear for a couple of days unfortunately 
  • Only a couple of light showers here today and sunny and mild here now.  We managed to remove a potted Olive tree that has never given us any fruit this morning, preparing to plant a climbing rose in the pot another day.  I also potted up some tulip and narcissus bulbs in a smaller pot on the back patio which should give a nice splash of colour in the new year.. Heavy work so I was glad of some help. 
  • GWRSGWRS Posts: 8,478
    Guernsey D , we have an olive bush in a large pot , we do get fruit on it but they are very small , don’t think they will ever get big enough to eat !
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    edited October 2019
    We have an olive bush as well which had some tiny fruits on it so I was very hopeful after the hot weather we had back in the summer.  Apparently though the fruit have to go through a special process (can't now remember what) which you can't do in a domestic set up.  Perhaps @Obelixx knows more?
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    To cure fresh olives sed here ... 

    https://m.wikihow.com/Cure-Olives

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • GWRSGWRS Posts: 8,478
    Been to Garden club meeting tonight , “ The Post-War Garden Boom “ by Dave Newman 
    A really good talk 
  • I should have said - Olive tree has given us no fruit worth getting excited about.  Always too hard, too green or just not mature enough to even think about saving - even the birds don't like the olives! Thanks GWRS, Lizzie and Dove for the link.
  • Logan4Logan4 Posts: 2,590
    Finished planting the wallflowers but kept a few back just in case i need to replace any.
    Now it's raining so can't do much else.
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