Calamity! Just found half a dozen raspberry shoots in OH's nearby raised veg bed - which means they've penetrated the very thick and expensive Terram fabric we put underneath the beds two years ago. That wasn't supposed to happen. I've also now realized that my newish Polka raspberries are next door to my new asparagus bed - crikey.Ā
Terran won't stop a Raspberry shoot - they are like the evil Red Weed from War of the Worlds!Ā Second only to Japanese Knotweed which will push up through 90mm tarmac. Terran should be that expensive - to me trade it's less than Ā£1 per sq Mtr.Ā I love the description of double "Thalia" - if I manage to breed another white double, I will call it Andrex or Puppylove.Ā Boot is on the other foot for me and surgery as I missed me blood test yesterday! Been waiting ages too. Had it in my mind for the 22nd but had convinced my self that would be today, wouldn't have helped anyway because I pushed the button to make my tipper truck tip and it fused all the electrics - next four hours fiddling with coloured wires! More of the same today.
@Lyn I have grown ThaliaĀ for years. Them ( they) and t a t are the only ones for me. To be honest, the bulbs looked a little large but trusted retailer and I'd bought them anyway - shove em in as you do .Ā Ā Bulbs and corms are becoming a pig in a poke. How many people actually go back to the retailer and complain? Not many.
Ā As this chap is my direct ancestor my right to post here is undeniable!Ā I ordered three new Amaryllis this year - lovely bulbs so full of anticipation as I watched the bloom shoots grow at a fantastic rate under my also new Growlight. Then burgeoning disappointment - two of them are exactly the same colour when they should have been quite different - then delight as the third one shot up three stripey red and white five floret spikes - Sunday morning it was on the floor having toppled out of its pot and I found that the effort of producing the ruined flowers has probably done for the bulb. And I have 200 deep purple Iris reticulata instead of the blue I thought I was getting.
I was out on a job yesterday which took longer than I thought it would. My wife sent me out with a list of things to get from Waitrose on the way home but time was getting tight as I had to be home in time for my share of babysitting duties. I hadn't factored in the crowds of the great vaccinated unwashed being out in force though. The aisles were clogged up with them wandering around enjoying their freedom, spending hours debating the merits of each brand of whatever they haven't been able to get hold of while locked in the house for a year relying on deliveries. One lady managed to clear a whole section of the supermarket though by coughing her guts up for a good five minutes though so I might borrow her tactics to get some space next time. Meanwhile there were several wine corks scattered around the carpark near where I parked which is a very worrying sign of the times (in a very middle class kind of way. 'I might have a drinking problem dahling but that's no reason not to select a good vintage').
I also drove past two garden centres on my travels and both had full carparks. Maybe things will quiet down a bit next week...
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
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I love the description of double "Thalia" - if I manage to breed another white double, I will call it Andrex or Puppylove.Ā
Boot is on the other foot for me and surgery as I missed me blood test yesterday! Been waiting ages too. Had it in my mind for the 22nd but had convinced my self that would be today, wouldn't have helped anyway because I pushed the button to make my tipper truck tip and it fused all the electrics - next four hours fiddling with coloured wires! More of the same today.
To be honest, the bulbs looked a little large but trusted retailer and I'd bought them anyway - shove em in as you do .Ā Ā
Bulbs and corms are becoming a pig in a poke. How many people actually go back to the retailer and complain? Not many.