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HELLO FORKERS ☔️ Feb ‘21

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  • Bee witchedBee witched Posts: 1,295
    Hi @Biglad,

    Yep, you could line them, or try a square pond basket if you can get a size slightly smaller than your pot.
    I've used these sort in some square terracotta pots I have ...

    https://www.watersideaquatics.co.uk/square-pond-basket-19x19x9cm-5255-p.asp?gclid=Cj0KCQiAvP6ABhCjARIsAH37rbSf8rxA07ed143pbcXZx3cf-I8vnQSa41WBv2VXccagyNEIifpiAbYaAh0eEALw_wcB

    It means I can change the display when things like bulbs are dying back.
    I top them off with leafmould so you can't see the inner pot.

    Bee x
    Gardener and beekeeper in beautiful Scottish Borders  

    A single bee creates just one twelfth of a teaspoon of honey in her lifetime
  • chickychicky Posts: 10,410
    No snow here yet either - but some forecast for later.  We shall see.

    My chilli seeds have sprouted 🌶 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻.  Always a thrill 🤣.  I also took a leaf cutting from a house plant (Peperami) in about November, after we had learned how to do them in college. It has finally thrown up a new leaf .....you need far more patience than with seeds 🙄.  But double thrilling all the same 


  • chickychicky Posts: 10,410


    My new baby 👶🏼 
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    That sounds delicious @raisingirl but the Scandinavians are, in my experience, great food lovers.

    @Biglad if the pots are for blueberries the bigger the better and make sure you have a water butt so you can water with rainwater.   I grew mine in 60cm pots but ended up digging them a huge hole in the potager and filling it with ericaceous compost so they never went short of water again after leaving them in the tender lack of care of a teenage neighbour one summer.   Came home to find them crispy.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • Not a lot of snow here ... so far ... but it’s quite pretty 


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





  • steephillsteephill Posts: 2,841
    Snow is on the way @chicky powdery stuff blowing in from the north at the moment.
  • WonkyWombleWonkyWomble Posts: 4,541

    Bit more here @Dovefromabove
    Harrie pusscat wanted to go outside,  she lasted a long as it took to fill 1 bird feeder before hubby was filming her crying at the door!
  • chickychicky Posts: 10,410
    I know @steephill - it’s been swirling around me as I topped up the bird feeders ❄️❄️❄️
  • Looks gorgeous @WonkyWomble B)

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





  • YviestevieYviestevie Posts: 7,066
    Afternoon folks,  Grey and very cold here but no heavy snow forecast.  I spent yesterday sorting out all the seed sowing stuff and started chitting seed pots.  Brought a bag of seed compost into the conservatory to warm up a bit ready for sowing.
    No good news about SIL can't seem to get anyone to take a look at him with a view to prescribing steroids.  Paramedics can't prescribe and told her to call the doctor.  Their doctor says he wont prescribe unless he has an x-ray.  She has been sitting up watching him breath for days worried sick.  She eventually decided to take action today and has managed to get him in the car and driven him to the hospital, she had to leave the children at home and we are linked to them by facetime.  According to the government website he isn't contagious now.  We'll just have to see what they say.  I really can't believe that this is the only way to get any help for him.

    Stay safe and warm, especially those in the snow belt.

    Hi from Kingswinford in the West Midlands
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