hi, this is my harvest so far this year , @Lizzie27 (they come out a couple or so at a time). the bottom half of the photo are today's haul. i wasn't expecting any from the load i planted in september (100) but they are coming up trumps already. i could post a pic of the allotment bed i have them in - but there's not really a great deal to see, just bare looking soil with a few tiny tufts of green every few inches (i pick when they're just up rather than when they're all the way open - we get a lot of slugs in cornwall...) there seems to be no real mystery to growing them; it was just like planting onion sets - but not having to do much else with them for the next five years, other than pick flowers! if the corms are half price i would say get some. i'm sure i got my first lot (50) in the october/november of last year/year before so should be fine as long as you get them in the ground as soon as they arrive. that lot are still in the big pots of multipurpose that i stuck them in for speed. they have produced some flowers but the ones in the ground are definitely happier.
good morning all. Another early morning post to get the internet. Haven't had a chance to read back . I hope all are well, and hugs to those who need one. How's the gum @punkdoc?
Morning to you @Dovefromabove We have bright sunshine this morning and it promises to stay around for the week.
So with the sun on the conservatory in the afternoons, I can warm up the lounge. The boiler serviceman is due tomorrow for its annual check and clean. I haven't lit the fire yet!! "We will pay for this in April!!" shout the older sector!!
I took my humungous Boston Fern out of the wildlife pond yesterday as I want to empty the pond and clean the silt at the bottom, only to find that the fern had spread its spores into a crack and had started growing. I wonder if it will survive the winter as it is in a shady spot.
Lovely spring picture @Pat E I wonder what sort of summer you will have this year?
Postural ball class this morning, after a week's break.
Take heed for today's expression O ye who have apples!! A la Saint Ernest, abats les pommel qui the restent!
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i wasn't expecting any from the load i planted in september (100) but they are coming up trumps already.
i could post a pic of the allotment bed i have them in - but there's not really a great deal to see, just bare looking soil with a few tiny tufts of green every few inches (i pick when they're just up rather than when they're all the way open - we get a lot of slugs in cornwall...)
there seems to be no real mystery to growing them; it was just like planting onion sets - but not having to do much else with them for the next five years, other than pick flowers!
if the corms are half price i would say get some. i'm sure i got my first lot (50) in the october/november of last year/year before so should be fine as long as you get them in the ground as soon as they arrive.
that lot are still in the big pots of multipurpose that i stuck them in for speed. they have produced some flowers but the ones in the ground are definitely happier.
Another early morning post to get the internet.
Haven't had a chance to read back . I hope all are well, and hugs to those who need one.
How's the gum @punkdoc?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Morning to you @Dovefromabove We have bright sunshine this morning and it promises to stay around for the week.
So with the sun on the conservatory in the afternoons, I can warm up the lounge. The boiler serviceman is due tomorrow for its annual check and clean. I haven't lit the fire yet!! "We will pay for this in April!!" shout the older sector!!
I took my humungous Boston Fern out of the wildlife pond yesterday as I want to empty the pond and clean the silt at the bottom, only to find that the fern had spread its spores into a crack and had started growing. I wonder if it will survive the winter as it is in a shady spot.
Lovely spring picture @Pat E I wonder what sort of summer you will have this year?
Postural ball class this morning, after a week's break.
Take heed for today's expression O ye who have apples!! A la Saint Ernest, abats les pommel qui the restent!
Have a nice day.
Tui
Abats les pommes qui te restent.