I am sorry david after just reading my last comment,please forgive me i did not mean it to sound that way,i read all of your post but could not see any mention on what to do prior to planting out,as i am a novice and trying to learn more about sweet peas.Maybe i should of listened to me poor old dad who was sweet pea mad.My mother never went short of fresh flower in the house unlike my missus.
I am sorry david after just reading my last comment,please forgive me i did not mean it to sound that way,i read all of your post but could not see any mention on what to do prior to planting out,as i am a novice and trying to learn more about sweet peas.Maybe i should of listened to me poor old dad who was sweet pea mad.My mother never went short of fresh flower in the house unlike my missus.
Dave.
Relax, .nothing to apologise for……on the contrary, you deserve a medal if you have read every post.
Of ten i go to my local B&Q so see what rescue plants there are.And guess what? there are plenty,as staff have no idea whith what to do with them untill sold.
I have bought many over the years some which should of been over £7 and paid just a £1 for it,half of the time it is just because it has finish flowering and space is required for new stock.So keep your eye's peeled as there are some good bargain's out there.
B&Q and Homebase are brilliant for reducing plants. I got 2 Christmas Box last year for £1 each, real healthy looking plants as well. Also got some rudbeckia reduced from £7.99 to 50p in Homebase as it was end of season and they looked a bit sad but perfectly healthy plants and they've flowered well this year.
As for your greenhouse question Dave, I grow tomatoes, cucumbers and chillis in summer and usually have a couple of geraniums baking in there as well. I store my fuchsias over the winter and start of seeds and plug plants in spring.
My father-in-law grow tomatoe's and nothing else,the greenhouse just stand's there sad and empty until the start of the tom season.What a shear waste of a greenhouse.
Onefoot in the Grave was one of my favourite's, do you remember the episode when their car was stolen after they'd bought some ivy...LOL. and the one when a potted plant was delivered and Victor said, 'leave in it the pot downstairs' there it was when he opened the downstairs toilet door, buried up to the seat...he!he!he!
all my bedding plants this year where cast off's from homebase/B&Q and my local GC 6 cosmos for £2.50 and at full hieght with just some dead heading to do.
James
it's the door in the fence that got me every time and the hose pipe in the letterbox
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I am sorry david after just reading my last comment,please forgive me i did not mean it to sound that way,i read all of your post but could not see any mention on what to do prior to planting out,as i am a novice and trying to learn more about sweet peas.Maybe i should of listened to me poor old dad who was sweet pea mad.My mother never went short of fresh flower in the house unlike my missus.
Dave.
Relax, .nothing to apologise for……on the contrary, you deserve a medal if you have read every post.
Of ten i go to my local B&Q so see what rescue plants there are.And guess what? there are plenty,as staff have no idea whith what to do with them untill sold.
I have bought many over the years some which should of been over £7 and paid just a £1 for it,half of the time it is just because it has finish flowering and space is required for new stock.So keep your eye's peeled as there are some good bargain's out there.
B&Q and Homebase are brilliant for reducing plants. I got 2 Christmas Box last year for £1 each, real healthy looking plants as well. Also got some rudbeckia reduced from £7.99 to 50p in Homebase as it was end of season and they looked a bit sad but perfectly healthy plants and they've flowered well this year.
As for your greenhouse question Dave, I grow tomatoes, cucumbers and chillis in summer and usually have a couple of geraniums baking in there as well. I store my fuchsias over the winter and start of seeds and plug plants in spring.
My father-in-law grow tomatoe's and nothing else,the greenhouse just stand's there sad and empty until the start of the tom season.What a shear waste of a greenhouse.
He's a real life Victor Mildrew.
Does any one know how to make mud/clay to make a pizza oven?
Onefoot in the Grave was one of my favourite's, do you remember the episode when their car was stolen after they'd bought some ivy...LOL. and the one when a potted plant was delivered and Victor said, 'leave in it the pot downstairs' there it was when he opened the downstairs toilet door, buried up to the seat...he!he!he!
I used to pmsl every time it was as though they had based the series on my father in law.What a misserable olg git he is.
and the strange thing is that the mother in-lawis just like victors own wife,she has the life of hell with him.
all my bedding plants this year where cast off's from homebase/B&Q and my local GC 6 cosmos for £2.50 and at full hieght with just some dead heading to do.
James
it's the door in the fence that got me every time and the hose pipe in the letterbox