Morning all Thanks for your comments, I feel a bit better this morning and have been and watered the tomatoes again. The compost/grow bags do seem very dry, no matter how much I water them so that would cause BER, I am going to at wer them little and often for the next few days. It is dry in the GH, I haven't done misting (as advised somewhere) as I'd also heard not to get the leaves wet so
Morning all. Loads of rain overnight as Lesley said so at least I won't have so much watering to do. Just looking at OL's issue with the toms - am I right in saying they're in growbags? I'm always a bit dubious about them because I think they can get soggy and it's not always obvious. I'm sure you'll resolve it OL - don't get downhearted - these things happen to us all at times. I'm less protective of my toms now after listening to Italophile - been growing them much harder this year, especially making sure they get loads of ventilation. You'll have lots of good stuff which will make up for the odd one or two you lose.
Verd - sending a hug for you.
More constructing for me today if it stays dry - building raised containers for the apple trees to go in and a screen in between them for climbers. Everything else is reasonably under control for now. I have a tiarella which I want to divide and move but it's still flowering - has been for months - very good value SM trip as well at some point or the girls will have no dinner when they come home.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Cleaned the loo, and the basin, also changed the bed linen, its funny, when i was little and imagined being cinderella, i always imagined i would be cinders POST ball!
Yes they are in growbags FG, I'm nit using them again as I think I've said somewhere. I seem to have the opposite problem that they aren't retaining any water, it's all just running out through the drainage holes I made
OL- I think that's why I find pots better - easier to keep an eye on the soil conditions etc. I wait for mine to look a bit wilted before I water - seems to work - and I try not to water later at night so that they're not sitting in cold wet compost. We often have quite a dip in temperature overnight here, especially in later spring/early summer, so that's always worth bearing in mind. I think it's consistency that's important too, but it's not always possible when there's so much else to do is it? I dare say growbag compost is probably as hit and miss now as many of the bagged composts, so maybe you just had a slightly duff bag
Being a fairy bekkie - I just wave a wand in the general direction of household duties...
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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Thanks Dove I do remember reading that thread.
Lizzie sorry to hear about your crop.
Morning all
Thanks for your comments, I feel a bit better this morning and have been and watered the tomatoes again. The compost/grow bags do seem very dry, no matter how much I water them so that would cause BER, I am going to at wer them little and often for the next few days. It is dry in the GH, I haven't done misting (as advised somewhere) as I'd also heard not to get the leaves wet so
Continued.......my screen froze!!!
Anyway, the leaves haven't been damp, but I am still going to remove some of the leaves today.
Picnic by the river sounds wonderful RM, lucky you
Have a good day veryone, I'm catching up on jobs I didn't get done yesterday!
RM, I put a thread on the other day about strawberry runners, I'll try and find it and bump it up for you
Morning all. Loads of rain overnight as Lesley said so at least I won't have so much watering to do. Just looking at OL's issue with the toms - am I right in saying they're in growbags? I'm always a bit dubious about them because I think they can get soggy and it's not always obvious. I'm sure you'll resolve it OL - don't get downhearted - these things happen to us all at times. I'm less protective of my toms now after listening to Italophile - been growing them much harder this year, especially making sure they get loads of ventilation. You'll have lots of good stuff which will make up for the odd one or two you lose.
Verd - sending a hug for you.
More constructing for me today if it stays dry - building raised containers for the apple trees to go in and a screen in between them for climbers. Everything else is reasonably under control for now. I have a tiarella which I want to divide and move but it's still flowering - has been for months - very good value
SM trip as well at some point or the girls will have no dinner when they come home.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Yes they are in growbags FG, I'm nit using them again as I think I've said somewhere. I seem to have the opposite problem that they aren't retaining any water, it's all just running out through the drainage holes I made
OL- I think that's why I find pots better - easier to keep an eye on the soil conditions etc. I wait for mine to look a bit wilted before I water - seems to work - and I try not to water later at night so that they're not sitting in cold wet compost. We often have quite a dip in temperature overnight here, especially in later spring/early summer, so that's always worth bearing in mind. I think it's consistency that's important too, but it's not always possible when there's so much else to do is it? I dare say growbag compost is probably as hit and miss now as many of the bagged composts, so maybe you just had a slightly duff bag
Being a fairy bekkie - I just wave a wand in the general direction of household duties...
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
FG, that might be where I've gone wrong too....watering late at night
Not to self to not do that again, thank you 