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  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,613

    I,m guessing a cucurbit..... melon or pumpkin or squash

  • star gaze lilystar gaze lily Posts: 17,593

    Chicky, are you there?? Need your help. Have made a note about your advice on potting up my little acers....just wondered if they needed special potting compost etc. Many thanks

  • star gaze lilystar gaze lily Posts: 17,593

    Oops, sorry can't help Dove.

    Thank you Panda

  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 23,986

    That seedling looks just like my baby butternut squash that I sowed direct into the ground.

    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • Orchid LadyOrchid Lady Posts: 5,800

    Hello all image Dove, I was going to suggest either a squash, courgette or cucumber as I've grown them all this year and they all looked like this when they germinated, it's hard to tell one from the other.  Is it a quiz though I can't believe you wouldn't really know (only skim read as catching up!)

    Panda, I would have thought Lily's plant was a Sempervivum too image

    Kef, that bug your hubby had sounds terrible.  I got food poisoning in Feb last year and lost 8lb in 4-5 days, unfortunately I out it all back in and more when I could eat again because I was so hungry!!!

    At the moment I'm a size 14-16 (nearer) 16 and would like to be a comfortable 12, I'm 5'6".  Been an 8 mile bike ride tonight and a 3 mile dog walk......I am sooooo determined but to be fit as well as slimmer image

  • chickychicky Posts: 10,409

    Just popped in - work busy, then some taxi-ing.  Sadly no gardening of any description to report.  Glad to hear that Chris the Cuckoo lives in Doves garden, that Panda had an ok day at work, and that SP's bite has reduced in size.

    Lily - i just use the multipurpose with added John Innes for potting my acers up.  Although they like acid soil, so the ericacious stuff would do as well.

    Sweet dreams allimage

  • star gaze lilystar gaze lily Posts: 17,593

    Thank you Chickyimage

     

     

  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,099

    morning anyone who's around image

    Fell asleep early  last night. Apologies to lily - I thought it was MrsG who had the alpine pot - should have gone to Specsavers...image

    Can't help with the seedling Dove - though it does look like something substantial will come from it!

    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • Lupin 1Lupin 1 Posts: 8,916

    Good morning all, heavy rain over night and garden quite sodden.

    Dove it's going to be interesting to see what your new edible is, I think butternut squash. Guessing as I think I remember you cooking them and seeds would have been composted image I usually end up with self set tomatoes.

  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,113

    Good morning all image  Yes, we did eat quite a few butternut squashes last summer, also  several Crown Prince squashes over the  previous autumn and winter.  Melon seeds also get put out on the compost heap.  I hope we get a good summer so whatever it is can fruit and ripen image

    I've put a dish of softened stale bread out on the terrace - the magpies are feasting on it noisily and arguing with the wood pigeons about who it belongs to.  While we're filling the magpies up on starchy bread they're not robbing the songbirds' nests - well, that's my theory anyway image


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





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