Excellent. The mice need watching as well. They got in a frame I'd made and covered with netting one year. All the berry type seeds were stolen. OH has made me an aluminium sided frame now, they can't climb over that, nothing to get a grip on. I just have to make sure it's flat on the slabs so they can't get underneath
I don't have much confidence in the idea of hawthorn cuttings but I'm not much good at cuttings.
You're not too late for hard wood cuttings, just right. I'd use rooting powder on some and a control without.. Do you receive the GW newsletter? It has a bit on hardwood cuttings this week
Around here our gardens would become forests with all the tree seedlings if we didn't keep pulling them out. Do you know anyone with hawthorns that would let you look around for seedlings?
Thanks Nut again. It's more the challange than getting bushes for nothing. Lots of work in the garden still to do but apart from the garlic not much planting.
Have scavanged trees from various locations before and grew Ash from seed.
Sowed 5 Sychamores about 18 years ago at the bottom of the garden from seedlings that grew in the then gravel yard. Sowed 6 conkers on my son's 6th birthday(1997) 3 have survived an produced a few conkers last year.
Similar here with Sychamore. they grow in the cracks in concrete yard, in the daffodil beds, under the hedges, in the guttering on the house and just about everywhere you can imagine. Ash also but not as much. There are a few hawthorn saplings up the lane but they would number less than 20 and are very stunted. Have Ash saplings 3 foot high to sow and no sign of Chalara TG.
I love growing things from seed. I have field maples and scots pines and lots of oddments at least 20foot tall from seed in the 20 years or so that we've been here.
Well finally planted the hawthorn cuttings today. Rooting powder proved to be a scarce commodity but located some yesterday from lad at work. Paid for it with a swede for his Sunday dinner and a promise of more.
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Trays in a frame with only a net to keep off the crows covering them.
Excellent. The mice need watching as well. They got in a frame I'd made and covered with netting one year. All the berry type seeds were stolen. OH has made me an aluminium sided frame now, they can't climb over that, nothing to get a grip on. I just have to make sure it's flat on the slabs so they can't get underneath
In the sticks near Peterborough
Will do that Nut. What about the cuttings anuone?
I don't have much confidence in the idea of hawthorn cuttings but I'm not much good at cuttings.
You're not too late for hard wood cuttings, just right. I'd use rooting powder on some and a control without.. Do you receive the GW newsletter? It has a bit on hardwood cuttings this week
http://www.gardenersworld.com/how-to/projects/propagating/how-to-take-hardwood-cuttings/143.html
In the sticks near Peterborough
Around here our gardens would become forests with all the tree seedlings if we didn't keep pulling them out. Do you know anyone with hawthorns that would let you look around for seedlings?
In the sticks near Peterborough
Thanks Nut again. It's more the challange than getting bushes for nothing. Lots of work in the garden still to do but apart from the garlic not much planting.
Have scavanged trees from various locations before and grew Ash from seed.
Sowed 5 Sychamores about 18 years ago at the bottom of the garden from seedlings that grew in the then gravel yard. Sowed 6 conkers on my son's 6th birthday(1997) 3 have survived an produced a few conkers last year.
Similar here with Sychamore. they grow in the cracks in concrete yard, in the daffodil beds, under the hedges, in the guttering on the house and just about everywhere you can imagine. Ash also but not as much. There are a few hawthorn saplings up the lane but they would number less than 20 and are very stunted. Have Ash saplings 3 foot high to sow and no sign of Chalara TG.
I love growing things from seed. I have field maples and scots pines and lots of oddments at least 20foot tall from seed in the 20 years or so that we've been here.
In the sticks near Peterborough
Few experiences in life are as thrilling as seeing the first shoots emerge from a new plant.
Well finally planted the hawthorn cuttings today. Rooting powder proved to be a scarce commodity but located some yesterday from lad at work. Paid for it with a swede for his Sunday dinner and a promise of more.
Sowed more hawthorn seed in beds in veg garden.
Fingers crossed
Good luck.
In the sticks near Peterborough