Good afternoon everyone. Been an awful day and feel sorry for people coming to Cornwall but going to be much better tomorrow.
The only problem I have with this site is that I get no emails now when a response is made.
Going back to trailing begonias. I bought some plug plants this year 100 plus 60 free, so gave loads away. They grew so quickly and are still flowering really well with lots of different colours. I have kept some over winter before but have lost the odd one to vine weevil. Should I give them a dose of provado now or soak the corms when they dry off.
Chucking it down as we speak, hoping the BA k is not going to flood again.
Looks like the bastion of longhand is bigger than we thought, I sometimes get students writing their exam papers in text speak, I hate that.
My favourite is rhubarb crumble, but I'm making a summer pudding mix to have with pistachio ice cream.
Have done my good deed for the day doing ??18's worth of shopping for my friend and somehow managed to spend ??80's worth of my own. We only needed sugar and bread!
Hi Jean and Kate, I'm not sure if they are tubers or corms. I just thought round things would be corms and nobbly things tubers, like dahlias. I've never grown them from plugs before but just assumed they'd form corms or tubers after a seasons growth otherwise they wouldn't over winter. Where is Geoff when we need him? (Lost in France)
See I understand that if you buy corms in spring you can save them to overwinter but the plugs that I bought last summer were rooted cuttings and by the end of summer had still not made corms, so I could not overwinter those unless I brought them indoors
Glyn the only way I come home with just 2 items is to only take coins with me Is the ipad on an american setting?
I grow Illumination begonias and they do make very small corms I try to keep them over winter and usually manage a reasonable proportion to grow on the next year- it is worth a go
Jean - I hate wasps ,too I have been stung quite a few times I love Bees though
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Good afternoon everyone. Been an awful day and feel sorry for people coming to Cornwall but going to be much better tomorrow.
The only problem I have with this site is that I get no emails now when a response is made.
Going back to trailing begonias. I bought some plug plants this year 100 plus 60 free, so gave loads away. They grew so quickly and are still flowering really well with lots of different colours. I have kept some over winter before but have lost the odd one to vine weevil. Should I give them a dose of provado now or soak the corms when they dry off.
Jean I will swop crumble for chocolate cake
It has been slow here all day
pottiepam a bit of a naive question on my part do plugs make corms?
Looks like the bastion of longhand is bigger than we thought, I sometimes get students writing their exam papers in text speak, I hate that.
My favourite is rhubarb crumble, but I'm making a summer pudding mix to have with pistachio ice cream.
Have done my good deed for the day doing ??18's worth of shopping for my friend and somehow managed to spend ??80's worth of my own. We only needed sugar and bread!
I'm confused
what are they then ? I thought they were tubers - the trailing ones I mean, Think mine are '' illumination ''
Hi Jean and Kate, I'm not sure if they are tubers or corms. I just thought round things would be corms and nobbly things tubers, like dahlias. I've never grown them from plugs before but just assumed they'd form corms or tubers after a seasons growth otherwise they wouldn't over winter. Where is Geoff when we need him? (Lost in France)
See I understand that if you buy corms in spring you can save them to overwinter but the plugs that I bought last summer were rooted cuttings and by the end of summer had still not made corms, so I could not overwinter those unless I brought them indoors
Glyn the only way I come home with just 2 items is to only take coins with me
Is the ipad on an american setting?
I grow Illumination begonias and they do make very small corms
I try to keep them over winter and usually manage a reasonable proportion to grow on the next year- it is worth a go 
Jean - I hate wasps ,too
I have been stung quite a few times 
I love Bees though 
Pam LL x