I'm on clay and hardcore. It's a nightmare, very fertile, which is good for weeds, but for digging we need a pickaxe. It was relatively easy to dig holes for the new small trees, but getting a stake in to support them was very difficult. I also have a heap of stones to dispose of now. Whoever built the house on this site (and demolished the previous one) didn't go far to dispose of the rubble.
Hmmm, you don't think of things like rootstock being affected by national embargos.
I liked the Bernwode plants site Pansyface. I wonder if I could find a spot for another tree...
Your 'soil' sounds horrendous. Even worse than I envisaged as rock is prevalent either side along the Bristol Channel. Done many a fieldtrip along the Welsh and the English side as well as family living on the Somerset side. My parents lived in the Gordano valley for many years and had an enormous garden on the fertile ground there while my brothers and myself ran free in the quarries, woods and (very muddy) seashore. Many an adventure over the years along those shores. One of my brothers captained a tug out of Avonmouth so he was very familiar with the sandbanks out in the channel and could tell many a tale. All three started their careers on the coal boats out of Portishead and one still lives nearby.
Best of luck with your garden. I shall think of you and your sea breezes, you've triggered off a load of memories
Curses.. After this thread, and reading James Wongs new book i've cracked and got some more tree
Got myself a Fig for a pot, and a Mirabelle and Pluot for the garden.. I think i may be at my limit for fruit trees now! (unless i can steal some of our paddock for another orchard!)
I'm not sure how they fared over the last three days of gales, I've been working and haven't ventured down to look. They were pretty secure on Saturday... I'm hoping it will look fab when I get the mulch down and start planting around them. I've been looking things up and I'll leave a good bare space round each tree, and plant things like alliums and other herby things that like fruit trees, and that aren't liked by deer.
I have a tiny fig tree in a pot that I bought from Lidl. It came back from dormancy after winter last year and looks like it's starting off again now. I was wondering about planting it in the garden, but my friend said they like to have their roots constrained so I'm not sure how that would go.
DorsetUK, it's lovely to hear about your childhood in the Gordano valley. We live half way between Clevedon and Portishead on the coast path. The miserable soil is worth putting up with for the view! We spend a lot of time on the Channel too. we race dinghies out of Portishead Sailing Club.
Your friend its right, figs need to have their roots constrained or they just keep producing vegetative growth and no fruit. If you want to plant it out make a fig pit. Or sunk a large pot in the ground maybe.
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I'm on clay and hardcore. It's a nightmare, very fertile, which is good for weeds, but for digging we need a pickaxe. It was relatively easy to dig holes for the new small trees, but getting a stake in to support them was very difficult. I also have a heap of stones to dispose of now. Whoever built the house on this site (and demolished the previous one) didn't go far to dispose of the rubble.
Hmmm, you don't think of things like rootstock being affected by national embargos.
I liked the Bernwode plants site Pansyface. I wonder if I could find a spot for another tree...
Your 'soil' sounds horrendous. Even worse than I envisaged as rock is prevalent either side along the Bristol Channel. Done many a fieldtrip along the Welsh and the English side as well as family living on the Somerset side. My parents lived in the Gordano valley for many years and had an enormous garden on the fertile ground there while my brothers and myself ran free in the quarries, woods and (very muddy) seashore. Many an adventure over the years along those shores. One of my brothers captained a tug out of Avonmouth so he was very familiar with the sandbanks out in the channel and could tell many a tale. All three started their careers on the coal boats out of Portishead and one still lives nearby.
Best of luck with your garden. I shall think of you and your sea breezes, you've triggered off a load of memories
Curses.. After this thread, and reading James Wongs new book i've cracked and got some more tree
Got myself a Fig for a pot, and a Mirabelle and Pluot for the garden.. I think i may be at my limit for fruit trees now! (unless i can steal some of our paddock for another orchard!)
Looking forward to the photos blueboots
I'm not sure how they fared over the last three days of gales, I've been working and haven't ventured down to look. They were pretty secure on Saturday... I'm hoping it will look fab when I get the mulch down and start planting around them. I've been looking things up and I'll leave a good bare space round each tree, and plant things like alliums and other herby things that like fruit trees, and that aren't liked by deer.
I have a tiny fig tree in a pot that I bought from Lidl. It came back from dormancy after winter last year and looks like it's starting off again now. I was wondering about planting it in the garden, but my friend said they like to have their roots constrained so I'm not sure how that would go.
DorsetUK, it's lovely to hear about your childhood in the Gordano valley. We live half way between Clevedon and Portishead on the coast path. The miserable soil is worth putting up with for the view! We spend a lot of time on the Channel too. we race dinghies out of Portishead Sailing Club.