I currently have 4 Christmas trees, all bought in pots, one quite large and grown through the pot into the ground. I always intend to use the old one but when the weather is bad can't get up the garden to fetch it.
Elf (see previous page) has changed his name yet again. I'm sure he's really Sotongeoff. Funny, I'd imaged him tall, capable, an excellent gardener and a whizz at computers! I imagine elves small and ethereal. The joys of Christmas time!
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Here is a photo with one of my Christmas trees in the background. Not the biggest! Don't have a photo of that. Bother, it won't upload. A box appears saying "RadUpload Ajax callback error" what does that mean? Perhaps Elf Geoff would know?
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
'Fraid not-someone else will perhaps-you could try going round the a different way buy uploading it to an external photo-sharing site like flicker or photo-bucket and then using the direct link option-works for me when the picture is too big
Ive just purchased a rooted 4ft Fraser Fir tree that I dug up myself from the Longshaw Estate, Derbyshire. I intend to keep it potted and would like some advice regarding keeping it healthy.
The place I bought it from told me to just plant in normal compost, whereas I always thought they needed erecaceous compost?
Also, is there a preferred feed that I should give it, and when?
mine I put in ordinary soil with compost ,I feed during the summer with my own liquid feed ,comfrey or seaweed,its also inportant to water regulary even in winter,transplant when the roots look like they are going to escape the pot.I have had mine for 10 years and its still going strong.
I actually bought that, growing in a small pot, from Homebase, several years ago. For the first few months I just kept it in the pot it came in. I have potted it on, into slightly larger pots, a couple of times. I can't recall exactly how long I kept it in its original pot.
I prefer to use John Innes No 3 compost. John Innes is soil based, so that gives the pot greater stablitly, and makes it less likely to blow over. No 3 is the compost to use for trees and shrubs. When potting into a larger pot you don't actually need that much compost.
I tend to neglect it. I give it some tomato feed occasionally. I know it's happy because last year it had a few pine cones on it.
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Elf (see previous page) has changed his name yet again. I'm sure he's really Sotongeoff. Funny, I'd imaged him tall, capable, an excellent gardener and a whizz at computers! I imagine elves small and ethereal. The joys of Christmas time!
Here is a photo with one of my Christmas trees in the background. Not the biggest! Don't have a photo of that. Bother, it won't upload. A box appears saying "RadUpload Ajax callback error" what does that mean? Perhaps Elf Geoff would know?
'Fraid not
-someone else will perhaps-you could try going round the a different way buy uploading it to an external photo-sharing site like flicker or photo-bucket and then using the direct link option-works for me when the picture is too big
Ive just purchased a rooted 4ft Fraser Fir tree that I dug up myself from the Longshaw Estate, Derbyshire. I intend to keep it potted and would like some advice regarding keeping it healthy.
The place I bought it from told me to just plant in normal compost, whereas I always thought they needed erecaceous compost?
Also, is there a preferred feed that I should give it, and when?
Many thanks
mine I put in ordinary soil with compost ,I feed during the summer with my own liquid feed ,comfrey or seaweed,its also inportant to water regulary even in winter,transplant when the roots look like they are going to escape the pot.I have had mine for 10 years and its still going strong.
This is a Fraser Fir, growing in a pot...
I actually bought that, growing in a small pot, from Homebase, several years ago. For the first few months I just kept it in the pot it came in. I have potted it on, into slightly larger pots, a couple of times. I can't recall exactly how long I kept it in its original pot.
I prefer to use John Innes No 3 compost. John Innes is soil based, so that gives the pot greater stablitly, and makes it less likely to blow over. No 3 is the compost to use for trees and shrubs. When potting into a larger pot you don't actually need that much compost.
I tend to neglect it. I give it some tomato feed occasionally. I know it's happy because last year it had a few pine cones on it.
Thanks for the advice.