Thanks again to GWRS for the Pearsons of Collingham recommendation. Went there today and loved it. Great plants at really good prices and a fantastic little tearoom. Really friendly owners and staff too. Will definately be back.
Bought 3 climbing roses, a salix, a clematis, and two other unpronouncables for just £33. Bargain. All big healthy plants.
Planted out two dozen broad beans, potted on ten delphiniums, knocked a tray of leeks over (which fell upside down of course) so had to rescue those into two trays of 24 modules (will be interesting to see if 'pricking out' leeks so young has any effect) then, just as I was about the have a rest, a knock on the door and 45 strawberry runners were delivered, so had to pot those up and put them into the greenhouse for protection from squirrels. That's my 3rd lot of strawberries this season - blummin' squirrels ate the 'heart' out of the last two batches, just leaving roots attached to nothing.
Oh, and planted a bare-root 'chuckleberry',to add to my collection of unusual soft fruit bushes. It's a cross between gooseberry, redcurrant and jostaberry apparently.
A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
I do grow honeyberry aym and can confirm they are happy in ordinary soil. You need 2 plants to pollinate and my crops are quite small so far after 3 years. They are early to flower (mine in flower now) so hoping there are enough bees about to do the business!
I need to write 'sow lettuce' on my arm I reckon as I keep forgetting and have none sown so far!
A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
hi all been down this morning 7 30am potted up 25 toms peppers and cues 2 loverly blue berrys plants ,,gave away the seed pots nobody wanted main crop 150 sets on this site , watered all trays outside carrots garlic /////like aym I have allsorts on the go I put what I had thought was chilli peppers they are toms but I had put chillis on sticks getting dafter in old age ..have put some more in might be to late ( may have to buy some ????
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Thanks again to GWRS for the Pearsons of Collingham recommendation. Went there today and loved it. Great plants at really good prices and a fantastic little tearoom. Really friendly owners and staff too. Will definately be back.
Bought 3 climbing roses, a salix, a clematis, and two other unpronouncables for just £33. Bargain. All big healthy plants.
Planted out two dozen broad beans, potted on ten delphiniums, knocked a tray of leeks over (which fell upside down of course) so had to rescue those into two trays of 24 modules (will be interesting to see if 'pricking out' leeks so young has any effect) then, just as I was about the have a rest, a knock on the door and 45 strawberry runners were delivered, so had to pot those up and put them into the greenhouse for protection from squirrels. That's my 3rd lot of strawberries this season - blummin' squirrels ate the 'heart' out of the last two batches, just leaving roots attached to nothing.
Oh, and planted a bare-root 'chuckleberry',to add to my collection of unusual soft fruit bushes. It's a cross between gooseberry, redcurrant and jostaberry apparently.
Jostaberries taste much like blackcurrants aym. They're a bit bigger though as is the bush so if only room for one I would recommend a blackcurrant.
Tootles , glad to be of service
I do grow honeyberry aym and can confirm they are happy in ordinary soil. You need 2 plants to pollinate and my crops are quite small so far after 3 years. They are early to flower (mine in flower now) so hoping there are enough bees about to do the business!
I need to write 'sow lettuce' on my arm I reckon as I keep forgetting and have none sown so far!
Am off to mow the lawn in a minute and put the bulbs in that I forgot to plant.
Thank you Victoria sponge x
btw you never actually said what was in your Dorset perennial delivery
oh is up now so hopefully I will get two new beds dug and I can get planting
Got 3 to a pot, lovely root systems.
Gonna have 3 plants up each corner of a wigwam.
Never grown this one before, exciting.
Mina lobata not quite ready for potting on.
hi all been down this morning 7 30am potted up 25 toms peppers and cues 2 loverly blue berrys plants ,,gave away the seed pots nobody wanted main crop 150 sets on this site , watered all trays outside carrots garlic /////like aym I have allsorts on the go I put what I had thought was chilli peppers they are toms but I had put chillis on sticks getting dafter in old age ..have put some more in might be to late ( may have to buy some ????
Allotment this morning , a bit of gardening this afternoon , just having a beer before dinner , perfect day
Sunny but a rather cold wind at times , particularly if sun goes behind cloud
Bought agapanthus the other day from g/c , never grown these so quite excited and the price " only £6-00 "