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oh for a bigger greenhouse!
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« Reply #226 on: 22:36:29, 24-06-2008 » |
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Please could I have some help? Does anyone know what these white flowers are? (taken about 5 weeks ago):  [/size] I was clearing up the shed the other day and found some old plant labels. One was for a plant I couldn't remember. It turns out the white beasty is...... Veronica gentianoides "Tissington White" (perhaps a posh cousin of Richard's?) Anyway, here she is on a website.  Fairly conclusive, no? Tommo |
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« Reply #227 on: 22:43:39, 24-06-2008 » |
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 I think of veronica as being slim and dainty - she's obviously been on the chocolate and Bombay Mix! (My reason for not being slim and dainty...) PS How strange, I've had to delete the [/size] thingy as it was appearing beneath the moving green words but now I have no [/size] thingy to bookend the [size =20pt]thingy - Oh! Just seen that there's a stray [/size] thingy in Tommo's post....  |
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« Reply #228 on: 00:09:56, 26-06-2008 » |
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Took these weeks ago. A Water Hawthorn ( Aponogeton) emerges from the pond. The sun was so bright I cast my own shadow over the plant  and near the pond, and springing up elsewhere due to spread of seeds, Alpine Columbine ( Aquilegia) which I captured late evening  |
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« Reply #229 on: 18:27:45, 27-06-2008 » |
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« Reply #230 on: 22:20:10, 28-06-2008 » |
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My toms are getting close to crawling out of the window in the roof of my greenhouse in which case I won't be able to shut it any more, so I hope the weather warms up a bit.
I always expect the first tomato to be ready to eat on 29th July - except for last year, when it wasn't - but then we had 3 months of rain through May/June/July so it's not surprising they were a bit late. The actual sowing date doesn't seem to make a great deal of difference.
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« Reply #231 on: 19:07:38, 29-06-2008 » |
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My polytunnel toms are about 3 ft high and all seems well ie no blight yet, but unfortunately I relied on my memory to distinguish between varieties so I'm not sure if I've pinched out the side shoots on the determinate (bush) varieties as well as the cordons (indeterminate), just have to wait and see.
Garlic has been a mixed bag some early is quite good but the later kinds have rust and seem about to stop growing, the elephant garlic though has come out well. Here (Suffolk) we have had little rain as usual, and everything is looking parched with early potatoes going over and maincrops flowering too early.
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« Reply #232 on: 22:50:21, 03-07-2008 » |
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At last! I have been wondering for days how Cardoon Thistles and Artichokes are related, and more importantly whether I trusted the places I bought them from in labelling them as Artichoke and Cardoon Thistles. (Sadly, many refer to Cardoon Thistles as Scotch Thistles, and I believe they are actually a completely different plant.) Anyway, I finally remembered to do a google search before I turned off my computer. And I came up with this. http://herbiguide.org/Portals/0/Descriptions/Weeds/artichoke_thistle.htmNow all I have to do is remember to check the leaf shape in detail tomorrow. But - I also found out on my search that you can eat Cardoon Thistles. In Spain especially, but also in southern France they eat the flower stalks boiled and braised, and the flower hearts. They taste like, er, Artichokes.  Old Tommo in 'is wellies |
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« Reply #234 on: 11:37:41, 04-07-2008 » |
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pinched out the side shoots
That reminds me of a hilarious incident last year. A friend was growing tomatoes for the first time and I texted her to see how it was going. Her reply said that "We read that we have to pinch out the side shoots but it looks a bit funny, it's just one big stalk." I nearly cried laughing. It did make me wonder which bit she thought the tomatoes were going to grow on. |
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« Reply #235 on: 12:07:14, 04-07-2008 » |
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That's a really funny story Ruby2 Mort, I think Salvias are long-lived but they like it dry and hot, it could just be the cool wet weather we are having is stunting any growth? |
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Reality, sa molesworth 2, is so sordid it makes me shudder
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« Reply #236 on: 17:53:44, 08-07-2008 » |
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OH YUCK B-E-Y-O-N-D YUCK!! This is not exactly a Grump, more a bleetch, but it is garden related so I'm posting here. The kitchen sink wouldn't drain earlier so I had a poke around the plughole. Nothing. The water sat there and sulked. I went outside to investigate the drain. It was bunged up with SLUGS  Gross gross gross. What is with them this year? I'm practically having to tiptoe over them on the pavement. I thought last year was bad. What was this? Some kind of mass slug suicide |
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« Reply #237 on: 18:10:18, 08-07-2008 » |
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It was bunged up with SLUGS Doesn't your Nige have a recipe for them, Mort? |
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« Reply #238 on: 18:21:45, 08-07-2008 » |
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It was bunged up with SLUGS Doesn't your Nige have a recipe for them, Mort? "Slugs drizzled with anaemic gloop" - I think that's in the Appetite book isn't it? |
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« Reply #239 on: 18:27:49, 08-07-2008 » |
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It was bunged up with SLUGS Doesn't your Nige have a recipe for them, Mort? MJ, the Slater approach is to jump up and down on them while thinking of George Bush Or so he says. I might not like the buglers but I couldn't go that far. Bush is another matter though ...  Richard, I see that you are still aggrieved about those fishcakes |
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