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« Reply #271 on: 11:19:49, 30-08-2008 » |
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Outside my back door there is a hollyhock that has come from nowhere. It's at least 8 feet tall, and has red flowers with a white centre, rather like these -  I have a few pink hollyhocks by the front gate, but nothing at all like this one. It's very beautiful, and sort of magical. |
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« Reply #272 on: 13:52:17, 30-08-2008 » |
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It seems a good year for hollyhocks, we have had a couple that thought they were sunflowers and just shot upwards to around 11 or 12 feet. Mind you the season has been good on many counts somewhat surprising given the below average sunshine hours here in Suffolk. Talking to a farmer this morning he tells me that his wheat yields are the highest ever and quality seems good although drying is needed. Potato yields are also excellent but just watch those prices soar.
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Was just down in the greenhouse with a torch picking toms,they've done as well as usual but my peppers/chillis are not very far advanced, they must have suffered more from the very cool weather we've had.
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It seems a good year for hollyhocks, we have had a couple that thought they were sunflowers and just shot upwards to around 11 or 12 feet. Mind you the season has been good on many counts somewhat surprising given the below average sunshine hours here in Suffolk. Talking to a farmer this morning he tells me that his wheat yields are the highest ever and quality seems good although drying is needed. Potato yields are also excellent but just watch those prices soar.
Suffolk is a good county for hollyhocks. It's where I first fell in love with them. They don't usually grow very well here (north west England) - I think the soil can't be suitable or something - so I am extra pleased with my gorgeous accidental one. I'm surprised potato yields are good, I'd have thought they would have rotted with all the rain. Generally, though, I've never seen a year like this for growth (not economic, obviously  ). My garden is unstoppable, and as soon as a hedge is cut it grows again - one might as well not bother. Shrubs have doubled in size, and as for the ivy......I'm almost having nightmares about it taking over. |
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« Reply #275 on: 23:41:22, 30-08-2008 » |
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and as for the ivy......I'm almost having nightmares about it taking over.
That reminds me of a horror story I read when I was young, Mary. The ivy grew over the house, eventually blocking out all the windows and...... There's luxuriant ivy growing on next door's extension and up the walls of both houses but, since it allowed a rat to get up into my loft a few years ago, I keep it well cut back. |
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« Reply #276 on: 14:11:40, 03-09-2008 » |
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The greenhouse is full of slugs - I found an enormous one when I went down just now to water (seems a bit silly having to do that when we've just had a downpour) - and, although I'm getting lots of tomatoes, the peppers and chillis look pretty sorry for themselves.
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« Reply #277 on: 14:54:12, 03-09-2008 » |
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An interesting page on Slug ControlI may like nemotodes..... Tommo |
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« Reply #278 on: 15:53:07, 03-09-2008 » |
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I have a big, very old apple tree (cookers), and a much newer smaller one (eaters). There are lots and lots of windfalls from the big one, but they are all really small this year. There are no apples at all on the other one, which has never happened before. I wonder why? I'd have thought all the rain would have made for big fat apples. Obviously not . |
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« Reply #279 on: 15:54:50, 03-09-2008 » |
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Lack of pollinating insects around at the right time?
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« Reply #280 on: 15:57:48, 03-09-2008 » |
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Mary, the same thing has happened with my apple tree (russets) this year. It blossomed, baby apples appeared and then ... nothing. Not one I don't understand. There doesn't seem to be any kind of pest on it. |
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« Reply #281 on: 00:01:11, 11-09-2008 » |
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Not being much of a gardener (except that butterflies are crunchy) I haven't been here before, so am very proud to post this:  The result of combined efforts by son-in-law, not-quite-son-in-law and me. I should add that we decided to harvest ASAP because tonight we are expecting the first frost of Fall. |
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« Reply #282 on: 09:14:37, 11-09-2008 » |
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New England produce! I have only one thing to say about that photo, Kitty:
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« Reply #283 on: 09:18:18, 11-09-2008 » |
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Gosh! Very impressive, Kitty. i've had my nose pressed against the screen trying to identify the types of veg. Do I spy some chillies in that wheelbarrow?
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« Reply #284 on: 10:39:26, 11-09-2008 » |
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You can tell your pic isn't taken in this country Kitty by the colour of the grass - all grass here is a bright martle colour this year.
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