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« Reply #76 on: 21:54:34, 05-12-2007 » |
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Tommo - so the plan was to move Mount Etna into next door's patch and have it erupt, right? (sorry!)  |
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« Reply #77 on: 22:10:21, 05-12-2007 » |
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Martle typed on, cackling with glee, completely unaware of a shadowy figure behind him creeping silently ever closer. The candles flickered briefly revealing the silhouette of a man and, held high in both his hands ..... a shovel!!
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« Reply #78 on: 16:32:23, 11-12-2007 » |
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I haven't got a garden  Ruth, you can grow herbs and even tomatoes indoors if you`ve got a sunny-ish window sill. I`ve had far more success growing Basil indoors rather than outside. Plus, the slugs can`t get at `em ! I now have a terrace with pots - I had a wonderful crop of tomatoes this year, and some beautiful lillies..... Actually I am just off home to plant some bulbs! |
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« Reply #79 on: 16:35:56, 11-12-2007 » |
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ooh, ooh, ENVY!!! But perhaps mine will be like that in a few years....I have a lot of mini-fruit trees in pots on my terrace. I get small but very juicy peaches, but the apple and pear trees haven't started fruiting yet - the apple produces gorgeous blossom, though! |
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« Reply #80 on: 19:30:42, 14-12-2007 » |
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My garden in frost, yesterday morning at about 10.00   Tommo |
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« Reply #81 on: 16:48:30, 08-01-2008 » |
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It`s that time of year again. The one that sees me happily scouring the gardening catalogues (and mentally bankrupting myself!) and aspiring to the Hanging Gardens of Babylon  On a more practical note, has anyone here tried out potato buckets? I am sorely tempted by the idea of growing my own pots but don`t have room in the ground. |
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« Reply #82 on: 22:16:40, 10-01-2008 » |
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I had great success growing some in a large plant pot one year, Mort. I kept "earthing up" the tops with grass clippings, having arranged some old matting vertically around the top of the pot to contain them. I can't recall quite how many potatoes I harvested but it was a good dozen or so from just a couple of little potatoes left over from a bag bought at Quarry Bank Mill's kitchen garden where only very old varieties are grown. (These were a purple colour, called Blue something like Edsor but I can't find it online.)
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« Reply #83 on: 22:20:33, 10-01-2008 » |
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Ohhh! I`ve always wanted to know what the purple pots taste like, MJ. Do tell!
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« Reply #84 on: 22:47:05, 10-01-2008 » |
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Erm, they tasted like, well, potatoes, Mort!  To be honest I can't remember really, it was a few years ago. But any potatoes eaten immediately after harvesting should taste extra specially good. |
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« Reply #85 on: 10:55:10, 16-01-2008 » |
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One of my camellia bushes is covered with pink buds, some almost out. I'm sure this is even earlier than usual.  |
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« Reply #86 on: 11:33:05, 16-01-2008 » |
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That’s beautiful Mary, I love camellias but they won’t grow in our heavy clay soil. It certainly seems unusually early but I see my neighbours daffodils are very far advanced and, amazingly, there are some daisies out!!
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« Reply #87 on: 11:51:26, 16-01-2008 » |
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I have a white camellia in the back garden that's about 5 times bigger than the pink one (in the front garden) - theoretically beautiful, but in fact usually a bit disappointing, because the white flowers turn brown very quickly, and look horrible. From this:  to this:  |
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« Reply #88 on: 12:17:28, 16-01-2008 » |
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I am envious. I am already very fed up with this dank and dark weather and I have been longing for ages for happy flowers to start showing themselves.
Sadly, in my garden only the Anemones (anenomes?) have dared to grow any leaves, and are still a long way from flowering. Not a tweet out of daffs. My ajugas haven't even the faintest glimmer of blue.
Perhaps they are tired after such a long wet summer last year?
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« Reply #89 on: 12:25:38, 16-01-2008 » |
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Tommo, I wonder if the very wet weather has caused the bulbs to rot?
I’m utterly fed up and dispirited with this weather as well, chaos here of course with many roads closed plus a landslip locally. I noticed some daffs for sale yesterday, I think I may buy some tomorrow to cheer me up.
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