(07-06-2021, 01:05 PM)PyreneesPlot Wrote:

(07-06-2021, 12:53 PM)Veggie Wrote: I have a ripe tomato and a nearly red strawberry..............not picked either. I need them to talk to the rest of their mates and tell them to get ripening.

Shouldn't this post be in the Plants That Need a Strong Talking To thread?

I seem to have left one of last year’s onions in the ground. It was an onion set that got smothered by a sage plant. It doesn’t seem to have swelled up at all . But it’s throwing up some lovely healthy leaves.  What’s the chances of the seeds being viable if it produces a flower spike?

OH, Paul, keeps the verge alongside our road cut for the mums and kiddies walking to school (plus he's slightly OCD about order ). 
 The adjoining  hedge is full of prickly things too. He scrabbles about under the hawthorn and other hedges keeping the couch grass and other weeds at bay.  He is also on anticoagulation.  So when he is scrabbling anywhere he inevitability gets stabbed by thorns and spikes which draw profuse blood andcause bruises.

He's bought himself a kevlar forearm protector.  It looks daft but might keep the blood at bay

https://www.thesafetysupplycompany.co.uk...-kksl.html

   
I've been super busy with getting my dahlias in. They really have taken up a huge amount of time.
I'm not growing as many beans this year - I didn't manage to get my frames up in time! I will sow some more today. I have cut down hugely on the veg growing but I thinks it's probably enough for two.
I've a few courgettes, 20+ tomatoes, 5 cucumbers - only 2 in the borders so far, maybe about 80 beans - some poles still empty!! 2 per pole.
Dahlias in the veg plot -136 plants. I've rummaged through the builders scrap wood and got some decent stakes and I've started to string the old chicken electric fence across.....I'm hoping the dahlias will be supported when they grow through it and I don't have to spend ages tying in. I have lots more in the garden. 
Lots of beetroot and lettuce in to. More beetroot to go in today if I have the energy.

I read an artical by a well known gardener, the first thing that I came across was about Pelargonium, where he said he doesn't feed them, yet I have always thought Pelargoniums were gross feeders. The second was about legumes, advising planting  brassica after them as they add nitrogen to the soil, again not what I thought actually happens, I thought that the plant used up all the nitrogen producing peas or beans and if you wanted nitrogen you had to dig the plant in before it started to produce a crop
So have I got it wrong with the two of them?

I came across this French Website selling products made from plastics. The big difference it is vegetable based plastics. However, this product caught my eye and it’s made from recycled plastic. Anybody ever used them ? 
https://mvi-shop.com/en/line-mikado/54-p...ardin.html

   

What do you think?
How about Customer Care at Thompson & Morgan?
Anywhere you'd like to work less???

This might be pushing your expertise a little to far. I didn’t have my camera.
Shrub/ tree with azalea sort of dark green leaves and the flowers are very distinctive. Red Chinese lantern type things hanging down. 
Any ideas ?

Anyone having a go at this. A cracking prize for the winner. Runner up prize isn’t to be sniffed at. 
I might have a go in the future but not this year. 

https://www.diy.com/projects/outdoors#ic..._Slim_goty

Today I strimmed and trimmed the grass paths in the veg garden. I have eleven rectangular beds surrounded by grass and eleven grass paths between them. 
The rest of the garden is rampant and pretty weedy, as are some of the veg beds between use. But not the paths.
My guilty secret is loving having the paths dead straight, neat, and well clipped.