Scarlets Veg & Flower Plot 21
Posted by: Scarlet - 07-06-2021, 10:07 AM - Replies (6)

   
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.

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  I thought it was the opposite
Posted by: Spec - 06-06-2021, 09:26 PM - Replies (5)

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?

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  Plant supports from recycled plastics
Posted by: Can the Man - 06-06-2021, 09:14 AM - Replies (11)

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

   

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  The Worst Job in the World?
Posted by: Veggie - 04-06-2021, 07:11 PM - Replies (24)

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

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Smile ID without photos (Chinese Lantern Tree/Crinodendron)
Posted by: Small chilli - 04-06-2021, 03:29 PM - Replies (12)

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 ?

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  B&Q competition
Posted by: Small chilli - 02-06-2021, 06:13 AM - Replies (3)

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

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  Gardening Guilty Secrets!
Posted by: PyreneesPlot - 01-06-2021, 08:54 PM - Replies (8)

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.

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  Lost the lot
Posted by: Admin - 01-06-2021, 09:43 AM - Replies (15)

I was looking at my onions Friday and thinking I ought to give them a feed.....yesterday I got some BFB to feed them, Allium Leaf Miner had beat me to it,  160 onions with  collapsed twisted leaves.

Gardening can break your heart sometimes

On the bonfire today

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  30 Days Wild 2021/2022/2023
Posted by: Veggie - 01-06-2021, 08:17 AM - Replies (9)

Anyone doing 30 days Wild this year? https://www.wildlifetrusts.org/30-days-w...-your-pack

You can download an activity pack - great for kids or big kids!!
Todays Random Act of Wildness is Breakfast Outdoors.Smile

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  Nature Quiz
Posted by: Veggie - 31-05-2021, 10:35 PM - Replies (26)

   

Just seen this Quiz but I've no idea what the answers are!
Won't stop us trying, will it?

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