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Hurdity

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Re: All things gardening
« Reply #345 on: August 14, 2018, 07:52:56 PM »

Finally can stop watering - at least the flower and veg garden. Only the pots and tubs, outside toms and greenhouse to do now - and not every day thank goodness. Ground is lovely and wet :)

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CLKD

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Re: All things gardening
« Reply #346 on: August 15, 2018, 03:59:18 PM »

Any pots with flowers, i.e. lobelia, hanging over are dry  :-\ so out with the hose.  Saving the stored water for the heathers, camellia which means lugging round buckets but it's better than the gym  ::)

The duck weed grows fast  >:(  :o
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CLKD

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Re: All things gardening
« Reply #347 on: August 20, 2018, 11:29:08 AM »

Picked the Discovery and plums today  :).  Another apple tree is almost ready.  Cut back raspberry canes and shrubs.  Busy, busy, busy  ;)
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katsclaws

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Re: All things gardening
« Reply #348 on: August 20, 2018, 04:38:26 PM »

Our apples are still very small, plums rock hard and raspberries just starting. Fed up of courgettes, we have so many.
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CLKD

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Re: All things gardening
« Reply #349 on: August 22, 2018, 05:16:13 AM »

Let them grow into marrows? which can be stuffed with a pre-cooked mince mixture.
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katsclaws

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« Reply #350 on: August 22, 2018, 07:53:35 AM »

I've just picked another 6 courgettes. 3 small enough to eat.  I will use the other three in marrow recipes.
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CLKD

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Re: All things gardening
« Reply #351 on: November 18, 2018, 04:45:38 PM »

There is quite a bit in the gardening and national press about brought in diseases, the latest tree to be affected is our Oak.  How many of you check the bio-security of the centres that you visit and buy from?  I need to up my awareness otherwise many of our native plants will die due to bugs, moulds etc..  :'(

I think it should begin at Chelsea Flower Show and the Gardeners' World Live Show!  No plant swapping!!
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jillydoll

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« Reply #352 on: November 18, 2018, 05:21:32 PM »

Got out into the garden yesterday and gave it
a real good clean up, got all the fallen leaves up, cut back plants,
and threw old stuff away...... :o
I'm really pleased with it, looks lovely n clean now.....
Except for the wooden table, which looks like it's falling to bits...lol  :'(
Might have to buy another one next spring, ready for the summer....
It's all in the bin waiting for the council to empty, which hopefully, will be this week sometime. 
I love it when a plan comes together........lol  ;D ;D
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Lanzalover

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« Reply #353 on: November 18, 2018, 08:28:18 PM »

Well done Jillydoll 🌾 🍂 🌹

Lanzalover x
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jillydoll

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« Reply #354 on: November 18, 2018, 08:51:52 PM »

Thank you Lanza.....lol.    ;D

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CLKD

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Re: All things gardening
« Reply #355 on: November 25, 2018, 05:42:17 PM »

My forsythia is in full flower ........ roses need pruning but I can't reach  ::).   
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Krystal

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« Reply #356 on: December 01, 2018, 07:40:10 PM »

My forsythia is also in full bloom. The yellow flowers are so uplifting during the poor daylight we have had recently. The hanging geraniums are still flowering despite the frost we had last week but I doubt they will survive another frost. Surprisingly the fushia and roses still have flower buds on them. Spring blubs are poking above ground but I do not want them to arrive too early as they should be for spring. When I was little my mum always used to take cuttings of the cherry tree branches, stand them in water in the house and we always had cherry blossom around Christmas Day, a simple thing but it is a lovely memory.
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Re: All things gardening
« Reply #357 on: December 01, 2018, 08:18:26 PM »

How lovely. I have a shrub that should blossom between Nov and Jan., but I can't find it  :-\
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Re: All things gardening
« Reply #358 on: December 28, 2018, 11:01:32 AM »

I have hellebores in flower  :-* and a small patch of green shoots through which white snowdrops are showing  :-*  :-*

Hellebores in bud, must get out and cut back the leaves surrounding the plants.  The shrub that should be in flower is in bud.  The clematis 'freckles' planted over 25 years ago, has at last lots of flowers  :)
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« Reply #359 on: December 31, 2018, 07:37:28 AM »

My hellebores are in flower, I have bulbs coming up including alliums.
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