Joan J Raspberries are a Primo Cane variety and the pruning regime is different to other raspberries. With primo canes you get an early crop, a second crop, from last years cane and in the case of Joan J a second crop in the autumn from the suckers that are appearing now. Only when last years cane ...

Thanks for the replies, exactly what I wanted to know. I had six plants last year, produced a lot of fruit I thought for the first year. If the shoots that are showing this year, at lest a couple of dozen, is any thing to go by, we will have so many rasberries we wont know what to do wth them! . . ....

Hi people long time no post . . . done nothing for this year at all, only put a few seeds in today . . . to late? The weather has been so cold! My 'Jane J; rasberries did well, very well, first season last year, about the only thing that did last year I cut them back in Feb., they are now sprouting ...

Hi people, not been around for a while, Hazel has had her back operation, then she went and fell over 10 weeks later and brock her hip . . . So, my time has been taken up a bit. The garden is full!!! . . . of produce and weeds, needless to say, produce is not so good, but I understand its been a bad...

Hi all . . . Hazel had her operation a couple of weeks ago, touch and go for a couple of days However all is well now, she is in the kitchen as I type, preparing a salad for this evenings meal!!! Yes, she really has come on, pain in her legs has gone . . . still cant stand up straight, but thats the...

My apologies to you all, especially to 'Jane E' for throwing the toys from the pram . . . Entering a tough time, again, with my Hazel, we have been there 5 years ago, she beat cancer!!!! Now we are on the treadmill again . . . I'm feeling sorry for us both, I shouldn’t, there are others far worse of...

Mmm . . . afraid I get really wound up by 'feminist' drum beating. I have been brought up with old fashioned attitudes to most things including a very high respect for the female members of our species, and an equally low opinion of male shovanists. Worked all my life, never been out of work, same f...

Seems I have put my foot in it???? I cant see why, but there you go . . .

???? I'm off, you all have a good life. CJS

oldherbaceous wrote:Morning CJS, i'm sure jane E is just pulling your leg.......

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CJS

jane E wrote:I'm glad to hear you admit to being pampered!!
I could add a few more things - but I'll forbear.

My feelings . . . have I said something wrong? If so, my humble apologies.

CJS

Regarding the household appliances, you sound very much like all us men. Yes mat, I know how to pay for them, but being able to work them, that is another story. I'm very lucky, I've been pampered all my life by the females members of my family. Clean clothes just appear, wonderful mouth watering p...

I agree with OH - do make a list of what you both really like and I would also try to stick to things which taste so much better just fresh from the garden, like peas, mangetout peas, French beans etc., rather than e.g. parsnips which are not expensive to buy and which are not that different shop-b...

Evening CJS, maybe Hazel could write a list of your favourite veg and fruit and try and work out how much you will use each month. You will be able to freeze any surplus fruit and certain types of vegetables if you get a glut. The best bit of advice i can give you is, to make more than one sowing o...

Houses used to be both on the same plot, father and son. Then dad died, so devided and sold, hence the strange fence shape. The fenders and life ring are from my boating and fishing at sea, 25 years, just approaching retirement, looking forward to making a pig of myself on the boat with a fishing ro...

My mans been round again today, extended the north side fence border removing the ugly concrete planters and digging out to 4ft wide, thats now 30ft long. The ivy on the west side has gone, no more shadow and we used some of the concrete sections to make tidier compost heaps. Just need this dodgy le...