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- Thu Mar 04, 2021 8:36 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Early Spring Bits and Bobs
- Replies: 166
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Re: Early Spring Bits and Bobs
Ouch, Westi. I did something similar a good few years back now, but it was my own fault for trying to run in a stupidly high heeled pair of shoes! An ice pack is your friend for reducing swelling. I grafted my Frankentoms a couple of days ago but had to do them again as my cheapskate attempt at usin...
- Tue Mar 02, 2021 2:36 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Late Winter Bits and Bobs.
- Replies: 138
- Views: 24965
Re: Late Winter Bits and Bobs.
I have too many vices to mention, so I shall balance the scales on behalf of OH! Hubby would say, however, that my vice du jour is buying trees. It's not my fault - I can't turn down a good looking tree at a reasonable price. I've even started encouraging the neighbours, with success! Nothing like a...
- Sun Feb 28, 2021 12:21 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Late Winter Bits and Bobs.
- Replies: 138
- Views: 24965
Re: Late Winter Bits and Bobs.
Haha! Do nothing, Westi????
Major over-compensating with a Porsche, if you ask me. My favourite purple is on my broccoli:)
Major over-compensating with a Porsche, if you ask me. My favourite purple is on my broccoli:)
- Sun Feb 28, 2021 9:09 am
- Forum: Best practices
- Topic: Grafting tomato plants
- Replies: 15
- Views: 7474
Re: Grafting tomato plants
The instructions do say to sow the rootstock 2 weeks before the main variety. Of course, I completely forgot this and did them at the same time. Sigh. However, I have enough plants that there are ones of similar or smaller diameter than the rootstock so that should be okay. Frankentomatoes - here I ...
- Sat Feb 27, 2021 8:44 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Late Winter Bits and Bobs.
- Replies: 138
- Views: 24965
Re: Late Winter Bits and Bobs.
Such gorgeous weather! I weeded my raised beds and have started clearing a couple of them. There's still loads of radicchio in them and the last of my leeks, as well as garlic and shallots that are coming on well. Salads are bursting forth in the greenhouse and my mange tout that I sowed a couple of...
- Sat Feb 27, 2021 8:36 pm
- Forum: Best practices
- Topic: Grafting tomato plants
- Replies: 15
- Views: 7474
Grafting tomato plants
My curiosity got the better of me, as it always does, when I was ordering my tomato seeds and I was intrigued by some seeds for tomato grafting rootstock. Of course I bought some! They're well on their way now, along with all my other toms and I'm going to have a go at grafting a few plants. I haven...
- Thu Feb 25, 2021 9:51 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Late Winter Bits and Bobs.
- Replies: 138
- Views: 24965
Re: Late Winter Bits and Bobs.
Does anyone remember Cresta pop? It had a polar bear in sunglasses for the adverts, as I recall. I love my paper pot maker; it's nearly time to get going with them again. I may use them for my salad seedlings as they break down in the soil so well. I gave up using peat pots as they never broke down ...
- Thu Feb 25, 2021 3:56 pm
- Forum: Best practices
- Topic: Should I feed PSB?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2589
Should I feed PSB?
My psb is flowering nicely - is there any advantage to giving it a high potash feed? Will I get more or bigger spears if I do?
- Wed Feb 24, 2021 12:50 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Late Winter Bits and Bobs.
- Replies: 138
- Views: 24965
Re: Late Winter Bits and Bobs.
Ouch, Robo. You are going through the wars. Best wishes for a speedy recovery and a better turn of events.
- Tue Feb 23, 2021 8:55 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Late Winter Bits and Bobs.
- Replies: 138
- Views: 24965
Re: Late Winter Bits and Bobs.
Yum, yum, yum! Purple sprouting broccoli with dinner!
- Fri Feb 19, 2021 1:21 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Late Winter Bits and Bobs.
- Replies: 138
- Views: 24965
Re: Late Winter Bits and Bobs.
I'm going to plant a few first early spuds in bags in the unheated greenhouse over the next few days. I have more than I thought, so worth the risk for an early crop. A new indoor sowing of lettuce seed is looking good and all my tom seedlings are thriving after pricking out. Next up will be a few p...
- Sun Feb 14, 2021 2:45 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Late Winter Bits and Bobs.
- Replies: 138
- Views: 24965
Re: Late Winter Bits and Bobs.
Happy days - I've spent the morning pricking out my tomato seedlings that I sowed and kept in a heated propagator. As usual, there are far too many of them, but there are often casualties along the way to adulthood. Who am I kidding? There will still be too many of them! It's our first day for some ...
- Thu Dec 31, 2020 11:19 am
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Mid Winter Bits and Bobs.
- Replies: 177
- Views: 26501
Re: Mid Winter Bits and Bobs.
IMG-20201231-WA0008.jpeg Cold, frosty and very beautiful here in deepest darkest Dorset this morning. With lots of moisture in the air yesterday and -3C overnight everything was covered in hoary ice crystals. And nobody told the radicchio that the NYE party is cancelled - it looked pretty in its fr...
- Sun Dec 27, 2020 11:56 am
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Early Winter Bits and Bobs.
- Replies: 123
- Views: 18939
Re: Early Winter Bits and Bobs.
Well, that was nasty. Bella was anything but beautiful. Some damage to #2 greenhouse, the persoex if a drop down window and one of the front perspex cladding sheets are broken, hubby is out investigating repair methods now. Better than last year's storms, mind you, as we had damage to the house then...
- Sat Dec 26, 2020 5:25 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Merry Christmas.
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2678
Re: Merry Christmas.
A belated happy Christmas to one and all. We're bracing ourselves for storm Bella and hoping that everything (including us!) comes through unscathed. Wishing the same for all.