Here we are again, Jenny Bluish-green Here's the RHS colour wheel m Now tell us bluebells are purple By the way, I've just realised why my bluebells are turning white - they can't stand this eternal bickering about what colour they used to be Back to Welsh - we don't have the colour problem. They ca...

Tigger

Are you talking about bush or cordon?
If cordon, then I asssume you are differentiating between sideshoots between leaf and stem and actual flowering trusses.

Alan

Many thanks Chantal

It should be and it now is.

"I wondered who'd be the first to spot that" as Captain Mainwaring used to say.

Alan

Hi Jane Welcome to chicken keeping. How many have you got? I'm sure everyone would like to see a picture of them if you could post one. As for foxes - despite being in the countryside, we have had no problems. Our hens and ducks are totally free-range and are only locked in every night. The only los...

Ron There seem to be a few misunderstandings here. You say you "cut off" the side shoots when "they" were 5-6in high. What were 5-6 inches, the shoots or the plants? What did you cut them off with? Tigger is correct in saying that you pinch out (finger and thumb) the shoots which...

Don't know about Ruby, but Legend comes up on a search as determinate, ie bush. Leave it alone and it should grow on.

Alan

Dear Jenny Blue

Quite the reverse

Alan

She's what we call a Chwilog Black -one of our own hatched chicks from two years ago - a sort of reverse coloured Light Sussex. Her dad was a Light Sussex and her mother one of his many wives (which one I'm not sure).

Alan

Just to keep the thread alive, here's a picture (taken this morning) of Mam Hwyaid - Mama Duck - who hatched ducklings last year (see posting of March 27 above). This year she is sitting 6 Wheaten Marans, 6 Blue Laced Barnevelders and an extra egg of our own to make it up to 13. If you want a pictur...

Here's what I was asking about



Alan

Can you guarantee that Essex will remain frost-free for the next six weeks or so. If you could provide heat, less of a problem.

Alan

Well, to my old Welsh eye, they're all green (see my last post).

Any chance of getting back to white purplebells

Jenny Our blue ones are more blue than purple. If you're bothered about colour words try this: The Welsh word for blue is glas . It also used to be the word for green (presumably before people got so picky about such things). It often appears in placenames, when it still always means green and not b...

I think the only two earlies I have had problems with have been International Kidney and Rocket. International Kidney I found grew large and coarse-tasting - and that in two different soils 175 miles apart. A terrible disappointment when expecting tasty Jersey Royals. Rocket I have never grown, havi...

No, this is not a trick question. We have bluebells in many places in our gardens and field. I have always known that a few white or pink flowers could appear. Over the last few years I have been seeing more and more white flowered ones. This year, in certain places almost half are coming up white, ...