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So a lifetime of disappointment!
[tunnels are relatively cheap and kidproof, pound for pound better value than a GH(IMO)]
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I've now ran out of room to put stuff. I dug up a yet-to-bear-fruit Jalapeno plant today to make space for a sweet pepper and ended up re-planting it on the grass verge opposite my house...
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It comes to us all in the end........... dump the lawn!
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It's going that way, Tenners...

In other news, I finally got round to using that Pak Choi... delicious in a stir fry with a peanut butter/coconut milk sauce!


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Have mentioned this afore, but this year was looking like a real bumper for the three plum trees we inherited with the house. Alas, the inevitable is happening now...



Iranian friends are coming and going away with bowls of them, still small, sour and green, which they eat with a kind of mint preparation. Other half's argument is that the birds and worms will get them as they ripen anyway. :cried:
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vietnammer wrote: Fri Jun 24, 2022 6:07 pm Have mentioned this afore, but this year was looking like a real bumper for the three plum trees we inherited with the house. Alas, the inevitable is happening now...
I'd happily give you mine, V. No-one here eats them...
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Had a mammoth weekend at the allotment. Loads of weeding done, carrots planted, brassica cage built, wallflower seeds in, fruit cage tidied.

I lifted the first spuds, just to see if anything had grown. Got about 20 pink fir apple spuds from one plant.

Courgettes should start to be picked by the end of the week, runner and dwarf french beans all have flowers on plus everything else just seems to be romping away,

Grandson came up this week and just loves eating the raspberries and strawberries

All in all, a very productive weekend.
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Up the Junction wrote: Fri Jun 24, 2022 7:04 pm I'd happily give you mine, V. No-one here eats them...
Jam or better still wine?
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Anyone watch Countryfile? I found tonight's particularly interesting. Obviously this is based towards the farmer but some of the advances in technology is quite amazing. Loved the bit about making the fertilizer pellets.
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RichieRiv wrote: Sun Jun 26, 2022 4:19 pmJam or better still wine?
Yeah, Mrs UtJ is considering the former Rich (she'd happily do the latter too but I don't partake).
jevs wrote: Sun Jun 26, 2022 6:35 pm Loved the bit about making the fertilizer pellets.
What's the scoop, Jevs?
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Why do I keep getting the message “The submitted form was invalid. Try submitting again” when I post on my desk top computer?
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Up the Junction wrote: Mon Jun 27, 2022 2:41 pm What's the scoop, Jevs?
It was just interesting about how they were using spare potato peeling from the local crisp factory, mixing them with a few other things and turning them into farmers fertilizer pellets https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m ... -cotswolds

The whole programme is worth a look but the fertilizer bit starts at 11 mins
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jevs wrote: Mon Jun 27, 2022 3:29 pm Why do I keep getting the message “The submitted form was invalid. Try submitting again” when I post on my desk top computer?
Well posting the above on my phone seems to have cleared the error.
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jevs wrote: Mon Jun 27, 2022 3:31 pm Well posting the above on my phone seems to have cleared the error.
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Anyone know a bit about hydrangeas?

I've got one in the garden at the moment in a medium sized pot. Early last spring I got a bit carried away cutting it back - far to harshly and far too early. A subsequent frost got it and I thought it was a gonner. It eventually grew back last summer and looked okay by the end of the years but no flowers.

Anyway I left it alone and this spring it's come back again fine and is looking good and healthy and is a reasonable size, but still zero flowers on it.

Any tips? Will it ever flower again. We've given it a good feed a couple of times but nothing so far.
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My thoughts on hydrangeas are that they need to have moist soil to ensure flowering.

We have two, one of which had a heavy cut back recently, so may have waited to flower this year.

The other, though, which was half-forgotten, in a pot, in the front garden, got repeated watering, every night, March and April, because I had potted this plant someone had gifted me and gave them both a good soak each day. That one is modestly sized, but covered with the flowers...
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Treat hydrangeas as woodland plants.....dappled shade, rich moist soil, neutral to acid soil and only prune them in early April by removing the old. dead flowers.

It would probably enjoy being in the ground better than a pot Sendo unless the pot is mooohasive.

I can't grow them in Brighton due to having shallow, free draining, chalky soil. Shame because i love some of the paniculata species.

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They used to say you should prune (or at least cut back) a third of the plant each year, so that would suggest it takes them 3 years to flower. Most vigorous shrubs are easiest kept in check by 'deadheading +' ( ie deadheading and taking a good bit of stalk off at the same time.)
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jevs wrote: Tue Jun 28, 2022 4:30 pm Treat hydrangeas as woodland plants.....dappled shade, rich moist soil, neutral to acid soil and only prune them in early April by removing the old. dead flowers.

It would probably enjoy being in the ground better than a pot Sendo unless the pot is mooohasive.

I can't grow them in Brighton due to having shallow, free draining, chalky soil. Shame because i love some of the paniculata species.

Good luck
The pot is fairly big tbh, maybe 40cm across. I've made sure to keep it well watered too. Will have to check the soil acidity - I actually have a probe somewhere in the shed.

I don't really want to replant it again until I know I'm not going to kill it. The soil in my garden is basically solid clay too that barely drains at all so don't want the roots to sit in water.
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I'd love a probe in me shed.
Just remembered, if the hydrangea's blue, keep it that way with the occasional dose of sequestered iron(or similar, 'spect old nails would do..)
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