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Post by derekbrooks on Aug 25, 2012 21:22:09 GMT
 Six African marigolds 1st and 3rd |
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Post by derekbrooks on Aug 25, 2012 21:25:22 GMT
 Vase of mixed garden flowers .Usually win this but only 3rd this time |
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Post by derekbrooks on Aug 25, 2012 21:28:31 GMT
That's all the pictures.Thought I had taken my medal winning vases but can't find thm.
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Post by Tel on Aug 26, 2012 7:17:05 GMT
Well done Derek, top man in the dahlia classes.
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Post by steve on Aug 26, 2012 8:26:29 GMT
Well done Derek  |
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Post by Cherry on Aug 26, 2012 10:45:53 GMT
I thought the Diamond Jubilee entry was good too. You did very well with your entries nevertheless. Congratulations Derek.
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Post by SueA on Aug 26, 2012 14:25:32 GMT
Lovely flowers Derek, it looks like it was a very good show despite the bad conditions this year.
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Post by grindle on Aug 26, 2012 15:48:17 GMT
well done Derek |
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Post by derekbrooks on Aug 26, 2012 21:21:00 GMT
Thanks for all those comments.
I hadn,t much time this afternoon but I fed my baskets and other containers and some of the pot plants with tomato maxicrop and did a bit of potting in the greenhouse.
Went on the allotment this evening .Did some more disbudding on the dahlias and also gave them a feed with tomato maxicrop.Also fed some of the spray chrysanths
Did some more weeding after.
Another reason for going was to see what I have for the next show then I can send my entries in.As soon as one show is finished I am thinking about the next one.It is at Bury next weekend.I didn't have any chrysanths for our show yesterday but there are some sprays just opening so these may be ready.The gladioli have only just started coming.I won the class for one gladioli yesterday with 8 entries in but I should have more next weekend.As far as dahlias are concerned ,at this show it says "giant or large".I won't have any giants but I can show Elme E (I won with these yesterday) and Kenora challenger which are both "large".I will have Jomanda and L'ancresse again and also some poms which I didn't have yesterday.There will also be some Taratahi Ruby and Don Hill and maybe White moonlight and Alf's mascot.
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Post by Cherry on Aug 27, 2012 7:36:31 GMT
Good selection there Derek. I always think of my grandfather when you go to Bury Show because he was born there. He only came back during the war, but he was Australian then.
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Post by derekbrooks on Aug 27, 2012 21:51:49 GMT
I have been at Blackleach country park all day today.Rain was forecast but I decided to do some weeding on the border alongside the visitor centre before it started. The rain didn't come till about 10 .50 so I got most of it done.No large weeds,it was just weeding between plants with a hand fork on my kneeling mat.I will finish it next time I go.
It was raining this evening so I went in the greenhouse and finished potting the rooted cuttings taken in July including the herb cuttings taken from the plants I planted at Blackleach.
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Post by Tel on Aug 28, 2012 8:15:50 GMT
Hi Derek, i do not know if this is useful to you, Dahlia Judges, this year are not allowed to touch the blooms.
Waterlily dahlias, judges are not to use rings on these varieties.
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Post by derekbrooks on Aug 28, 2012 21:13:05 GMT
Thanks. Tel. I didn't know that.
I have been on the allotment this morning,part of the afternoon and this evening just weeding all the time and went to the re-cycling centre with 12 bags of weeds.There are so many weeds that I am having difficulty keeping them under control.Some beds are just overgrown.
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Post by derekbrooks on Aug 29, 2012 21:37:38 GMT
A day of very heavy showers so I haven't done much apart from sorting potatoes for my next show.It was fine this evening so I did some more weeding on the allotment but rain stopped play at 8 .10.
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Post by Cherry on Aug 30, 2012 5:22:50 GMT
That is the extra rain which has produced all those weeds Derek. Why don't you put the weeds on a big compost heap? Do you buy back the composted weeds from the council?
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