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Post by Lou78W on Sept 25, 2012 7:31:39 GMT
Well done Derek  |
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Post by SueA on Sept 25, 2012 14:49:56 GMT
Well done Derek, your mixed flowers all look beautiful as usual!
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Post by derekbrooks on Sept 25, 2012 21:18:23 GMT
Thanks very much for these congrats.
It has rained all day today so I have not been able to do anything except watering in the greenhouses.We have some friends coming tomorrow afternoon and I have promised them some veg so I hope it will stop raining then I can go to the allotment for some.
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Post by esther on Sept 26, 2012 5:10:28 GMT
Well Done Derek Beautiful flowers |
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Post by AJ on Sept 26, 2012 19:43:53 GMT
Well done sir  |
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Post by derekbrooks on Sept 26, 2012 22:14:14 GMT
Thanks,Esther and A.J.
It was still raining this morning but it did stop about 9.30 so I went to the allotment for the veg for the people we were seeing today.They were the couple I told you about in May and showed you a picture of them.He was the best man at our wedding and we hadn,t seen him and his wife for over 50 years until we met on May 2nd.Today we met at the same restaurant and sat at the same table for our lunch along with my sister and her husband.They were supposed to be coming to our house after to look at the garden and to get the veg.We didn,t think it was worth them coming though because the garden was mostly spoiled by all the rain and the hanging baskets which have been brilliant all summer were no longer colourful . So we took the veg and gave it to them there ,and some for my sister.We suggested they came earlier next year when the garden was still nice.They live in Chapel en le frith (Derbyshire)
The only other thing I have done today was to dismantle the box that goes on top of the car when I go to a show,and put it away as I won't need it again till next year.It goes in the disused coal shed .
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Post by derekbrooks on Sept 27, 2012 19:59:35 GMT
A dry day for a change except for a short shower about 4.30.I cut down the remaining few chrysanths , tied all the labels onto the stools and removed the canes.Will have to get another bag of compost from the hut on Saturday to box them up.
When it started raining I went in the greenhouse and potted up all the rooted geranium cuttings taken in August.
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Post by derekbrooks on Sept 28, 2012 21:50:46 GMT
Been at Blackleach all day and all the gardening I have done was to sow some Limnanthes douglasii (Poached egg plants).These are good plants for insects .We had a patch of them but they got overgrown with weeds .Billy ,who I have told you about before,has weeded the area so I just raked it over and broadcast the seeds.
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Post by derekbrooks on Sept 30, 2012 20:04:36 GMT
Raining this afternoon so I spent most of it in the greenhouse.Started tidying up the plants again which I do every so often and cut back some of the fuchsias.The warming benches have not been in use since spring but I have two electric propagators in use with some cuttings on. When I spike the lawns which I am hoping to do soon I brush sand into the holes so I removed the sand from the propagating benches to use on the lawns.By using the same sand for two different jobs of course saves me money.When I fix up the warming benches again in December or January I always use fresh sand.
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Post by derekbrooks on Oct 2, 2012 22:16:10 GMT
I had nothing to report yesterday because I did no gardening.I was at Blackleach all day and choir practice at night.Today,though I have had nearly a full day.It was showery but while it wasn't raining I boxed up the disbud chrysanths.They are in 7 mushroom boxes and I have kept 6 or 7 stools of each variety.I have told you before that the chrysanths have been a disaster mainly because of white rust.Most of the plants didn't grow well and I haven,t shown any at all apart from sprays.Because of this I don,t know if they will give me enough cuttings.I will have to spray the stools very often to prevent the disease taking hold again.While it was raining I went in the grenhouse and did some more tidying up of the plants and took some fuchsia and angel pelargonium cuttings.Also moved some plants about to make room for the chrysanths .
Tonight I have been to the veg meeting.It was a mini show.There was a class for the heaviest potato and I took two which I had won a similar class with at Tottington a few weeks ago.They weighed 1 pound ,4 and three quarter ounces and 1 pound 2 and seven eight ounces.I don't grow veg for size or weight but one of our members does .All he is interested is the heaviest or the longest and he had three potatoes over three pounds each so I didn't win anything.(except the raffle!)
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Post by derekbrooks on Oct 3, 2012 21:01:46 GMT
Went to my son's this morning to cut his privet hedges for the last time this year.Pulled some of his bedding plants out that have finished and did some weeding .The hairy bittercress seeding itself all over the borders depresses me every time I go.I wish he would do some weeding himself sometimes.I got out what I could but I know they will soon come back again.
It is the harvest festival at our church on Sunday .I usually do a large basket of veg to put at the front of the church and take what flowers I can.I have to take them on Friday night. I have not much time tomorrow (health walk in the morning,two hours at school in the afternoon and out early at night to choir practice )so I decided to go to the allotment this afternoon for the veg,as I did 2 weeks ago for Edenfield show.I picked the first sprouts.This evening I have washed the turnips and done some sorting of the rest of the veg in preparation for doing the basket.
I couldn't go to the allotment till 3.30 because I had to take the car to a garage to have a job done. The hanging baskets have been brilliant this year but three at the front of the house have more or less finished flowering .While I was waiting to get my car back I took them down and replaced them with three from under the car port that were still nice.Emptied those I took down and potted up some plants from them that I want to keep till next year.
I also put the boxes of chrysanth stools in the greenhouse where I made room for them yesterday.There is no heat in this greenhouse.They don't need heat till New Year when I want to start them into growth to take cuttings.
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Post by derekbrooks on Oct 4, 2012 21:58:37 GMT
Only had half an hour to spare this afternoon after school and I sprayed the chrysanth stools with systhane.I must do this every week to prevent white rust.
After choir practice this evening I made up a large basket of veg for the harvest at church and a smaller one for a raffle prize which I had been asked to do.We are having a harvest concert on Saturday and we are having a raffle there.
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Post by Tel on Oct 5, 2012 6:37:58 GMT
Hope you win the raffle. ;D ;D
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Post by derekbrooks on Oct 5, 2012 19:49:15 GMT
The weather forecast wasn,t good today so I thought I would be cutting flowers in the rain.It only did a shower in the morning though.So I went to the allotment this morning to cut flowers for the church harvest,all those that the recent rain didn,t spoil. There were nowhere near as many as usual.Many spray chrysanths were marked but some were O.K.All the giant and large dahlias were spoiled.but there were some L'ancresse,jomanda,hi fashion,Debs kiwi,Don Hill and Taratahi ruby.In annuals there were plenty of rudbeckias These were not spoiled at all and some cosmos,
Went back to the allotment this afternoon,mainly to do some tidying up.but I weeded a patch to plant the winter onions on the bed which will be the root crop bed next year,as I explained yesterday on the school page.
I cut off all the spoiled dahlias and put them on the compost heap and cut down a large area of golden rod.I also coiled up the hose pipe and put it away as it won't be needed again this year.
Tonight I have taken the flowers and the veg basket to church.
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Post by derekbrooks on Oct 6, 2012 19:20:48 GMT
Only about one and a half hours gardening time today because we have had the harvest concert at church this afternoon. Got home about 3.30 so I went to the allotment and planted the winter onion sets .I planted them 6 inches apart to grow large but planted some more in between to be pulled up small to use in salads. Also removed the net from the brassica bed because it is no longer needed.
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