Dereks Diary Part 2

derekbrooks Top Member Posts: 6,464	Dereks Diary Part 2 Sept 11, 2022 20:16:56 GMT grindle and SueA like this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by derekbrooks on Sept 11, 2022 20:16:56 GMT Best exhibit in the general flower classes with a vase of statice

derekbrooks Top Member Posts: 6,464	Dereks Diary Part 2 Sept 11, 2022 20:19:00 GMT grindle and SueA like this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by derekbrooks on Sept 11, 2022 20:19:00 GMT Collection of four veg

derekbrooks Top Member Posts: 6,464	Dereks Diary Part 2 Sept 11, 2022 20:21:03 GMT grindle and SueA like this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by derekbrooks on Sept 11, 2022 20:21:03 GMT First with 3 foliage plants, one begonia Rex and two coleus

derekbrooks Top Member Posts: 6,464	Dereks Diary Part 2 Sept 11, 2022 20:22:48 GMT grindle and SueA like this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by derekbrooks on Sept 11, 2022 20:22:48 GMT First with a vase of dahlias for effect

derekbrooks Top Member Posts: 6,464	Dereks Diary Part 2 Sept 11, 2022 20:24:36 GMT grindle and SueA like this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by derekbrooks on Sept 11, 2022 20:24:36 GMT Six sweet peas.(Just Julia)

derekbrooks Top Member Posts: 6,464	Dereks Diary Part 2 Sept 11, 2022 20:26:44 GMT grindle and SueA like this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by derekbrooks on Sept 11, 2022 20:26:44 GMT Vase of mixed garden flowers

derekbrooks Top Member Posts: 6,464	Dereks Diary Part 2 Sept 11, 2022 20:27:56 GMT grindle and SueA like this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by derekbrooks on Sept 11, 2022 20:27:56 GMT Vase of perennials

derekbrooks Top Member Posts: 6,464	Dereks Diary Part 2 Sept 11, 2022 20:29:40 GMT grindle likes this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by derekbrooks on Sept 11, 2022 20:29:40 GMT Vase of wild flowers. All from Blackleach country park

derekbrooks Top Member Posts: 6,464	Dereks Diary Part 2 Sept 11, 2022 20:31:32 GMT grindle likes this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by derekbrooks on Sept 11, 2022 20:31:32 GMT Three dahlias .Bishop of Llandaff

derekbrooks Top Member Posts: 6,464	Dereks Diary Part 2 Sept 11, 2022 20:33:17 GMT grindle likes this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by derekbrooks on Sept 11, 2022 20:33:17 GMT Three medium cactus dahlias. Kenora Sunset

derekbrooks Top Member Posts: 6,464	Dereks Diary Part 2 Sept 11, 2022 20:34:53 GMT grindle likes this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by derekbrooks on Sept 11, 2022 20:34:53 GMT Three medium decorative dahlias. Rycroft magnum

derekbrooks Top Member Posts: 6,464	Dereks Diary Part 2 Sept 11, 2022 20:37:03 GMT grindle likes this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by derekbrooks on Sept 11, 2022 20:37:03 GMT Three waterlily dahlias.Taratahi ruby. This is the last picture

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Dereks Diary Part 2 Sept 12, 2022 20:58:34 GMT

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Went on the allotment this morning. The peas have finished so I removed the plants and put them on the compost. Had to take all the twistits and rings from the canes which took me a while. I then dismantled the structure of canes. Couldn't go this afternoon because it was raining but it was fine this evening so I went back. A disaster had happened. A structure of canes on which runner beans and climbing French beans were growing had completely collapsed and was lying over my brassica bed which has a net over it. I didn't know what to do at first. It was too heavy to lift up and if I could have lifted it I don't know how I would have propped it up. I couldn't lift the net off the brassica bed to get at the brassicas so I finally decided to dismantle the whole structure.I put all the plants on the compost and removed the canes, as I had done with the peas this morning. There were plenty of beans on and I will harvest what I can even though they are on the compost. I do have another frame with runner beans on but these are a different variety.

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Dereks Diary Part 2 Sept 13, 2022 22:08:09 GMT

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All the bean plants from yesterday were all piled up in one of my compost bays. There were plenty of beans on and I decided to transfer the plants a bit at a time to the next bay cutting up the long growths with secateurs and harvesting the beans as I went along. There were two kinds, runner beans
(mergolese) and climbing French beans(Rob Roy). This evening I have sat under the car port sorting them out. I need to keep some of each to collect the seeds so I picked out the pods containing large seeds the sorted the rest out which were still usable and disposed of the rest which will go on the compost.

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Dereks Diary Part 2 Sept 15, 2022 19:01:09 GMT SueA likes this

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Yesterday I washed all the beans that I brought home on Tuesday because they had been on the ground. I took them all,along with some tomatoes, potatoes and a marrow to a food bank. Went on the allotment after. The leeks have all died and I don't know why. I think onion fly may be the culprit so next year I will grow them on a different bed. I removed the collars from them and got rid of the dead plants. I also dead headed the roses and dead headed, disbudded and side shooted the dahlias.
Today I have mowed the lawns and fed the tomatoes, peppers, hanging baskets and tubs with maxicrop

These are what I took to the food bank yesterday

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joysie21: Do anyone buy the gardeners world magazine as I want to enter competitions I have the gardeners answer magazine which is free with lloyds club account Nov 5, 2018 9:19:29 GMT

libralady: Hello Bess, I have resurrected your post about using elderflowers. I will try the fizz but could you please send your recipes for the cordial and syrup. Thanks and regards. Nov 21, 2018 18:03:23 GMT