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Post by Moonlight on Mar 18, 2013 21:13:42 GMT
Looks like my sweet peas have finally grown enough leaves for them to have the chop but what happens if they don't have the snip?
The girls ones I had wanted to grow on wigwams but mine I wanted to grow straight up.
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Post by Moonlight on Mar 19, 2013 21:50:55 GMT
Good news! My daffodils (and I think my tulips) are growing very excited but the not so good news is there is no chance what so ever that they will be ready for the Spring show next month which means that of the 5 novice classes next month I can't enter 3 of the classes. Sammy Sparkle is growing very well but he still has his sparkle, so I can't enter him in the pot plant class and I don't have anything ready to enter in the mixed flowers & shrubs vase. So I won't be able to enter any of the classes but that's ok because it instantly removes the pressure on me to try and follow my dreams of going for the Novice cup.
I am not sad about it because I can go round the show once it is open to the public and take lots of photos so that I actually have an idea of what is expected in the shows.
What will be will be and if it was meant to happen it will happen if it doesn't then it wasn't, (yet maybe next year  )
Never know might have a daffodil ready for the Summer show;)
Counted my sweet peas, 6 in each pot except 5 in Zilla and only 4 in Pirate Yellow Wellies' pot. Some really late starters just bursting through. I was wondering maybe those ones we planted too deeply? or Maybe those seeds are just heavier sleepers. |
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Post by Moonlight on Mar 20, 2013 0:21:06 GMT
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Post by Geranium on Mar 20, 2013 6:19:56 GMT
That's really good news! Mine are very slow and some of them are still fast asleep.  |
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Post by Lou78W on Mar 20, 2013 8:32:54 GMT
Great stuff!!....its a lovely feeling when you see the first tiny shoots show....its onwards and upwards from now on ;D
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Post by sweetpea on Mar 20, 2013 16:22:22 GMT
re keeping the canes safe from poking eyes out, a cheap and cheerfull way is to slide an empty pop bottle over the top of the cane. Not very aesthetic I grant you but it works.
ps Where is your flower show held. You never know, some folks on here might just be able to turn up.
Time to nip out the growing tip of your SPs going by your pic. They will respond by sending out more sideshoots.
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Post by Moonlight on Mar 21, 2013 9:36:29 GMT
Lots more excitement here Dad's 2nd parcel from USA has arrived, he has been given strict instructions not to open them without me. 
Fingers crossed that they are ok.
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Post by Moonlight on Mar 21, 2013 10:36:37 GMT
re keeping the canes safe from poking eyes out, a cheap and cheerfull way is to slide an empty pop bottle over the top of the cane. Not very aesthetic I grant you but it works.
Thanks for that Sweetpea re. keeping canes safe. The other thing that I had heard of was ping pong balls. I bought pack of cane toppers. I don't know if they will be the right size or not. Think that they might be a bit loose. Like you say the aesthetic does not matter, its the safety that counts and if an idea works then it is worth ago.
ps Where is your flower show held. You never know, some folks on here might just be able to turn up.
Now that would be very embarrassing. I don't think my garden or any of its contents are good enough to show at the minute. It is ok with strangers because other than my Dad nobody knows me from Adam but not with friends here but if I ever did anything good, you probably would not get me to stop showing off about it. Sometimes it is nice to dream and have a future goal. My dream would be to go for the Novice Cup and win one of the novice dahlia classes but in all fairness my realistic (I hope) goal is to try and not kill more than I (attempt to) grow. I am very proud of my shoots on my dahlia tubers. Happy Halloween might turn out to be a rubbish (but brightly colourful) dahlia but it is always going to be special to me because it will be one that grow 1st. I am especially proud of the Downham Royal shoots because in my opinion they were in a worse condition probably due to care not being taken when packed in a brown paper bag. You can be as eco. friendly as you like but a brown paper bag scrunched up with the tubers inside (so scrunched up themselves) is not appropriate protecting packaging.  (I am going to step off my soap box now 'onest )
The fact for me that my tubers are showing signs of life and I can even spot some roots is a success. I have not a clue what is going to happen next especially as so many people here that know what they are doing, who (even though they say modestly say that they are not) are experts through years of experience have had so many problems with cuttings not taking off. So if I have a go at taking a cutting and it is not a success I won't beat myself up about it. I am very proud that I have got my greenery.
I was hoping to show my pink shaded daffodils and the tulips bulbs that I won but they won't have grown enough. There is always next year. I am very proud of the fact that they have grown at all considering the fact that they were old bulbs. Even if Pirate Yellow Wellies keeps showing me the yellow daffodils that we already have growing. Dad has mentioned a few times, if my daffodils have not grown yet other people might be in the same position. Ah but, other people have not planted theirs out as late as mine, so I think that there will still be a lot of entries. I still want to go and suck up the atmosphere and take photos of the Novice entries and anything else that I think look pretty. Get a bit of inspiration, ready for next year because I still want ago and the next show is the summer one and I can still enter individual novice classes if I have anything that fits the bill but I can save my Novice cup dreams that are pie in the sky till next year
Oops! Gone on a bit.  and I have real questions to ask you and more news to tell & updates to make.  |
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Post by Moonlight on Mar 21, 2013 10:38:30 GMT
Time to nip out the growing tip of your SPs going by your pic. They will respond by sending out more sideshoots. |
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Post by Moonlight on Mar 21, 2013 12:44:52 GMT
That's really good news! Mine are very slow and some of them are still fast asleep. |
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Post by Moonlight on Mar 21, 2013 13:00:12 GMT
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Post by markb on Mar 21, 2013 14:08:22 GMT
Great to see the tubers shooting there Moonlight. I don't know about all the other dahlia growers on here but I am starting to feel like a beginner myself this year, lol.
For your shows I would say see what you have at the time and enter if you can. As I was told when I first showed an interest "you can't win a card if your entry isn't on the bench".
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Post by Moonlight on Mar 21, 2013 14:19:06 GMT
Great to see the tubers shooting there Moonlight. I don't know about all the other dahlia growers on here but I am starting to feel like a beginner myself this year, lol. For your shows I would say see what you have at the time and enter if you can. As I was told when I first showed an interest " you can't win a card if your entry isn't on the bench". |
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Post by sweetpea on Mar 21, 2013 14:46:07 GMT
Time to nip out the growing tip of your SPs going by your pic. They will respond by sending out more sideshoots.
same for dahlia cuttings. Dip between each plant you use it on. |
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Post by Moonlight on Mar 21, 2013 15:58:46 GMT
Thanks Sweetpea I think it is going to have to be fingers n thumb for me.
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and I have real questions to ask you and more news to tell & updates to make. 
rather than waste the eye potential (or something along those lines 
