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Post by jellibeans on Sept 22, 2024 6:57:38 GMT
Ok thanks grindle. Did some more border tidying yesterday and finally got round to starting some bulb planting, hope to be able to continue today...fingers crossed!
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Post by Andrew on Sept 22, 2024 10:27:10 GMT
I did harvested some more potatoes and carrots and did some weeding yesterday morning then trimmed the hedge at the bottom of the garden in the afternoon before the rain came. Little chance I'll get outside today with all this rain around, so at least I've had one day in the garden this weekend.
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Post by geumgrower on Sept 22, 2024 16:46:41 GMT
Dodged the rain and potted up some Dianthus seedlings as well as some Fatsia japonica. Cut a few oak logs so we can take them down to our daughters when we go.
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Post by balc2 on Sept 22, 2024 20:55:22 GMT
Nowt!
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Post by grindle on Sept 23, 2024 3:48:46 GMT
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Post by balc2 on Sept 23, 2024 5:22:14 GMT
By the looks of things today will be a repeat of yesterday! 😥
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Post by geumgrower on Sept 23, 2024 12:47:24 GMT
Potted up some more Dianthus, cut a few more logs (after changing the chain saw blade for a sharp one), slug hunting in the frames in between downpours.
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Post by SueA on Sept 23, 2024 18:43:28 GMT
I just put the old compost from the pots & the rotten wooden containers into the compost bins at the far end of the garden.
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Post by grindle on Sept 24, 2024 3:38:01 GMT
emptied half the compost bin on the border I've been digging, replanted most of the perennials, I have a lot of iris left over so will pot some up ready for next year's plant sales. I have a few odd plants that haven't gone back but will pot them up and see how they grow next year as they're too small to put back
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Post by SueA on Sept 24, 2024 15:38:38 GMT
Hacked a very old, dried out & faded plastic pot to pieces to get out an unwanted privet type plant which had rooted out through the bottom & into the path & to rescue a little gala apple tree which was in there. Repotted the apple in a new terracotta type pot which had had some old lily bulbs in which weren't flowering well anymore.
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Post by balc2 on Sept 24, 2024 15:38:58 GMT
As expected yesterday was a write off with several hours of rain in the morning even though the afternoon was drier. I did however sweep the balcony floor of all the detritus left behind after the rains there was nothing else I could do.
After last night's heavy rains I went out onto the balcony to empty the saucers under the pots on the balcony railings. But I decided not to put them back any more. They were all full of water & the pots are saturated. They won't be so necessary from now on so I put them away. In a couple of weeks time I shall remove the pots from the railings & put them in the mini-greenhouse.
I also potted up a few Fuchsia cuttings that had formed roots in water & put some others in pots of compost. For the first time in nearly 60 years I've started to use rooting hormone power in the hope of having more success with them in the future. Time will tell!
I seem to be losing my ability in getting Fuchsias to root. In the last few years I've only been able to root 2 varieties fairly easily but almost any others I've tried have just died before rooting. Now that I have some rooting powder perhaps I can turn my hand to trying to get other plants to root as well. As I used to get almost anything to root it has been a frustrating few years seeing my cuttings die instead of rooting.
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Post by grindle on Sept 25, 2024 3:01:25 GMT
potted up all the odd plants that I'd dug up which were either too small to replant or didn't want in the border, others had suffered with it being so overgrown, hopefully I'll be able to use some of them in different areas in the spring. I have a wheelbarrow full of iris sibirica to split and pot up but need more compost as I've used everything in the compost bin. Also reseeded some bare patches which I'm hoping will grow as the weather is about to take a change
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Post by balc2 on Sept 25, 2024 17:11:02 GMT
I received the box of Pansies this morning I had ordered online a few days ago. They were tiny little plugs but with good rootballs (if you can call a little fingernail-sized amount of roots a "rootball"! )
Anyway I put them in small 3" pots in peat free compost.
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Post by SueA on Sept 25, 2024 21:19:58 GMT
Did more repotting & rejigging plants in the back garden today until it started raining.
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Post by grindle on Sept 26, 2024 3:51:02 GMT
spent the day with a friend, visiting another friend to collect a tree fern then on to a nursery for them to buy some bulbs and plants
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