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Post by Eli on Sept 26, 2024 7:54:37 GMT
I hope the rooting powder works for you balc2 I've never used it so I'd be interested to know what sort of success you get .
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Post by geumgrower on Sept 26, 2024 10:14:32 GMT
Cut back some more of the Holly where it overhangs the compost heaps. Cannot do any more as they trees are too tall to reach now, so any more would involve taking out the top 10 foot or so of the trees. Too risky. Potted up a lot of seedling Dianthus and Erodium manescavii. Don't know why, I don't really need them.
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Post by geumgrower on Sept 26, 2024 12:44:13 GMT
Riddled a couple of buckets of leaf mould. The stuff that does not go through the riddle is 95% nut casings, so I am putting it in the green waste bin. They do not rot in my heap, it is not hot enough. The stuff that has gone through is really nice and friable stuff. Now moved all the potted Salvias into the greenhouse. They are hardy, but the pots are possibly not.
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Post by seaburn on Sept 26, 2024 14:00:07 GMT
Well you are all putting me to shame. The garden has been 8 years maturing since I retired and had a good go at making it how I wanted it. But I really do have to pull my fork etc out of the shed and make a start again. So many plants to lift, clean, pot up and then clear the beds of British natives [weeds actually not too horrendous except for the bindweed, creeping sow-thistle and couch grass].
When I make a start I will take lots of photos, promise.
Lots of rain in the last 24 hrs.
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Post by balc2 on Sept 26, 2024 21:00:20 GMT
I hope the rooting powder works for you balc2 I've never used it so I'd be interested to know what sort of success you get . Will do, Eli. I've not used it in at least 60 years! I did use it quite often before I went to Spain in '72. I didn't really start gardening on the balconies of the flats we used to live in until after we got married & returned to Cuenca after living in Madrid for two years. It would have been '78 I think before I began to grow things again. I had to learn a whole new way of growing things as I had been used to having a garden when I lived at home in the UK with my parents.
This afternoon I took ALL the pots of the balcony railing & those on the floor of the balcony up against the railings. I moved everything as far back into the balcony as I could. With an amber alert for heavy rain from 6pm I didn't want to take any chances! All the pots were already very wet still from the rain of a couple of days ago. I'm glad I did as we have had some heavy rain already this evening & it's forecast to carry on all night till 8am on Friday!
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Post by grindle on Sept 27, 2024 4:07:21 GMT
nothing done, busy morning and rain in the afternoon
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Post by geumgrower on Sept 27, 2024 16:46:26 GMT
Moving stuff into the greenhouse most of the day. Pain makes it a slow job.
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Post by balc2 on Sept 27, 2024 20:30:05 GMT
I hope the rooting powder works for you balc2 I've never used it so I'd be interested to know what sort of success you get . The Fuchsia cuttings I used it on have all died! Though probably not caused by the rooting hormone power but because they were probably too woody. They had spend a few days before the powder arrived in a jar of water. They would probably have died anyway. I had hoped to increase my Fuchsia "collection" (all 2! ) by getting cuttings from the plants the local council gardeners ha d put out this summer. But I guess I left it too late. I think the variety may have been 'Dollar Princess' as I grew them some years ago on the balcony.
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Post by grindle on Sept 28, 2024 2:18:44 GMT
sorted the pond for the winter, removed as many of the fallen leaves as possible then put the net over which too ages, it was a new one, but is really too fine so I will probably have to get another one to replace it. Cut down a Nandina ready to dig out, it never did much just got tall and straggly and I was fed up looking at it
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Post by geumgrower on Sept 28, 2024 15:09:51 GMT
More moving plants into the greenhouse, but pain forced an early stop.
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