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Post by Ian k on Dec 5, 2014 18:24:23 GMT
Good afternoon moonlight mark Williams (woodford dahlias) does have Barbarry surprise as I have ordered 15 plants of him for next year £1.75 each
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Post by Lou78W on Dec 5, 2014 18:56:01 GMT
That's an excellent price !!!....I've not even made my list out yet.....(hang head in shame)......
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Post by Tel on Dec 5, 2014 19:16:00 GMT
If I can I am going to order another Downham Royal tuber from S.Raven - £5 off any order today.
I am going to try not purchase the 3 tuber set but... Why ? |
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Post by Moonlight on Dec 6, 2014 1:03:56 GMT
If I can I am going to order another Downham Royal tuber from S.Raven - £5 off any order today.
I am going to try not purchase the 3 tuber set but... Why ? |
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Post by Moonlight on Dec 10, 2014 12:00:28 GMT
Dad coming round bit later.
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Post by Moonlight on Dec 11, 2014 22:02:58 GMT
Good afternoon moonlight mark Williams (woodford dahlias) does have Barbarry surprise as I have ordered 15 plants of him for next year £1.75 each
Time for some research.
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Post by Moonlight on Dec 12, 2014 10:07:46 GMT
Can't remember how or if my Dad steralises the lopper secateurs between plants. 
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Post by Moonlight on Dec 12, 2014 10:33:12 GMT
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Post by Moonlight on Dec 12, 2014 11:01:11 GMT
What does a pair of secators, loppers, a mug of coffee granuals have in common?
They've all had a kettle of boiling water poured over them.
Got to be careful of my timings because I need to go out later - I might not be able to cope with boiling water but I'll need quite a lot of boiling water to help me scrub all the water off of me.
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Post by Moonlight on Dec 12, 2014 11:21:03 GMT
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Post by Moonlight on Dec 12, 2014 12:28:37 GMT
I am not for one minute saying that I am good at digging up tubers because I'm not but and it is quite a significant But - I'm not quite so scared of doing it at the moment.
I've cut back my seedlings and Edwin's Sunset.
The 1st 2 tubers that I have actually dug up were the girls ones: Hillcrest Hannah and Amber Festival.
I've dug up Brenda T.
I've lifted my pot tubers Garden Fiends and Candy Jayne. Garden Friends is in the greenhouse with Freds 3 & 4, Amber Festival and Hillcrest Hannah.
Lifted but not put anywhere yet are Clearview Jenny, Eastwood Moonlight (Star)- I think that that is it thus far.
Instead of cringing, I've actually been finding it very therapeutic this time but then I've yet to have one fall to pieces like my Mary's J did last year - which felt awful.
I've sent a message to my Dad via my Mum telling him that I've done the girls ones so I am hoping that he will come round later or in the next few days.
Going to have to stop now and wash up but right here right now I'm feeling a hell of a lot better than did and have done for ages. Yes I have had stuff on but I know that I have been putting it off because I dreaded mucking it all up with the other extreme of feeling guilty because they were all going to die in the ground with no protection.
Well live or die at least I've dug some of them up solo without my Dad helping me. A major leap forward from the woman in her very dirty wellies!
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Post by Moonlight on Dec 13, 2014 0:58:49 GMT
Ok from sounding almost grown up in the tuber department - erm
Talked to Dad earlier and he said that he would try and collect the tubers sometime tomorrow, now a very big part of me was disappointed for lots of reasons but in reality the biggest thing is that once I've handed them over to him, I don't have to fret about whether or not they are ok.
Hillcrest Hannah, Amber Festival, Garden Friends and Freds 3 and 4 were in the green house. Told my Dad about them and he asked me if they were all covered up - Not yet will do later.
And the others...? What have you done with them?
erm, Nothing yet.
So they've been dug up so they are exposed, they would have been better off in the ground.
Yes I know your right but I will sort it.
And so my solution?
Ended up with Dahlias in trays and pots and sitting inside a bin bag.
Just for tonight.
'onest guv'nor
 I promise that I'll release them into the big wide world tomorrow but after all that effort I don't want them dying on me.
So there you go my confession is made, let's hope that it will be one less thing to worry about.
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Post by Moonlight on Dec 13, 2014 9:41:18 GMT
I had thought about keeping my tubers up in my loft but as I'm erm. scared to go up there, I won't be able to keep an eye on them, so it would be poor HH that would have to do that... so that can't happen.
I thought about putting them in the car over night yesterday which although not ideal not as horrifically bad an idea as it sounds. The double duvet that HH used to wrap around my tins with the dahlias in, on route to and from the shows - it's still there. So I could quite literally tuck them up with a blanket (ok duvet) for when the temp when the temp dropped.
As it was my tubers in their trays and pots were put in baggy bin bags - and erm  kept inside away from radiators or other heat sources for just tonight, well last night.
2 are already back outside the front door waiting patiently for collection from my Dad and the others are waiting for me to move them which I'll do in a bit. I've rung my Mum to check if Dad is coming round today and she is going to find out for me. I've asked if she could ask him to brings a few labels with him as I couldn't find any yesterday??? Well that's telling a fib, I found 1. The ones here at the back of the house I want to show Fairy because one in a tub is her Hillcrest Hannah tuber. Both of their tubers need a stalk trim but at the moment, it is easier to see that it is a dahlia, rather than a weird looking sweet potato. Pirate has seen hers, so I can do hers once I get down the garden and bring up the secateurs.
Think that that is it.
I know that I don't do things the way that 'normal' people do but as mad as it all sounds, there is an element of logic in my actions.
'onest guv'nor
I also need to crack on dig up Kenora Valentine, Oakwood Goldcrest, Tisa (which I'm not sure that I want to grow now anyway), my Willo's Violet which had the lilac sport which I really do need to save, Moor Place and a Marston George.
They are the ones that I need to do and the ones that I would also like to dig are Nuland's Josephine (mine was better than Dad's this year), Downham Royal, Eastwood Moonlight, 1 Weston Pirate.
Better get dressed then, so that I can crack on.
Oh and Fairy's come down, I can show her tuber now.
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Post by Moonlight on Dec 13, 2014 9:48:25 GMT
Glad I did show her, spotted a caterpillar sitting on it's roots. Didn't see that last night. I guess that's what happen's when you are carrying tubers up the garden gone 10 at night...
Gotta crack on.
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Post by Moonlight on Dec 13, 2014 22:21:02 GMT
I am happy to report that my Dad collected the tubers that I had dug up this morning.
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