Purple wellies, tiny steps - Getting muddier!

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Purple wellies, tiny steps - Getting muddier! Apr 27, 2015 14:50:55 GMT

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Apr 27, 2015 14:15:12 GMT Tel said:

Apr 27, 2015 14:04:24 GMT Lou78W said:

A certain T Haigh from Bradford, for instance.....

Don't tell her that Lou, moonlight may throw it in the bin.

No, not the bin but it was one of things that I was going to comment on here, a bit of a Thank You due.

Lou78W Top Member Posts: 9,402	Purple wellies, tiny steps - Getting muddier! Apr 27, 2015 14:57:48 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Lou78W on Apr 27, 2015 14:57:48 GMT Apr 27, 2015 14:15:12 GMT Tel said: Apr 27, 2015 14:04:24 GMT Lou78W said: A certain T Haigh from Bradford, for instance..... Don't tell her that Lou, moonlight may throw it in the bin.
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Purple wellies, tiny steps - Getting muddier! Apr 27, 2015 19:02:20 GMT

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Apr 15, 2015 10:03:36 GMT roofgardener said:

You didn't mention that Pirate and Fairy where growing Spudlinks ?

You must ask them to post their progress in the Potato's thread (in the Vegetables section).

roofgardener here is a progress report from Fairy (in her own typing)

Luckily, my potatoes have started to grow

. I have filled them up with compost then sprayed them. whist I was doing that Pirate was taking photos, and I have defeated the hot days we have been getting

roofgardener Top Member PLanting Chillis Posts: 2,378	Purple wellies, tiny steps - Getting muddier! Apr 27, 2015 19:52:48 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by roofgardener on Apr 27, 2015 19:52:48 GMT Hello fairy, CONGRATULATIONS Will Pirate be posting her photographs ? Kind regards, Roofgardener.

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Purple wellies, tiny steps - Getting muddier! Apr 27, 2015 19:54:27 GMT grindle, Tel, and 3 more like this

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Apr 27, 2015 13:40:28 GMT Moonlight said:

Those tubers all settled and all the shoots have turned a deep purple colour.

Moonlight, whillst I admire your optimism.... I don't think you're going to be able to grow Chickens just by planting a chicken leg ?

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Purple wellies, tiny steps - Getting muddier! Apr 28, 2015 19:47:09 GMT

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Post by Moonlight on Apr 28, 2015 19:47:09 GMT

Photos to follow probably tomorrow but update from Pirate!

Is was really satisfying.

I love it!!!!

First I was excited.

A couple of day it started to grow!!!!

Then I put 10 CM !

Today it grown even more!!!!!!

Finger cross it will grown even more!!!

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Purple wellies, tiny steps - Getting muddier! Apr 28, 2015 20:53:25 GMT via mobile

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Apr 27, 2015 19:54:27 GMT roofgardener said:

Apr 27, 2015 13:40:28 GMT Moonlight said:

Those tubers all settled and all the shoots have turned a deep purple colour.

Moonlight, whillst I admire your optimism.... I don't think you're going to be able to grow Chickens just by planting a chicken leg ?

hope it doesn't grow into a turkey?

ian Top Member May all you Dahlia blooms have stiff stems Posts: 848	Purple wellies, tiny steps - Getting muddier! Apr 28, 2015 21:05:59 GMT Cherry, Lou78W, and 1 more like this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by ian on Apr 28, 2015 21:05:59 GMT Oh Steve that is a fowl joke

ste b Senior Member New member Posts: 368	Purple wellies, tiny steps - Getting muddier! Apr 28, 2015 22:16:17 GMT via mobile Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by ste b on Apr 28, 2015 22:16:17 GMT Apr 28, 2015 21:05:59 GMT ian said: Oh Steve that is a fowl joke I know ha ha cockle cockle!

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Purple wellies, tiny steps - Getting muddier! Apr 29, 2015 0:06:24 GMT

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Post by Raymond on Apr 29, 2015 0:06:24 GMT

Moonlight congrats on all your seedlings.

I like the new acquisitions. Looking forward to seeing the blooms. I am trying narrows Sonia. Hope it's a good one. Just waiting on ryecroft calling to say it's ready.

All the best

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Purple wellies, tiny steps - Getting muddier! Apr 29, 2015 17:39:23 GMT via mobile Lou78W and SueA like this

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2 tough days at work and now it freedom! Happy to say that I have planted all of my little seedlings so far. I have found that using a cocktail stick has helped me prick them out of the seed train more gently and earlier than I was able to do last year. This has ment that the roots are smaller and they disturb the other seeds less.

Lou78W Top Member Posts: 9,402	Purple wellies, tiny steps - Getting muddier! Apr 29, 2015 19:25:21 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Lou78W on Apr 29, 2015 19:25:21 GMT Lolly sticks are even better.........the girls will be able to collect them....
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Purple wellies, tiny steps - Getting muddier! Apr 30, 2015 9:25:03 GMT

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Apr 29, 2015 19:25:21 GMT Lou78W said:

Lolly sticks are even better.........the girls will be able to collect them....

I think that the girls would very much enjoy the collecting of lolly sticks (yours is one post that I haven't let them read

). My Dad uses labels, I think he was a bit surprised that me and labels were not a compatible combination in the seedling plucking scenario. Each to their own.

Rang me Dad last night and asked him what he thought of my seedlings...

Pirate has now posted her 5 seeds that she collected from her Amber Festival plant, so that's both girls done. I've reminded them several times that they might not grow and not to be disappointed. I also planted my Garden Friends seeds (well it had to be done)and my Edwin's Sunset seeds. I also had to confess to the fact that I had sown my erm... cough... erm... (whisper) erm... Mary's Jomanda... cough... cough...

(And no, I don't need any cough mixture

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Dad probably thinks that I am mad.

He's probably right.

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Purple wellies, tiny steps - Getting muddier! Apr 30, 2015 9:26:48 GMT

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Post by Moonlight on Apr 30, 2015 9:26:48 GMT

I've got loads of seeds left Nuland's Josephine, Willo's Violet, Brenda T, Marston George, Jomanda and Red Balloon {neither of which I haven't sown any of), so they will be left until 2016. This means that even if I can't collect any seeds from my 2015 plants, I've got plenty to try from 2014.

Last year I could spot the family resemblances between the seedlings, so it will be interesting to see if those kept that extra year will have a similar range e.g. will the seeds from Eastwood Moonlight have the same range of colour or formation + whether there is a higher or lower success in germination between the 2 years.

All my seeds were randomly selected rather that largest, plumpest or darkest. So I am hoping for some interesting combinations and ranges. Last year my semi/cactus seedlings were often a yellow / peach blends.

Current total of seeds that have germinated, pricked out and planted is 57

with more to follow + my Garden Friends (which I really couldn't wait till next year), Edwin's and Mary's Jo. Obviously they won't all grow large enough to be planted out but I expect to have at least 30. So that is going to mean a lot of black buckets that are going to need holes drilling into.

(Sorry for the rather long boring post)

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