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Post by Moonlight on Jun 4, 2015 14:30:31 GMT
Forecast for very heavy rain tomorrow, my neck of the woods. Made me wonder if it is worth me planting now, till afterwards but Dad wants me to crack on. Took ages to water them this morning they looked too thirsty. Want to spray them buy I want it to be cooler because I don't want the leaves to scorch or minimise it but I want them to plump up a bit first. Part of me is scared that I will do them wrong and regret not waiting for me Dad to be there advising. He said that he would pop round some time tomorrow, see how I am doing and probably deliver more plants.
Today he dropped off
Seedling 23 
Lismore Moonlight
Ryecroft Zoe and Eastwood Moonlight.
Can't not grow a Moonlight, be bad for me image!
 
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Post by Lou78W on Jun 4, 2015 15:49:01 GMT
If you plant now, the rain will water them in nicely....I timed mine for that reason....
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Post by Moonlight on Jun 4, 2015 19:32:20 GMT
If you plant now, the rain will water them in nicely....I timed mine for that reason.... |
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Post by Moonlight on Jun 4, 2015 20:57:08 GMT
Well I think that I sprayed everything. Mini and small Decs get planted tomorrow. Tired now back aches gonna be grand tomorrow.
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Post by Moonlight on Jun 5, 2015 8:43:26 GMT
As forecast predicted, heavy, heavy rain, thunder and lightning.
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Post by roofgardener on Jun 5, 2015 22:44:33 GMT
We havn't had ANY of that here on the Roofgarden, Moonlight.
Perhaps it's the altitude ?
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Post by Moonlight on Jun 17, 2015 23:49:45 GMT
Rather long gap between updates but I haven't been well and I am horribly behind desperately trying to catch up and have a very long way to go but I had to write out some labels today for the seedlings that I've potted up. Another 42 to go - but a couple might not get potted up yet a while because they look a bit ropey.
Remember this?
Bill Seedlings 2015 Update.
I now have 66 seedlings all of which have been potted up into their multicoloured pots for what feels like ages.
Last year I had Fred (1 Miniature Ball and 10 Small Ball; 2 Miniature Cactus and 4 Medium Semi-Cactus) 17 Fred Seedlings in total
(+ all the ones that I gave my Dad to grow on because they were seed collected from Staleen Condessa and far too tall. I had loads and I didn't want a seedling forest.)
Will less seedlings I was able to label them as:
Fred 1-2 Weston Spanish Dancer
Fred 3 Downham Royal
Fred 4-7 Eastwood Moonlight
Fred 8 -17 Red Balloon
Not going to do it like that with Bill 1 - 66 because that is too many.
Imagine: Bill 29, Bill 30, Bill, 31....... Bill 44, Bill 45, Bill 46, Bill 47 etc... sounds silly, a bit of a faff and hardly memorable.
So what I am going to have to do is have:
Bill P: 1-5 (= Willo's Violet seedlings)
Bill LP: 1-17 (= Nuland's Josephine seedlings)
Bill D: 1-8 (= 3 Marston George and 5 Brenda T seedlings)
Bill W: 1-4 (= Edwin's Sunset)
But there are 32 Min/Dual/Small/Medium Cactus/ Semi Cactus , so the best that I can come up with a split between cactus Mother seed and semi cactus Mother seed.
Bill C: 1-11 (= 1 Weston Pirate, 10 Weston Spanish Dancer)
Bill S/C: 1-21 (= 11 Ryecroft Zoe, 2 Eastwood Moonlight and 8 Peach Delight)
Any flowers good enough to earn the status of 'Red Wool' (and be grown again next year) will be then renamed Bill 1, Bill 2, etc. for 2016, as the idea of keeping Bill P:5, Bill LP: 15, Bill D:5 doesn't work for me n.b. I am not assuming that any will be good enough to be a keeper.
Might all be as clear as mud right now but somehow I've got to make it make sense to me, before I start planting them in the garden.
This is tonight's labels...
Hope iit makes sense - clear as mud me
But
at least now I am beginning to believe that I am getting there or at the least heading in the vague-ish right direction.
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Post by Tel on Jun 18, 2015 5:57:26 GMT
Sorry to hear you have not been well.  I hope you have fully recovered now, Moonlight.  |
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Post by roofgardener on Jun 18, 2015 8:05:56 GMT
It's good to hear you again Moonlight; I was getting worried  Now then... your system... I don't quite understand it. I understand that you put things in coloured pots (a technique that I may adopt myself). But what is the 'code' behind the names ? E.g. Fred, Bill etc ? |
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Post by Moonlight on Jun 18, 2015 9:20:44 GMT
It's good to hear you again Moonlight; I was getting worried Now then... your system... I don't quite understand it. I understand that you put things in coloured pots (a technique that I may adopt myself). But what is the 'code' behind the names ? E.g. Fred, Bill etc ?
My Dad is more pragmatic. Nothing gets named early on and he does not use people's names for his dahlias (but once very early on).
He does identify the groups of the Mother seed variety but nothing is given any form of name until it's 2nd year. 1st year seedlings he chooses to keep are tied around the stem in Red Wool (pure wool because ultimately it breaks down) (Red because it shows up the most). His 2nd year seedlings are given a number and a year date.
Now me personally, I cannot cope with having seedling 23 twenty three 2014, 23 twenty three 2013 and a 13 thirteen 2014. (He always writes both the digit and the number words).
My logic of Fred 3, Fred 4 and Fred Fire, makes my life easier. Fred Fire was not given a number because the plan had been it was best for my Dad to grow my seedlings from my mutant tall Staleen Condessa dahlia but still a Fred. The Fire bit is random - it is just a case of it starting with F and only having 4 letters, Fred 3 is aka 'Downham Dec' because it has the same colour as my Downham Royal ball but very clearly a Dec rather than a Ball dahlia and Fred 4 is aka Fred Flump because there is something about it that reminds me of Flumps (admittedly gone up to 5 letters but it does start with a F).
Whether or not I will eventually think of Fred=2014, Bill=2015 and ?=2016 etc haven't a clue but it would be wonderful if one day one of my seedlings could be good enough to name but if it were to be given a name it won't be Fred Fire, Fred Flump or Downham Dec.
Bet you wish you hadn't asked roofgardener.  .
p.s. People that spend time with children will know that there are times when you don't want children to repeat what you say. If relaying something that has happened, I say something along the lines of
Fred accidently said / did something to Fred and Fred was fine with it.
It annoys the children (mwahahahaha) but I hope that it minimises potential risk of repeat and making a situation worse.
Blame it on my sense of humour - Fred is always the first name that comes to my mind.
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Post by Moonlight on Jun 18, 2015 10:37:45 GMT
Been potting around my garden picking up random pots and trying to locate places where the seedlings can go which isn't on the grass = dead grass and isn't infront of girls' dahlias which killed the excitement for Fairy as her's was difficult to see.
Unfortunately the seedlings that haven't already been planted have a black fly problem and I need to tackle that.
Also rang me Dad to see if he could get some more manure - cheaper than compost because I have a lot more to pot up and I haven't the compost and manure to do it.
He has given me some larger pots that I can put my water lilly dahlias in but again can't plant without enough soil.
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Post by Moonlight on Jun 19, 2015 9:01:49 GMT
Admittedly everything done in the wrong order but here are a couple of photos:
Garden Friends 
Taratahi Ruby 
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Post by Moonlight on Jun 19, 2015 10:52:04 GMT
Unfortuantly my Edwin's Sunset tuber from last year didn't make it.
Edwin's Sunset but I do have Taratahi Ruby and Kilburn Glow that are bright red + the creamy / white Vivian Russell (I'll find out soon).
Still waiting to hear if my Dad has located my Willo's Violet tuber from last year that had that lovely lilac sport. Don't want to plant a replacement if he has found that original.
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Post by roofgardener on Jun 19, 2015 15:35:18 GMT
Wow, they are stunning.
Have you considered buying a ladybird colony to deal with the blackfly ?
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Post by Raymond on Jun 19, 2015 23:11:52 GMT
Moonlight sorry to here about your Edwins sunset. I must say tarahati ruby is a cracker as is Kilburn glow. I got my friend a tuber of t ruby and she loves it. Already in full flower for her.she says the stems are superb. I will grow it next year or Gwyneth I think.
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I hope you have fully recovered now, Moonlight. 
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