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Post by peony on Dec 5, 2015 13:29:21 GMT
.....The Sir Alf was so huge I couldn't carry it through the house and I didn't want my Dad to do it either because he has got a really painful shoulder at the moment.
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Good heavens Moonlight... just how big ARE these tubers ? They can be enormous Roofy, one of my 'Garden Friends' dahlias (in a 10" pot) has grown so much this summer it's now tightly wedged into the pot and I will have to cut it out next spring  It's hard to believe that when Tel sent it to me a couple of years ago it was a tiny 4" rooted cutting. |
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Post by Moonlight on Dec 5, 2015 14:08:21 GMT
I was thinking mutant Mammoth leg.
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Post by Moonlight on Dec 5, 2015 16:49:25 GMT
Well have now made the decision to find a box big enough for a family of 3 which I am determined to send on their travels on Monday. (Subject to the weather)
Just need to find a box + I am waiting for the soil around the tuber to crumble off a bit more.
Less soil = lighter parcel.
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Post by Lou78W on Dec 5, 2015 16:53:24 GMT
I'm intrigued...and sorry if I've missed it before.....but where are you sending this box (of dahlias I assume) to?
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Post by Moonlight on Dec 5, 2015 17:27:24 GMT
I'm intrigued...and sorry if I've missed it before.....but where are you sending this box (of dahlias I assume) to?
 
(Bit of an effort though, must confess!)
(I've thought of some humorous replies but false myself to press backspace delete.) 
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Post by roofgardener on Dec 5, 2015 18:12:52 GMT
Hmmm... a mystery ?
Was it the Reverend Plum in the Greenhouse with the Secateurs ?
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Post by Moonlight on Dec 6, 2015 0:46:20 GMT
Inspired by Roofy's drive to push on with his plans for world domination, thought I would finish off a couple of rows (sort of)
 
n.b. the one that I labelled 'Dad's Magic' isn't actually called that but I can get away with it  (for now) until he classifies it something 2015 number.... (Just don't rat on me and tell him)
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Post by Moonlight on Dec 6, 2015 0:56:30 GMT
Hmmm... a mystery ? Was it the Reverend Plum in the Greenhouse with the Secateurs ?
Soaking wet mad woman, wearing odd boots (ok, 1 ankle height floral wellie on the Right foot and 1 purple clog on her Left Loot) as she couldn't find a matching pair of wellies tall or short
(with 2 children asking:
"Mummy why are you wearing odd boots?")
and a pair of blunt loppers or kitchen scissors!
Even my children think know that I am mad.
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Post by Moonlight on Dec 6, 2015 1:18:15 GMT
Good heavens Moonlight... just how big ARE these tubers ? They can be enormous Roofy, one of my 'Garden Friends' dahlias (in a 10" pot) has grown so much this summer it's now tightly wedged into the pot and I will have to cut it out next spring It's hard to believe that when Tel sent it to me a couple of years ago it was a tiny 4" rooted cutting. Smiling for the camera 1 Sir Alf tuber, with a car parked behind for size comparision 
3 smaller tubers in a kitchen washing up bowl (nb not used for washing dishes)
All 4 tubers still have a lot of compost / soil attached which is fine because it helps protect the 'fingers/lobes) but in this case the ones in the bowl will have as much soil brushed away as I can to make them lighter.
The stalks of the Sir Alf will be trimmed down some but they have helped me when I was staggering through our house to hold the tuber.
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Post by roofgardener on Dec 6, 2015 9:29:50 GMT
EGADS ... Sir Alf looks like a set of bagpipes.
The ones in the Kitchen bowl look very similar to the three I dug out last week ... I'll send photographs later today.
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Post by roofgardener on Dec 6, 2015 9:37:20 GMT
Are these variants that you have planted, or is this a list of what you intend to plant ? The DO look very colourful. |
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Post by Cat on Dec 6, 2015 18:33:01 GMT
I still really like "dad's magic" it just catches the eye, a little different |
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Post by Moonlight on Dec 6, 2015 23:24:25 GMT
I still really like "dad's magic" it just catches the eye, a little different |
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Post by Moonlight on Dec 6, 2015 23:29:47 GMT
Would do a proper reply but am currently sitting on the floor of Pirate's bedroom, as I have 2 children who wont settle down and sleep. They will not be in the same room 2morrow.
Not impressed.
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Post by Moonlight on Dec 7, 2015 1:25:36 GMT
Are these variants that you have planted, or is this a list of what you intend to plant ? The DO look very colourful.
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It's hard to believe that when Tel sent it to me a couple of years ago it was a tiny 4" rooted cutting.
