Mud on the Rooftops 2015 - the Fiddling goes On !

1968 I believe Di.

I honestly thought you were serious about learning how to grow things. My mistake.

ROFL daitheplant.
You've had.. what... 30 years of experience at this ?
I've had.. five ? (zero, if you consider onions).

Don't be TOO harsh at me if I seek a few shortcuts, and amuse myself with gadgets along the way

The gadgets pass the time, whillst I'm waiting for Plants to appear

Oh.. and they ARE appearing, albeit very small

Grump away.
I downloaded my latest temperature figures.
They are NOT good... BUT... I noticed something...

The seedlings don't appear to care.
They are growing.
Except one, that seems to have keeled over. But then.. there is always one.

I acted too slowly SueA, and they have indeed all keeled over and gone limp. (see Onions thread ).

Meanwhile, I had a good day up at my Sisters on Saturday. I've managed to clear the Upper Moon flowerbed almost back to bare soil, something that has never happened before. It still needs another half-hour's work, but its almost there !

I also transplanted three troughs of Marigolds into a flowerbed in her FRONT garden (having weeded it first). I don't need them any more; I only grew them as 'buddy' plants for my runner beans, which have now all finished. And they DO brighten the front garden up a little.

The main event was the strawberries. Her four innocuous little plants in the sink garden had produced a truly prodigious crop of colonising stalks. We ended up filling ten plantpots, with a further 8 plants in another bed, PLUS six that I took home. (they are now in the troughs vacated by the Marigolds).

My idea was to produce enough Strawbs for all of the family, plus Miss M., to have a bowl of strawberries and ice cream to eat whilst watching next years Wimbledon Men's finals. (sadly just on the TV, not actually at Wimbledon itself).

At THIS rate, however, we will have enough for the entire competition. Sister now has 20-odd plants, and I have 12, with more yet to come. (One of my OWN plants has thrown out colonising stalks, and I haven't gotten around to doing anything about it yet).

At this rate, there won't be any ROOM for onions....wilted or otherwise

I've also been thinking about 'Sisters garden for next year.
The Petunias where a success. When I first planted them (having grown them on in the Roofgarden), I thought they looked a bit 'sparse', and I was delighted when they bushed out, creating a wall of colour in the Lower Moon.

Now, however, I'm thinking that they where TOO big; they drowned out the cinneraria and the lavender. So for NEXT year, I'm thinking of trying to create little "islands" of decorative plants, quite low, and with deliberate gaps between them. I'd fill the gaps with bark mulch. Probably. The idea is that the other plants and bushes will still be visible. I'm also contemplating more Cinneraria on the Dividing Wall. With a little shaping, we might be able to create a "privet hedge" effect out of cinneraria ?

Sooooo.... probably Primroses, French Marigolds, Pansies, even Mini Cyclamen (if I can persuade the fussy little things to actually GROW). Any thoughts ?



Where does the apostrophe go in "Mens Singles" ?
I mean, its plural men, and plural Singles, so should it be "Mens' Singles" ? Or are "men" a singular grouping, hence making it "Men's Singles" ? (but in that case, shouldn't it be "Man's Singles" ? )

Well done daitheplant.

Hmmm.... so now I need to buy a Cycle as well ?
Just a normal 15-speed, or does it need to be one of these off-road trail bike thingies, with the nobbly tyres ?

Jesting apart... yes... Miss M told me about the three year thingy.. and thus far it appears to be as true on the Roofgarden as it is in the Valleys of South Wales. My original strawberries are coming up to three years old, and they ARE starting to look a bit tired and brown.