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I should think if all that grows Puss you are going to be kept busy but full marks for trying it all. We don't have room in our garden for so much.

Puss, Foxgloves are poisonous, however you are ok as long as they don't get eaten so watch animals and children, there's more on poisonous plants including foxgloves here

http://www.btinternet.com/~micka.wffps/poisonous.html

bees love them though!

Morning all Fred is up and about already ,my two rose bush replacement found ,my onion plant's ditto and other seeds to put in ,so ,i issss goin' to be very busy today.
Cauli' can be very iffy to grow Puss,they like you he he are very fussy and like tons of looking after which is why the ones in shops and supermarkets are so dear,brussel the farmers throw in ,and apart from plenty of water ,will do well on any soil. but cauli have to be well cared for.
Nice ,rich soil which needs to be hard or they tend to bolt, water lack of has the same effect,most of all plenty of lime in the soil to help prevent club root.
Most of all ,select an Australian Breed ,Dok Elgon ,Barrier reef .candid Charm ,something like that ,the old english sort ,all year round ,yuk,pluddy awful,lol
A splash of lime down the hole as you pland + s tad of rhubarb stem [the acid keeps the wireworm away] and orf you jolly well go.
As with all Brassica ,once in ,heel the soil down with the back of your shoe ,they like hard soil ,and struggle to grow otherwise.Fred :-D :-D

lol Ann , yes i was hurting till 1am this morning, nearly came down and got back on here, so will do a little less today. xx

thanks rose, think i will pot them up and put on charity table dont want to take any risks with my pets, kiddies all left home.

thanks fred im off to pound land today so will get some lime, and blood bone and fish, mixture.

my second lot of germinating toms are looking more healthy ive had them in the airing cupboard.

i have a blackcurrent bush that has gone downwards into my water butt and grown roots on so that can get planted and past on.

im still getting potato plants growing in my pea and carrot bin lol, and i have lost my sprouts, dont know where they are lol

and i have 1 yello stick coming up from my sweetcorn tray yippee

strawberries are doing well no fruit yet but plants nice and green

ive got lots of honeysuckle that is every green and smell lovely if anyone wants some

joan sent me some snow drops from scotland, so can be done ish lol


see you all after my scan xxxxx :-D

Good luck with the scan Puss. :-)

A second good luck with your scan lass ,can't be too careful.
Have a look in poundland for some window sill propogators ,and put your maarties in there instead of the airing cupboard,left in there ,forgotten and they will come out like leaves of grass ,wishy washy green ,and the stems as thin as a darning needle,lol
You have tons of time for the sprouts ,so try again ,use a hybrid ,lower growing sort ,that won't get blown around by the wind in autumn,and some of them now are disease resistant to clubroot which will help a lot.
Bear in mind that brussels are not good taste wise untiil they are well frosted ,a late autumn to early winter sort are best. :-)
Think you are a little early to be thinking strawberry yet awhile ,try late may to june ,up 'ere its july lol.
Fred.

Given the price of seeds if you only want a few brussells sprouts or cauli's it may be better to buy a few plants in a tray from a garden centre. I tend to buy cauli's that way as I only grow a few.

For a change I am trying a red Brussells Sprout this year as well as a normal late variety. They are just coming through now in the greenhouse. Just eating the last of these from last year.

Brilliant rain last Sunday. The garden looks so much better and everything has shot up.

i have a daffodil thats 3 feet tall right proud of it i am
and my sun flowers are peeping above the compost now
my seeds are slowly appearing in the green houses

and the board beans are doing really well straight in the soil

Yes I think the rain over the last few days (not sure about the hail yesterday though) has done the gardens a world of good. Not Jack and the beenstalk then Joy, Jack and the daffodil. Now there's a name for a story, but that's a different thread Lol!!

This is one of the reasons why i sow my brassica into vending cups K ,having a very small veggie patch,and what with the price of them ,as you mentioned i sow into the cups 2 seeds 12 cups which means one packet of seed does me three years,talk about being frugal more like a tight assed Scot He He,interested in these red Brussel ,so i will look out for a packet as Red veggies normally are far higher in Anti oxidants ,Fred.
Who ,by the way is still waiting to get out into a sodden garden :-(.

Hello everyone - Susanwithnumbers has started this wonderful idea of saying hello on different threads. Hope you all have great plans for the day.

Sue

Hello Sue, nice to see you visiting, tell us about your garden if you have one.

Hello everyone. Thanks to suewithnumbers I am looking at some new threads.
I have a small garden that was totally neglected while I worked, in fact the two years before I retired it was a black polythene carpet held down by paving slabs waiting for me to 'get a round tuit' (older members may remember that blast from the past).
Last year my son laid down two patio areas and turfed the rest so I now have a blank canvas waiting for me. I had a few pots but my lovely fuschias died :-(

I shall read through the whole thread later and see what you are all doing and pick up some tips.
Hopefully there are some for the lazy gardener who would rather sit on the lawn than mow it lol. Enjoy your day everyone. :-)

Well I'm in Australia so my garden is going to be different because of the difference in climates. Where I live - just south of Sydney - we have quite a temperate climate. Warm, humid summers with some rain and very cool winters with some rain - usually. This last summer has been very wet and quite mild. Our grass is usually quite brown by the end of winter but it's very lush now. Unfortunately our veggie garden hasn't faired too well. The rain ruined the last of the tomatoes and lettuce and the cucumber plants lost the leaves to mold so no shade for the fruit. Hopefully our winter crops will be better.

A lot of my garden is in pots - a hobby I love. I have a lot of bromeliads in pots also begonias which seem to flower continuously. I also love geraniums and have a large pot full of different coloured ones on my front verandah. If I want some colour I'll pot up some marigold or pansies depending on the season. The only thing I don't seem to have any success with are azaleas.

In my front garden I grow a lot of natives plants as these are generally low maintenance. I've let them grow in their natural shapes and only trim them if they look a bit untidy.

sue its good to hear of a garden in a different country, my garden is in pots , we didn't realise before we moved in our back garden is concrete, and the people before put some top soil down, apart from 8inches around the perimeter where i was able to plant fruit trees.
the pots is better for me to manage , i lost some plants like hellebores and lavertarea sp ; but ive now got a polytunnel to store stuff in the winter.

Lyndi, stay with us and you will get lots of help on here.

SueMaid, Please stay with us, it is great to hear about gardens in other countries. We do actually seem to grow the same plants as yourself, other than the native plants maybe. I am not sure that Bromeliads would grow outdoors here all year, although in tubs they may be OK if brought into a heated greenhouse in winter. See lots of bromeliads in Tenerife in the botanical gardens. Azaleas do well here in some areas, I think they need a very acid soil don't they? Yes yomatoes will rot in too much rain, what a shame, very frustrating. We too grow a lot of geraniums (Pelargoniums) in summer but have to bring them in for the winter which is where the conservatory comes in useful. We have 4 huge hanging baskets of them which are my OH's pride and joy, then we have tubs of deep red ones standing on the front gravel. We also have a lot of pots and in summer even more when we fill them with fuchsias. :-)

Good afternoon to the gardening thread......just doing my bit for visit a thread day.......
I have a tiny garden , usually get all my tips of Julia...but thought I would pop in and ask a gardening question......

I am wanting to put some more climbers at the bottom of my garden, I alread have a selection of clematis and passion flower so what could ou lovley people suggest?? Fast climberswould be ideal but which ones :-D

Mersey honeysuckle evergreen is a good one, and russian vine for vast coverage, it can eat an estate up in 3 years

i have plenty of honeysuckle im rooting atm, i could send you some if you want xx

Afternoon Mersey, how about a honeysuckle. There lots of different varieties, that should blend in with your Clematis and Passionflower.

Julia in Derbyshire

Is it in sun or shade. What about honeysuckle, make sure it is one that has a scent, Jasmine, a rambling Rose.

Now if you want a really, really fast grower there is the russian vine but be very wary, it could strangle everything else. Better to be patient and get something that grows more slowly. You could in the short term plant some annuals, morning Glory or climbing nasturtiums.

And you are very welcome to this thread Mersey, you might find Julia on here sometimes too.