The Potting Shed

[Tâf]

I realised this morning that the aronia, gojis, redcurrants and blackcurrants have not flowered this year... they are normally full of swelling fruit by now

The gooseberries are ready to pick already though

[Tâf]

4 pumpkin (New England) plants set out in the raised bed. I'll train them up strings to the top of the fence and let them run wild up there.

All the Kiwi flowers have now faded, and hundreds of fruits are swelling. Grape flowers about to open. Come on sunny weather!!!

[fred]

None of the runner bean seeds germinated, even in the greenhouse

[Tâf]

Bought compost? I reckon there are still sales going on of that poisoned batch from last year.

Try a few beans in the old Biology class method.... a tube of card/blotting paper in a jamjar/glass?

[fred]

same bag as last year.  They're marginal here anyway and it's been chilly

[Tâf]

I always start my beans off with a bit of heat and fairly dry compost. I tried a new "water retentive" seed compost for the first time this year... it stayed claggy and rotted a few beans, so I learned to keep it really on the tip of dry.

Chrysanthemums (Cockade) planted out in the front beds after clearing the finished poppies. I added a good mulch of homemade compost too... the ground was getting a bit dead.

[dogsmum]

Dug my Garlic up today, pleased with the size of most of them. Got them drying in the Mini Greenhouse

[Tâf]

Mine are struggling this year again.

[dogsmum]

Mine are struggling this year again.

I've never grown them before, so well pleased with what I have. Time will tell as to how strong they are though, will let you know

[Tâf]

The time honoured method is to plant them BEFORE frost (November around here) so that the bulb plate splits and you get individual cloves forming. But the ground froze solid too early last winter, so I was late getting them in. That means I may have one-clove bulbs.

[dogsmum]

The time honoured method is to plant them BEFORE frost (November around here) so that the bulb plate splits and you get individual cloves forming. But the ground froze solid too early last winter, so I was late getting them in. That means I may have one-clove bulbs.

Planted mine in October. It was only a bulb I bought in Asda's

[Tâf]

I has a cucumber!


I fact I has 16 cucumbers.... 

[fred]

I has a cucumber!


I fact I has 16 cucumbers.... 

stop boasting

[Tâf]

Cucumbers make me gassy 

I shall not eat one in the greenhouse for fear of blowing the windows out.

Gok Wan showed how the Chinese eat cucumbers... they dip them in sugar.

[dogsmum]

Gok Wan showed how the Chinese eat cucmbers... they dip them in sugar.

Don't know why, but that's the only way Mum could eat tomato's