General Chat

STOLEN never
i repotted them for you and put in the green house to grow on lol :-P

Its really interesting to hear how we are all going with our veg, but obviously it varies across the country.

Can recommend the potato bags/sacks this is our 3rd year of using them and hope that the crop will be as good. Have four different tubers on the go, so should have potatoes till November hopefully.

This year they recommend filling the bag a third, putting in chitted tubers, then cover them then put in 4 more, then filling up to the top, unlike other years when they suggest filling up as the growth appears. So watch this space, I will let you know if it works !! Now have good runners growing, French beans don't look so good, and the onions are romping away. Also the leeks, broad beans and the carrots, with staggered growing are coming along nicely. The strawberries have lots of flowers and some have fruits coming....here in sunny Norfolk !! It is sunny but sooooooo cold in the wind and shade. Fed up with it now, had to put on heating again tonight for an hour, just to keep the cold off UGh

Jan

Well we were sooo pleased to have brought the sun back with us but it is so hot in the garden that I couldn't manage long out there.
It was a jungle when we got home (last night) and today OH has been working hard out there. I managed half an hour but that was after unpacking and putting away and washing etc. Once the lawn was cut it looked better but we were taken over by aquilegia (which I love but which have gone mad, and a very tall geranium, quite pretty if you have a large garden but a thug if you haven't. We thought we had eradicated it from thge garden but obviously weren't here to pull up the seedlings as they grew. Have got rid of a lot and the beds look better now.

Veg in containers, potatoes look to be doing well, carrots, spinach and salad leaves are all thriving. spring onions and french beans don't look too good and the courgettes have not materialised (or did and got slugged). Tumbler tomatoes in baskets obviously didn't thrive in the early cold weather so hope they move along a bit now.

Hosta bed looks good as do the climbing roses and clematis. :-D

my potatoes looking good, salad leaves got slugged too courgettes look frail, carrots doing well sweetcorn on the move, i have brought stuff out of my pollytunnel so hope frost has gone x

May I pick your brains please?
I'm looking for the name of a flower. I thought I had it written down, but .......

The plant is in flower now, here in the south and looks like a thin gladioli.It is about the same height and has similar flower formation and placing, but not so large. I don't know if they come in many colours, but magenta seems to be the 'norm'.
I think they multiply once they like a bed, as I see some gardens have a real show of colour in successive years.
Any help with a name please?

Gwyn

Is it monbretia Gwyn?

I'll go and look at Google Ann.

The montbretia I know is a later flowering plant and looks a bit more like a freesia flower, although taller.
Might be same family though.
I'll go and see >>>>>>>>>>>

Gwyn

Difficult without seeing a picture Gwyn. :-)

my broadbeans are in full flower still planting some to continue my crop all summer
my pumkins doing well salad stuffs doing ok
and my tomatoes are starting to flower in my hanging baskets

and my flower baskets are starting to flower to

so i am well happy :-D :-D

i have been doing a torchlite slug hunt at night when it rains :-P

Not crocosma is it Gwyn.


Joy sounds good. My flower baskets are doing really well, all in full flower, courgettes I had to replant when we came back from Tenerife, also had to plant a few more French beans thatw ere slugged while we were away, they are coming through now. Carrots are doing well in the container, spring onions not so well. Spinach looks Ok and we have been cutting salad leaves for 2 weeks now. Raspberries are ripening too.

Joy that sounds great.
Keep watching for those slugs.
Do broken egg shells help keep them away or is that a myth?

Amazing what a bit of focusing the memory can do.
I remembered that the Cypriot women used to collect flowers wild from the fields and by playing on Google I think maybe the flower is a sword lily.

http://ourfrenchgarden.blogspot.co.uk/2010/10/gladiolus-byzantinus.html

Gwyn

Never heard of that one Gwyn.

Nudged for Mersey and Island.
LOLOL

Julia in Derbyshire

Nudged for Mersey and Island.
LOLOL

Julia in Derbyshire

Can anyone help please???

I got three lavender bushes, 2 i want to keep, i have dug the 3rd one up but it keeps regrowing, im sure i got the root out, but it comes back, help please???

Im no gardener, but it bigger than my roses, which i love x

Are the three close together? Could it be regrowing from one of the other two not the one you have pulled up? Other than that I think the only thing is to keep digging it up and hope you get all the bits of roots eventually.

Gwyn, I think the plant you queried might be Gladiolus communis byzantinus. I have just been out in my garden to tie up plants that have been blown over in the wind (grr!) and that is one of them. Absolutely beautiful (when they're not horizontal!) An early flowering variety of Gladiolus and the only one that is allowed in my garden - sorry Dame Edna :-D

i am going to have a nice torch lite slug and snail hun in the rain :-D

Too much information :-D

Hi Ann sorry it took so long to answer but i got called in to work, now i cant sleep,
They are about 3ft away from eachother, think i might have to persevere and just keep digging, i'll probably hit Australia at this rate lol

Either that or move the Roses but that worries me, they were given to me by a dear friend and am worried they will die, I know nothing about gardening, but this is grating on my very last nerve x