Crimson Crush germinating almost a week ahead of Ddraig Goch and Roma, so my Tom year going ahead!
Cheers folks re my pollinating bees and tomato/potato grafting, appreciate that the resulting fruit are not likely to be poisonous. My worry was...
Have to put up my hand and admit to a little leg pulling! Couple of weeks ago I posted that I 'instructed' my bees to pollinate tomatoes in a...
Yes one of the most variable chacteristics of hardy salvias (ones you can leave well mulched in the ground over Winter) is when they decide to...
Thanks, Linclas for your contribution and photograph! OK the sprouting buds are perhaps not on brown shoot but are on OLD shoots! Sure similar has...
Thanks very much for ALL your suggestions and contributions. The GREEN shoots are basal shoots and were LAST year's green shoots and not suckers....
Have a very old Peace (planted 1985 to remember Nanny, so we call it Nanny's Rose!) As all other Peace have grown its been fantastic and easy to...
Regarding cross pollinated tomatoes. Obviously, unless you take cuttings you're not going to get exact genetic types, unless you do the...
Most hardy salvias now cut down and mulched. Allowing bulbs to show (thought we'd bought more than was showing!) This has allowed more...
Curling slowing down my planting! Did some Sweet peas yesterday but still no time for Toms!!
Two varieties (Peace and Gertrude Jekyll) Now flowering! Not pruned yet (March) but somehow doesn't and hasn't been that unusually warm. Is it...
Going to plant my Tom's tomorrow! Everything later than last year. Although one (Ddraig Goch) is a greenhouse variety it will eventually go...
Never had a rose flower this early ever before! Had a good look round and yes, found another, different variety, Gertrude Jekyll. The only time...
Here we are in February and we've got one ROSE flowering!! It good old fashioned PEACE. Not pruned yet (it'll be done March as usual) second bud...
Amazing varieties! Thanks for showing them. As a limited Tom grower it's great to see! As I've said before about raw Tom's being foul for me, the...
So many 'hardy' varieties still green in the garden! We've had frost but obviously not a lot. Bit of a nuisance as we didn't cut any down and...
Yes they do say that Salvias have a smell. I can't smell any of them, except perhaps rosemary! ÒK not a usual Salvia! Perhaps I've had this Covid...
My only interest in NUMBER of varieties grown each year was to work out how large gardens were! I'm also only growing Blight-free varieties...
Amazed by sheer number of different varieties some of you are growing. I couldn't as no room for more because of space needed for varieties of...
Thanks for your responses! They read like most of what I've read myself online. I was hoping to find someone who'd used some of the newer...
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