Gardening

[shillelagh]

the sunflowers are doing nicely as well ....

[Less]

Been a terrible season for me, only things I've got left are spuds, onions and strawberries.

[shillelagh]

my strawberries, blueberries and lettuce .. the tomatoes you've already seen next to the pumpkin in the pot ...

[shillelagh]

I do have another lot of tomatoes .. but theyre growing on the windowsill up in the bedroom ..

[Stevie R]

Good growing weather for Sunflowers at the moment..

[Mick]

Strawberries and cream for tea

[Mick]

And the rest are going well too

no idea how a potato plant got in the pot on window sill though

[shillelagh]

who else is growing a pumpkin?

[david1]

Originally Posted by shillelagh

who else is growing a pumpkin?

A bloke down the road has one !
Farmers grow quite a few

Hope this helps

[Tesco Rambler]

Gardening is like baking. I find it hard to imagine a baker or a gardener that I wouldn't find something decent in common with.

[shillelagh]

Originally Posted by Tesco Rambler

Gardening is like baking. I find it hard to imagine a baker or a gardener that I wouldn't find something decent in common with.

really .... you don't know me then .......

[Mick]

Originally Posted by shillelagh

really .... you don't know me then .......

oh yes we do

[Tesco Rambler]

Had an allotment at the top of Water Street just by the park gates. More correctly my mother did and she had green fingers (which I have inherited). Oh to be back there again: lupins, red hot pokers, monkshood. Of vegetables not too much success but the strawberries...mmm they must have been a Lancashire or Northern variety and supermarket red cardboard shapes couldn't touch them for flavour.
It might be anecdotal but my mum swears that when she started in the late 60's there weren't the deadly winds that do so much damage today.
We had some fruit trees planted from pips. I remember with amazement one winter either late January or early February and a small tree of ours was covered in the most beautiful pale peach coloured flowers - I could not believe my eyes - was it an almond tree - I don't know, but it never flowered again. Such is nature: powerful and not necessarily always predictable.
In the closing days of our tenure I planted a mulberry from seed and it thrived. It ended up taller than me and I am over 6'. Is it still there? It should be quite big by now but maybe the new allotment holder gave it the chop.
I planted hundreds of trees in Accrington, but that's another story.

[Michael1954]

In response to post 43: Amazing! You haven't blamed blacks or muslims for spoiling it. Or maybe that's to come?

[gpick24]

Originally Posted by Tesco Rambler

Had an allotment at the top of Water Street just by the park gates. More correctly my mother did and she had green fingers (which I have inherited).

You don`t belong in this country if you have green fingers, whites only!