3: Gardening Diaries ...

[alp]

Yacon needs to go into a bigger pot agapanthus seed heads are looking good still a while to go yet me thinks

I am the impatient type. If I see the bulge, I open the seed pods and there are usually 3 seeds in a decent size pod. But don't follow this cowboy!

 

[Upsy Daisy]

Raining! It started 10am and now more or less stopped and yet we are both soaking wet. Not even a pour, but very dense fine rain. I loped one branch and 3 pots of Victorian plum cuttiings and had to come in Ladder still in place. Optimistic that I will be able to finish the job today.

Same as what we had.......sun is shining now

 

[alp]

View attachment 43203 View attachment 43204 View attachment 43205 View attachment 43206 View attachment 43207 View attachment 43208 View attachment 43209 Poblano , lemon drop , Trinidad scorpion and Bengle chilli plants

The are brilliant. Probably because of your skill, intuition and the greenhouse. Get some woodashes round your yacon and the slugs will normally stay away because of the burnt smell.

I only have a very small offering

THE only TWO!

Really ashamed, compared with yours, @Leeski !

 

[alp]

Same as what we had.......sun is shining now

How annoying! After wetting myself in the rain to remove the cardboard on the sunlounge and my hair is STILL dripping rainwater, it has more or less stopped!

 

[Upsy Daisy]

Wow!!! Your plants are very big and lush looking @Leeski ......what are you feeding them with!!!!!!........please share your secret, promise I won't tell anyone

 

[alp]

Wow!!! Your plants are very big and lush looking @Leeski ......what are you feeding them with!!!!!!........please share your secret, promise I won't tell anyone

Yes, it will be an OPEN secret! LOL! But we all like those! Especially spicy and saucy ones!

 

[alp]

Yes, @Leeski Please share your saucy secret! They are really big and healthy. Mine has yellowing leaves.. I wish I had a grandma who's a keen gardener. Alas, she's a chain smoker!

 

[Leeski]

Yes, it will be an OPEN secret! LOL! But we all like those! Especially spicy and saucy ones!

Feed them homemade seaweed & comfrey tea bit of bone meal seems to work for me the weather has been good for chillis this year.
My tomato’s have blown my mind this year just need some sun to finish everything off

 

[alp]

I must go and get some seaweed. Oh, Leeski, we want to see your tomatoes!

 

[Leeski]

I must go and get some seaweed. Oh, Leeski, we want to see your tomatoes!

This one plant is 8ft tall and I recon over 300 tomato’s

 

[alp]

Oh, yes! Pepperdew peppers- Hot, but not spicy hot. should be sweet too.

I wonder if the one I uploaded is pointy sweet peppers. Seems to be too long for me!

It's when I bought these that I said to myself I must grow these. Cost me a bit of money as e*** fiddled with the exchange rate and whacked me hard

Simply delicious.

 

[Leeski]

Oh, yes! Pepperdew peppers- Hot, but not spicy hot. should be sweet too.

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I wonder if the one I uploaded is pointy sweet peppers. Seems to be too long for me!

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It's when I bought these that I said to myself I must grow these. Cost me a bit of money as e*** fiddled with the exchange rate and whacked me hard

Simply delicious.

Look fab will try them next year

 

[alp]

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This one plant is 8ft tall and I recon over 300 tomato’s

300?! I need your elixir formula! BADLY!

 

[alp]

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This one plant is 8ft tall and I recon over 300 tomato’s

Coor! Blimey! Whoa! Amazing! You can supply supermarkets after Brexit! LOL!

 

[Upsy Daisy]

Coor! Blimey! Whoa! Amazing! You can supply supermarkets after Brexit! LOL!