3: Gardening Diaries ...

[alp]

It a bit expensive the seed I've got alp its barenburg - Medal, it cost me £130 on offer but it is a 20kg bag, I don't think you'll be interested in it. Look on ebay you want a grass seed high in fescue's because one its has a narrow leaf and looks good and most importantly for you is that they are for more drought tolerant that other variety's, chewing fescue or slender fescue are the better fescue grass but unimportant in just a normal lawn.

You know me so well! £130 I paid 79p for a box of 125g, I think and they have now become tuft! OK, I will have a look at ebay. Wonder if seeds in the box of First Cut is admissible in quality! I'm not going to win medal for mine!

 

[alp]

Good morning - warmer than Monday and yesterday and it's grey and quiet out there. Got my chicken and pork ready - hopefully this new pork joint is as tasty as that cooked last week.

Will carry on watering the pots and put my perennial to ground in a bid to reduce the number of pots lying around. The skins of the toms are so thick that after hours of slow cooking, they are still intact.

Will weed in the front as well. Hope this Indian summer lasts a bit longer! So enjoyable working in the garden.

My Asclepias tuberossa has gone to seed - one of them.

The cannas are still growing - very difficult to keep them warm there in the winter. Might have to dig them out.

Remember me

Wisley Flower Festival ...

Typical view of a flower festival - glorified Sales

Lovely conifers

Chilli store - colourful

Don't think I can grow these carnivores!

One of the main ponds

Some lovely accessories

Nerines and agapanthus
Penstemons - Love them. I have about 4 or 5 only 2 have flowered. Sour Grapes and Mother of Pearl have been sulking and illusive! No show!

Zenj has prettier gladioli!


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[alp]

Gruesome facts

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/science...redible-footage-reveals-closest-look-yet.html
How plants have sex

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/science...redible-footage-reveals-closest-look-yet.html

How plants have sex: Incredible footage reveals how a male 'pollen tube' penetrates a female

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  • The sperm housed in a plant's pollen are unable to move themselves
  • They are carried to the egg of another plant through an invasive 'pollen tube'
  • Scientists have now captured this process in greater detail than ever before​

Incredible footage reveals the closest look yet at how plants have sex - and scientists say it requires plenty of thrust.

The sperm housed in a plant's pollen are unable to move themselves, and so are carried to the egg of another plant through an invasive 'pollen tube'.

The tube powers through a maze of tissue to make it to the egg, and scientists have now captured this process in greater detail than ever before.

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  AMAZING NATURE!
  
  Now I have to push my hoover!

 

[Upsy Daisy]

Morning!
Another sunny, bright day down south.
Will carry on with the task at hand today ( unmentionable daisy weeding). Will also continue to lift bulbs. Might even get round to planting out the Wallflowers......have plenty of gaps waiting for them now!!!
Love!y pics @alp and the clip was fascinating!!! Nature is mind blowing!!!

Have a good day everyone!!

 

[alp]

Just watching Beechgrove Garden and 90 year-old man can bend his knees!

Wonderful harvesting there! Yes, lots to do. Need to hunt for bubble wrap.. The floor or the lean-to is stone cold.

 

[Zenj]

Morning all very grey here but not cold according to forecast will reach 20c Did a lot of chopping down and making overgrown plants smaller yesterday ,Means I can get some new ones .

 

[Upsy Daisy]

Morning @Zenj ....like your thinking...gaps are good aren't they

 

[alp]

Good morning, Zenj 20c in NE is brilliant and sunny too! Some reason to be happy.

Going to sow my thalictrum seeds, just a few from the newly bought one. Don't know how hardy they are going to be and I am quietly panicking - just don't know what the weather will throw at us. Going to be cold at the weekend.

Think I'm growing some potatoes. Zenj Do you have one or 2 good names to suggest please? They were sampling Apache and Sarpo in the Beechgrove. Going to top up the soil of my peppadew and hope they will stay with me for the winter.

 

[Zenj]

@alp Potatoes I grow mine in pots don’t bother with names don’t even know if they are earlies late or what I just chit them and earth them up until the pot is full feed them and wait for them to flower than the leaves yellow a bit and empty them out always get a good return and taste so different than bought ones .

 

[alp]

@alp Potatoes I grow mine in pots don’t bother with names don’t even know if they are earlies late or what I just chit them and earth them up until the pot is full feed them and wait for them to flower than the leaves yellow a bit and empty them out always get a good return and taste so different than bought ones .

OK, I will do that. Buy some organic potatoes and I will dump them in a bag and pot and a polystyrene tub to find out the results. Do you really need to chit them? How do you go about it please? Last question of the day!

 

[alp]

Incidentally, it's MaryMary's birthday yesterday

https://www.gardening-forums.com/threads/happy-happy-birthday-to-marymary.15275/

 

[alp]

Oh, crumbs! Even the Beechgrove has succumbed to the presence of a dog!

It's only half an hour show!

 

[alp]

Beechgrove garden: Horatio's story is heartbreaking, but why has big ears hijacked his good cause and named the therapeutic garden after he himself? Such a lovely soul - Horatio!

 

[Zenj]

OK, I will do that. Buy some organic potatoes and I will dump them in a bag and pot and a polystyrene tub to find out the results. Do you really need to chit them? How do you go about it please? Last question of the day!

I always chit mine stand them in egg boxes in a light place and when the green shoots are about 1 inch high I plant them on top of about 3 to 4 inches of compost cover them with more compost and every time the shoots appear above compost add more until they reach the top of bag or pot, When are you doing this .dont forget to keep them watered .I usually add a bit of blood fish and bone to the compost.

 

[alp]

I always chit mine stand them in egg boxes in a light place and when the green shoots are about 1 inch high I plant them on top of about 3 to 4 inches of compost cover them with more compost and every time the shoots appear above compost add more until they reach the top of bag or pot, When are you doing this .dont forget to keep them watered .I usually add a bit of blood fish and bone to the compost.

Good advice. I have chucked some organic ones into a tub. Now I will walk to aldi to get some organic potatoes and start the process. Thank you sooooooooo much!