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[BigC]

I dont want any more stone @alp...I've enough....Granite is nice but unjustifiable for me due to price...very very nice but beyond my investment capabilities
The lantern is only small and will be well fixed within the confines of the pergola (I envisage a hook and chain affair) so if it falls nothing or no one gets hurt...

 

[alp]

Get it in salvage yard.. You might really have too much stone .. iron works can be very arty, especially painted black.. Off to make bread. Try to get some sleep, @BigC

 

[alp]

Good morning - it's a bit too dark and I'm going to mow the lawns at 7.30am. Hope it's not too wet. Or will do it tomorrow morning.

Some snaps from yesterday

fuchsia doing very well

Dracula

Love that colour - must propagate some leaves before it goes limp and die on me.

Some Gina

and a frilly double petunia

 

[Logan]

Morning all
@alp nice pics, especially the fucshias.
Pick some more currants, not much room in freezer. Cut out the old raspberry canes.

 

[alp]

Thank you @Logan Your harvests have really inspired me. Are your currants sweet enough to eat raw. I love eating fruit raw. But then, you might have a loooooooooooooooot of them .. I'm going to take 10 cuttings each, especially love the hominaki red gooseberries.

My dahlia cuttings are not good. Most of them dying. Will add more grit to the compost and might sterilise it first. Will do it at 7am.

 

[Logan]

@alp The red and white currants aren't sweet at all. The pink and black currants can eat raw.
Tried doing dahlia cuttings, hopeless. Take this years growth for gooseberry cuttings, about 4inch long. Don't do them for another month or a bit later.

 

[alp]

I have one white from poundshop and the fruits were gorgeous. It's sandwiched between the busy road and the hot west facing low wall and so is always very hot and sunny. I will definitely space them out and take loads of cuttings. Lovely to have a harvest like yours.

 

[Logan]

That's great, if you give them a lot of room between each plant, they fruit very well. The ones in the back garden, I've got to cut out some of the old wood. When the wood gets very dark and it stops fruiting so well,i cut it out. Them new growth will come up. Same for gooseberries thanks

 

[BigC]

Good Morning all,
I wish I lived in Sunnier climes such as @alp and @Logan...think I could grow a lot more exotics and fruit ripening perhaps wouldn't take so long . Well its back to work today but if I'm not overly tired I may start to paint the pergola this evening again weather permitting..Have a great day peeps.....

 

[alp]

@BigC You can create a microclime eg see where the west facing wall is, install some glass or just leave it open on top and have some concrete ground, and bingo - you have a microclime

 

[Logan]

@BigC which country are you from? Have a good day.

 

[BigC]

@BigC which country are you from? Have a good day.

Northern Ireland....

 

[Mark56]

Beautiful fuchsias Alp.. I can't get enough of them, especially the hardy ones. The different, shapes colours, positioning in borders & pots for shaded areas.

& yes Echinops Ritro, the bees love them!

 

[Logan]

Northern Ireland....

That's not too bad. They need the cold to fruit properly.

 

[Logan]

Afternoon all. Instead of doing the raspberry canes, I decided to feed the roses. The last month to do it and don't feed them again this year. I chose the right day to do it, there's a lot of heavy showers to water it in.