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[Logan]

Good morning, @Upsy Daisy I know.. Thank you for the commiseration (what does this big and long word mean??? LOL!) I'm glad that you've found Cherry Brandy .. I hope I'm not going to kill this batch... I think I will grow them but keep a seedling plan just in case I have totally forgotten about them and then they dry to their premature deaths... ! There are already quite a few skeletons in my lean to .. more tears!!

Finally, found the tomato seedlings and the sunflower seedlings.. I always love the teddy bear sunflower - multi stam..

Whoever stops by, come in to say hello ... Gee.. I sound like a dirty copy cat .. Why don't I just copy and paste??

Hello to everyone else who stops by.
Have a good day x.

Don't sow all the packet at once.

 

[Upsy Daisy]

At least you've got Sunflower seedlings, still waiting for mine show their faces
Just have to be patient and stop spying on them.....what is it they say.....a watched pot never boils . Must leave them be.

 

[alp]

@Logan: you're quite right. I love the summer berries Achillea and sowed the whole lot on wet serviettes. They were too small and should never be sown using this method and they all PERISHED.. !

What a tearful morning! LOL!

@Upsy Daisy The trouble with me is that I keep forgetting where I put the trays of seedlings... It's like 2 weeks later, I discover that I have forgotten something and that something is nowhere to be found! Very embarrassed. That's the trouble of having too many trays going on... and the sudden change of temperature always reduces me to floods of tears ..

Now it's going to be a tearful DAY! LOL!

 

[Upsy Daisy]

Hi Logan, so true.

I am sowing mine from a pkt I opened last year.
Not sure what went wrong.......planted them out and never saw sight of them again.

Oh well ...if you don't at first succeed.....

If anyone can shed some light on where I went wrong , it would be grateful received.

 

[Upsy Daisy]

My worst ' offence' is thinking that I'll be economical and do a seed tray share. Later I can't distinguish what is what..........and as I had forgotten to add labels, I don't even know what ANY of them are.
One day I will learn, each year I start off promising myself that I will be more organised and not repeat the previous years mistakes.......then I forget what there were until I do them again .

Hey ho.....that's life.

 

[alp]

@Upsy Daisy How come you sound like me today???? . I do share trays and sometimes I drop the label. Sometimes, I don't even know what I am planting and then I realise that some are too tall or too short for the spots chosen.. Now, I put all my dahlias in the centre as most of them are 1m taller. But still, I could be very wrong. Once I planted out some salad leaves which turned out to be osteospermum sunset because the label slipped under the tray! .. Quite ridiculous. Now I cut the milk bottles into labels and I've got tons from the freebies collection.. So there might be improvement as far as labelling is concerned. Daisy: you could put an advert for gardening freebies and like me, you could get a scarifier for nothing and some big pots (could be 7L or even 9L in size) for nothing.. I potted all my clematises up like that and layer them at the same time. Now that your OH is retired, he could go with you to collect them..

To learn from mistakes is a sign of intelligence .. So don't worry .. !

 

[Upsy Daisy]

Sadly I've already got loads of pots of all sizes.........and hundreds of plant labels, mostly unused!! I now write on the pots/ containers.......if I remember!

Intelligent......who. me!!!......no way. Always said that I saved all my brain powers to pass on to my children......well that's my excuse

 

[Logan]

Just potted on some chillies

2 cucumbers are ready to pot on, in their last pot.

 

[alp]

@Upsy Daisy What happens when you change pots? Forgot that your have gardening loving parents!

I'm better this year.. but still have some pots not labelled. Put 3 pots of clematis out just now and wired an area for them to cling onto ... Sorry, no trellis as I'm not staying here. 20p wire will suffice. Saw the pear tree with loads of flowers and watered it. Apple tree will be watered as well. Hope they fruit this year. Now, that would be exciting.. Saw my sunflower seedlings. Daisy: it will only take a week for them to pop up.. so don't despair..

I'm going to grow some more cosmos..

@Logan How do you eat your chilis and can you get them to fruit..? Mine I had some chili two years ago. But they say it not advisable to eat chili when you're arthritic .. I am keener on sweet pepper, the long pointed ones .. I will do that this afternoon. Some tithonias and some more puny petunias.. I have the feelings that my petunias are not going to make it.

 

[Logan]

Alp, they will fruit, it all depends on when you started them off. The plants that i over wintered have got flowers on them already. To get them to set fruit at this time of year is more difficult. I eat them cooked in fried red onions with garlic. You can put them in casserole. I don't do that because i like to give the boys some. I also make a pickle with cucumber and onion, garlic and chilli. That's a shame about your petunias.Also I've got a lot in the freezer.

 

[alp]

Interesting. I must get some recipes from you. Your dogs can eat chili.. Amazing.. but I don't know much about dogs.. Hehe!

 

[johnny canoe]

Good morning all,
Sun is up and just waiting for it to warm up a bit. I hope to pot up the LAST of my Petunia seedlings today and then get going on my Tomato seedlings. Just noticed that one of my begonia cuttings has roots coming. I Root them in water, I find I have a better survival rate that way. I need these cuttings of Santa Cruz for two pots, one in my shade garden and the other in the shady spot at the front of the house.

 

[alp]

@johnny canoe I love the amber glow very much - I mean the last one. Last year I was very lucky to get hold of one at 50p - a big pot at that! Hehe! But I kept the tubers too wet and they are no more.. Really gutted.

I wished I rooted them in water. I left them outside and the frost got them. Then they were punny .. really tiny.. I was surprised so many of these punny tubers could actually give out so many lovely flowers. I really love this last one of yours and the big ones with frilly edges.. I have bought the ones with frilly edges, but have never seen the orangy amber glow for sale in packet.. I reckon that must be the way the growers force people to order.. and then you have to pay for postage and worry about plants dead on arrival or not what you have ordered a year later... Also, most of the time, you only want ONE item from each company. In the end, you end up buying more than you really want to make full use of the postage.

Johnny - you really have green fingers..

 

[johnny canoe]

I was so upset that the house was sold next door, torn down and a huge duplex built. I had a beautiful sunny side garden and a couple years ago had to take it all up and convert the area to a shade garden. Well I quite like the shade garden now more than I liked my sunny garden. It's the begonias I think.

Begonia seed is even expensive, the Santa Cruz in the pictures were grown from seed that I planted the previous December.

I hear ya about buying more than one wants.

 

[Logan]

Interesting. I must get some recipes from you. Your dogs can eat chili.. Amazing.. but I don't know much about dogs.. Hehe!

No they can't eat chilie. That's why i do it separately.