Gardening

[AdeV]

I won the recycling part using radiators for raised beds  !!!

Nice!

I'd be looking to join them all together to capture rainwater.... then automatically irrigate the beds if they got too dry!

[Laurentic]

Visited this site on my new iPad. No photos. Funny, sure this thread had photos. Checked with MacBook and yes, thread has photos. Then It dawned on me I wasn’t signed in but viewing as a guest - doh! Didn’t know you couldn’t see photos if just a guest - learn something new everyday.

Chris

[Jo]

I had a request for a pic of my Bonfire night Christmas Cacti, so here it is 

Jo

[Dave Otto]

Beautiful Jo

What is the secret to getting it to bloom? My wife has had one for a few years and it never blooms.

Dave

[Jo]

Thank you Dave,

Its potted up in well draining compost with 1/3rd vermiculite and is only watered once a week just enough that the dampness shows in the dish at the bottom, the water has a little feed in it same concentration as I used for my Orchids 

I am trying to slow the next (different) coloured  Xmas Cacti down a bit so this one goes over before it wants to pretend it too is a casting set 

Jo

[Bluechip]

I had a request for a pic of my Bonfire night Christmas Cacti, so here it is 

Jo

Mine's just beginning to perform ... 

Dave

[Jo]

Looks like you will have a good show there Dave 

My second lighter pink is now nearly there. And in Surus's room his Light Pink and the Orangey pink ones are beginning to come out as well 

Jo

[Laurentic]

We have a gardener in the village who comes in once a fortnight and spends a couple of hours tending our garden - does far more in those two hours than SWMBO and I can do in a day between us, so well worth it. 

His hobby is growing potatoes - has a large patch where he grows, I have forgotten how many, different varieties, loads and loads of them, plants thousands of seed potatoes a year. 

Yesterday he rocked up with a crate containing a dozen bags containing about 15kg or so in total of different varieties; I'd heard of just one of them.  Some were English varieties, some French and one a Canadian - the Canadian ones were huge (bakers) as one might have expected.  Some are superb roasters, some salad, some bakers and some are general purpose and mashers. 

Had Red Duke of York roasters last night, roasted in goose fat - superb! 

So that's the Christmas potato supply sorted then, cross that off the supermarket list. 

In this dismal season in the garden of short daylight hours and wet soggy garden no matter the weather is it seems it was a very cheery happening.

Chris

[propforward]

Roast potatoes can make a lot of things better.

[tghs]

the monster is blooming at my mother's house..

[Bluechip]

Bits of fence paling off-cuts destined to be Jo's firewood got re-worked ... 

Seemed a shame to cut them up. ........ So ........ here we are.

Solid timber and an original design.   In fact I can genuinely claim ...

I made 'em out of me own 'edd.   

Dave

[Vixen]

Solid timber and an original design.   In fact I can genuinely claim ...

I made 'em out of me own 'edd.   

Dave

Dave

Can we say, "A (Blue)chip off the old block"?

Mike

[Jo]

  Wonder what the birdies are going to think about those. Thanks Dave 

Nearly summer down here: Courgettes are in and the Greenhouse is full  And another 10 pots are ready for the peppers which do not seem to be showing much progress so far 

Jo

[Bearcar1]

NICE!!!


BC1
Jim

[Jo]

The weather is getting hotter  here in the UK. No longer do I have to open/close the greenhouse door with its tuneful "bonk bonk bonk" sound every morning and evening as in the future it will glide silently as I have replaced the second generation nylon wheels that had followed the original nylon ones by getting hard/crumbling and forming flats on the faces with a new go faster set:

The replacement are home turned aluminium wheels running on sealed ball races  I considered a number of alternative materials for the wheels including steel and bronze (someone mentioned oillite, I forgot  then once I had turned them up he reminded me about it again  ) Ok the ali will oxidise but it has had a protective squirt of something  and a bit of oxidisation will not stop them doing their job so I decided get on with it and stop thinking about it.

Another chore down 

Jo