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Today I did something in my Garden
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When do you lot call it a day with tomatoes? Mine seem to be growing strong and fruiting and flowering.
When they stop!
Mine are always an outdoor crop, so the sub-10°C nights tend to put bring the season to a close, earlier or later depending on the year. All done for this year thanks to a few very cold nights quite early in October.
If I know the cold nights are coming, I'll pick whatever's left and give the green ones a chance to ripen indoors. If I don't hear the forecast, or if I'm away and can't do anything about it, I'll leave things as they are and see if the remaining fruit survives.0 -
thanks. I cleared away alot of the smaller plants and left 2 or 3. I'm toying with heating the greenhouse with hot compost so I kinda needed the space.CelticRambler wrote: »When they stop! Mine are always an outdoor crop, so the sub-10°C nights tend to put bring the season to a close, earlier or later depending on the year. All done for this year thanks to a few very cold nights quite early in October.
If I know the cold nights are coming, I'll pick whatever's left and give the green ones a chance to ripen indoors. If I don't hear the forecast, or if I'm away and can't do anything about it, I'll leave things as they are and see if the remaining fruit survives.
this plant in particular is very strong growing from the seed of last years crop by accident and left alone. Interesting without being tied up it tried to put down roots up the stem. 0 -
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Interesting without being tied up it tried to put down roots up the stem.
They do that. Sometimes, if I've lost a plant or two due for whatever reason, I'll look for an unpruned one that's put down extra "stem" roots and move cut stem to use as a replacement. It's quite remarkable how well they adjust to such trauma, especially compare to some other plants that go hysterical if you so much as brush past them with the wrong colour trousers on! 0 -
CelticRambler wrote: »They do that. Sometimes, if I've lost a plant or two due for whatever reason, I'll look for an unpruned one that's put down extra "stem" roots and move cut stem to use as a replacement. It's quite remarkable how well they adjust to such trauma, especially compare to some other plants that go hysterical if you so much as brush past them with the wrong colour trousers on!
Yes it's crazy alright. One thing it has thought me is to definitely plant into the ground in the greenhouse for next year this thing is much thicker and healthier and grew so fast compared to the potted ones.0 -
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Ill check the variety tomorrow I think i saved the packets this year. Weird lookin things.
Here's photos of 1st & 2nd crop of container grown carrots. 1st batch were sown in March, and photo is from July (that's a side plate for scale. And yes, the kids ate them raw!). They grew a bit bigger than this, but were being constantly eaten as they were right outside the door.
2nd batch were planted early August, and this is the last of them picked today. They're a lot smaller than the first batch. Even had a few of the 'white' ones when I picked them. They were grown in old planters that were lying around, about 18 inches deep. Mixture of compost & sand.
Of course I can't find the seed packet now to know what variety they were.0 -
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They grew better than mine anyway. I just had a load of mine in a nice stew.RachelsCousin wrote: »Here's photos of 1st & 2nd crop of container grown carrots. 1st batch were sown in March, and photo is from July (that's a side plate for scale. And yes, the kids ate them raw!). They grew a bit bigger than this, but were being constantly eaten as they were right outside the door.
2nd batch were planted early August, and this is the last of them picked today. They're a lot smaller than the first batch. Even had a few of the 'white' ones when I picked them. They were grown in old planters that were lying around, about 18 inches deep. Mixture of compost & sand.
Of course I can't find the seed packet now to know what variety they were.0 -
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paddylonglegs wrote: »Interesting about no shipping to eu. I hope it’s not a sign of things to come. A real disaster for both sides IMO
Hence why ive probably 2 years supply of seeds
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paddylonglegs wrote: »Interesting about no shipping to eu. I hope it’s not a sign of things to come.SnowyMuckish wrote: »You could try delivery through Address Pal with an Post as a work around. I’ve done it a few times when the the delivery cost for seeds from the Uk was too expensive. You’re given a Uk address and then an Post ships it across
Address Pal won't work in this case, and yes, it is unequivocally a sign of things to come. As things stand at the moment, the UK has refused to apply to the EU to be recognised as a "listed third country". This means that all imports of plants, animals and derivatives thereof must be checked at a phytosanitary inspection point. This is one of the EU's absolutely unbreakable rules - even wooden pallets coming from the UK have to be certified as "healthy" before they can have a pile of boxes stacked on them and be loaded onto a lorry.
Unless the UK government gets its act together, every single British supplier of seeds, cuttings, bulbs, etc., will have to firstly find an EU-lab to certify their product likely to be exported after 1st January (bearing in mind that every UK lab will lose their approved status on 31st December) and complete reams of paperwork to send with each delivery. That's a separate cert for your tulip bulbs, your lilies, your pack of seeds, your tray of primoses, the three bare-root roses, even if these are all sent in the same package.
Address Pal (or Parcel Motel) will have to ensure that all this paperwork is present and correct before taking charge of the package, which (if the rules are followed correctly) will then be delivered to a phytosanitary inspection point in Ireland. Once processed there, you'll be free to arrange onward delivery.
The same applies to buying pups, goldfish, chickens, eggs, bees, beef, honey, fish, milk, cheese ... ... ...
They may yet get sense, over the water, but there's not much sign of it yet. I had intended to do a cross-Channel run to Kent next month to collect a load of plants from the former MrsCR before all this stupidity comes into effect, but it looks like lockdown has put an end to that.
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Last year some of my seed potatoes from FruitHillFarm originated in Scotland so Brexit will probably put a stop to them.
Apparently Scotland is a major exporter of potatoes and they are well hacked off with the situation. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/nov/02/chips-are-down-brexit-uncertainty-causing-scottish-potato-crisis0 -
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very cool house:) we have had hedgehogs visit our garden regularly and one year have babies in our hedgeJust one more video from yesterday. The hedgehog is busy building his nest for the winter under the keen eyes of our resident fox (click image for video).
The house was a great idea
They Come every year and are always a welcome site.
I'm in Dublin so it's rare enough to have them around.
All of a sudden I wasn't seeing them any more. A while later one of the kids on the road that only moved in said they had a pet hedgehog they caught and put out there back garden. I couldn't believe it. Somehow the hedgehog escaped thank god and I've seen it since.
Some clowns out there.0 -
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