Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: DD. on January 09, 2012, 10:39
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Wasn't sure whether to put this in GYO, General Gardening or Chatting, as no doubt there will be some overlap.
If put it in GYO as I'm kicking it off with that subject. I mentioned in another thread a neighbouring plot holder having 1' high peas in flower. Here they are. Anybody else got something well in advance?
Photos not necessary, but always an advantage!
(http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c182/G4IAR/P1010394.jpg)
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DD did he plant them on purpose or are they self set from last season?
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Spoke to him this morning when I took the photo. They are planted on purpose and are a risk. He admits that last year they wouldn't have made it.
He's got artichokes about 3' high, that he says should not get that tall until May. (I know nowt about artichokes!).
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I have some volunteer potatoes that are knee high already! I keep meaning to clear them away but am curious to see how they do.
Also have daffodils in pots that are 18" tall and have buds on and a couple of swedes have thrown up flower spikes. and the Long-Tail Tits are flirting with each other and setting up in one of my nest boxes!
This time last year the ground on my plot was frozen solid and nothing was growing except icicles :)
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I've just mown the lawns. :ohmy:
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I have a strawberry plant that has flowers on it. Very strange - non of the rest have and I suspect the first hard frost will kill them off.
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most of the artichokes around us a re growing well. And one of my parsnips has started on its 2nd-year growth - better dig it up quick.
But no buds on our goosegogs yet?
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The climbing hydrangea plants have healthy buds on them.
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I took cutting from my Geraniums in Oct expecting the usual frosts to have killed the parent plants by now. But no the plants are recovering from being hacked about and are putting on new growth. As for the lawn unless the local weather starts doing proper winter things it's going to be mower time here soon. What a marked difference to last year.
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It was so wet in the autumn, our lawn missed at least one last cut. Its now been so wet for so long the blades of grass are just disappearing. We'll see if it recovers from this...
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I have roses, fuchsia and geraniums out in the garden still in flower and like aelf volunteer potatoes a good 18inches out of the ground. I'm going to leave the pots until a frost-if we get any- takes them.
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I have spilt it here and there, but here they are:
Globe artichokes - keep budding and wanting to flower
One asparagus - started to shoot this week, another still has green foliage
Strawberries - a whole bed in flower
Another plot's rasberries(summer) - full of flower buds
Volunteer summer broad bean seedlings - 1-3 inches tall
Main crop peas (purple podded) dropped and found germinated seeds - in cold gh 1-2 inch seedlings
In the flower garden all sorts - spring, autumn, winter and summer flowering plants - have blooms at the same time.
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When my snow clears in a few months, I'll let you know what's growing :(
Not surprised about the peas though, they love cool weather as do brassicas.
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I've got ready to pick mustard greens that I put in late last year as a bit of a punt. They were too small to bother with last autumn but didn't get around to clearing them and they have grown steadily under their cloche all winter :)
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My stawberries are fruiting!!! ???
It is the thrid time since June, so the poor plants will be exhausted by the time they should be fruting again in June! I have picked off all the flowers (most with black centres) and all of the fruit i saw - but talk about bonkers!!!
I have noticed it in the flower garden too - seedlings coming already, fushcia and marigolds still flowering from last year (!) and yesterday we saw a honey bee flying around as if it was spring time already! I am worried how everything will be knocked back if we ever get a good long cold snap, or if not how the plants will deal with the very long season without going dormant at all.
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It will probably snow in July :blink:
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I still got self blanching celery growing nicely, planted last april. ???
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That's actually not unusual. It can stand through quiet severe frosts, but just hasn't had to this year!
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It will probably snow in July :blink:
I've seen it in June in lowland UK. :)
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My hydrangea were still in bloom in December and are only just losing their leaves, pot marigolds still have flowers on them. A very strange year.
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I was wondering why my hay fever symptoms has returned :(
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Hi prakash *waves*
I don't think there's enough pollen about, nor is it dry enough, for hay fever - sorry, I think you must be allergic to something else (as well)
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At least a dozen 'Albertine' buds and flowers here!
They go with the bird song too...
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My outdoor spring onions have carried on growing all through the winter and I'm still picking them :)
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I have strawberry's hanging from my basket in the greenhouse and are slightly ripe.
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Rhubarb, rhubarb...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-16495043
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Rhubarb, rhubarb...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-16495043
Those monsters!!!! Keeping rhubarb in such cramped conditions indoors with nothing but a candle to see by. Something needs to be done :lol:
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Strawberries appearing (not ripe though), and my blueberry bushes are flowering!
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Strawberries appearing (not ripe though), and my blueberry bushes are flowering!
Hellfire, that's quick!
I only mentioned to Mrs Growster yesterday, that ours were just starting to bud!
Good for you!
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I have strawberry's hanging from my basket in the greenhouse and are slightly ripe.
Not ripe for me Hubballi but deffo past the flowering stage. Tis quite vexatious...
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Hi prakash *waves*
thanks MOS... struggling with two kids. life is completely different.
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The bluebells are up by a good couple of inches. I don't remember them ever sprouting in January.
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Yes, mine are up too, as are the daffodils. And I've never heard so much birdsong in January :)
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Let's see what happens after this predicted cold snap :ohmy:
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I reckon the bluebells will be fine. OH reckons you could drop a bomb on them and they'd still grow back every year! :lol:
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Catkins are well out here, and we have orange Berberis flowering too!
Amazing!
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We have catkins too--- all silvered with frost this morning :)
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I found a couple of white strawberries yesterday on the plot while cutting all the dead leaves off.
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We had a really hard frost last night, but oddly enough last year's flat leaved parsley and a few remnants of spring onion are looking quite perky.
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Wasn't sure whether to put this in GYO, General Gardening or Chatting, as no doubt there will be some overlap.
If put it in GYO as I'm kicking it off with that subject. I mentioned in another thread a neighbouring plot holder having 1' high peas in flower. Here they are. Anybody else got something well in advance?
Photos not necessary, but always an advantage!
(http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c182/G4IAR/P1010394.jpg)
These are now dead, killed by the frosts a week or so ago. :(
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The self-sown summer broad beans and peas in the unheated gh are still fine here, but there is worse to come, so I heard.
The celery is giving in now.
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The self-sown summer broad beans and peas in the unheated gh are still fine here, but there is worse to come, so I heard.
The celery is giving in now.
Our celery is still Ok inside the outer stems, but not for much longer I think
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Our celery is still Ok inside the outer stems
We call that the "middle". :tongue2:
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Blueberries are starting to flower
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Our celery is still Ok inside the outer stems
We call that the "middle". :tongue2:
Sorry, not au fait with all the technical terminology, DD :lol:
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Our celery is still Ok inside the outer stems
We call that the "middle". :tongue2:
Sorry, not au fait with all the technical terminology, DD :lol:
That's nothing. I'm going to harvest tomorrow no else but celery hearts.
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Everything is way ahead. I saw wild strawberries in flower last week!
Talking to our farmer neighbour the other day and he told me weed growth starts at about 4C and grass at 7C. The fields are as lush and green as in April and we are at about 600ft.
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The weather we're forecast to get will peg everything back:
http://chat.allotment-garden.org/index.php?topic=87515.msg987079#msg987079
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The vinca flowers are well frosted, but still look happy.
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Just slow-tailed it out to the greenhouse to rescue my two bulbs of Solent Wight garlic which I hadn't gotten around to planting yet and last years lettuce and spinach are still going strong - who'da thunk? :lol: