Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: pepper on November 22, 2007, 13:59
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My new blackberry bush has arrived and it is raining outside for the 5th day with 0 deg forecast for tonight and -2 deg forecast tomorrow night. Think I'd better put it in a big pot for the forseeable future, store it in my unheated greenhouse and hope things improve. Anybody got a better suggestion?
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I would keep it outside, Pepper, either in water or just healed in, roots covered with some soil, until you get round to it. Do not forget about them! :)
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Yep just "heel" them in, personally I would not stand them in water for more than a day.
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I can't heel them in my garden as Alan Titchmarsh describes - making a wedge of earth and leaning the plant against it with its roots covered as I just haven't got room. Will putting it in a pot with the roots covered be ok?
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Yes, just pot it up as you would any plant and it will be fine, if it gets really cold you could always wrap the pot up with something to keep the roots a little more protected if you feel it's necessary.
When I heel in I just stick my spade in the ground wiggle it backwards and forwards and drop the plant in and stand on the soil to push the soil back in again.
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Thank you Richyrich and Gobs - have potted up the bush.
I saw someone on tv plant a bush by that method of wriggling the spade about then planting - I wondered if it worked.
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wriggling the spade about??? :? :? Like a samurai? or what? :lol: :lol: