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Title: Potting on for what ?
Post by: Beetroot queen on July 06, 2013, 08:39
So i have been pulling out these tiny blackcurrant seedlings from under the bushes. And hubby asks me why i am bothering to pot them on.  ???

My answer is because "they are freebies"  :wacko: so he replied " yes but we already have more than enough"

"But they are free" i kept repeating, So i need some brilliant reason why i am growing them on rather than because they are free. seems criminal to throw them on the compost pile.  :unsure:
Title: Re: Potting on for what ?
Post by: Yorkie on July 06, 2013, 08:41
Freecycle, donate to your local allotment shop or friends?

You're a generous soul, after all?
Title: Re: Potting on for what ?
Post by: GrannieAnnie on July 06, 2013, 08:42
You don't even have to pot them up BQ.  They grow anyway! But I did pot up about 24 a couple of years ago, then found new homes for them.

Last year I gave my SIL 5 and they are all doing well!

Like you, I hate losing out on 'freebies'!   ;) ;)
Title: Re: Potting on for what ?
Post by: Beetroot queen on July 06, 2013, 08:45
Freecycle, donate to your local allotment shop or friends?

You're a generous soul, after all?

Hehe i am not sure he'll believe that but its another reason as well as "they are free"  :lol:
Freecycle here is having a nightmare for non collections at the moment. Mind you these plants wont be big enough till next spring so freecycle have time to sort these people out.  ::)
Title: Re: Potting on for what ?
Post by: Beetroot queen on July 06, 2013, 08:47
You don't even have to pot them up BQ.  They grow anyway! But I did pot up about 24 a couple of years ago, then found new homes for them.

Last year I gave my SIL 5 and they are all doing well!

Like you, I hate losing out on 'freebies'!   ;) ;)

Seen as i paid for my original bushes every extra one is a bonus in my eyes. I am still tempted to add a few to the local neighbourhood verges.  :lol:
Title: Re: Potting on for what ?
Post by: Growing4mykids on July 06, 2013, 08:53


 I am still tempted to add a few to the local neighbourhood verges.  :lol:
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A bit of guerilla gardening  :D I still don't understand properly why public spaces don't have more fruit tree's/bushes(as in local, council run parks) seems like the councils are happy for the schools to preach healthy living to our kids, and have many healthy living publicity drives, so why can't they back it up and make it easier for our kids, out of school, to learn as they play/find   ::)
Title: Re: Potting on for what ?
Post by: Beetroot queen on July 06, 2013, 09:01
I agree complety, its lovely to discover stuff free in the hedgerows.

I may just be a bit naughty with my transplanting, i wont make it too neat and then i can blame the birds.  ;)
Title: Re: Potting on for what ?
Post by: Growing4mykids on July 06, 2013, 09:06
Seems like common sense to me to have it out there for people to stumble across and enjoy, might have to go undercover myself with a little planting here and there, have a couple of rasberry canes that need a wild home  ;)  :D
Title: Re: Potting on for what ?
Post by: Beetroot queen on July 06, 2013, 09:24
Can you imagine the local news story.

Here in somerset 200 mysterious blackcurrant bushes have appeared alongside a busy dual carriageway.  :lol:
Motorists have been slowing to check out the bumper harvests of free fruit.

Someone would moan it was a crash site  ::)

We have a beautiful apple on a busy dual carriageway and its always dripping in real snow white apples but no-one can get near it, i comment every single morning, the kids roll their eyes  ::)
Title: Re: Potting on for what ?
Post by: Beetroot queen on July 06, 2013, 09:28
My four volunteer gooseberry bushes have also started putting on some green growth. Lol what can i say i just cant resist.

If i knew they were this easy to grow i would never have paid for my original bushes  ::)
Title: Re: Potting on for what ?
Post by: Growing4mykids on July 06, 2013, 09:30
We have an old railway track 2 minute's from us, that is now a lovely walkway that leads to our local waterfall, i'm sure it would benefit from some rasp's  :) (and no-one SHOULD be driving down it so i could'nt be blamed for that!!)  ;)
Title: Re: Potting on for what ?
Post by: Beetroot queen on July 06, 2013, 09:34
We have an old railway track 2 minute's from us, that is now a lovely walkway that leads to our local waterfall, i'm sure it would benefit from some rasp's  :) (and no-one SHOULD be driving down it so i could'nt be blamed for that!!)  ;)

But what about the train driver as he stops watching while he leans out the window to pick the super raspberries groqing at the side. Lol that is a joke before anyone says its not funny  ;)
Title: Re: Potting on for what ?
Post by: Growing4mykids on July 06, 2013, 09:38
Guess what....... not funny that  ;) ;) ;)  :lol:


Apologies BQ, couldn't resist  :)
Title: Re: Potting on for what ?
Post by: Beetroot queen on July 06, 2013, 09:39
Guess what....... not funny that  ;) ;) ;)  :lol:

Oh yes it was  :tongue2:
Title: Re: Potting on for what ?
Post by: digger1 on July 06, 2013, 10:04
oh no it wasn't
Title: Re: Potting on for what ?
Post by: Beetroot queen on July 06, 2013, 10:10
Panto time who's going to play the dame then ;)
Title: Re: Potting on for what ?
Post by: grendel on July 06, 2013, 10:51
we have a beautiful red and yellow plum next to the A2, the problem, its on a dual carriageway on a steep hill, and there are no hard shoulders, just crash barriers, nearest possible place to stop is the layby 1 mile before or a short pull in near the top of the hill 1 mile further on.
Grendel
Title: Re: Potting on for what ?
Post by: Beetroot queen on July 06, 2013, 10:54
we have a beautiful red and yellow plum next to the A2, the problem, its on a dual carriageway on a steep hill, and there are no hard shoulders, just crash barriers, nearest possible place to stop is the layby 1 mile before or a short pull in near the top of the hill 1 mile further on.
Grendel

Its depressing when you have to then see them going to waste. The apple we know looks like a picture, i am sure close up the apples probably have the same issues that most other trees but they look amazing from the road.  :( and very very large
Title: Re: Potting on for what ?
Post by: Jackypam on July 06, 2013, 13:55
Ummm, it's behind you??!  Sorry that probably counts as 'off topic!'
Title: Re: Potting on for what ?
Post by: Beetroot queen on July 06, 2013, 13:59
Ummm, it's behind you??!  Sorry that probably counts as 'off topic!'


I think we are all off topic so i wouldnt worry too much  :lol: Grendel is playing the dame seen as he replied after me asking  :D
Title: Re: Potting on for what ?
Post by: compostqueen on July 06, 2013, 14:58
The fruit that can't be reached provides food for birds so it won't go to waste.    We have a local group that organises fruit picking and they have persuaded the council to plant fruit by bus and railway stations etc etc and in their new tree planting schemes along with the usual English native trees

When I walk the dog I never go without my carrier bag and punnets  ;)
Title: Re: Potting on for what ?
Post by: Beetroot queen on July 06, 2013, 15:21
The fruit that can't be reached provides food for birds so it won't go to waste.    We have a local group that organises fruit picking and they have persuaded the council to plant fruit by bus and railway stations etc etc and in their new tree planting schemes along with the usual English native trees

When I walk the dog I never go without my carrier bag and punnets  ;)


I wish we had something like that here, sounds amazing
Title: Re: Potting on for what ?
Post by: starry on July 06, 2013, 21:32
So i have been pulling out these tiny blackcurrant seedlings from under the bushes. And hubby asks me why i am bothering to pot them on.  ???

My answer is because "they are freebies"  :wacko: so he replied " yes but we already have more than enough"

"But they are free" i kept repeating, So i need some brilliant reason why i am growing them on rather than because they are free. seems criminal to throw them on the compost pile.  :unsure:
send them my way I love black currants, we have loads of blackberries coming into flower nesr me cant wait to pick them, and there is a couple of elder flower trees to but they are to high up to reach  :ohmy: love free stuff.
Title: Re: Potting on for what ?
Post by: BobE on July 06, 2013, 21:34
BQ, Put them on freecycle.