Breaking Through, Travelling On

gallygirl

carbootcrazy wrote: »

A friend of OH gave us a bag of fresh figs last year. He has two fig trees planted in a sheltered south-facing spot and they are prolific fruiters. Last time OH was round there he gave him a pot with a tiny fig tree in which we've planted but it's still only about a foot tall. Not sure how long it will be before we get any fruit from it but to be honest I'm not mad keen on figs anyway:o. Now if we had a date palm, that would be heaven:j. Must investigate possibilities.

Spotted a lovely big fig tree growing wild yesterday so will be returning to it in a bit, also pomegranate bush looking good :T. Wild cherries would be ace though!

Alchemilla

I didn't even know pomegranates grew on a bush.

Karmacat

Me neither, Al - sounds good, Gally

RT - it really is luck, this is a good year for the crop, I think - they're big trees, and they've never fruited like this before.

It's been raining *hard* this morning - since I'm not actually a subsistence farmer, I'm not going out in that

Karmacat

From ahem47, 2 July 2015

I have a question too - not for now though - but if you go to P108 (I think it was) you might get a clue

Karmacat wrote: »

Oh, *my* page 108 :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

That was done, honest two layers. No light shines through :j Haven't done the outside yet just pretend I didn't say that. The mould is more important :rotfl:

gallygirl wrote: »

On behalf of Mr GG - that's not what he was talking about :rotfl:.

Sob ... I still don't know what we're talking about. PM if it needs privacy. Begging, here

rtandon27

Karmacat wrote: »

...RT - it really is luck, this is a good year for the crop, I think - they're big trees, and they've never fruited like this before...

All this talk of cherries! I gave in a bought a small punnet for a pound! - Figure it's better than a chocolate bar or a bag of gummies :rotfl:

Karmacat

I agree I've been working hard in the garden, RT, you'd be proud of me. There was a bit fairly near the beginning of it all, but I plonked a plant trough on there, and over the last year, as I've been ill, weeds and grass have really surrounded it so I took it right back to basics, which was easier than I thought because this is the *third* time I've done it - the first time, I put wool carpet samples down as mulch - and they'd been burried in new soil :eek: so there's almost a square yard of border rescued - completely bare now, so I chucked a bit of water on it (in spite of all the rain we had today) and then put lots of bark chippings on there - got to give the woodlice something to eat, hey

After I'm back from holiday, I'll sweep the chippings aside and dig some holes for my beautiful scabious, which have managed to survive a *long* time in pots

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I adore scabious flowers,KC:j. I keep seeing these plants flourishing in the gardens of so many people I know and I'm forever vowing to buy and plant some here but never seem to get round to it:o. I don't visit garden centres and nurseries nowadays as can't resist buying plants and really can't afford to spend anything.

I expect they can be divided or propagated from cuttings so I'll see if I can beg some from someone. Thanks for mentioning them. Growing some are now right at the top of my 'must do' list;).

Karmacat

I'm glad you like them too! I'm a bit concerned to plant them here, tbh, as the soil is very clay, and scabious like thin, moorland soil (or the wild ones do, anyway). I'll put lots of gravel in, it should be okay.

Garden centres! For the first few years I was here, I was forever trying to buy plants to get the garden going - it just didn't work! I had quite a few volunteers when I moved here - love in a mist, tree onions, cotoneaster, fennel (tho that died) and ox eye daisy - then I realised quite how many were living in pots, and I had to water them even when I felt ill ... it didn't work! I got quite a bit planted last year, herbs and fruit bushes, and this year the work is about weeding around the planting and getting the mulch down.

Just seen what the time is! Bedfordshire beckons sleep well all

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The soil here is very heavy clay too:(. A nightmare in both very wet and very dry weather:eek:. Either the friends who grow scabious so prolifically have greatly improved their soil (they're all expert gardeners, unlike me who is a bit hit and miss) or they are growing them in well-concealed pots/containers. Will make it my mission to find out;)

Karmacat

Oh yes please, CBC - seriously, that would be great to know. If I killed them by planting them, after them surviving all this time in pots, I'd be really upset. Thank you!

Right, this morning, I've been fiddling about with various things already, mostly finishing off computer backups and getting things sorted while my main laptop grinds away - I'm going to have to work on the browser too, its *so* slow.

Today, I've got 3 hours work, and fortunately for me its at times when I'm not doing a huge amount anyway, so the plan is:
- finish backing up lappie
- cleaning - going to do the *outside* of the porch today, I need to make a bit better impression than usual
- finish Norfolk research - thats *got* to be done today, need to print it and post it to my mum.
- might condescend to put the dishwasher on :rotfl: oh, and pack for my holidays