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Nargleblast

Silver oldie, whatever makes you think this is not the right place to post your question? Here by the Garden Fence we discuss day to day routines, people's personal life traumas, elephants, dragons, strange clothing and objects of a sexual nature, the trials and tribulations of house moving, the weather....so sprouting sweet potatoes should fit in nicely!

Nargleblast

I am no expert but my inclination would be to plant them in a pot indoors, watch and see if they grow then transplant them outside when big enough, although I don't know if sweet potatoes grow well in our climate. Might do well in a greenhouse, though.

silver-oldie

Nargleblast wrote: »

I am no expert but my inclination would be to plant them in a pot indoors, watch and see if they grow then transplant them outside when big enough, although I don't know if sweet potatoes grow well in our climate. Might do well in a greenhouse, though.

Thank you Nargleblast
Our conservatory get so hot we can't use it so might be good for sweet potatoes.

fuddle

The sun hadn't even dropped so this little fella is out early, that's for sure. OK, well it was heading to my plot in line with a gap I have in the fencing. I wonder if it knows the pond is there. The slugs and snails have upped and left it appears. I guess as I don't water the soil, just around the plants, the ground is very dry. I doubt the s+s like gliding along the surface as it is. Maybe the hedgehog knows that they're hiding in the long grass behind the pond. It came from a very overgrown area from the plot opposite. I will seek to get feed for it in the next few days. I'll do whatever I can. I feel sad that something that brought me great joy was forged out of a dire situation for the hedgehog. Thank you, as always, for educating me.

Polly I can feel, and understand, your pumpkin excitement! I'll be off out soon pollenating another two sexy flowers I saw very nearly ready to open last night. it's addictive this reproductive lark.

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We tried sweet potato slips in the greenhouse and they didn't do at all well, I think they like very hot and very humid conditions that we can't easily replicate here in the UK even under glass. The blurb that came with them recommended loose and very rich soil (think marrows in a compost heap here) and keeping them nicely damp but all that happened with ours was wonderful snaky vines of leaves (like nasturtiums) and pencil thin tiny roots. Hot and wet is what they like so a warm conservatory might give you some chance of a harvest.

Floss

Fuddle are we going to have to mark your posts as "adult content" with all your pollinating talk?! :rotfl:

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It's knowing our HESTER wot's dun it missis!

silvasava

Who quoted that gardening is all about sex and death
Mild panic yesterday - no posts from fencers - what! You couldn't all be lost for words for a whole day - then discovered somehow I'd been unsubscribed! Catching up now phew!

monnagran

Morning all.

Yesterday, after I'd crawled back home after 8 hours on my feet plying hungry and thirsty customers at the School Summer Fair, I thought that shredded, burning feet was no excuse for not entertaining you with an account of my day.
Accordingly I wrote a long, incredibly witty, (in my opinion only,) post about the day's goings-on.
Having submitted it the Dragon, or whatever LameWolf thinks it is, that regularly informs me that I am offline, must have read it, stifled its yawns and eaten it.

At that point I gave in and went to bed.

Suffice it to say that I survived, just, and we made quite a lot of money. Pickle and her friend Bluebelle came to see me and I explained that I hadn't had a chance to go and see her jam jar and were the January for sale.
She sighed heavily, cast her eyes heavenward and said clearly and patiently, as to an idiot child, "No Monna. It is a COM......PET........I....SHUN."
That should have been jamjars, not January.

Today I do nuzzin.

THOUGHT FOR SUNDAY

A repentant sinner draws closer to God than the self-righteous person who condemns that sinner. (Dale Renlund)

camelot1001

Glad you survived yesterday Minna, momma, monna (sorry, I'm on the phone) and made loadsa money.

I planted some sweet potatoes earlier in the year and also have lovely looking vines, a bit like ivy. Not sure anything is going on under the soil but I'll give them a few weeks yet. Btw, mine are in potato bags. Can't put them in the conservatory as it's been demolished!

I'm at Costco at the moment, killing time until the car showroom opens, I've seen a car I like the look of. DS1 coming to cast his rather inexpert eye over things.