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Karmacat

Pennard Plants also look amazing, unrecordings, thanks for that as well.

I got back home on Friday, after a few days away at a caravan, and I've been working really hard on the garden. I let too many sorrel plants go to seed and the situation has become insane - but the bones of what I did earlier in the year are still there. I've been out once already today (cutting down the sorrel so I could hang up the washing and not have it fill up with sorrel seeds ) and I'll be going for it again in a bit.

unrecordings

My sorrel always bolts (in fact that reminds me...) I just cut the toobs as I call them right down to the base, save the tender leaves, then cut the toobs into short lengths - when they're dried they're good for stuffing into bee hotels

Pablosmummy

Well both garden centres were a bit rubbish tbh, no cucumbers, pumpkins and only a few ratty looking tomatoes so I left them.
Re sowed cucumbers and pumpkins today, might get a late crop you never know, and gave my tomatoes a hug and told them to pull through... It's not looking good but no harm in trying.

Suffolk_lass

What a brilliant site Ventusky is - thanks!

vintageteainmywardrobe

Morning all,

We had a yellow warning here, which came to nothing, just a wee bit of rain but I understand that they need to put out the worst just encase!

This weekend I decided to uproot all my radishes and I made pickled radishes with radish top pesto. Managed to get a jar of each which was great. I have a feeling that I will be growing many more as it was such a quick and easy crop to grow for little output and I get at least a couple of meals from the radish top pesto and also from the pickled radish as a side!

CAFCGirl

I cannot seem, for love not money, to grow radishes or beetroot!

But if it's bind weed you're after, I'm your girl! LOL

I'm planning on putting out a begging message to friends and family for week after next, for help on the plot...... I'm losing the battle.

Karmacat

I had three full work sessions out in the garden over the weekend - a lot of grass got cut, I've managed to separate out my lemon balm from my salad burnet, and my rosemary from my sorrel. Towards the end of this week, there will be planting in the new spaces, then mulch.

Pablosmummy

Sowed some replacement spring onions and carrots today and binned off some three year old strawberries and removed an apple tree sucker which I'm sure just appeared from nowhere overnight .
I also cleaned the patio which wasn't so fun but I have to admit it does brighten the garden up alot so I can't complain.
Due to my rubbish labelling I'm trying to work out which seedlings are Pak choi and which are psb. I think I'll have to wait until they are bigger cos they look exactly the same.
Also noticed a sideshoot on one of my damaged tomatoes so Im going to let it grow and see if it will take over, if not maybe I can let it grow and bit and cut it and try and root it? I'll see how it grows.

Primrose

Pablo's Mummy
Tomato sideshoots can be very successfully used to create a new plant. I,ve done it often. The only drawback of course is that the plant will be later to fruit than its parent so best to do it as early in the growing season as possible.

Pinch the shoot out as cleanly as possible and immediately put it in a pot of damp compost which should be kept moist and not allowed to dry out. If possible don,t do this in hot weather as the sideshoot will droop considerably for up to two or three days. Keep the pot out of direct strong u light for this time to reduce the shock.

As soon as it has obviously appeared to recover and starts growing strongly again you can repot or replant as normal.

baggins11

I also have a damaged tomato plant on my hands. I have far too many plants in my greenhouse and crouching down to remove some suckers I inadvertently gave the one behind me the chelsea chop with my bum.

It wouldn't have been such an issue as I have too many anyway but sadly this particular plant was my daughters only tomato plant and she thinks I have sabotaged her efforts.

As she is a teen and not a toddler I couldn't do an esio trot and claim hers was a different plant. There is a small sucker where I gave it the chop so I hope the sucker will do amazing things.

We will keep watering and see what happens (hopefully I will be forgiven in time..)