Awful weather - typical Brits talk

twopenny

I think the blobs on the stems are waiting roots.
If you laid them against the soil they'd take.

Or could be a burrowing bug but I don't think so

YoungBlueEyes

Wannabe roots, could be cos they’re quite low down the main stem. Thanks 2p

And I’ve just picked all my stripey toms, thanks Arb  

Jeez I love this thread, I really do

-taff

Yep, roots. Tomatoes can root from any part of the stem. They're originally a trailing plant, it's us that force them to grow upright, they'd be more like a squash or pumpkin naturally.

YBL, the olive tree will go somewhere else eventually but be in a pot for a year or two. They'e not that big, they're quite thin and weedy , nothing like the big thick trunk ones you see for a grand. Bit I like them thin and weedy, they're not constantly being pollarded willy nilly. And they are about eight foot. I looked up the price of a similar [but smaller] one in the gc, over a hundred quid! I was gobsmacked.

Weather today has been sunny ish and dry, huzzah...

Dusty, loving the denouement....

Loving the hourglass supports too..I always wndered why, after pinching the tops out, the whole plant went bushy, then pom pom'd at the top anyway...unless it's because i wasn't pinching out the new stuff...

-taff

twopenny said:

Ah must ask too.......it's going to cost her so she might regret this

Though others have offered the same so we may have a swap system here.

Went to Greencombe and it started raining proper. Didn't mind, it was still lovely and tranquil and I had the garden all to myself.

I'd already got ideas about making my slope divided like I did with a bit when I first started. Now I've seen their pockets of planting  on a hillside it's given me more ideas!

But this is one I noticed last year and promptly forgot. I'm going to have to get more organised.

The way they grow their runner beans. Genius. Looks good and works better than the teepee or run. It's egg-timer shaped.

The wall ast the side had strawberries growing over - and a row of margoriam and origano

 

Even Farways nasturtiums in one corner

Don't know how I'm going to do it and it won't look like this that's taken years to create but it would make a great project to try.

I was looking at fbmp this morning and saw someone selling those cement blck that have a divider down the middle. And my imagination took over and I saw a bed made from them on their sides with a living wall in the holes..There must be a way of doing that without buying cement blocks..also loving the paths....

ArbitraryRandom

-taff said:

twopenny said:

Ah must ask too.......it's going to cost her so she might regret this

Though others have offered the same so we may have a swap system here.

Went to Greencombe and it started raining proper. Didn't mind, it was still lovely and tranquil and I had the garden all to myself.

I'd already got ideas about making my slope divided like I did with a bit when I first started. Now I've seen their pockets of planting  on a hillside it's given me more ideas!

But this is one I noticed last year and promptly forgot. I'm going to have to get more organised.

The way they grow their runner beans. Genius. Looks good and works better than the teepee or run. It's egg-timer shaped.

The wall ast the side had strawberries growing over - and a row of margoriam and origano

 

Even Farways nasturtiums in one corner

Don't know how I'm going to do it and it won't look like this that's taken years to create but it would make a great project to try.

I was looking at fbmp this morning and saw someone selling those cement blck that have a divider down the middle. And my imagination took over and I saw a bed made from them on their sides with a living wall in the holes..There must be a way of doing that without buying cement blocks..also loving the paths....

You mean like this? 



If so, it's the kind of thing I'd like, but was shocked at the cost of the blocks recently (when I was looking into making a raised bed on my thread). 

-taff

No, noot like that, imagine them on their sides with the holes stufed with earth and things trailing out.

twopenny

I've always wanted brick paths but if you don't use the right ones they are lethal when wet or they grow moss.
I was hoping to ask the owner what sort they were because comfy to walk on in the rain - but he wasn't coming out of the house even to check my ticket.
It's the last week so I'll try and pop over again.

Despit forcasts all round it's been dry, hot and very humid. Ants are getting wings thank goodness because they've had a right go at my lawn.

Mowed out front, pruned Hidcote, cleaned coping stones and brickwork. Moved big pots etc. Looks almost like a thought out garden now but still more to do. 
I think the wallflowers are going, relegated to the badger run to live or die,  can't cope with the dry conditions. Shame cause they flowered all winter. 
I have some seedlings but won't offer seed. 10 fully grown giant ones only cost about £1,50 

Dustyevsky

Sorry, missing in action yesterday, as I decided to use the drizzly, dreich weather to do a massive shop. Noticed a few interesting plant 'bargains' on my travels, most notable of which was about 6 varieties of grape vines in Asda, including Lakemont, at £6 each. Paid £17 for mine!

Out again today, which promises some brightness and little wet stuff. I may get a few new photos, as I hope to visit a garden, which is open 'on most days.' (! )

YoungBlueEyes

Toms are a trailing plant - I never knew that! The growbag ones do look like they could happily slump to ground actually (the growbag has the bobbly plant in it, my stripey [bucket] toms are stood like soldiers. Lovely neighbour heard me snipping away yesterday and said would I do hers, aye course I will. She sent a pic to her brother and he sent a pic back of his. Put me to shame and I thought I was doing ok, in the round  I told her to text him back that pride's a sin ha haa! Pics in a min.

I went against my mantra and dug up a thing yesterday I bought a reduced half-dead one a few months ago and planted it, but it continued it's slow decline and now it's sat there just wasting space. But I thought it might revive so I left it. Then I saw a properly living happy full-price one and bought that and planted it far away from the first one. Well it's about 2/3 dead now but it was dear so I'm trying to rescue it. Into a pot with compost and bfb. Lovely neighbour has one, a huge big thing, all flowery and leafy and happy so I don't think it's my soil - hers is only the other side of the fence to where I planted mine. It's a mystery.... 

Lovely and cool and sunny-ish here now, no dawn to speak of though. The drunkards, sobers, and Ventusky all agree it'll be cloudy all day while warming up 'til evening, then sun will be out. That'd be nice

Wow that's cheap for grapes Dusty. You southerners and your warm weather

YoungBlueEyes

My last post will make more sense if I put a name to the dug up plant! Ceanothus.  Here they are side by side - 

And here’s her brothers toms. More your league Dusty I think. 

Hoping for good info on paths from 2p 🤞🏻