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redofromstart

Basically if they get too tall and there are lots of flowers setting then pinch the top and some side shoots out. I only bother with the too tall one. 

Cheery, I took some snips on my walk and cut some none flowering lengths. Greenbee suggested in water but it's hard to keep them safe from cats so I did a 50/50 split with compost and vermiculite, and dipped in some rooting compound. Couple in a pot and a couple in my raised cuttings bed which is basically pure sand with some shade netting. Mixed success before. I like layering things best. 

Lots of weeding and watering done here. 

Floss

redofromstart said:

... Greenbee suggested in water but it's hard to keep them safe from cats so I did a 50/50 split with compost and vermiculite, and dipped in some rooting compound....  

I use ground cinnamon as rooting powder 😉

Natty68

Floss said:

redofromstart said:

... Greenbee suggested in water but it's hard to keep them safe from cats so I did a 50/50 split with compost and vermiculite, and dipped in some rooting compound....  

I use ground cinnamon as rooting powder 😉

Oooh I've not heard of that one Floss, is it ordinary cinnamon that you buy in the jars in the supermarket spic section?

I lost my rooting powder in the house move last year so may give the cinnamon a try for some cuttings I am hoping to aquire on my walk this week

Cherryfudge

I am fairly sure the garden is growing just fractionally too slowly to see it happening. Another half hour of weeding today, including some bits of ground elder roots. I harvested most of the red currants and half the raspberries: a really poor year for both, sadly.

Floss

Natty68 said:

Floss said:

redofromstart said:

... Greenbee suggested in water but it's hard to keep them safe from cats so I did a 50/50 split with compost and vermiculite, and dipped in some rooting compound....  

I use ground cinnamon as rooting powder 😉

Oooh I've not heard of that one Floss, is it ordinary cinnamon that you buy in the jars in the supermarket spic section?

I lost my rooting powder in the house move last year so may give the cinnamon a try for some cuttings I am hoping to aquire on my walk this week

Yes, cheap & cheerful cinnamon 😊 

EssexHebridean

We will be joining Redo in pulling up the broad beans. It's a real shame as we bought them as plants, rather than sowing from seed, and it's a crop we thoroughly look forward to, but they were so badly infested by the time we got back from holiday no amount of spraying was going to deal with things. I think we might get that done and the plants into the garden waste bin this evening actually, as there seems little point in leaving them now. 

In other (more cheerful) news, MrEH sowed more Lambs Lettuce, spinach and cut and come again lettuce over the weekend, as well as more pak choi and chard, My spring onions are peeking through which is good news - I'll need to find another pot or trough for the next sowing of those by next weekend. 
In other bean news, the runners we bought as plants are going like the clappers now, and all look like they will be ready to make a grab for the frame in a few days. The bush beans (waxpods) have germinated, no sign of the borlottis yet but they were sown a few days behind, so there is still hope! Need to add "plant out beans" to the plan for the weekend judging by how rapidly the waxpods seem to be growing now.

There are two good sized courgettes pretty much ready to pick, so those will go in to meals this week, and lots more smaller ones waiting behind them as well....it's started!  Those need feeding this evening, now I come to think about it. 

Tomato wise we have Moneymaker, Gardener's Delight and Minbelle, and theoretically they are in three distinct separate areas, but I think when I split the seedlings out there might have been some degree of mixing up. The minibelles look completely different, so those are easy to spot (and they are bush ones, so definitely don't want side-shooting!) but the others all look like much of a muchness. I guess I'll know when they start fruiting properly.

MrEH thought he had kept on top of the weeds over the weekend, but then felt thoroughly called out when I immediately pounced on a b-i-g chunk of bindweed crawling through the campanula when I got home last night! 

Oh - and that bucket of slug pellets I bought hasn't turned up, has now gone to showing "delayed" against the order status, and I strongly suspect is going to be cancelled and refunded to us. Grr! 

Working_Mum

Cheery_Daff said:

Popping in to report that I've pretty much finished my patio 🤩 Utterly delighted with it 😊😊 I need to pot up a couple of the pots, and fit the water butt - I'll do that tomorrow, but all the hard work of stone shifting etc is done. Looks a bit grey this evening but it's such a peaceful sheltered little space and it'll be lovely when the sun comes out 😊😊



I'll plant things among the stones as I acquire them, but once the water butt and pots are done tomorrow, I'm moving on to a new project (not decided what yet though!)

Simply want to say this looks AMAZING! You can clearly see all of the hard work - you've got the fun bit now of adding actual plants :-)

ajmoney

Just been out to cut the grass. I am heading away for 2 and a half weeks tomorrow, hopefully it won't grow too much while I am away.  I still have some very tall weed sections of my garden but they will just have to wait until I get back.

Cheery_Daff

Working_Mum said:

Cheery_Daff said:

Popping in to report that I've pretty much finished my patio 🤩 Utterly delighted with it 😊😊 I need to pot up a couple of the pots, and fit the water butt - I'll do that tomorrow, but all the hard work of stone shifting etc is done. Looks a bit grey this evening but it's such a peaceful sheltered little space and it'll be lovely when the sun comes out 😊😊



I'll plant things among the stones as I acquire them, but once the water butt and pots are done tomorrow, I'm moving on to a new project (not decided what yet though!)

Simply want to say this looks AMAZING! You can clearly see all of the hard work - you've got the fun bit now of adding actual plants :-)

Aw, thank you 🥰 It looks even lovelier in the sunshine 😊😊 And the roses have got SO many buds on 😊😊

I am in fact just sitting out on the patio eating my tea 😊😊 Going to plant up the final pots tonight -just a mint, a fucshia, and some chives, and one pot has got a thyme in that I'm going to take out and put in a hole in the stones so it can spread over them a bit. 

Lovely out here tonight. The sun's not by the patio any more (although it's still shining further down the garden) but the skylarks are being very vocal tonight, and there's an occasional burbling curlew too 😊😊

Oh, and I found what I think is an owl egg yesterday! Under the confiers where we do often see a tawny owl 🥰🥰 It's too big for a song bird, and looks to have been hatched out of. I'll be keeping my eye out for baby owls 🥰🥰

So sorry about all of you who've had to pull up broad beans 😕 I'm actually glad I picked this year to be my year off growing veg, so many people are struggling!! 

I'm enjoying this thread 😊😊 Reading about everyone doing a little bit here and there is making me get out and do a little bit too rather than feeling completely overwhelmed 😊😊

redofromstart

I have done a little weeding and a little watering today.  I ate the only raspberry.  It doesn't look too promising for future crops. No strawberries, and have serious @KajiKita envy for her strawberry crop.

Positives.  The last courgette still has a leaf on it and I am watering daily  The bought broad beans are currently black fly free.  The cucumbers I planted to replace the slugged ones, one now has real leaves and may actually make it into the garden.  the tomatoes are galloping on.