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Post by Deleted on Feb 6, 2012 11:14:05 GMT 1
Cardoon, cynara cardunculus, ornamental, grey big fern-like leaves, tough as old boots, makes a good specimen in the front garden..
Early-sown cabbage etc. Already s-t-r-e-t-c-h-i-n-g on the windowsill. Get outside in good, even light asap, wish I had a poly...
Sweet chestnuts. Kept outside in shallow compost. Now showing big, juicy first root (radical). Transplant to pots asap. Beautiful leaves make them good ornamentals..
Last year's potatoes now chitting (too soon!) can't plant out yet. What to do with them?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 6, 2012 13:25:25 GMT 1
Also new growth on cut-down, over-wintered flat leaf parsley.
Shouldna bothered sowing any more this year...
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Post by Deleted on Feb 7, 2012 9:20:16 GMT 1
This topic has met with a muted response.....
It's no wonder nothing will grow for you if you rely on the moon, tree-hugging and witchcraft!
You have only yourselves to blame....!
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Post by Ali on Feb 7, 2012 9:38:41 GMT 1
I have one daffodil in flower up the drive - would that count?
Emerging in the house are packets of seeds.
Outside is frozen solid, even the dogs can't dig up the mole tumps and the greenhouse full of over-wintering gerans and fuscias.
I have bought the onions but not the tatties yet and the 2 young cabbage plants from last year are holding their own.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 7, 2012 10:09:55 GMT 1
Yes, Ali, your daffodil in lonely isolation is a potent symbol...
You mustn't let yourself think that the weather here is so much better than there. The sweet chestnut seeds I had to hack out of frozen compost, and the cardoon stands in frozen earth..
Point is the season is now. And the season is a short one for much of what we choose to grow, so don't hang about....
You don't have any potatoes from last year then?
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Post by Elkay on Feb 7, 2012 10:25:56 GMT 1
Seeds emerging in the cellar in propogators: Geranium and aubergine, the peppers were sown at the same time as the aubergines (On a good 'fruit' moon day, of course  ) but haven't emerged as yet. Am awaiting the emergence of my first earlies in the polytunnel - Armandine potatoes but they are under fleece so they may have poked their heads up. Winter lettuces are doing well in the polytunnel but the raddishes are up but growing very slowly. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 7, 2012 13:36:29 GMT 1
Peony
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Post by Ali on Feb 7, 2012 14:05:19 GMT 1
You don't have any potatoes from last year then? Fraid we ate most of them, but I have saved some pink furry ones (Madame will love my name for them and I am sure both you and Madame will correct me) to grow on this year, they were great in salads and lasted pretty well too. |
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Post by troll on Feb 8, 2012 17:39:54 GMT 1
garlic is about 10cm high, no sign of shallots, spuds are chitting, daffs and camelias in flower, still a few leeks left, rhubarb just appearing
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Post by Madame Moorhen on Feb 8, 2012 19:20:18 GMT 1
The season isn't now at all.  It'll start about end of March here but not properly until mid April which is main sowing time outside. It lasts until November but then as you seem to be of no fixed abode Annon (or whichever name you choose to go under) perhaps you are in Iceland this week. ;D |
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It'll start about end of March here but not properly until mid April which is main sowing time outside. It lasts until November but then as you seem to be of no fixed abode Annon (or whichever name you choose to go under) perhaps you are in Iceland this week. ;D