Thyme To Garden - November 2017

[AB Editor]

Hello all,
Woofgang requested a sticky gardening thread where green-fingered ABers can post their hints, tips and garden updates. So if you need help in the garden, lettuce know, and leaf all your gardening ideas here!

If people turnip to this thread we'll do this every month. I apologise for all the terrible puns but I don't promise to stop.

[Cloverjo]

My garden is very windy, sandy and salty. I tried to grow chillis and tomatoes this summer, but the conditions were terrible for them. I was thinking of a polytunnel, but am put off slightly by woofgang's post. Anything else I can try?

[mazie]

Maybe a small Greenhouse Jo ?

[woofgang]

cloverjo, I was answering alba's comment about using them for overwintering...they are great for spring/summer growing, I would have one like a shot but the dogs would trash it....depends how windy your wind is.

[woofgang]

I love this time of year because although you can plant for autumn colour, until it actually happens, you never know how it will look and whether the leaves will stay on the trees long enough to make it spectacular. My oak is putting on a real show this year, as are the japanese maples. Cherries were lovely but didn't keep their leaves for long enough. Its going to be a mainly gold year for the liquidambar and parrotia (some years they go quite red) and the mimosa is starting to bloom very early, normally it isn't out until January. My favourite time of year.

[Chipchopper]

Most of my trees, that I planted mainly for the Autumn leaf colour, have fallen early this year, apart from a couple of hangers on: a maidenhair tree(Ginkgo biloba) and a Tupilo (Nyssa sylvatica), still nice while it lasted!

[woofgang]

gosh that's a stunner!....just bought one in ebay, thanks for that. The other disappointment this year were the amelanchiers which coloured well but lost their leaves very quickly

[Chipchopper]

Exactly the same thing happened to my two Amalanchier's, very little fruit this year and after the leaves turned yellow, they droped very soon after!

[woofgang]

Can I ask which part of the country you are in chipperchopper?

[woofgang]

well bye bye autumn colour...its all being churned in the mud