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Green Thumbs
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How are your plants, fruits and vegetables getting along with the inconsistent weather we've been experiencing?
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Rather dissappointing.
Toms are well behind and the ones I put out early appear to have been stunted (Good job I had plenty of spares!)
Spring Onions are up, radishes coming on and salad leaves doing well. Only one small cue so far though.
Beans are slow too as are the flowers. Lupins did well which is just as well as I use them to attract bees and aphids so keeping them off the other plants. Have got some roses but not brilliant.
Slugs and snails a big problem, luckily I found some new 'blue' pellets (Organic) that seem to work.
Everything in the flower garden seems to have been early - normally the rose garden does not flower until middle of June but we had first blooms at the end of April. The foxgloves have been magnificent but first flowering is nearly over now.
The veg garden is doing very well.
The thing that we are struggling with this year is slugs and snails. We have never had a problem wit them before but this year we are loused out with the wretched things.
So so. Garlic doing adequately as usual. Some beetroot & leeks from last year. The broccoli bolted and is now looking sorry for itself in a raised bed where the netted top I created has distorted beyond belief and is lying flat on it.
My main problem is the tomato seeds I saved from a couple of years back when the original plants were hit by late blight.
I put them in paper towels, when I came to use them I couldn't distinguish yellow paper from anything that might be in it. I decided that they probably wouldn't come up anyway so I just dumped them in a seed tray, compost below, a light covering of compost/sand over the top.
They all were not only there, but viable too. So many seedlings intertwined.
Bought loads of pots as I didn't have enough. I've just finished separating them, but I have no idea where I'm going to find room to plant them. It's going to be impossible. Hopefully some will prove more vigorous than the others.
Oh yeah. The roses planted a couple of years ago have gone mad. Taken cuttings for my woman's garden. The more established ones are less vigorous, but they're still sulking from the springtime pruning. The geraniums seemed to have died. And the cherry tree is proving it chose to die the winter before last. I will have to dig it up later this year. I'm not happy about that, it's been most ungrateful for all the work I did for it.
Geraniums, Fuscias, and Begonias as faithful as ever and going well. Mesambyanthemum surprisingly vibrant despite the rain. Cosmos and Sunflowers coming along nicely but need some sustained sunshine as does most of the veg. Fed the cucumbers, which look really sorry for themselves with a milk and yeast feed and the Toms and Courgettes with a liquid feed but they are lagging. Peas, Broad Beans, and Sweet Peas are desperate for more warmth. Where is my share of the glow bulls? I have paid for it with the levy imposed on my fuel bills!
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