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Post by Tel on Jan 24, 2012 13:18:14 GMT
Two out of the 3 seedling tubers from last season are showing signs of life, a pale pink dec, a deeper pink dec, but a yellow dec is not showing anything yet and out of the 3, this is the one i want to have a look at again this season.
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Post by dcdahlia on Jan 24, 2012 19:10:51 GMT
Thats usually how it goes tel but still plenty time yet
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Post by Tel on Jan 24, 2012 19:31:32 GMT
Thats usually how it goes tel but still plenty time yet You are right DC  |
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Post by Lou78W on Jan 24, 2012 19:52:41 GMT
Two out of the 3 seedling tubers from last season are showing signs of life, a pale pink dec, a deeper pink dec, but a yellow dec is not showing anything yet and out of the 3, this is the one i want to have a look at again this season."sodus lorus" eh Tel........  |
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Post by derekbrooks on Jan 26, 2012 20:54:05 GMT
There are five of my tubers growing Isn,t it exciting? I can't resist looking at them every time I walk past.I expect some of you have more than that growing though |
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Post by Tel on Jan 27, 2012 7:28:23 GMT
Checking mine every day now. ;D
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Post by steve on Jan 27, 2012 7:32:03 GMT
That's what they tell us to do in the papers Tel ;D
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Post by dcdahlia on Jan 27, 2012 15:17:41 GMT
Finished work while its still light today so got a good look at the ground tubers in daylight and its amazing how much more you can see than in artificial light.A lot more showing signs of life than I realised.Pot tubers are flying.I have 2 pot tubers of a medium fim jean ellen if anyone would like them free of charge they are good tubers to good to just throw out.
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Post by dcdahlia on Jan 29, 2012 17:52:07 GMT
Had a look up new allotment today and have decided not to take it, took a spade with me and it only went in 6 inches.Apparently the gardens on that part of the site were cleaned up by a digger which took all the top soil off as well as all the weed hence the reason those gardens are full of hens ,ducks and geese.I will wait until a better garden comes along and go back to planning what to grow in the allotment I already have.  |
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Post by Lou78W on Jan 29, 2012 17:56:08 GMT
Oh dear....thats a shame....I'm sure there will be "better" opportunitites  |
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Post by Tel on Jan 30, 2012 19:50:43 GMT
Had a look up new allotment today and have decided not to take it, took a spade with me and it only went in 6 inches.Apparently the gardens on that part of the site were cleaned up by a digger which took all the top soil off as well as all the weed hence the reason those gardens are full of hens ,ducks and geese.I will wait until a better garden comes along and go back to planning what to grow in the allotment I already have. The council did the same on some allotments on the top lane of our site, some people took the plots then wondered why they were getting water logged those that did not give up the allotment had to make raised beds out of anything they could get their hands on. I can imagine taking one of those plots on and the dahlias rotting off after the first heavy downpour.  |
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Post by Tel on Jan 30, 2012 19:52:37 GMT
Two out of the 3 seedling tubers from last season are showing signs of life, a pale pink dec, a deeper pink dec, but a yellow dec is not showing anything yet and out of the 3, this is the one i want to have a look at again this season. I had a close look at it today, there is just signs of life starting now. |
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Post by candyblue on Feb 1, 2012 17:24:17 GMT
Got confirmation of my order today, have ordered'sir Alf & Hillcrest Candy as my two new ones this year, it was a toss up between Sir Alf and Bryn Terfel which I have wanted to grow for a while but decided on Sir Alf.
Cant wait for them to come in April along with Robs chrysanths, looks like our plot will be very flowery again, lucky we have the other one for veg lol
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Post by Tel on Feb 1, 2012 19:35:26 GMT
I just wonder how long it will take for the veg allotment to have less and less veg on there Candyblue. ;D
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Post by dcdahlia on Feb 1, 2012 20:34:21 GMT
Hillcrest candy was the talk of the exhibition scene last year it won lots of tickets at shepton mallet ,stirling and harrogate everyone seems to be after it.
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