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Post by Moonlight on Dec 8, 2013 20:47:13 GMT
No Tel, can't you see it is a person?  Have some respect for Moonlight's best friends.    |
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Post by Moonlight on Dec 8, 2013 21:35:11 GMT
Bought the vermiculite at horticultural society shop and saw my Dad's truck in the car park. He wasn't there. He was talking to the pom man. After buying the vermiculite and rock salt, went over to see him he had gone over to drop some manure off for the pom man. Really like him now. Bit crusty round the edges but as I've said before he has been really nice to the girlies. Anyone that is friendly to my girls is a friend to me. Dad told him that the girls are going to grow dahlias this year and the pom man asked us which ones they were going to grow. He was interested in what they were, knew that they were decs and he and Dad both agreed that (I think) Amber Festival is probably a sport from Gateshead Festival (but don't quote me on that one - probably got it round my neck). He wasn't at the trophy night and dug up all his tubers and gave them away. I felt upset because I thought that he might be giving up with the dahlias, that he might have got disheartened that he didn't win. I think last time there was a point in between Dad and him (he would have beaten Dad but he had a vase NAS over size) but this year wasn't as close.
Last week when I was buying my vermiculite a lady had some big tubers and that he had given them to her so that she could plant them in the hospice's garden. Others he was just giving them away. I was wrong, he had dug them up and was getting rid of them because he can't store them in his unheated greenhouse.
I think that it is really sad, lovely strong winning tubers got rid of each year because he can't store them. I know people have offered in the past but I think he might be a bit like someone else that I know that grows dahlias. Very proud and would hate it if someone told him what to do, however well meaning. Both highly intelligent, very knowledgeable, voices of experience and total and utter dahlia snobs. I might not be the highly intelligent, knowledgeable or voice of experience but I know that I am a dahlia snob. I know what I like and they are my Dad's varieties + the Westons.
I think that there is an element of a dahlia snob in anyone that shows but I think the most critical (and not in a negative way - assessing good features / traits etc) are those that grow their own seedlings because they are always chasing their own perception of perfection.
Gosh gone a bit deep there. Respect where it is due and I do respect him and I know that he is shrewd, maybe that is why he mentioned that he had won with the poms (I've an inkling that he mentioned it because I entered).
Hee Hee - bring it on.
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Post by Cherry on Dec 8, 2013 22:14:21 GMT
You make me smile too Moonlight. You are so keen on your dahlias and you certainly know a lot about them.  |
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Post by Moonlight on Dec 8, 2013 22:40:51 GMT
You make me smile too Moonlight. You are so keen on your dahlias and you certainly know a lot about them.
Nah, I don't anything about dahlias, I just ask lots of questions and muddle along and try and get some of my facts straight. |
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Post by Tel on Dec 9, 2013 7:48:44 GMT
You make me smile too Moonlight. You are so keen on your dahlias and you certainly know a lot about them.
Nah, I don't anything about dahlias, I just ask lots of questions and muddle along and try and get some of my facts straight.Me too.  |
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Post by Moonlight on Dec 10, 2013 22:18:21 GMT
grrrrr just discovered a slug on my tuber. humpf. Straight off. grrrrr in the garden.
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Post by Moonlight on Dec 11, 2013 18:41:52 GMT
Glad I haven't found the right size box, we have had more frost.
Slug watch - no more attacks here. Just hope that my others are ok, it's cold out there and I haven't packed my tubers up. They are wrapped but not as much as I would want.
Hope that the bubble wrap for the greenhouse has come.
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Post by Tel on Dec 12, 2013 20:12:40 GMT
grrrrr just discovered a slug on my tuber. humpf. Straight off. grrrrr in the garden. I have slug pellets scattered among the ground tubers stored in the greenhouse on the allotment. When I set the pot tubers up in the seed trays on the heated bench they will have slug pellets scattered on those too. to kill the blighters. |
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Post by Moonlight on Dec 23, 2013 12:16:30 GMT
I have just taken Tommy Tuber down to my cabin, in a fresh tub of vermiculite. It is cold down there but there is no condensation. I have been picking out the dried mud so that I can use the vermiculite for another tuber. I am going to go and check the tubers in my greenhouse. If they still look ok, I am going to put them in tubs (well as many as I have) of vermiculite and my current plan is to keep them in the greenhouse.
Well that's the plan, all things change if the tubers are in a bad way in the greenhouse. At least my Dad has got the important ones.
Fingers Crossed and Positive Thoughts. 
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Post by Moonlight on Dec 23, 2013 20:07:51 GMT
Lets just say, Live and Learn.
I will show my Dad and see what he thinks but I think it really will be a case of live and learn.
Hay Hoe.
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Post by Moonlight on Dec 23, 2013 21:31:09 GMT
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Post by Moonlight on Dec 25, 2013 15:50:07 GMT
Happy Christmas to Everyone that reads my Diary. I've been a good girl because I've got a couple of gardening presents. :-)
Can't put any photos up tho.
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Post by steve on Dec 26, 2013 10:06:52 GMT
Happy Christmas Moonlight and the Moonie family keep on doing the diary you now have 100 pages and it will make interesting reading looking back for reference  |
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Post by Tel on Dec 27, 2013 6:58:30 GMT
Happy Christmas Moonlight and the Moonie family keep on doing the diary you now have 100 pages and it will make interesting reading looking back for reference I will second that. |
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Post by Moonlight on Dec 27, 2013 13:44:10 GMT
I just think I talk too much.
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