STeve @ 9:01 pm
Woolworths is a great shop! We did this last year, went in and managed to pick up a whole load of reduced plants for a quick sale. Last time it really was the dregs well past it, and we didn’t have a great deal of success although I am keeping my fingers crossed that some of the bulbs will show up this year.
They should I suppose by this time of the year if in the ground have green shoots on, but none of them do apart from one little bit of green spotted. I have put them all in some water until I have time to plant at the weekend, and we will see. In total, it has cost 2 pounds for four bushes, so you can’t loose.
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STeve @ 7:49 pm
I will have to look up info about these plants as today we saw the first shoots of the seeds we sowed just a couple of days ago! They are red, I remember that much.
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STeve @ 7:32 pm
It just so happened that today we got some slug gravel stuff in order to protect the sunflowers that we planted outside at the weekend…. and when I went to put the gravel around I noticed the slugs/snails had already been. One of Jack’s sunflowers has been eaten through the stem, and one of Toms has been nibbled but will survive. So now, have added a whole lot of gravel around them and hopefully that will sort it. I might just plant one or two more pots “just in case”.
We hate slugs!
Related:
- May 2, 2008 -- Slugs get another Sunflower!
- September 24, 2008 -- RIP Big Sunflowers
- August 21, 2008 -- Baby Sunflower Child
- August 18, 2008 -- w18 sunflowers are grinning
- August 11, 2008 -- w17 - Sunflowers at the front
- August 11, 2008 -- w17 - Sunflowers finished in the back
- July 31, 2008 -- w15 - Sunflowers in front
- July 28, 2008 -- Small Sunflower
- July 24, 2008 -- @w 14 - Sunflowers
- July 14, 2008 -- @week13 - sunflowers
STeve @ 7:51 pm
The weather at the moment is fantastic for growing grass, lots of warm sun, and lots of warm rain. In just one week we now have grass starting to show in the front garden.
Related:
- September 14, 2008 -- Autumn Grass Seed
- June 23, 2008 -- First Cut
- June 4, 2008 -- @Seven Weeks - Grass
- May 8, 2008 -- @Three Weeks
- April 21, 2008 -- Grass Seed
- October 5, 2008 -- Snapshot October 08
- September 30, 2008 -- Wigwams down
- August 11, 2008 -- w17 - Sunflowers at the front
- August 11, 2008 -- August 2008
- August 11, 2008 -- w17 - Sweetpeas
STeve @ 8:08 pm
I don’t really know much about these as a plant or flower, they are some of the seeds that I bought off Ebay. I beleive they have red flowers, we wait and see what happens. They are tiny seeds, so we scattered them between two pots.
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STeve @ 8:05 pm
These are two lots of sunflowers that I bought off Ebay the other week. One the left are Velvet Red and on the right are Italian White. These show be smaller sunflowers that will hopefully set off the borders at the front of the house.
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- August 11, 2008 -- w17 - Sunflowers at the front
- July 31, 2008 -- w15 - Sunflowers in front
- May 21, 2008 -- Small sunflowers planted outside
- May 8, 2008 -- @Three Weeks
- October 5, 2008 -- Snapshot October 08
- September 30, 2008 -- Wigwams down
- September 24, 2008 -- RIP Big Sunflowers
- September 14, 2008 -- Autumn Grass Seed
- August 21, 2008 -- Baby Sunflower Child
- August 18, 2008 -- w18 sunflowers are grinning
STeve @ 8:02 pm
Maybe way too late, but here goes anyway. This is seed taken from last year’s plants that we got from Cornwall from family - so it is a bit hopefull that something will come from it but worth a try.
Related:
- September 5, 2008 -- Sweetpeas along the side
- August 11, 2008 -- w17 Sweetpeas at ‘the side’
- August 11, 2008 -- w17 - Sweetpeas
- July 14, 2008 -- @week 13 - sweetpeas
- June 27, 2008 -- @10 weeks - sweetpeas and beans
- June 19, 2008 -- Sweetpeas tied up
- June 17, 2008 -- @week 9 - Beans and Sweetpeas
- June 10, 2008 -- More Sweetpeas Planted
- June 4, 2008 -- @Seven Weeks - Sweetpeas
- May 30, 2008 -- Second Wigwam
STeve @ 8:00 pm
We have had it for some time now, in a pot and ready to be planted. I finally got round to doing it, and looking a the restricted root ball once I had it out of the pot, I think it will much happier now it is in the ground.
Related:
- September 24, 2008 -- RIP Big Sunflowers
- September 5, 2008 -- The Late Seeds - Result
- August 11, 2008 -- w17 - Sunflowers finished in the back
- July 28, 2008 -- Small Sunflower
- July 25, 2008 -- Seeds were maybe too late…
- July 14, 2008 -- @week13 - sunflowers
- June 27, 2008 -- Seeds in the Back
- June 27, 2008 -- Patio cleaned up
- June 24, 2008 -- Flower Bed at the Back
- June 17, 2008 -- Flower Seeds now Showing
STeve @ 7:57 pm
The sunflowers we planted outside into the garden today. Added netting (to keep the cat off) and slug pellets (to keep the slugs off), and we need to get some canes for them to climb up against. The rest is going well (apart from the cress which is now dead) and the tomatoes are next to the transfered to their own pots sometime hopefully during the week.
Sunflowers:
Chillies:
Tomatoes:
Basil:
Salad:
Related:
- May 8, 2008 -- @Three Weeks
- May 13, 2008 -- @Four Weeks
- April 21, 2008 -- @One Week
- September 24, 2008 -- RIP Big Sunflowers
- August 21, 2008 -- Baby Sunflower Child
- August 18, 2008 -- w18 sunflowers are grinning
- August 15, 2008 -- w17 We Eat A Chillie
- August 11, 2008 -- w17 - Sunflowers at the front
- August 11, 2008 -- w17 - Sunflowers finished in the back
- July 31, 2008 -- w15 - Chillies
STeve @ 7:51 pm
Not much to see, but they are now planted, possibly a bit late as everywhere I went to look they had sold out of seed potatoes weeks ago. In the end, freecycle came to the rescue with two potatoes, so this year just one container of potatoes and we will see how it goes.
Last year we filled the containeres mostly full of compost and planted the potatoes. This year, just a small bit of compost in and each time we see the shoots pop up we will add more compost until it reaches the top. This should then give us a much better crop, we will see….
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