Quote: chipolata @ 22nd December 2023, 6:25 AMLOL. It is quite funny how much we really hate each others guts on the BCG! So much simmering tension!.
Oh shut your cake hole 😠
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Quote: Hercules Grytpype Thynne @ 21st December 2023, 11:47 PMIf you'd read the preceding correctly, you would have seen that it wasn't me talking about "correct topic", I simply repeated the term; but while we're on that subject, can you please post your general topics about football on the appropriate thread and NOT the BCG FPL thread.
Herc that was a mistake, I believe I might have mentioned I misread things at times. My apologies. btw I have been invited to join that thread in the past, but Newcastle haven't won the premiership since 1955. I was probably disorientated by fasty coming onto the news thread laughing about a distinguished Dr awaiting processing, believed to have committed suicide - we need more Drs in the NHS. That's all. Have a good Christmas.
Quote: chipolata @ 22nd December 2023, 6:25 AMAnyway, in order to stay on topic, this year has absolutely decimated my lawn. It's just mud and a few straggly weeds now. I'm going to have to do some major repair work come the new year.
I've laid 3 lawns (2 in the same place). Is it a drainage problem ? If you've got clay like soil , mix sand in or you can get pre-mixed from specialist lawn companies. "Green Thumb" are a good franchise for getting lawns back on track.
Quote: Firkin @ 22nd December 2023, 5:36 PMHerc that was a mistake, I believe I might have mentioned I misread things at times. My apologies. btw I have been invited to join that thread in the past, but Newcastle haven't won the premiership since 1955. I was probably disorientated by fasty coming onto the news thread laughing about a distinguished Dr awaiting processing, believed to have committed suicide - we need more Drs in the NHS. That's all. Have a good Christmas.
You are forgiven, my son - and must join the FPL and/or the Super 6 next season - there's nothing to stop you joining now, but you'd be so far behind.
On my weekly check of the fruit trees I planted last November (Cherry, Apple, Plum and Pear), they all seem to be budding nicely, and the Victoria Plum has a small white flower on one of its branches!! 😊 Certainly raises the spirits..................
But of the 5 raspberry canes I did at the same time, only a couple of them are showing signs of life - perhaps they are late starters?
Autumn fruiting or Summer fruiting? (Raspberries, that is)
Mine (Autumn fruiting) are not all peeking through yet, and they're fairly well established.
Plums can take a year or two (or three or four!) before you get a decent crop.
The raspberries are Tulameen, which I think are late season?
And yes, but to see a flower in the early Spring raises your spirits, even if it is only one. 😊 In the meantime, they sell Victoria plums at the local Coop 😁
It's like my wild primroses are putting on a wonderful display this year, and those very pretty lemony yellow flowers always lifts my heart
Tulameen are Summer fruiting - which means they have their own pruning regime.
Essentially, they produce fruit on the previous year's growth - so don't expect fruit this year (unless you left any of last years growth on - which is unlikely as they normally come quire short when purchased.)
So, this year, you need to train the growth against whatever support you have, feed, water etc.
At the end of the year don't cut down.
The following year train that year's new growth - ideally separated from the previous years growth (are you still with me at the back?)
You will get fruit from the year before's growth - which you cut to the ground that winter.
Repeat ad infinitum.
The above is why I now stick to Autumn fruiting - never quite as sweet - but a lot less simpler to look after!
Tons of YouTube vids and books for the finer details.
Oh, I know nothing about raspberries (apart from picking them when I was about 6 in my grandmother's garden), but the supplier states "Raspberry 'Tulameen' is a hugely popular late season variety", which I took to be Autumn fruiting?
Certainly were quite short when I received them!
I'm printing your post off to pin on my board, and will check the YT vids, thank you very much 😊
It's all very confusing - and the names don't help.
Essentially there are two types of raspberry - ones who flower on this years growth which, because they have to do a bit more growing to get there (literally from the ground up) tend to fruit later - hence the name Autumn.
The other variety fruit on last years growth so have a head start - hence Summer.
But early season 'Autumn' can sometimes flower before late season 'Summer' - which I reckon is what you have.
Yerss................I see what you mean (I think) 🙄
My garden(s)have become a bit too much for me so I got a gardening company to come tidy things up.
(they know what to charge)
The twats cut my grapevine right back to a stump Ive been training and pruning for years.
Then they cut through the power cable to the garage and complained the electricity had taken a bite out of his shears.
I have to rewire that now and start again with my grapes.
Ouch.
Th grape vine is nothing short of a tragedy.
It upset me and I did wine.
But I'll now grow it as a stand-alone vine and keep it the same size as a vineyard plant.
Wonderful display of wild primroses this year, and the fruit trees I planted last November are all bursting into leaf, with the pear showing a flower again - gardening certainly lifts your heart. 😊
I have a sapling cherry tree.
I did not plant it and it came up through the flower beds. (wife's dept) and I persuaded her to let it grow.
It now has flowered so I hope there will be cherries.
Nature working - a bird eat a cherry from somewhere and carried the stone until it got rid over my garden