Sorry didn’t spot your post (maybe didnt recognise the nick)!!
First question I would ask you is - are you sure the growth is all coming from above the graft. Often when these grafted plants are still quite young the stock takes over from the scion, when this happens you are unlikely to get flowering. The rest of my knowledge is dependent on that gained thru bonsai cultivation unfortunately! But when they are contained in a pot the fertilisation and watering becomes very important, and that this is done at the right time. I would make sure you use a good flowering fertiliser - rosegrow or tomorite would do from say June to August. We would also prune heavily after the normal flowering period end of May, and again if vigorous in September. We would go right back to just a couple of ‘pairs’ of leaves, remembering wisteria has a compound leaf. This is hard to explain without illustration! but when I say leaf each one has several parts to it. Hope this is of some use.
SS, brassicas really need to be outside, but a greenhouse is great for tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers etc and also for keeping plants out of the frost in the winter. And the butterflies will go in the greenhouse anyway! Netting is definitely the answer I think.
most of the garden is cleared now and is awaiting mauring… but what to putin for the winter?/ Or am I too late? - Didin’t think about it until now…
Chickens still not here - the barns were cleared without any being rescued. I need to go buy some now. Soon - I have an empty coop waiting!
Huge (well, big!) pumpking going nicely orange in the patch now. Lovely!
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This is great! i too love my veg patch and have just cleared it leaving on sprouts and some cabbage. I read in Carol Kleins book that you can put in oinons and shallots now - has anyone done this? Also I would love to put in fruit bushes but apparently they need to be bought end of November.
I am very achy after gardening - the old joint problems we all have! but I do love it
Can someone give me some advice about tomaotes please? I’ve still got loads of flowers just starting but is it not getting a bit late for tomatoes to ripen now? All of the plants have got 3 - 4 trusses on them. The toms in the greenhouse are fine but I’ve also got some outside and they are not so good. Something is eating them, the actual fruit and I think I’ve got blight as well. Sigh.
Have been offline (faulty router and bad reaction to my final 2 chemos)If your wisteria is in the ground do not feed it-growth is dependant on the twice yearly pruning they require.
You need to buy the biggest plant you can (anything small will take years)and treat it like a fig.These plants get lazy if they are too well treated and will not produce flowers only foliage!
Use old fashioned soft soap diluted with warm water spray onto caterpillars(spray at dusk to avoid killing beneficial insects)They will die and you can pick them off easily. Car
PS plant shallots and garlic in October-got brilliant crops this year,also Aquadulce broad beans-no blackfly cos they are early.Any tomato plant with blight must be destroyed not composted.Rescue any toms and make chutney with them before they are affected.
I am interested in learning to keep a garden .we are just about to move to a new house with a totally wild garden ,underneath all the over growth I can see some beautiful decorative plants,so once we have got the house under control I hope I will be able to learn something here.I should say I am in Malaysia,so my growing season is practically all year,hoping to start a herb garden including chillies,ginger,lemongrass,mint plus tomatoes ,papayas,lime,melons,cucumber
well it sounds good but I have almost no experience.
I must tell you today we went to see the house and there are tiny wild orchids hidden underneath the long grass,unfortunately we will have to cut them all down to clear the grass,but they are so beautiful
It’s lovely to see so many of us enjoy gardening and that this thread is still going. I’ve been offline for 2 weeks, thankfully now I am back and catching up on all the posts.
We’ve just bought from the garden centre 6 cabbage plants, I asked if they are ok through the winter and was told they would be, but would it be better to plant in the greenhouse?
Today we had brussel sprouts, carrots and parsnips all from our own garden, delicious.
We’re still picking tomatoes, and funnily enough we’re getting lovely tomatoes from a plant that we didn’t plant - I think it must have been a stray seed via birds, but they’re huge tomatoes and we’ve done absolutely nothing to the plant, not watered it, fed it, trimmed back so it just goes to show you can still get growing even if you don’t have so much time on your hands.
Looking lovely, your wild orchids sound wonderful and good luck when you start your garden off, with your weather I don’t think you’ll have a problem - but you’ll need extra watering. Our summer has been very dry, and Sept/so far Oct has been without rain too. My advice would be a couple of plants of everything, until you learn more. Happy growing!
