What Jobs are we doing in the Garden today 2014..

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    With colder and frosty weather looming just barely watered plants in greenhouses, potted up last year's seed begonias that have formed corms and sprouted. Pinched tops off 2nd sowing of sweet peas that are growing 3 in a pot. Basket ones are branching without the need for pinching so far. Sweet Peas have been in the garden for a while as the greenhouse got too warm so have put them inside a plastic mini-greenhouse/blow-away to shield them from the cold/frosty nights ahead as I have no room to move them back in the greenhouse - fingers crossed they will be OK. Last year I bought a set of Clematis - one of them has only one stem - which has grown about 6 foot - "Fond Memories" looked it up and it needs cutting back to 6-8" - did this (despite the fact it has flowers/buds at the top ) - took cuttings of cut-back.

    Indoors the astilbe has sprouted - tiny shoots. I found a packet of Zantedeschia Arum Lily seeds bought last year - pack said sow immediately which I obviously didn't - sowed them a couple of weeks ago and many have sprouted already :yay:. Nothing sprouted yet on the Hosta, Dicentra, Red Hot Poker. 1 pot of (2) chrysanths cuttings has rooted was sat on top of lights (mild heat) - other pot wilted - was lucky as they were in the greenhouse and had flopped badly before bringing them indoors. Have done another 2 pots.

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      Yesterday it was very cold in the wind tunnel I call a garden. It rained on and off so i didn't get much done.


      I've sort of done the same with the maskotkas you sent me FC. First time I've sown toms and they've shot up into tall leggy things seemly overnight. I only sowed a few as I don't need that many. I think I left them in the prop too long. They didn't take long to germinate either. I think I'll start again with another small batch and whip them out of the prop as soon as they're up. You live and learn! :)
       
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        The maskotka are tough wee plants too @Fern4 - they would probably take well to being replanted and sunk up to just below the cotyledons and then put on the sunniest windowsill you have

        Its the first time I have tried tomatoes in the propagator and I won't be doing it again - I think the heat made them sprout far too fast, and the lid only served to attenuate the light coming in.

        Somewhat ironically, I over-sowed my millefleur and started them in the grow cupboard which is warm and with tons of light - given that I had such a poor time with them last year, the germination rate has been incredible, and I now have a wee forest of stocky looking wee seedlings.

        I really need the overnight temps to start rising though, as I am running out of room in the house, and really need to get the greenhouse pressed into service.
         
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          I've got a nice, wide, south facing windowsill so I'll pop them on there after I've replanted them.

          Did you grow yours last year in a pot or hanging basket? What size pot /basket did you use and how many plants in each one? I was going to put one plant in a 12inch basket but I'm not sure if that's right?
           
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            I had them in a mixture of pots and window-box style planters; one plant to a pot, three in each of the planters. Its as much to do with the depth of the basket/planter too - tomatoes love to be planted deep, and readily form roots on any stem that you submerge; I sometimes 'coil' mine into the pots so there is spiral of stem under the compost to form a load of roots which seems to help make them into stocky wee plants.
             
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              Thanks FC....I think I'll put them in pots instead. :blue thumb:
               
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                If you need pots, Morrison's sell off the black buckets that they display their cut flowers in really cheaply; alternatively, Sainsburys sell a range of pots every year that aren't overly expensive.
                 
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                  FC and Fern......I went through trial and error growing toms in a propagator. Be it electric or otherwise, it's best to whip them out as soon as the first one shows itself, the others around it in the same tray or pots will probably have germinated and will appear soon after. I check my propagator at least twice a day because they can appear and grow quite quickly within a couple of hours. :)
                   
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                    @Sheal - the maskotka that I have sown on the upstairs window are right sturdy wee chappies, and they were sown on the same day, and to be fair I have always sown them on a windowsill and had a good success rate; don't think I will use the heated prop for tomatoes again, but its still a god send for some of the harder ones (lemon eucalyptus was one that only started once I stuck the tray in the prop for a few days)
                     
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                      A few photos of the 'team' in training by the French doors:

                      Begonia 'non-stop' mixed, arrived from T&M on Friday night
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                      Dahila tubers 'waking up' (from seed last year)
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                      F. Begonia Boliviensis, pricked out and now out of the grow cupboard
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                      More F. Begonia Boliviensis, and below petunia purple velvet also from T&M

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                        And there is more!

                        Foxgloves (so tiny!), geraniums, and umpteen thousand nicotiana sylvestris (goodness how I am going to prick that lot out!) - @Lolimac, I am blaming you :heehee: in the foreground, the begonia 'non-stop' plugs

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                        Aster 'red ribbon', and a couple of trays of dwarf hollyhocks:
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                        Malope Vulcan, lemon eucalyptus (just hiding behind the begonias), and on the bottom my peppers from supermarket pepper seeds:
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                          Avoiding constant on / off showers and hail, lifted 600x600 concrete slabs (HEAVY!), dug through7" or so of hardcore and concrete and transferred by bucket to behind summer house (out of sight, out of mind), dug over base, added all sorts of rotable stuff... Started digging pond and added that soil to the new border.

                          Collapsed in knackered heap.
                           
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                            Bet I'm more tired than you, Loofah, after reading what you've been doing, came out all in a sweat and having to reach for a glass of the red stuff.:phew::hate-shocked:
                             
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                              Tut! You only need to prick out the exact number that you need. If you think that's going to be a problem, and they have come up a bit thick (i.e. thick enough to potentially damp-off) get some long pointy scissors and Off With Their Heads as a throng-thinning.
                               
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                                Still feeling a bit poorly after having a bug for a few days, so didn't do much outside today. I did venture out long enough to edge around the lawns after Mrs Trunky had cut them, water a few pots and feed the chickens.
                                That'll have to do for today. :sick0026:
                                 
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