OT ukrm gardeners korner

One of me cacti has a flower coming. It is one of them it only flowers
when it is really happy types and rewards the wait with a magnificent
bloom. The neat trick is that it has lived outside for about 12 years
now.

The centre started dying off badly a couple of years ago and half a
dozen babies are living quite happily around the edge of the debris.
One of them has one three day old inch and a half long furry bud
pointing straight out and getting longer by the day, very phallic it is.
It will open in about a week for three or four days and then just wilt
overnight. If there is a series of them it lasts about three weeks, one
opening just as the other closes sort of thing. Easy in a greenhouse.

 

<cactus fan mode>

Bung some piccies up, somewhere when it does, will ye?

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Fr Jack wrote

I'll try but it will depend on the weather staying dry, if it rains the
flower will dissolve.

 

Which is why mine live inside......
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Best of luck with it. On a green-fingered note, here's my addition to
the show.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/christofire/sets/72057594134731727/

Apache chilli plant. It's supposedly a dwarf, but mine seems to have
other ideas about that. It was definately pot-bound when I got it, and
I'm not sure if it would like a bigger pot again now. It appears to be
quite happy sat in the conservatory, and drinks at least a pint a day
in the recent hot weather. I'm taking a tomato-growing approach at the
moment, any of the resident experts know if this is right, and if not
what should I do?

 

Christofire wrote

You seem to be doing fine.

Feed it with tomato fertilizer and take the fruits before they colour
fully to keep encouraging it to grow more.

 

Gardeners World are doing a chili trial at present.

Is that a giant variegated hosta lurking out in the garden? You're
bloody lucky with the slugs if you can grow it to that size.

seen on this shot

http://www.flickr.com/photos/christofire/169700544/in/set-72057594134731727/

 

Interesting note on today's ?Gardeners World? radio 4. According to the
long platted Bob Flowerdue If having a BBQ, then put the bones backonto
the BBQ and leave. In the morning bash then to a pulp with a couple of
bricks and mix with the charcoal ash. Apparently you then have an
excellent fertilizer for Roses Tomatoes etc. If uncle Bob says so then
it's bound to be right.
Brian

 

Gardener's Question Time I expect.

Flowerdew - but I love the typo.

They are showing repeats of old Gardeners Worlds and Bob pops up every
so often. The extent of his ingenuity and ability to recycle anything is
quite amazing - and that's before we get to his horticultural knowledge.
It's interesting to note that he doesn't pop up anymore and all the
encouragement is buy new things nowadays.

 

I'm informed it is. It's not quite as pretty if you get close up, as
can be seen in the photos below.

Also, There's a rather nice iris that pops up every year, and seemingly
throws a new flower up every so often. There's 5 this year, yellow and
blue/purple, again there's a pic on my flickr account.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/christofire/

 

<burp>

Ishhha tough job, but shomebody'sh got to do it.

<falls over>

 

Or a knowledge of how to spell "hosta". <makes edits>

There used to be one or two knocking about. They haven't been around
much this year though. There's quite a number of cats in the area - I
assume cats and squirrels don't get on?

 

Little known fact - the WW1 battlefields produced bumper crops for some
years after the guns stopped, because of this.

High explosive also uses phosphates, and four years of shelling ploughs
fields nicely.

 

Little known fact - the WW1 battlefields produced bumper crops for some
years after the guns stopped, because of this.[/QUOTE]

As did the fields around Belsen, Dachau, Auchwitz, etc.

Personally, I think I'm still in favour of chemical fertiliser.
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The tens of thousands who were never found probably contributed
something too.

 

Whoosh.

 

Fucking missed! It's the one you don't hear...

 

So I see. My hostas are in pots / containers on the window ledge. This
has not stopped the snails attempting a vertical ascent mission. However
there are copper strips and tons of grit as further defences.

The bastard things are merrily chomping their way through almost
everything else though.

I chopped up the Iris rhizomes and trimmed the leaves last year and
replanted them. The bearded Irises when berserk this year and flowered
their heads off. One or two of the smaller ones didn't but they've been
building up their reserves. I also seem to have somehow gained a white
Iris Siberica that has shot into bloom in the last week which was a
complete surprise.