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Sep 2018
11:56am, 12 Sep 2018
16,337 posts
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Columba
A little rural school nearby has a Russian vine growing all over its oil tank, which is a really good use for it since the oil tank is hardly pretty.
I was handed two agapanthus in pots and told "these are for Our Lady" (by a member of the congregation who is ill and can't do gardening himself). Fortunately Our Lady (in a little grotto outside the church) has a small trough in front of her, and there was nothing-in-particular in the trough, so I turned it out and squeezed the agapanthus in. It was indeed a squeeze, so their roots are as restricted as they're supposed to be. Good news about surviving -8, as they may have to.
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Sep 2018
2:12pm, 14 Sep 2018
9,282 posts
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Garfield
Our holly hedge sometimes gets overhangs of bindweed from our neighbour...fortunately it doesn't go too crazy. Mint planted in a garden gets everywhere as my mother found out years ago! Our neighbour also gave us something - don't know what it's called but we nicknamed it after the neighbour's son...so Norbert's weed!! 
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Sep 2018
3:55pm, 14 Sep 2018
16,698 posts
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Dvorak
Apples on the garden tree. It is actually a family tree, the third variety (small green apples) are round the other side. There have been three good crops in a row and I think this year has been the biggest. I even thinned out maybe 150 mini-apples early on.
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Nov 2018
12:45pm, 5 Nov 2018
16,913 posts
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Dvorak
Nothing happened in the gardens of Fetchland for a couple of months? Since it was mild, and post-wet, I set about a hebe which had grown enormous and enveloped a couple of roses. There is now half a hebe, laterally but not vertically. I then did a bit more snipping here and there (always something to prune). Next years buds are looking a bit ahead on the blackcurrants - I'm sure they didn't used to be green until Christmas, then early November, and now …
Found a rose in bloom in the hebe, and another one out front. Some pretty hardy marigolds are flourishing and there are a couple of tiny-headed sunflowers as well. And I picked a solitary yellow raspberry. They had their best ever summer, but the autumn crop was hit by weather and never flourished.
And the apples - the apples!. I could probably now count what is left on the tree, but not what is on the ground. Hundreds. And we have been eating a fair amount and giving some away. Crop is B-C grade in appearance, but tasty. Time to stew some more, may try chutney, and some may even head for wine (but there is quite a bit of work for that, 11 lbs needed for a gallon).
So, how are your gardens?
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Nov 2018
12:58pm, 5 Nov 2018
10,958 posts
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D2
Waves at Dvorak... will post some garden info soon as but in answer to your question; veg garden has been really productive and everything else is looking ok. Started planning for next year just in my head so far but have just brought some new climbing roses and a crab apple.
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Nov 2018
2:21pm, 5 Nov 2018
7,684 posts
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Markymarkmark
Ha! Eating the last of the eating apples from my garden as I read this! We still have half a bucketful of cookers in the garage which neither of us can quite muster any enthusiasm to peel and core before stewing,because the freezer is apparently full of tubs of apples.
As well as rhubarb, and blackberries. Plenty of winter puddings to go at there!
And runner beans. And leeks. Not for puddings!
I'll start to harvest the celery next week!
But I've been having a hard think about the veg bed choices for next year.
My (maincrop) potatoes have been rubbish for the last couple of years (too dry, I suspect). The squashes were good last year, poor / non-existent this year.
Oddly, the early swedes I planted were good, and more resistant o getting their tops munched off by slugs and snails than the broccoli/calabrese/caulis.
I'm a bit fed up with onions and leeks and runner beans, although they have been very reliable.
Any suggestions as to what else to go for? I'm a bit too far north (York) for consistently reliable summer weather, so although sweet corn is appealing it's a risky choice! If I can grow bean, I can grow peas - if I can stop the mice getting them.
It's a raised veg bed, with a pretty good mix of compost and topsoil. Basically clay soil beneath.
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Nov 2018
3:45pm, 5 Nov 2018
43,926 posts
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The Mighty Fleecy
Broad beans? You can plant them now.
My perpetual spinach, chard, kale and cavolo Nero are all doing well, and my squashes were excellent this year though I had to water the crap out of them. I’m going to grow more purple sprouting broccoli next year and get my shit together with courgettes for a change.
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Nov 2018
4:11pm, 5 Nov 2018
3,620 posts
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Fragile Do Not Bend
Our early fruiting apples did well but the later fruiting ones didn’t do an awful lot. An annoying way round as the early ones don’t keep so well.
The only thing in the veg beds now are the purple sprouting broccoli, still a fair few green tomatoes and chillis in the greenhouse. I’m going to attempt to overwinter some cuttings from the tomato plants. I’m not convinced the greenhouse is going to be warm enough but it’s worth a try.
Planted around 100 daffodil bulbs at the weekend, despite there already being loads in the garden. I think I have a daffodil problem.
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Nov 2018
4:16pm, 5 Nov 2018
39,503 posts
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Velociraptor
My garden is mostly weeds and dead sunflowers at the moment. And a little pink rose still valiantly blooming.
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Nov 2018
4:47pm, 5 Nov 2018
7,691 posts
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Markymarkmark
I dug the veg bed over and added more compost (free from the local waste disposal site - "give back" to local people mandated in their contract!) last weekend.
It looks good, albeit very empty!
Loads of leaves on the lawn from the Silver Birch tree though.
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