A couple of garden pics - I have sussed out the resizing!

Last post 18-08-2012 12:59 AM by Henry. 10 replies.

• 04/08/2012 05:10 PM
  Deb Location: Somerset Joined on: 18 Jul 2012 Posts: 96	Reply | Contact For anyone else struggling. I had to re-size by editing before uploading to the hosting site. 20% seems to fit best on here. I will post some more later.

• 04/08/2012 06:03 PM	In reply to
  Deb Location: Somerset Joined on: 18 Jul 2012 Posts: 96	Reply | Contact Hope this one will be smaller (this is 30%)

• 04/08/2012 06:10 PM	In reply to
  Deb Location: Somerset Joined on: 18 Jul 2012 Posts: 96	Reply | Contact This is 20%. Our sad vegetable patch which has been host to slug-fest over the last few months. We have one courgette coming along now and the leeks seem to be doing okay.

• 04/08/2012 06:11 PM	In reply to
  Deb Location: Somerset Joined on: 18 Jul 2012 Posts: 96	Reply | Contact By jove, I think I've finally done it!

• 04/08/2012 06:36 PM	In reply to
  Deb Location: Somerset Joined on: 18 Jul 2012 Posts: 96	Reply | Contact Hosta colourful patio pots view from a corner of the garden A shady area

• 05/08/2012 08:50 AM	In reply to
  sue1002 Location: Ipswich, Suffolk Joined on: 06 Sep 2005 Posts: 9,503	Reply | Contact  Lovely pictures Deb.  You have a good sized garden there and I'm envious of your two greenhouses I love those Dahlias in one of the pots? did you grow them from seed? sue1002

• 05/08/2012 12:38 PM

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  Deb Location: Somerset Joined on: 18 Jul 2012 Posts: 96

  Reply | Contact Sue, I didn't even know you could grow them from seed! No, I cheated - we have a Morrisons supermarket nearby and someone mentioned they had some bargain plants - and they really were good value, something like £2.50 for 2 strips of 10 plants. Also some mixed planted pots at £5 each. I hope we can keep a lot of the plants over the winter and no doubt will be back on here asking for advice. Lovely big garden is fantastic but a lot of work if we were to try to cultivate it all - some of it is left as 'wildlife areas' (eg behind the big greenhouse, and beneath all the fruit trees at the bottom).

• 05/08/2012 05:49 PM

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  sue1002 Location: Ipswich, Suffolk Joined on: 06 Sep 2005 Posts: 9,503

  Reply | Contact  That was a good bargain with those plants Deb Yes, you can grow Dahlias from seed and they grow very quickly too.  Once we come to the end of the flowering season, if you leave a couple of the flower heads on the plant, they will dry out, you will be left with the middle of the flower and the seeds will be inside.  Take the seeds out (they will be black when ripe) and store them in a small envelope until March, then sow the seeds just under the surface of well drained compost and put in a propagator, the seedlings only take a few days to come up.  Prick them out and pot the seedlings into 3 inch pots and around May time, you can harden them off and plant them out.  The plants you get probably won't be the exact same colour as the ones you've taken the seed from but you could get some interesting colours.  sue1002

• 05/08/2012 07:24 PM	In reply to
  Deb Location: Somerset Joined on: 18 Jul 2012 Posts: 96	Reply | Contact Ooh, that's brilliant - I do like to collect seeds and see what I can grow.

• 07/08/2012 05:10 PM	In reply to
  richardpeeej Location: Leicestershire Joined on: 22 May 2009 Posts: 3,499	Reply | Contact  You have a lovely lot of room there in your garden Deb. Thanks for sharing your photos, I get a lot of satisfaction from growing flowers from seed too and usually have something on the go.   -Richard

• 18/08/2012 12:59 AM	In reply to
  Henry Location: Joined on: 17 Aug 2012 Posts: 7	Reply | Contact Thanks for sharing your pictures, lovely space you have.