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Last post 21-11-2009 9:13 AM by EvaInNL. 4409 replies.

• 15/11/2008 09:20 PM

  Digger Location: Northern UK Joined on: 18 Jul 2005 Posts: 4,743

  Reply | Contact Yes the plants will be no good, I wasn't saving them for anything I'm just too lazy to chuck them out yet, I re use the compost by adding it into one of the beds at the lottie, at the moment the caravan is host to my fuchsias and pelargoniums that are spending the wintertime in there. I got a little work done at the lottie today, i've skimmed off one half of the polytunnel where i had glyphosated, now it just needs turning over and then I'll send some of the soil off for analysis. Also i've dug some more good soil out from the side and added it to one of the link a bord beds, the soil is really good stuff but I'll need to do a few ph tests just so i know what i'm dealing with digger

• 15/11/2008 10:00 PM
  sue1002 Location: Ipswich, Suffolk Joined on: 06 Sep 2005 Posts: 5,199	Reply | Contact It sound like the lottie is coming on well digger.  I've had a lazy day today and the only thing I did in the garden was to collect some more ripe chillies from the greenhouse. sue1002

• 15/11/2008 10:22 PM
  Digger Location: Northern UK Joined on: 18 Jul 2005 Posts: 4,743	Reply | Contact Will the chilli plants survive for next year? I have about seven or so apache plants still with chillis on them. digger

• 15/11/2008 10:38 PM
  Digger Location: Northern UK Joined on: 18 Jul 2005 Posts: 4,743	Reply | Contact This is a quick pic that I took at the new lottie, the soil is some of the grandest I've ever seen in these parts hereabouts. digger

• 16/11/2008 04:30 PM
  Phot's-Moll Location: The sunny South coast. Joined on: 06 Jan 2007 Posts: 3,347	Reply | Contact  That does look good soil. Mine is much more orange than that. Whether you think you can do a thing, or think you cannot, you are right.

• 16/11/2008 04:44 PM
  Digger Location: Northern UK Joined on: 18 Jul 2005 Posts: 4,743	Reply | Contact It is good stuff, I was very happy when I discovered it, like striking oil! (well not quite) I remember being in Leamington Spa and the soil there was red!! digger

• 16/11/2008 06:43 PM

  mrs_crocosmia Location: Caistor,UK Joined on: 23 May 2008 Posts: 70

  Reply | Contact  That is good looking soil........mine in the states was clay and horrid, here it is beautiful and black!! Yet another reason to love it here.. Just taking a minute to sit down and then go box a couple of orders, try to figure out how to get the program to print more than one slip on a page without loosing the whole thing.....LOL it has happened before.....must remember to back up before I start playing....then I can relax... Have the crocosmia almost whipped and should be all tucked in by Wednesday at the latest....I hope. back to the shop....have fun all!!! if you clear it, plant it....the weeds will come!! So plant more!!!

• 16/11/2008 07:06 PM

  Digger Location: Northern UK Joined on: 18 Jul 2005 Posts: 4,743

  Reply | Contact Hi all, i've been at the lottie today as well! although I'm quite tired now. Under the good soil I am on clay as usual for here but clay is the most fertile, it's cold here tonight and I've got the dentist in the morning I am going to have some more coffee in a minute, Tomorrow evening our club is having a talk slideshow about gladioli and sweet peas and pinks for the showbench. And we are having a buffet supper, i don't feel to good this evening i think it may be because I've done too much at the lottie? if I feel like this in the morning Sally will have to come with me to the dentist and to the talk as well. digger

• 17/11/2008 02:31 AM

  Foxnfirefly Location: Virginia,USA Joined on: 01 Jul 2008 Posts: 165

  Reply | Contact Hello, all!  Autumn is cranking into winter.  We've had some rain and wind, and the leaves are about gone from the trees, but not from the lawn!!  There's a lot of raking and mulching to do.... That was interesting reading on the vegetables and fruits.  It is good that these are getting the limelight again.  I dig both, and am trying to grow more fruits (berries) than veggies, though.  Vegetables are harder to grow, considering all the bugs and diseases that they can get, and I need more sunny spaces.  My yard gets a lot of shade. Digger, that's a nice plot you've got!  My soil is just clay, shale, chalk, and rock!!

• 17/11/2008 09:23 AM

  sue1002 Location: Ipswich, Suffolk Joined on: 06 Sep 2005 Posts: 5,199

  Reply | Contact  It certainly does look like good soil digger, you should be able to grow some cracking veg there.  About the chillies from a few posts back, you should be able to keep the plants over winter for them to fruit earlier on next year.  I'm trying it with some of mine that have finished fruiting and I did have to chuck one of the plants out as it was heavily infested with whitefly but as I have a few plants in there, I didn't mind losing one to save infecting the other ones. We had a hard frost last night and it's still pretty nippy outside but at least it's dry, unlike most of yesterday. sue1002

• 17/11/2008 11:16 AM
  Digger Location: Northern UK Joined on: 18 Jul 2005 Posts: 4,743	Reply | Contact Hi all, That's a good do for my chilli plants then, I was hoping they would over winter and save me growing them again next year,I've been to the dentist I have to go back in December for a filling to be replaced. It's been raining here this morning, we are going to go into the next town soon because OH wants to swap a jacket that we got for our son and it's too small. digger

• 17/11/2008 02:54 PM
  Phot's-Moll Location: The sunny South coast. Joined on: 06 Jan 2007 Posts: 3,347	Reply | Contact I overwinter some chilli plants on the windowsill and they fruit all year round (have to hand pollinate indoors) I've kept one for three years, but most seem to last for about two years. Whether you think you can do a thing, or think you cannot, you are right.

• 17/11/2008 03:28 PM
  sue1002 Location: Ipswich, Suffolk Joined on: 06 Sep 2005 Posts: 5,199	Reply | Contact Glad the dentist went ok digger, did Sally go with you in the end? I brought two of the chilli plants inside a few weeks ago and have them on the kitchen windowsill as that's all I have room for but the ones in the greenhouse are getting more light.  I will still be sowing more seed next year. sue1002

• 17/11/2008 05:23 PM

  Susiq Location: Northumberland Joined on: 16 Feb 2008 Posts: 1,104

  Reply | Contact Wished I'd known that before about overwintering the chilli plants - stupid me for not asking the question Seems like I designated too many really healthy looking plants to the compost, thinking they would die off! It has not stopped raining all day, but am really chuffed - got my seed envelopes today from a really 'quaint' old fashioned stationers shop in Morpeth - they were 99p for 25, please don't tell me you got yours for tuppence Sue1002

• 17/11/2008 05:40 PM
  sue1002 Location: Ipswich, Suffolk Joined on: 06 Sep 2005 Posts: 5,199	Reply | Contact I didn't know about overwintering chillies until Miranda told me last year, I did try to overwinter my one plant last year but lost it. Well done for finding your little envelopes Susiq, the ones I got weren't tuppence, they worked out at a penny each (sorry!!) sue1002