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

• 18/11/2008 03:07 AM

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

  Reply | Contact Chili plants on the windowsill??  That makes me ask, just how big are your plants, Phot's and Sue1002??  Mine were a little more than 2 feet high and about as wide, so I left them to the elements.  I really don't like overwintering things in this house but am overwintering helliotrope and agapanthus this year.  Two of the agapanthus are turning yellow, but the 3rd is thriving.  Baffling. I llike amaryllis, and got one last year as a bulb.  It flowered in February and it has had stems all year till recently.  I am trying to get it to flower again, so I cut away the stalks and put the bulb in the refridgerator till the first week of December, at which time I will pot it up again.  With any luck, there will be flowers again.  I think it is a "Minerva",  pink and white steaked cultivar.  It was supposed to be a "Red Lion",.  Bummer.

• 18/11/2008 07:33 AM

  Beebee Location: Warwickshire Joined on: 29 Jan 2008 Posts: 176

  Reply | Contact Hi Foxnfirefly I have an amarylis but simply left in the pot after deheading in the greenhouse.  I've now brought in inside and the leaves are in good condition, hoping to see a flower bulb soon. We're supposed to have a dry spell this pm, fingers crossed.  Last of the bulbs to plant.  I know the hardy Carol Klein plants in the rain, I'm not that enthusiastic.  Have you all noticed, by the way, she's not been at Berryfields? Re my previous thoughts on this.

• 18/11/2008 09:02 AM

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

  Reply | Contact The chilli plants I have on the windowsill Foxnfirefly are just under a foot high and wide, I left the bigger ones in the greenhouse as I knew they would be too big to bring indoors, I wouldn't have been able to let down the blind without damaging them.  It's supposed to dry up here this afternoon too Beebee, and I'm not too keen on planting in the rain either.  I have done it during late spring and summer to get plants settled in but not at this time of year. Re CK, I think most of her slots have been done from home, I read somewhere that it's to save on travelling time. sue1002

• 18/11/2008 12:12 PM

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

  Reply | Contact We've got sunshine here today but it's quite cold still in the shade. The talk we had last night was very informative. The speaker knew lots about gladioli's for exhibition and how to propagate them. The next speaker is in December speaking about begonias. My seeds from Robinson's have arrived safe and well, I'm going to get the soil samples sent off this week, so I can begin preparing for planting time which should be sometime in April for onions,until then they will be kept undercover in the heated greenhouse. digger

• 18/11/2008 01:20 PM
  sue1002 Location: Ipswich, Suffolk Joined on: 06 Sep 2005 Posts: 5,199	Reply | Contact The sun has only just come out here.  I sowed some gladioli seeds last year that I collected off one that went to seed and so far it looks like I might get one bulb out of the lot of them. sue1002

• 18/11/2008 01:50 PM

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

  Reply | Contact Sunny here too today - and actually quite warm working, when you're not in the shade. I've put all the gunnera's to bed for winter this morning, hacking off the leaves to use as insulation and then putting some fleece on top of that! Am very interested to hear what you learn from your Dec speech on Begonia's Digger. I took some cuttings last week, but think I left it too late, as they seem to be rotting in the pots, even tho' I've got them all in the kitchen! I just KNEW Sue1002 that you would have got the envelopes for next to nothing

• 18/11/2008 03:06 PM
  Phot's-Moll Location: The sunny South coast. Joined on: 06 Jan 2007 Posts: 3,347	Reply | Contact I only overwinter the smaller bushy plants and prune back any that are too big or straggly to fit onto the windowsill. I don't have a greenhouse, so windowsills are my only option. Whether you think you can do a thing, or think you cannot, you are right.

• 18/11/2008 03:44 PM

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

  Reply | Contact I've pruned back some of the chillies that are in the greenhouse, the ones that haven't got many chillies left on them. The sun didn't last long here - about half an hour at the most before it started spitting with rain again. You've been busy Susiq, the only thing gardening wise I've done today is sorting out my seeds and working out what I had spare to put on the other thread I started earlier, some have been allocated already sue1002

• 18/11/2008 06:10 PM

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

  Reply | Contact  I told Mark that I need a deeper kitchen window and he started laughing when I told him why....then shook his head.....LOL  Has anyone else heard the rumour that we may get the dreaded *s* (snow) word this weekend?? I have been working till dark to get these crocosmia in and hope to have them all done by then...but if not going to just plastic and freeze cloth them and hope for the best... I wish we had an allotment!! That would solve all our problems!!! And I could grow a veg plot too...oh well to dream..   if you clear it, plant it....the weeds will come!! So plant more!!!

• 18/11/2008 06:51 PM
  sue1002 Location: Ipswich, Suffolk Joined on: 06 Sep 2005 Posts: 5,199	Reply | Contact It was on our local news a little while ago for snow at the weekend, I bet it will miss us as it usually does sue1002

• 18/11/2008 09:19 PM
  Digger Location: Northern UK Joined on: 18 Jul 2005 Posts: 4,743	Reply | Contact I hope we don't get snow!!!!! I hate the stuff digger

• 18/11/2008 09:57 PM
  Phot's-Moll Location: The sunny South coast. Joined on: 06 Jan 2007 Posts: 3,347	Reply | Contact  Don't suppose we'll get any. Whether you think you can do a thing, or think you cannot, you are right.

• 18/11/2008 10:00 PM
  sue1002 Location: Ipswich, Suffolk Joined on: 06 Sep 2005 Posts: 5,199	Reply | Contact  And I love the stuff.  Perhaps digger would prefer to be in Australia at the moment, although it's wet over there it's warmer  Is anyone else watching it? sue1002

• 18/11/2008 11:29 PM
  Digger Location: Northern UK Joined on: 18 Jul 2005 Posts: 4,743	Reply | Contact yep sue1002, I've been watching the Aussies and the locust swarm digger

• 19/11/2008 08:47 AM
  sue1002 Location: Ipswich, Suffolk Joined on: 06 Sep 2005 Posts: 5,199	Reply | Contact  I didn't know anything about the locust swarm digger, I was on about "I'm a Celeb" where one of the camps got flooded out in last night's one. sue1002