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

• 24/11/2008 03:41 AM

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

  Reply | Contact Thanks for the brief, Sue.  Now I guess "I am a Celeb" sounds something like what we had running called "Survivor", a reality survival test, whereas "American Idol" is a talent tournament of amateurs being judged by some pompous ***heads.  I was going by the titles..... Looks like you will need to throw in some lime and kep in your soil, Digger.  6.0 would wilt most things, except maybe blueberries. I think the sweet peas are more for 7.0 or higher???

• 24/11/2008 09:03 AM
  sue1002 Location: Ipswich, Suffolk Joined on: 06 Sep 2005 Posts: 5,199	Reply | Contact Your ph of 6 should be ok for spuds digger as they apparently prefer to be on the slightly acidic side.  We didn't get any more snow yesterday, it got washed away quite quickly and it's still raining. sue1002

• 24/11/2008 01:09 PM
  Phot's-Moll Location: The sunny South coast. Joined on: 06 Jan 2007 Posts: 3,347	Reply | Contact I think raspberries like acid soil too? Whether you think you can do a thing, or think you cannot, you are right.

• 24/11/2008 02:32 PM
  Digger Location: Northern UK Joined on: 18 Jul 2005 Posts: 4,743	Reply | Contact raspberries must like it because there are some already growing, they came from next door apparently? spuds will be grown in sacks with peat in the mix and of course the ground will be well prepared for growing show sweetpeas. digger

• 24/11/2008 05:51 PM
  sue1002 Location: Ipswich, Suffolk Joined on: 06 Sep 2005 Posts: 5,199	Reply | Contact The raspberries will creep in from anywhere.  A friend of mine planted a couple of raspberry bushes by the fence in her garden but instead of spreading in her own garden, they've gone under the fence into her neighbour's. sue1002

• 24/11/2008 06:37 PM
  Digger Location: Northern UK Joined on: 18 Jul 2005 Posts: 4,743	Reply | Contact That's unlucky, will your friend get the fruit returned or will the neighbours eat them? around these parts we have a saying for anything that grows on unfenced land, they call them "gifts from God" and anyone can have them, local rascals expand the theory to ground game and pheasants as well digger

• 24/11/2008 10:03 PM
  sue1002 Location: Ipswich, Suffolk Joined on: 06 Sep 2005 Posts: 5,199	Reply | Contact She said they could keep the raspberries and hopes that they will spread more on her side. sue1002

• 24/11/2008 10:28 PM
  Digger Location: Northern UK Joined on: 18 Jul 2005 Posts: 4,743	Reply | Contact There is a piece of ground next to my plot that must have had a garden once over, but now just a few chickens roam around during the daytime and of course OH's horses are at one side and then it's just cows in a field at the other side, so the raspberries must've come from where the chickens are now. my blueberries can be planted out at the lottie they like it a bit acid, digger

• 25/11/2008 12:24 PM
  miranda Location: Oxfordshire Joined on: 17 Nov 2004 Posts: 2,971	Reply | Contact  Hello everyone, been out and about a bit just recently but wanted to pop in and say hello!

• 25/11/2008 01:56 PM
  sue1002 Location: Ipswich, Suffolk Joined on: 06 Sep 2005 Posts: 5,199	Reply | Contact Have you been anywhere nice while you've been out and about Miranda? Today here is a mixture of sunshine and showers with a nip in the air. sue1002

• 25/11/2008 02:40 PM
  Digger Location: Northern UK Joined on: 18 Jul 2005 Posts: 4,743	Reply | Contact Yes Miranda we've not seen you for yonks mate! today here is really cold but dry I've been out but I'm aching now because of it. Really I wish someone would invent a new skeleton for people so I could do away with the aches and pains forever, perhaps one day we will be able to get a full new skeleton that lasts for ages and ages digger

• 25/11/2008 04:22 PM
  sue1002 Location: Ipswich, Suffolk Joined on: 06 Sep 2005 Posts: 5,199	Reply | Contact  I doubt a new skeleton would get invented digger, but a good set of clothing would help keep you warm while you are working outside sue1002

• 25/11/2008 05:12 PM

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

  Reply | Contact Hmmm, I'd prefer a skeleton like terminator has, it's just horrible how things creep up I'm sure I wasn't this bad last year, I was awake at 3;30 this morning with my damn back and leg pain I'll take some extra painkillers at bedtime tonight,they should shut me up for a while I did go and look in at the clematis greenhouse earlier and things are dying down for wintertime now, Sally did another dog hole in about 1 minute. I still have some fuchsjas to take down to the caravan yet, I might even bubblewrap the clem house but I'm not sure if I should. I know I can kick start them by putting the heater on in february but some of them (macropetalas) need a cold winter period for next years flowers.  digger

• 25/11/2008 05:21 PM

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

  Reply | Contact You could still bubblewrap the greenhouse to keep the worst of the frosts out and put a partition in so that the heat stays at one end and keep the ones that need the cold all together on the unheated side.  The partition could be made from bubblewrap (taping up the joins) and tape the sides to the inside of the greenhouse so it doesn't move about too much and it should keep the heat on one side. sue1002

• 25/11/2008 05:23 PM
  Digger Location: Northern UK Joined on: 18 Jul 2005 Posts: 4,743	Reply | Contact That's a good idea mate, I shall don my thermal underwear tomorrow and set to in the greenhouse. The little paraffin heater in there should keep the frost out and maybe get me a head start on the next season. digger