Gardening/Allotmenting

[annedonnelly]

Need to work out what to do withloads of eating and cooking apples for next year as the 3 apple trees at my mums are producing way more apples than we can eat and make crumbles with .

Tried leaving some outside for others to help themselves but no takers as no foot traffic

The cookers I'd stew and freeze in portions. I've inherited a tree which I guess is cookers & I'm waiting to see what they're like - there's a lot of fruit forming but they're not ripe yet.

 

[biggs682]

The cookers I'd stew and freeze in portions. I've inherited a tree which I guess is cookers & I'm waiting to see what they're like - there's a lot of fruit forming but they're not ripe yet.

I would be doing it every day to keep on top of if .

Keep thinking about looking at an apple press to make juice

 

[Chislenko]

Info, please..

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My Zebra Grass is definitely doing well (extension lead for scale as it was the nearest thing to hand.. . Sunflowers are approximately 2½/3' tall)
What's the best time to split it, possibly into three plants? 🤔

TIA

I have never split mine Pete so can't help with that. Ours has been in about 25 years and for scale this is as big and bushy it gets every year. Never gets any bigger.

 

[PeteXXX]

I have never split mine Pete so can't help with that. Ours has been in about 25 years and for scale this is as big and bushy it gets every year. Never gets any bigger.

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Nice!!👍
Mine's only a couple of years old..

 

[tom73]

Info, please..

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My Zebra Grass is definitely doing well (extension lead for scale as it was the nearest thing to hand.. . Sunflowers are approximately 2½/3' tall)
What's the best time to split it, possibly into three plants? 🤔

TIA

When ever you like as long as the ground is not frozen really. The biggest challenge at the moment is watering it enough. Until the roots get going it will be very much on you to keep it happy.

 

[orraloon]

When ever you like as long as the ground is not frozen really. The biggest challenge at the moment is watering it enough. Until the roots get going it will be very much on you to keep it happy.

Leave the split until the autumn when decreasing active growth, more soil moisture etc

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[dicko]

A Mother’s Day gift of a patio rose five years ago, so put it in the garden and just left it. This is the second flush of flowers this year. It has such a pleasant smell.

 

[dicko]

Our ten seeds of Runner Beans, from last years crop, is rewarding us with just so many runner beans we are having to give lots away this year. Last years crop was terrible because of all the rain we had.

 

[PeteXXX]

When ever you like as long as the ground is not frozen really. The biggest challenge at the moment is watering it enough. Until the roots get going it will be very much on you to keep it happy.

Leave the split until the autumn when decreasing active growth, more soil moisture etc

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Thanks.
I'll probably leave it until it gets a bit cooler; September, I think.
It's in a full sun border so it would definitely need watering for a few weeks.

 

[Stevo 666]

Leave the split until the autumn when decreasing active growth, more soil moisture etc

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Fair point 'Loon, that would vastly overstate my knowledge of gardening 😊

 

[Red17]

Recent birthday present all potted up. Friends have had their best ever year for figs this year due to the heat, so hoping to get one or two of my own next year

 

[orraloon]

Just picked another 2kg of the red salad type Moneymaker tomatoes, full ripening going on. This was off 3 greenhouse plants. More tomato soup to be made and frozen away for later in the year when there's nowt growing.

 

[Red17]

Picked a good mixture of sizes from the allotment yesterday. Tonight's job is to turn them into a roasted tomato sauce and freeze it

 

[briantrumpet]

Even before tomorrow's 50mm of rain, my French garden has appreciated this week's showers. Looking darned pretty in the morning sun today, and the cherry & greengage trees as healthy as they've ever looked at the end of the summer. (I've already lightly pruned them, as they've now got time to heal before the risk of fungus setting in.)

 

[Legs]

Recent birthday present all potted up. Friends have had their best ever year for figs this year due to the heat, so hoping to get one or two of my own next year

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We’ve been getting a dozen or so figs each day for the last few weeks. They’re just starting to taper off now as the days are getting cooler and less sunny. There are loads of green fruit but many of them won’t ripen. I should perhaps try thinning them to divert the tree’s energies into ripening the fruit left?

But lo and behold, just when the fig tree is reducing its output, the damsons have ripened and are taking up the slack in the family’s fruit demand! 😁