# 0251Total Allotment Time: 2 & 3/4 hrs. Principle Tasks: Lightly forking over soil newly exposed from under plastic sheeting to remove any remaining weed roots as in recent posts.
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The six nuts saplings in pots are looking great and verry healty - I hope you find good places for them . 20 years ago I also had a sapling and now he is a verry nice tree .... with nuts. Rita
Big, is the easy answer there, Jimmy :o) The one I collected the nuts from must easily be over 40ft high. They've naturalised here in the sunny south. Here's a link a site detailling them: http://www.the-tree.org.uk/BritishTrees/TreeGallery/walnutc.htm
I recently potted them on, so I'm hoping they will be okay as they are until they drop their leaves in the autumn. This will be the best time for planting them out I think (a bit naughty, I know, to go and plant them in the wild, but the scrubland you can see in the distance of some of the panoramas might well be where they end up if the charity garden doesn't want them). They really need a large garden. I just couldn't stop myself from potting them up when I noticed they'd germinated :o)
hmm.. I still would argue over the endangered status of Cabbage White butterflies in the south of England (they do seem by far the most common kind - the wild cabbage grows in abundance along our white cliffs). Do you know if brassicas are the food plant of any other butterfly or moth? I'll be far more open to leaving a few uncovered in the future if I knew this was the case.
Also, it would help the butterfly and moth population far better if we (the nation) phased out intensive farming methods and encouraged a return to organic farming. It should be far more widely known that since the chemical revolution of the 1940's/50's we've seen a 75% decline in them (along with a 95%, yes, a 95%, decline in our wildflower meadows!). These statistics are from bona-fide sources (English Nature and UK Moths).
Double also :o) there are other plant species that I am and will grow (like the Phacelia and Vervain) that are good for butterflies and moths, so it would be unfair to say that by not allowing caterpillars access to the cabbages, that I'm not 'doing my bit' to help them.
Avoiding gluts! :o) (I picked 3 kilos of French Beans on monday!) This will be a priority for me, yes. I'm thinking of joining a seed-sharing scheme wherin I shall hope to grow older varieties of plants which are far less uniform than todays F1 hybrids. Hopefully this will mean that I have different plants, of different sizes, developing at different times. This, along with staggered sowing, should help avoid a repeat of the beans (pardon the pun) :o)
Ahh.. 'Panoramic view' - I get it! 'Today's panorama' - it is then! Cheers!
Thanks, Rita. Yes, they really are beautiful trees, Walnuts, and I'll be so pleased to know if any of mine survive into adulthood. A positive legacy if ever there was one! :o)
Cheers, Jimmy. It must of caught me in one of my more loquacious moods :o)
> Are you close to the White Cliffs then?
My mum lives in Dover (where she was born n' bred) which is about a half an hour train ride away from Faversham. If you take a peek at my other blog (find via profile) you'll find a couple of orchid pics I took on a recent family walk there. Do you come across any nearby you? (I remember seeing them growing on the Shetlands, so you shouldn't be too far north). Possibly my most favorite plants these.
Thanks for the reminder over the rhubarb (I'll have to check my mum knows of this). I was given an un-named variety earlier this year, which I've been keeping in a pot, but I might well (in reference to tonight's post) give it away, in preference for a known kind - adds something to the magic of the thing, I feel.
Total Allotment Time: 2 & 3/4 hrs.
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The six nuts saplings in pots are looking great and verry healty - I hope you find good places for them .
20 years ago I also had a sapling and now he is a verry nice tree .... with nuts.
Rita
Big, is the easy answer there, Jimmy :o) The one I collected the nuts from must easily be over 40ft high. They've naturalised here in the sunny south. Here's a link a site detailling them: http://www.the-tree.org.uk/BritishTrees/TreeGallery/walnutc.htm
I recently potted them on, so I'm hoping they will be okay as they are until they drop their leaves in the autumn. This will be the best time for planting them out I think (a bit naughty, I know, to go and plant them in the wild, but the scrubland you can see in the distance of some of the panoramas might well be where they end up if the charity garden doesn't want them). They really need a large garden. I just couldn't stop myself from potting them up when I noticed they'd germinated :o)
hmm.. I still would argue over the endangered status of Cabbage White butterflies in the south of England (they do seem by far the most common kind - the wild cabbage grows in abundance along our white cliffs). Do you know if brassicas are the food plant of any other butterfly or moth? I'll be far more open to leaving a few uncovered in the future if I knew this was the case.
Also, it would help the butterfly and moth population far better if we (the nation) phased out intensive farming methods and encouraged a return to organic farming. It should be far more widely known that since the chemical revolution of the 1940's/50's we've seen a 75% decline in them (along with a 95%, yes, a 95%, decline in our wildflower meadows!). These statistics are from bona-fide sources (English Nature and UK Moths).
Double also :o) there are other plant species that I am and will grow (like the Phacelia and Vervain) that are good for butterflies and moths, so it would be unfair to say that by not allowing caterpillars access to the cabbages, that I'm not 'doing my bit' to help them.
Avoiding gluts! :o) (I picked 3 kilos of French Beans on monday!) This will be a priority for me, yes. I'm thinking of joining a seed-sharing scheme wherin I shall hope to grow older varieties of plants which are far less uniform than todays F1 hybrids. Hopefully this will mean that I have different plants, of different sizes, developing at different times. This, along with staggered sowing, should help avoid a repeat of the beans (pardon the pun) :o)
Ahh.. 'Panoramic view' - I get it! 'Today's panorama' - it is then! Cheers!
Best Regards,
Tim :o)x
Thanks, Rita. Yes, they really are beautiful trees, Walnuts, and I'll be so pleased to know if any of mine survive into adulthood. A positive legacy if ever there was one! :o)
Regards,
Tim :o)x
Cheers, Jimmy. It must of caught me in one of my more loquacious moods :o)
> Are you close to the White Cliffs then?
My mum lives in Dover (where she was born n' bred) which is about a half an hour train ride away from Faversham. If you take a peek at my other blog (find via profile) you'll find a couple of orchid pics I took on a recent family walk there. Do you come across any nearby you? (I remember seeing them growing on the Shetlands, so you shouldn't be too far north). Possibly my most favorite plants these.
Thanks for the reminder over the rhubarb (I'll have to check my mum knows of this). I was given an un-named variety earlier this year, which I've been keeping in a pot, but I might well (in reference to tonight's post) give it away, in preference for a known kind - adds something to the magic of the thing, I feel.
Regards,
Tim :o)x
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