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Mar 2020
6:05pm, 31 Mar 2020
17,317 posts
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Angus Clydesdale
Us too. NE Scotland, 5 miles inland.
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Mar 2020
6:19pm, 31 Mar 2020
5,652 posts
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Fragile Do Not Bend
My seed potatoes are delayed too, not surprisingly. An email today from the supplier said they are currently working on orders placed a week before mine.
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Mar 2020
6:25pm, 31 Mar 2020
19,356 posts
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Dvorak
Car frozen, ice on trough a couple of days last week (where I was soaking the roots of a rose  seems to have survived, though). Low-lying Central Scotland.
Got a bit done today (about ⅓ to ½ of what I should have, as usual). Repotted my gage into a much bigger pot, using up various part-filled bags of compost, topped with an old growbag; scrabbled the weeds from a long-neglected stones-over-membrane bit (the gage is now there); sundry other weeding, snipping and tidying.
A couple of years ago, I took cuttings from two blackcurrant bushes - one new, one old - pretty much as an experiment. It went better than expected, I now have several more mini-plants then I can use! Most are still single sticks, but a couple are now putting up extra shoots from below the soil As a further experiment, a couple have moved into the greenhouse, keeping the jostaberry and a mystery probably-fruit plant company.
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Mar 2020
6:27pm, 31 Mar 2020
19,357 posts
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Dvorak
PS I have not been up early enough since to report
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Mar 2020
6:31pm, 31 Mar 2020
1,632 posts
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Flatlander
I have found my blackcurrants easy to propagate, so easy that I eventually had to dig up a couple of bushes because I had far too many!
I either layer down branches and then transplant them when they have rooted, or I dig up a branch with its root, relocate it to some clear ground and just let it replicate.
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Mar 2020
6:46pm, 31 Mar 2020
19,358 posts
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Dvorak
I took cuttings of new wood, snipped off the tops, and put them in water in the greenhouse, in one-pint milk cartons. Stuck them in compost after they'd grown a few roots. I even got a few teeny-tiny currants from them. Some even flowered, just in the water.
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Mar 2020
7:16pm, 31 Mar 2020
17,318 posts
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Angus Clydesdale
A few years ago we took blackcurrant cuttings. Like Dv some went in water wile others just went straight into the ground. Gave away loads of blackcurrant bushes the next year!
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Apr 2020
10:50am, 1 Apr 2020
43,465 posts
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alpenrose
I love poppies too. I have some Welsh (yellow) that popped up from next door which I dead head and try to encourage around the front garden. An oriental one, large orange blowsy blooms and really out of place in it's position. Himalayan ones will be sown this year when I sort out the rockery and the opium ones are a bit hit and miss. They are biennials and resent being moved.
I spoke to a friend at home this morning and she said that all the local garden centres are closing so they will be having to throw lots of plants away.
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Apr 2020
10:56am, 1 Apr 2020
5,656 posts
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Fragile Do Not Bend
Does anyone here grow blueberries? If so, do you grow them in a container with ericaceous compost or has anyone managed to grow them in the ground?
I bought three small plants on a whim last year and potted them in small pots in ericaceous compost, without any firm plans on what do do with them when they outgrew the pots. I think they will be ok where they are this year but will probably need more space next year. My soil is sandy and slightly alkaline.
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Apr 2020
11:00am, 1 Apr 2020
2,920 posts
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jacdaw
They need acid soil, so wouldn't thrive.
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