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May 2020
10:19am, 21 May 2020
1,700 posts
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Flatlander
A horrible event occurred in my garden a couple of nights ago  . A few years ago the same thing happened and I mentioned it on this thread then, but this time I have written a blog about it. (A tiny bit relevant to FDNB's post recently)
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May 2020
6:00pm, 21 May 2020
5,997 posts
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Fragile Do Not Bend
Im very pleased with how my tatties are coming along (I’m not Scottish, I’ve just watched too much Beechgrove ).
I’ve put the mesh back over in the hope that it makes Mr Badger think it’s too much bother digging them up. There is probably enough of his preferred wild food around here anyway.
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May 2020
6:42pm, 21 May 2020
1,701 posts
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Flatlander
They look to be growing well. I hope that Mr. Badger leaves them alone and you get a good crop, provided they get enough water.
My frosted potatoes are growing back but that setback means that they are smaller than yours. Now the frosts have (hopefully) gone, they are now having to cope with the lack of water - only one proper rainfall since the beginning of April. It was a blow when the previously forecast heavy rain for today didn't materialise .
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May 2020
6:57pm, 21 May 2020
6,000 posts
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Fragile Do Not Bend
Yes, I was miffed about that. I got the hose out (as the waterbutts are almost dry) and gave them a good soak.
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May 2020
7:04pm, 21 May 2020
16,107 posts
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Rosehip
also needed to get the hose out onto my spuds - and everything else- I have 3 full-sized and one small water butt and I'm probably down to my last 20/30 litres of stored water
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May 2020
7:31pm, 21 May 2020
6,442 posts
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sallykate
I decided against spuds on my allotment this year because last year (my first year cultivating a plot which had been covered with grass) they were so plagued with wireworm it felt pointless. Then saw some Cara seed potatoes in Poundstretcher, 8 for £1 so planted them at home in old compost bags, very late (I have a small garden with hardly any earth, mainly decking and paving).
Most have grown well so I'll "earth" them up with old compost and see how we go. At the allotment I have about ten plants from spuds that I missed when I harvested last year, they look a bit frosted but I'll see if they can give us a few new potatoes in June. I planted garlic in that bed so it's good timing.
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May 2020
12:37pm, 22 May 2020
6,005 posts
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Fragile Do Not Bend
Wire worm is my biggest worry after the badger. The place I made the bed used to be a dumping ground for garden waste and hasn’t had grass on it for a few years, but it is surrounded by grass.
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May 2020
12:38pm, 22 May 2020
6,006 posts
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Fragile Do Not Bend
Sometimes you feel like you’d be better off leaving plants to get on with it themselves.
Back in April when I sowed my courgette seeds, I accidentally used some compost with ants in and, as they were going onto the windowsill and I didn’t want a load of ants in the house, I dumped the seed tray out on the edge of my plot and hunted around for the seeds to replant them as I didn’t have many. I couldn’t find a couple of them after ages looking.
Well you’ve guessed it, those two seeds germinated without any help from me. Ok the plants are a lot smaller than the indoor grown ones but it will be interesting to see how they do and if they catch up with the indoor grown ones.
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May 2020
1:46pm, 22 May 2020
19,286 posts
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ChrisHB
Can anyone identify this plant?
I have about a dozen of them growing in a single pot, and that makes me think I acquired it via a newspaper advert of the "buy 12 dozen wonderful spring-flowering bulbs" variety.
It has rather nice leaves in a darkish green a bit like a sycamore leaf but only three points, not five, and longer and thinner. It hasn't flowered in two years. The bulb/corm/tuber is 2-2.5" in height and the leaves are growing from the bottom/side of it. The plant is probably not as high as 6" and now, in May, the leaves are totally dry.
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May 2020
1:54pm, 22 May 2020
6,008 posts
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Fragile Do Not Bend
Some sort of cyclamen maybe?
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