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Morning Light: The Fetchland Gardening Wire

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Markymarkmark Jul 2020 3:53pm, 1 Jul 2020 12,012 posts	Quote Pin Markymarkmark My courgettes are swelling nicely..... Raspberries likewise. Must net them before they start to colour up and the pigeons see them. Dvorak - did you mean 70cm? That's really a lot of rain..... Although the river through York did flood yesterday!
Dvorak Jul 2020 4:07pm, 1 Jul 2020 20,091 posts	Quote Pin Dvorak We had to swim for it - to the lifeboats! Ah, might have been 70mm. Although it often does seem wetter than official figures show.
rf_fozzy Jul 2020 4:12pm, 1 Jul 2020 10,488 posts	Quote Pin rf_fozzy Sarah, sure - send me an fmail if you want one and we can sort something out. Reading that RHS link suggests late Summer is the best time to make a cutting anyway. Not sure what the best way to post one yet either!
Markymarkmark Jul 2020 5:36pm, 1 Jul 2020 12,015 posts	Quote Pin Markymarkmark You could start growing watercress? rf_fozzy - in a polystyrene box with damp tissue/kitchen roll?
Angus Clydesdale Jul 2020 6:42pm, 1 Jul 2020 18,730 posts	Quote Pin Angus Clydesdale I’ve got a recipe for Green Tomato Chutney...
Garfield Jul 2020 7:53pm, 1 Jul 2020 13,197 posts	Quote Pin Garfield I think I spied a tiny courgette along with a flower in my pot today. It's the first time I've managed not to kill one yet...(plenty of time to do that though!!). My tomatoes are flowering a bit.
Columba Jul 2020 8:39pm, 1 Jul 2020 19,954 posts	Quote Pin Columba I planted a ceanothus last year, and it survived the winter and has been flowering. Hope it continues to flourish. MMM - and whoever else made a similar comment about gardening vs. housework - YUes, yes, yes. I have a fridge magnet which says "Gardening forever. Housework, whenever".
Columba Jul 2020 8:43pm, 1 Jul 2020 19,955 posts	Quote Pin Columba Can someone identify a plant for me? A shrub, longish oval leaves, little spikes of pinky-purple flowers which give a fluffy, hazy impression. Flowering at present, in various gardens and hedges round about. Must be easy to grow because it's in hedgerows separating lanes from fields, where it surely isn't being given any TLC.
Fragile Do Not Bend Jul 2020 8:58pm, 1 Jul 2020 6,273 posts	Quote Pin Fragile Do Not Bend A hebe maybe?
Fragile Do Not Bend Jul 2020 8:59pm, 1 Jul 2020 6,274 posts	Quote Pin Fragile Do Not Bend Or Spiraea?