Morning Light: The Fetchland Gardening Wire
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Sep 2021
2:18pm, 15 Sep 2021
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Angus Clydesdale
You certainly can, Han. If that's your belief set...  harrypotter.fandom.com |
Sep 2021
3:37pm, 15 Sep 2021
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Hanneke
that is my quarantine sorted then!
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Sep 2021
6:58pm, 15 Sep 2021
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Columba
Thanks, fellow-gardeners. I have advised YS accordingly. I'm not clear whether there is a stump left to paint, or just underground roots. |
Sep 2021
5:58pm, 16 Sep 2021
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Fragile Do Not Bend
Another problem, my currant and gooseberry bushes have almost been stripped bare by sawflies in he few days since I last looked. I’m hoping that, as the leaves were starting to go yellow and fall off for the autumn, the bushes themselves are going to be ok. And I found a nettle in the fruit cage with my ankle
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Sep 2021
7:09pm, 16 Sep 2021
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Columba
My gooseberry bushes the same, Fragile. And have been the same for the past 2 years (but have always recovered in the spring) despite my searching for and destroying the caterpillars. There was an earlier discussion on this thread about sawfly damage, and someone said having poached-egg plants growing under the bush seemed to help. As it happens, some poached-egg plants had sown themselves under one side of one of my gooseberry bushes, and indeed the branches that side are not so badly affected. Next year I shall plant them all round both bushes. (Forgotten the proper name for poached-egg plants, but someone on here will know it) |
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Sep 2021
7:14pm, 16 Sep 2021
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Hanneke
I was the one suggesting them. Apparently, they deter egg laying under the bushes, breaking the cycle. I trie it at a client but bless him, he weeded them out! Not realising what they were.
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Sep 2021
7:53pm, 16 Sep 2021
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Bob!
Limnanthes I believe
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Sep 2021
8:49pm, 16 Sep 2021
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Fragile Do Not Bend
I’m going to give the poached egg plants a go.
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Sep 2021
9:14pm, 17 Sep 2021
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Columba
Limanthes, yes. Or Limnanthes. The seeds germinate very readily, so shouldn't bee to difficult.
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Sep 2021
9:15pm, 17 Sep 2021
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Columba
be. Not bee. Though bees like them too.
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