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Morning Light: The Fetchland Gardening Wire

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Ceratonia Jun 2017 11:33am, 27 Jun 2017 5,854 posts	Quote Pin Ceratonia If they're in pots, there's no real reason to delay until autumn.
Hanneke Jul 2017 10:41pm, 4 Jul 2017 68,841 posts	Quote Pin Hanneke The shrubs will be easier to remove in the dormant season, i.e. autumn/winter, but that is no reason to hold off, unless you want to plant the removed plants elsewhere. If you did decide to wait till autumn for your overhaul, I'd pot your plugs on into something a little bigger: less chance of them drying out and more food for them to grow bigger
sallykate Jul 2017 9:49am, 5 Jul 2017 5,093 posts	Quote Pin sallykate The plugs are in 5" pots and looking good so I'm going to go ahead and plant them out next week - have organised some help to dig all the other stuff out.
ChrisHB Jul 2017 1:11pm, 29 Jul 2017 15,192 posts	Quote Pin ChrisHB Here's a question for the GQT team: some nasturtiums Some have yellowing leaves, some have strong green leaves, so strong that they obscure all the flowers. Roughly I would say both parts have similar numbers of flowers. The difference I suppose is the soil. Those with excessive leaves are in solid clay. Those with sick-looking leaves are in clay that had a large amount of commercial peat-free compost added last year. All of them have been self-seeded for the past few years and will originally have come from one seed packet. What's going on?
Wobbling Jul 2017 1:19pm, 29 Jul 2017 5,270 posts	Quote Pin Wobbling Have you added fertiliser? I know it makes nasturtium foliage go crazy.
Flatlander Jul 2017 1:40pm, 29 Jul 2017 801 posts	Quote Pin Flatlander Nasturtiums like heavy clay (hence your ones with abundant leaves) and don't like nutrient rich soils (why yours in the composted clay have yellowing leaves) so that explains the disparity in the growth of your plants.
Wriggling Snake Jul 2017 1:41pm, 29 Jul 2017 15,680 posts	Quote Pin Wriggling Snake Onions harvested. Cavalo Nero very good. 4 batches so far...thinking about a pasta recipe for that......
ChrisHB Jul 2017 1:47pm, 29 Jul 2017 15,195 posts	Quote Pin ChrisHB Thank you, Flatlander! What do I do to make the flowers come on longer stems than the leaves?
Fierce and Fearless Fleecy Jul 2017 3:47pm, 29 Jul 2017 36,236 posts	Quote Pin Fierce and Fearless Fleecy Don't feed them, they're best left neglected
alpenrose Jul 2017 5:04pm, 29 Jul 2017 27,488 posts	Quote Pin alpenrose They probably look better now the lawn's been mown though.