I think the gambling on early planting is a fairly standard thing?!
(UK but) I transplant those "living herbs" pots of parsley that you get from supermarkets into the garden and they sometimes keep going but, yeah, often sulk.
― djh, Tuesday, 10 May 2022 21:55 (one year ago) link
x-post:
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2011/feb/26/alys-fowler-lasagne-gardening?msclkid=0a681362d0ac11ecbd0d7097ee76ade5
― djh, Tuesday, 10 May 2022 21:57 (one year ago) link
Went away for the weekend and pleased return home to discover an actual *cucumber* growing on the cucumber plant - currently a bit smaller than one that would be sold as a baby cucumber in Marks and Spencer. Not really sure why but have planted loads of varieties of courgette/squash and could do with them starting to fruit!
― djh, Sunday, 5 June 2022 19:17 (one year ago) link
Mildly niche post but what size is best for harvesting cucumber (Telegraph) - pick while young or aim for something like you'd find in a supermarket?
― djh, Monday, 13 June 2022 20:26 (one year ago) link
guessing that if you keep harvesting young ones, then it'll keep fruiting, whereas if you try and get them to grow bigger, the plant might invest all its energy in that one fruit? also there's more risk of the cucumber rotting
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Monday, 13 June 2022 20:32 (one year ago) link
I always enjoy Allan Jenkins' column in the Observer but this is also handy in a practical way:
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2022/jul/03/allan-jenkins-on-gardening-with-july-comes-a-whole-new-gardening-agenda
― djh, Sunday, 3 July 2022 17:05 (one year ago) link
Just for my own amusement I'm keeping a tally of my tomato production this year -- 25 fruit, 237.2 oz so far. (3 plants)
― WmC, Sunday, 3 July 2022 17:32 (one year ago) link
Anyone visited Beth Chatto's garden in Essex and stayed nearby(ish)? Pondering a long weekend.
― djh, Sunday, 14 August 2022 20:53 (one year ago) link
What's worth planting/propagating/doing now (UK)?
― djh, Tuesday, 4 October 2022 20:45 (one year ago) link
Oh no!
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2022/dec/23/we-have-gardened-together-for-12-years-but-its-time-for-me-to-sling-my-billhook
― djh, Friday, 23 December 2022 13:40 (one year ago) link
^ Going to have a column on Caught By The River, apparently.
― djh, Saturday, 25 February 2023 09:22 (one year ago) link
Gosh. Was there really not a 2023 thread!
Anyway, has anyone been to the Gardening Museum or Horniman Museum in London? Worth travelling for (from Oxford)?
― djh, Sunday, 14 January 2024 18:55 (three months ago) link
we used to live near the gardening museum, it was a fair while ago and i don't think we went to the actual museum more than once and I'm not a gardener (um so why am I here?) so can't really comment, the building/exhibition space was good and the cafe was posh :)horniman is a nice little museum in a big park & gardens. stuffed animals and anthropological objects mostly, not on a par with the pitt rivers but what is?
― organ doner (ledge), Sunday, 14 January 2024 21:03 (three months ago) link
Thanks Ledge.
Posh caff sounds a good thing.
― djh, Sunday, 14 January 2024 21:45 (three months ago) link
The Horniman's lovely, especially when it's sunny. It's small but there's enough for 2-3 hours when you factor in the gardens and the cafe and the butterfly house (which is the highlight IMO). If you're in the area, you could also see the fake dinosaurs at Crystal Palace, which is only ten mins away on the bus.
― Chuck_Tatum, Sunday, 14 January 2024 22:03 (three months ago) link