Jack Straw
I look nothing like him!
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I'm Team Apricot!
As I'm approaching mid fifties, this year I've got into this gardening malarkey. Renovated the garden and added 16 pots and half a dozen planters - Mrs Balders has had a penchant recently for picking up "reduced to clear" items and I decided to take on the half price project of "Bob the Box". The majority of purchases are going well but after a month of feeding and watering, Bob is not improving - any ideas, I have patience but Mrs Balders is convinced he is now bereft of life - is he merely behaving like the Man Utd team from yesterday (promising much but delivering not a lot) or can we bring him back to the full glory similar to our performance yesterday? Or has the Mrs got it right
Cheshire Cat
The most curious thing..
Take a small cutting. If it looks green on the inside, there is still life.
Box is very slow growing.
Box is very slow growing.
Coldeanseagull
Opinionated
Apricots, as with peaches, have a fuzzy skin. If it's roughly the size of a cricket ball, I'd say nectarine. If it's the size(roughly) of a golf ball it's going to be a plum
It has a plum like stone in the middle. Why is this so damned hard to work out!!?
- Aug 24, 2020
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They have plums the size of cricket balls in the Park Farm shop right now !
They're the biggest plums I've ever seen, or wish to see.
Coldeanseagull
Opinionated
What, the stones the size of a plum?
What we need is a new photo with something obvious next to it for size comparison.....no body parts!
Coldeanseagull
Opinionated
They're crap...you can't get any reverse swing out of 'em!
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They don't taste of anything either. A market gardener once told me to always choose the smaller fruits, as they are the juiciest, like women.
Weststander
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As I'm approaching mid fifties, this year I've got into this gardening malarkey. Renovated the garden and added 16 pots and half a dozen planters - Mrs Balders has had a penchant recently for picking up "reduced to clear" items and I decided to take on the half price project of "Bob the Box". The majority of purchases are going well but after a month of feeding and watering, Bob is not improving - any ideas, I have patience but Mrs Balders is convinced he is now bereft of life - is he merely behaving like the Man Utd team from yesterday (promising much but delivering not a lot) or can we bring him back to the full glory similar to our performance yesterday? Or has the Mrs got it right
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Feeding profusely with diluted liquid seaweed? Directly to the soil, avoiding the leaves.
A tip pinched today from Chris Beardshaw on an old GQT, when detailing all the steps he took (successfully) to beat Box Blight.
- Jul 10, 2003
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Can you not just eat the bloody thing and let us know whether it tastes of plum, apricot or nectarine
I had an enormous plum once. Turned out it was an infection, bloody painful it was
Jack Straw
I look nothing like him!
I had an enormous apricot once. Turned out I may not have?
- Aug 24, 2020
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The more I see that picture, the more convinced I am that it's an apricot. It's a bit like the foul on Welbeck. The more you see it, the more it looks like a penalty.
Jack Straw
I look nothing like him!
Anywhere else on the saucer, a definite apricot.
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Bored - so here's the random bits of colour that now inhabit what was, 6 months ago, a jungle
Favourite little bit - loads of different greenery, no earth.
Gonna win the First Dahlias Flower competition.
Random purple thing, on the wrong side of the tracks.
Gonna get more of these
and the reason for the pics - look at the fookin size of this buddleia flower
Favourite little bit - loads of different greenery, no earth.
Gonna win the First Dahlias Flower competition.
Random purple thing, on the wrong side of the tracks.
Gonna get more of these
and the reason for the pics - look at the fookin size of this buddleia flower
Coldeanseagull
Opinionated
Random purple thing = verbena bonariensis
Behind worlds biggest buddleia = weed,probably groundsel, pull it out
Behind worlds biggest buddleia = weed,probably groundsel, pull it out
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Oh yeah the one on the fence is, I just haven't got round to it yet.
The bigger thing, back right of the mahooosive pink flower is where a bulb marker was so I'm assuming that is something.
jevs
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Sow thistle....get it out before it goes to seed!!!
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You are talking about the thing being pointed at by the smaller pink flower, aren't you?
Coldeanseagull
Opinionated
Thats the one, knew was a pig of a self seeder!