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I grew Cape gooseberry from seed last year I did the same as you kept it in the green house and it gave me fruit till the end of the year. First time I have grown one think I will do it again this year

Dont know about the slugs but rhubarb boiled and cooled makes your hair shine good

when can I prune Jostaberry

It would be fun to try it out next year.

Tussiemussie, this sounds interesting but I can't picture it. Do you have a photo please?

Monty did show something simuliar

I'm sure Monty Don showed something similiar on his around the world programme.
It's a fantastic way to display, say tender plants from far off exotic places.

Our primulas are flowering too :-)

That's funny, Steve, so have I!

we have a delphiniun just about to burst into flower , not sure if it's a bit late or extremely early!!!!!!.......lol

It must feel strange to see apple blossoms in Sep.
I have a Dicentra which is flowering again. They usually come in April.

Well that's really surprising, or is it? It's confused and thinks it just survived winter rather than summer. Not surprising considering the weather you've been having in UK.

LOL. Maybe you'll get apples in the spring!

The poem you mention,
"The Kiss of the Sun"
is by Dorothy Gurney 1858 - 1952.

My Aunt Frieda used to write the poem in autograph books before signing her name.

PS : Nice loganberries !

Many thanks, Tussie and David, for your replies.
I haven't had much luck in growing Rhubarb, it doesn't seem to like the spot I chose for it. However, I shall not be giving up, I shall try again next year and would like to give your rhubarb leaf mix a go when I have a plant mature enough to pull.

Sorry to hear of your very wet summer, Tussie, but glad you've had less of the slugs!

Hi Xela! yes, I did try it, but made a better effort this year. In my own case, not sure if it worked or not. I've always had hostas in the ground, and they've never been touched, ever, by a slug or snail, so I avoided using the rhubarb leave mix on them. I kept it for my veggies, and it seems to have helped them. BUT - just yesterday - I found a snail 5ft up my runner beans, whilst harvesting the last of them (!!**??) :-o

While trawling through some of the older blogs I came across this one and wondered how the project progressed. Did you come to any conclusions, Tussie and David ?

I will also try this :-)

Go for heel cuttings and do it now ....cant do any harm can it?

The colouring isa strange blue, but the main difference from the photo on the Victorian Nursery website is the width of the leaves in your picture.

I grew some from seed in two batches and one lot has narow leaves on a single ste,. and later ones look more like a wallflower plant!

Any thoughts?

Tussiemussie this story puts a smile on my face. I attempted this too, knowing how good it is for the soil. I went out with a container with all the kitchen scraps and a shovel and dug it in the flower beds. The next day sure enough, this litter was on the surface. I dug it in again and in the evening a new lot, potato scraps, etc. Next morning: same story. I started thinking and checked my dog. Her nose was all red and dirty from the soil, Haha, she'd been digging up what I had dug in. I abandonned this habit and bought a compost bin!

I use worms, I keep them in bins under the back patio, (it's about 2 ft off the ground) that keeps them cool and out of sight. They can take care of all our veg matter kitchen scraps and makes enough worm castings for me to use in my patio boxes and containers. They seem to really love tea! lol

Hi Tussie :o) Better luck this year, I remember many people losing tomatoes to blight last year - me too.

Well, so that explains it! Good luck for your growing time this year.

hope you have a better time this yr

Hi Tussiemussie,
You are a gem, looking after your mum. Hope she's still there, as I see this blog is more than a year old. But I am just arriving at your doorstep and was reading your profile page. I loved your story there and imagined all you said. Very nicely done, it kept me quiet for a while, thinking of your situation there.
But by now, perhaps a lot has changed. I am looking fwd to seeing your pics tomorrow, as now, time for bed.
cheerio, M.

Hallo stranger -nice to have you back with us! Glad to hear that you are having success with some new edibles.

Having checked the link this looks potentially very complicated, but would it include things like growing squashes on the top of your compost heap? Or cucumbers? Or have I got that completely wrong?

No experience, but funnily enough was reading a little about this today on the train in Jenny Uglow's little history of British gardening - this sounds a really interesting project. Has something or somewhere in particular inspired you?