Save money, collect seeds.

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heh, I've got an almost blank slate similar dimensions to mrs M.

I'm also believing climbers will featur heavily, plus pots, i absolutely adore having lots of nice things growing in pots.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

What's in my garden continued;
Strawberries, Raspberries, bamboo, pelargoniums, Echium 'Snow Tower', Astrantia, bamboo, jerusalem artichokes, sweet peas, Scabiosa 'Chile Black', Honesty, Sweet Rocket, Lady's Mantle, Petunias, lobelia, marigolds, Lilies, Hydrangea, Myrtle, a white mallow/Lavatera type thing from a pack of mixed seeds, Chinese Lanterns, Lysimachia punctata, wallflowers, nasturtiums, Cosmos, a deep blue convolvulus type thing, Viper's bugloss, Yellow Archangel, Mouse plant, Acorus gramineus, Rosa Mermaid (a cutting that has taken and flowered but still tiny) and I'm sure there are things I've forgotten + various weeds

 

[Tea]

mrs magpie, im impressed by the amount of plants you're growing in your garden! it seems humongous, and chinese laterns! i saw those flowers before, they're lovely. think you can open a nursery or a retail flower shop?

 

[Mrs Magpie]

When I'm not working in a school, I help run a community garden and do other people's gardens.....
For twenty-odd years I had no garden, just pots on a balcony, but I've always gardened, since I could hold a bulb and a trowel (some are born in the saddle, I was born in the potting-shed). I knew when I got a garden of my own what I'd grow...it's just all crammed in willy-nilly. Where possible I grow from seed or take cuttings. It's rather jumbled looking. A bit like me really....

 

[davesgcr]

I am a sado in terms of chucking seeds of Hollyhocks around promising sites nearby - like on the old railway line to Hatfield which is now a cycle route.I live in hope of a colourfull legacy.

Walking to town yesterday with my daughter we planted some acorns in promising sites near footpaths etc - (school playground / fields has some young oak trees we out in)

Conkers are good too -we have a few young trees on common land we have nurtured.

Poppy seeds are a winner for scattering too...

 

[Ellie23]

is it to late to do onions now? I qute fancy having a go

same with garlic?

I think it's OK to plant onion seed in the autumn, check by looking on the back of the seed packet.

We've always found that garlic planted in the autumn does better than that planted in the spring. You can plant the cloves you get from the supermarket, just separate them, make a little hole in the ground and plant them with the top showing. Not a good idea to push them into the ground to make the hole because when they root they can push themselves out of the ground.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

have got one or two nasturtium seeds already drying off with loads more coming on nicely and saved some seeds from one of the red hot chilli peppers that managed to sprout this year. do you reckon the chilli seeds would grow Mrs M, or would they be too young/unripe/new ?

If the chilli pepper ripened, the seeds should be ripe....give them a go.

 

[zenie]

Good for you

I am a sado in terms of chucking seeds of Hollyhocks around promising sites nearby - like on the old railway line to Hatfield which is now a cycle route.I live in hope of a colourfull legacy.

Walking to town yesterday with my daughter we planted some acorns in promising sites near footpaths etc - (school playground / fields has some young oak trees we out in)

Conkers are good too -we have a few young trees on common land we have nurtured.

Poppy seeds are a winner for scattering too...

I commend anyone that does this what a good way on brightening up your area

Not sure it's 'allowed' but who's gonna know.

Will onions and garlic be OK in containers - if so i will plant now.

 

[Tea]

Mrs M thank you for sharing. dont think i've met anyone that's just the way you described. but could be that 80% of us here live in high rise. nontheless, your keeping things in pots gives encouragement. i like the greens and flowers so might give growing plants a go one day. thanks! lovely read.


*ok bunging off before toggle go... hey this is not.............. hehehe.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

bumped for this season

 

[marco mark]

If anyone wants basil (italian broad leaf or greek) pm me your address and i will post some, i have loads

 

[abstract1]

Thank you Mrs M - will get my list up this week!

 

[Mrs Magpie]

Walking to town yesterday with my daughter we planted some acorns in promising sites near footpaths etc - (school playground / fields has some young oak trees we out in)

just as general information, acorns have to be planted quickly or they won't germinate...I've just planted loads of this season's acorns in the community garden and in pots for planted elsewhere...always plant more than you need if they're in the open ground because mice love 'em

 

[Mrs Magpie]

...but not all seeds can be kept as long as this...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/5361396.stm

 

[moon]

Have you got any pictures of your garden mrs m? I would love to see it.

 

[jugularvein]

It's a myth that seeds have to be used the year you bought or collected them. Except for parsnip seed which isn't viable for long. The hollyhocks I grew two years ago came from seed collected in the 1980s.

they grew something from seeds dated from 1810 or something ridiculous! i'll try and fins the story.

oh yeah... you knew already

 

[abstract1]

Been doing some sorting out amd collecting this weekend and have the following seeds on offer:

Nasturtium (multi-coloured)

California Orange poppy

Rocket

Landcress

and a few Crocosmia corms and some Chinese Lantern bulbs.

If anyone would like some, please pm me and I'll pop them in the post

 

[longdog]

Anyone got any skunk seeds they don't want?

 

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Nope, but I've just been promiced some woad seeds.

 

[longdog]

 

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grins.

If you really want, I'm sure I can arrange to paint you.

 

[longdog]

I'll hold you to that

 

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grins.