What's going on in your garden (2018-2022)?

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First Mango of the season!
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I just ran into town, bought 12 plants, and potted up the first planter:

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My neighbor, who’s well ahead of me, warned me that prices had shot up, and she wasn’t kidding. These are run-of-the-mill petunias and marigolds, and I got these at Lowes, not some fancy-pants garden center, and these cost me (with my 10% veterans discount)…
$77!

I’ve got seven more planters to go, plus three hanging baskets and seven smaller pots.

I wonder what interest rates on flower loans are… 😳
 
TastyReuben said:
I just ran into town, bought 12 plants, and potted up the first planter:

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My neighbor, who’s well ahead of me, warned me that prices had shot up, and she wasn’t kidding. These are run-of-the-mill petunias and marigolds, and I got these at Lowes, not some fancy-pants garden center, and these cost me (with my 10% veterans discount)…
$77!

I’ve got seven more planters to go, plus three hanging baskets and seven smaller pots.

I wonder what interest rates on flower loans are… 😳
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Lovely colours.
 
TastyReuben said:
I just ran into town, bought 12 plants, and potted up the first planter:

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My neighbor, who’s well ahead of me, warned me that prices had shot up, and she wasn’t kidding. These are run-of-the-mill petunias and marigolds, and I got these at Lowes, not some fancy-pants garden center, and these cost me (with my 10% veterans discount)…
$77!

I’ve got seven more planters to go, plus three hanging baskets and seven smaller pots.

I wonder what interest rates on flower loans are… 😳
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Surely they can't cost that much? I mean surely not! Maybe I'm misreading this but does that means £60 for planting up one hanging basket? I can buy one ready planted here for £15.
 
Morning Glory said:
Surely they can't cost that much? I mean surely not! Maybe I'm misreading this but does that means £60 for planting up one hanging basket? I can buy one ready planted here for £15.
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Not a hanging basket, but 12 plants (two wave petunias, eight regular petunias, and two giant marigolds) to go in the big planter on the porch.
 
FoodFighter said:
Aphids! that's what's going on with my potatoes right now.

Grumbles....

Any organic way to deal with them?
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Soapy water
There is also something called white oil, but frankly I prefer to use soapy water or a naturally derived (from a flower) pesticide in very small quantities, though I've never really had them bother with potatoes before. I generally just let ladybirds/ladybugs deal with them.
 
Planted out some seedlings yesterday... leeks, celery, spinach and pak choy. Also planted out the last of the late season garlic. I always sprout garlic before it gets planted out, but this one bulb has put up a lot of resistance to growing at all... it finally had about 3cm green growth and roots, so it's gone out. The rest was all 7-10cm high when I planted then out. I guess I'll be harvesting it a lot later than the rest of the garlic.

Still need to plant out things like some tomatoes to get the seed germinated, peas growing, beans growing, and a while load of other bits going.... but I made a start.

Also got 3 raspberry canes I need to plant when I find a home for them. I'm thinking I may need to create a fruit plot given the volume of strawberry runners that the plants created this year. I've so many of them... between the raspberries and strawberries about a third of the veg plot is taken!
 
SatNavSaysStraightOn said:
Planted out some seedlings yesterday... leeks, celery, spinach and pak choy. Also planted out the last of the late season garlic. I always sprout garlic before it gets planted out, but this one bulb has put up a lot of resistance to growing at all... it finally had about 3cm green growth and roots, so it's gone out. The rest was all 7-10cm high when I planted then out. I guess I'll be harvesting it a lot later than the rest of the garlic.

Still need to plant out things like some tomatoes to get the seed germinated, peas growing, beans growing, and a while load of other bits going.... but I made a start.

Also got 3 raspberry canes I need to plant when I find a home for them. I'm thinking I may need to create a fruit plot given the volume of strawberry runners that the plants created this year. I've so many of them... between the raspberries and strawberries about a third of the veg plot is taken!
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Were getting rid of a few canes that haven't produced raspberries for 2 years. Strawberry plants for Africa here.

Russ
 
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