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  • Hannah_Alumni
    Hannah_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 7,866 Championing
    Oh those pictures are so cute!! <3
  • WelshBlue
    WelshBlue Online Community Member Posts: 770 Championing
    Hannah_Scope said:

    I hope you aren't too hurt from the bites!
    Only my pride is hurt.  Can still hear the howling laughter as I was bested  lol


  • 66Mustang
    66Mustang Online Community Member Posts: 14,987 Championing
    edited June 2023
    @WelshBlue they don't get any better when they get older...just dig up everything or wee over it. :p
  • ClaraSais
    ClaraSais Online Community Member Posts: 42 Contributor
    I’m trying to grow sunflowers (never had much success with them), sweet peas and pumpkins. Unfortunately the cat likes to leave presents on the latter!?!
  • Sandy_123
    Sandy_123 Scope Member Posts: 59,535 Championing
    Love the dog @WelshBlue
  • michael57
    michael57 Online Community Member Posts: 885 Trailblazing
    ClaraSais said:
    I’m trying to grow sunflowers (never had much success with them), sweet peas and pumpkins. Unfortunately the cat likes to leave presents on the latter!?!
    put 3 seeds in a pot stand the pot in a tray of water they need sun and moist compost cover up the pots with mesh stop the birds getting to them standing them on trays of water keeps slugs and snails off as well when and if they germinate put them in there own pots 
  • Hannah_Alumni
    Hannah_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 7,866 Championing
    @WelshBlue You'll laugh when the pup does the same to your son, make sure to have you phone ready to record it!  :D

    I would love a Pumpkin Patch, @michael57 I have noted that, thank you!

    @clarasais are you planting them to eat, to carve or a bit of both?
  • WelshBlue
    WelshBlue Online Community Member Posts: 770 Championing
    edited June 2023
    66Mustang said:
    @WelshBlue they don't get any better when they get older...just dig up everything or wee over it. :p
    ... and that's just the women ... the dog is more well behaved  :smile:

    @Hannah_Scope ... my son is 28 and in all the 10 years he's been away from home I've never missed him so much lol

    @Sandy_123 ... very naughty but one tilt of the head and those puppy eyes and the shoe destroying is forgotten

    I don't like poopooing people's ideas but never stand seeds/seedlings in water.  The compost will stay too wet and rot the seeds or young roots.

    Evenly moist compost and a plastic cover (bag or little propagator) will be all any seeds need to germinate.  Once they appear take off the cover to avoid damping off.  (A virus caused by too moist soil on seedlings)
  • Hannah_Alumni
    Hannah_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 7,866 Championing
    Haha is that because he left you with the biter?  :D
  • michael57
    michael57 Online Community Member Posts: 885 Trailblazing
    WelshBlue said:
    66Mustang said:
    @WelshBlue they don't get any better when they get older...just dig up everything or wee over it. :p
    ... and that's just the women ... the dog is more well behaved  :smile:

    @Hannah_Scope ... my son is 28 and in all the 10 years he's been away from home I've never missed him so much lol

    @Sandy_123 ... very naughty but one tilt of the head and those puppy eyes and the shoe destroying is forgotten

    I don't like poopooing people's ideas but never stand seeds/seedlings in water.  The compost will stay too wet and rot the seeds or young roots.

    Evenly moist compost and a plastic cover (bag or little propagator) will be all any seeds need to germinate.  Once they appear take off the cover to avoid damping off.  (A virus caused by too moist soil on seedlings)
    its cool i am an old farmer i can take it i will say i never water sunflowers from the top it has worked for us for a fair few years but each to there own 

  • WelshBlue
    WelshBlue Online Community Member Posts: 770 Championing
    michael57 said:

    its cool i am an old farmer i can take it i will say i never water sunflowers from the top it has worked for us for a fair few years but each to there own 

    @michael57 ... would agree there, maybe I read it wrong and you weren't saying permanently stand the pots in water waiting to sprout ?

    One thing I've learned with gardening is that what works for one doesn't work for someone else  :)

    My first success with cucumbers afterr 3 years



    My tomatoes ... were stunted but going well



    Misc parts and pots


  • Sandy_123
    Sandy_123 Scope Member Posts: 59,535 Championing
    Beautiful @WelshBlue
  • Hannah_Alumni
    Hannah_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 7,866 Championing
    For those who garden, what would be the best flower to plant this time of year? 
  • WelshBlue
    WelshBlue Online Community Member Posts: 770 Championing
    @Sandy_123 and @Beaver79 ... thank you  :)

    I must give credit where it's due ... garden is relatively unscathed from the little terror.  I wish I could say the same about my arms and ankles lol.  Between 7 and 8 at night he is possessed - never thought I'd be using time out at my time of life

    @Hannah_Scope ... you can't go wrong with Osteospermum.  Ever flowering, don't mind some neglect and are pest free.  All depends on the space/ area really
  • Hannah_Alumni
    Hannah_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 7,866 Championing
    Thanks @WelshBlue my friends are moving next week. They've been doing the house up since Christmas but have planters across the back of the garden ready to pop some flowers into. So I thought it'd make a nice gift :) 
  • Sandy_123
    Sandy_123 Scope Member Posts: 59,535 Championing
    Looking good @stormy
  • Hannah_Alumni
    Hannah_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 7,866 Championing
    They look great @stormy :) I love the coloured pots too! 
  • rebel11
    rebel11 Online Community Member Posts: 1,669 Pioneering
    edited July 2023
    Organic vegetables are the best, take tomatoes, when they were grown in the early 20th century, they were grown organically by farmers, now tomatoes are factory farmed, literally photocopies of the last batch. Doing that they lose vits and mins.
    Scientist have carried out tests looking at the vit's and mins of both.   
  • 66Mustang
    66Mustang Online Community Member Posts: 14,987 Championing
    I buy organic stuff if I can afford it because I prefer the taste.

    Nice to know there are nutritional benefits as well!
  • rebel11
    rebel11 Online Community Member Posts: 1,669 Pioneering
    edited July 2023
    66Mustang said:
    I buy organic stuff if I can afford it because I prefer the taste.

    Nice to know there are nutritional benefits as well!
    They found reduced levels of Vits and Minerals. 

    Tomatoes remind me of summers in the park, house backed on to the park, we were handed tomatoes to eat, I'd leave the house at 8.30am, wouldn't be home until 10.30pm,
    spent all day in the park.  :):smile:     

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