tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8499671076590096775.post6763267944519119294..comments2023-11-03T10:09:31.148+01:00Comments on My Galician Garden: May Garden 2018Cocohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01002346978289429622noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8499671076590096775.post-32273362817489172352018-05-11T09:40:23.225+02:002018-05-11T09:40:23.225+02:00Hi Vera,
It also doesn´t help when I kill the few...Hi Vera,<br /><br />It also doesn´t help when I kill the few seedlings I do get. Left them in the plastic ¨greenhouse¨ and they roasted yesterday. Rain this weekend, so I´ll have to try to get something planted first.<br /><br />Hope your garden is thriving!Cocohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01002346978289429622noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8499671076590096775.post-3450751829105271862018-05-10T11:28:49.228+02:002018-05-10T11:28:49.228+02:00I also thought that herbs and flowers would germin...I also thought that herbs and flowers would germinate easily, but I had little success with these seeds last year. A heat mat is a good idea, and I shall look into getting one. I am thinking of buying in perennial herbs and taking cuttings from them rather than starting them from seed. But I did do well with basil and had zillions of plants. <br />As for stones....... we are situated on a river bed, so have a lot of stones in the soil, which my husband diligently removes. I would like to have a go building some small stone walls. My aunt made all her garden walls from stones and cement, then painted them. They looked very arty crafty!<br />Good luck with succession sowing. Small amounts of crops planted every couple of weeks. That is what I am trying to achieve as well. Verahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13235143664894609891noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8499671076590096775.post-30338974506678112502018-05-10T10:04:03.846+02:002018-05-10T10:04:03.846+02:00Hi Chris,
These little rocks are going into the t...Hi Chris,<br /><br />These little rocks are going into the trenches I dug around the plot when it was raining. I figure the drainage can´t hurt. I am chuffed about the tomatoes. The peppers didn´t germinate, but I think my seeds are just too old now.<br /><br />Hi Pam,<br /><br />I did the same thing in the old veg patch and now have to go back and excavate the rocks to plant something. <br /><br />Canker looks like dark splotches on the canes with a lot of dieback of canes and leaves. It´s highly contagious, though I try to be conscientious about wiping down the secateurs with alcohol between each bush when I´m pruning. Blackspot affects the leaves. Remove affected leaves and discard, if there aren´t too many. I´ve read that milk diluted 10 to 1 as a spray can help as a preventative.<br /><br />Hi GZ,<br /><br />Hope you´re enjoying the warmer summer weather. What a difference!Cocohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01002346978289429622noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8499671076590096775.post-86606219251497774632018-05-09T22:01:41.845+02:002018-05-09T22:01:41.845+02:00(O)(O)gzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08034777779347889773noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8499671076590096775.post-87913500944572166482018-05-09T14:17:46.326+02:002018-05-09T14:17:46.326+02:00Hi, Coco!
Those are very nice looking tomato plan...Hi, Coco!<br /><br />Those are very nice looking tomato plants and your garden looks so tidy.<br /><br />I am suppose to keep a bucket to put rocks in when I am working in the garden beds, but I never remember and so just throw them over towards the fence. It never fails that the spot where I threw them turns out to be exactly where the next new garden bed has to be dug . . .<br /><br />Does rose canker show up as spots on the leaves? Some of my roses have spotty leaves.<br /><br />Pam<br /><br />Pam in Virginiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00895842137691734477noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8499671076590096775.post-78363990568342302212018-05-08T14:27:17.039+02:002018-05-08T14:27:17.039+02:00Hi Coco,
What a delightful photo that first shot ...Hi Coco,<br /><br />What a delightful photo that first shot is of looking over the grass. Rocks are very useful items - and all of them have a use here. The little ones in the photo would get added to either a steel rock gabion cage, or into cement as fill. Your tomato starts look awesome. I've never had problems pruning roses when they get a bit of die back just because they're such hardy plants, but yeah I get that and it hurts me too doing that task when the plants are small.<br /><br />ChrisFernglade Farmhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06950962122594709186noreply@blogger.com