With only a small garden, we decided that the space our Viccy was taking up
and how few Plums it produced, it was a waste of valuable space, so we
hooked it out and extended the Veg gardens. 'Extended the veg gardens',
someone will love that!!! Made "another" 6 ft by 4 ft raised bed from old
fence panels to sit alongside the other 'one'!!!

Enorma Runner Beans doing fantastic and thanks for those who have been in
contact with advice and comments, great aren't they? And after last night's
rain a superb crop today :-))

Mike

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"philgurr" wrote in message ...


"Ophelia" wrote in message
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Thank you. We did get a lot of bees - which I hadn't seen for a very
long time - but I think they were too late. I do have some apples
(James Grieve) but not too many. Down to weather do you suppose?

I am a beekeeper so no problem with pollinators. I just
didn't get any flowers!

Ahh that throws THAT theory out of the window then I didn't get any
flowers at all either. Was it exceptionally cold?

Hardly, the warmest winter in living memory and the bees started foraging
six weeks early. Not to do with cropping either, planted last year and the
first years flowers removed. Probably decided that it wasn't worth
producing any this year!

Ardmhor

"'Mike'" wrote in message
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With only a small garden, we decided that the space our Viccy was taking
up and how few Plums it produced, it was a waste of valuable space, so we
hooked it out and extended the Veg gardens. 'Extended the veg gardens',
someone will love that!!! Made "another" 6 ft by 4 ft raised bed from old
fence panels to sit alongside the other 'one'!!!

Enorma Runner Beans doing fantastic and thanks for those who have been in
contact with advice and comments, great aren't they? And after last
night's rain a superb crop today :-))

Well it's an idea, but I do love my plums and have had wonderful crops in
other years in other gardens. I might wait it out for while.

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On 26/08/2014 17:36, Ophelia wrote:
Well it's an idea, but I do love my plums and have had wonderful crops in
other years in other gardens. I might wait it out for while.

We haven't been here a whole year, so I can't compare with the past -
but the apple I thought I'd take down before it fell down might now fall
down under the weight of fruit, and we have loads of damsons.

Cambs FWIW.

Andy

"Vir Campestris" wrote in message
o.uk...
On 26/08/2014 17:36, Ophelia wrote:
Well it's an idea, but I do love my plums and have had wonderful crops in
other years in other gardens. I might wait it out for while.

We haven't been here a whole year, so I can't compare with the past - but
the apple I thought I'd take down before it fell down might now fall down
under the weight of fruit, and we have loads of damsons.

Cambs FWIW.

You are just showing off now ;-)

Lucky you

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On 2014-08-26 20:28:56 +0000, Vir Campestris said:

On 26/08/2014 17:36, Ophelia wrote:
Well it's an idea, but I do love my plums and have had wonderful crops in
other years in other gardens. I might wait it out for while.

We haven't been here a whole year, so I can't compare with the past -
but the apple I thought I'd take down before it fell down might now
fall down under the weight of fruit, and we have loads of damsons.

Cambs FWIW.

Andy

You are the *perfect* example of always waiting at least one whole year
before doing anything irreversible in a garden!
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