On Wed, 5 May 2004 22:46:44 +0100, Janet Baraclough..
wrote:


wall-cordons? what they then? Better have a quick google. Not come
across those before - told you I was a beginner.

It's those wires you're planning up your pebbledash wall :-)

Ah - not so much 'planning' as installed! Had some time between
showers yesterday. Didn't realise that they had a proper name though.
Guess I'll need some pretty sturdy ties to hold the plants/poles in
place - will loose cable ties do the trick do you think? Or are there
better products around?

Cheers

Tim

On 5/4/04 1:08 PM, in article ,
"Janet Baraclough.." wrote:

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from Tim Nicholson contains these words:

Hi all

Been a lurker here for a while on and off, but I now need some 'local'
assistance from you good people. In a previous life we lived in sunny
Oxfordshire, and could grow just about anything we liked outside as we
seemed to have a never ending growing season. We now live in Ayrshire,
and the climate's proving ever so slightly different.

Which bit of Ayrshire? Coastal fringe is milder than inland.

I'm not sure about what'll survive
outdoors here, hence the call for help. I have tomatoes (cherry and
plum), courgettes, melons, cucumber, chillies, sweet red peppers,
cayenne, garlic all looking ok in the greenhouse at the mo, and will
be planting root veg directly outside as soon as I can. (as mentioned
in another thread, SWMBO has some potatoes in car tyres on the go too)

I have a south facing, pebbledash wall about 14 ft long that I could
put vine wires on to train the toms etc, will they be ok? and what
else might grow well beside them?

Chillies peppers and melons are strictly for the GH.
Garlic is hardy and will be fine outide. Courgettes need to be hardened
off, and planted outside after the last frost date. If you are well
inland, I wouldn't plant them out till June 5th.

Outdoor tomatoes are a bit of a gamble in Scotland, see last frost
date. In a sunny garden, in a warm area, in a good summer, you might
succeed. I recommend you divide your plants and grow half outside and
half in the GH.

Even in summer, you'll find west Scotland considerably windier than
darnsarth, and the prevailing wind is SW..bear that in mind for your
wall-cordons.


Janet (Isle of Arran; snow on Goatfell last night).






Oh, nuts...now I have to get a better map to find out where Isle of Arran is
and learn just what snow on Goatfell means! Will someone send me a map or
tell me how to get one?
Gary
Fort Langley BC
Canada
PS: You can email me direct. To do so eliminate NOTHING from my email
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me it's an authentic email. I delete all others. Should you be replying from
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On Thu, 06 May 2004 07:20:17 GMT, gary davis wrote:


Oh, nuts...now I have to get a better map to find out where Isle of Arran is
and learn just what snow on Goatfell means! Will someone send me a map or
tell me how to get one?
Gary
Fort Langley BC
Canada
PS: You can email me direct. To do so eliminate NOTHING from my email
address. Please enter under subject: ENGLISH GARDENING, EH! The EH will tell
me it's an authentic email. I delete all others. Should you be replying from
the USA...replace the EH with HUH.

Try this site - it'll zoom in and out, though the overall picture size
isn't great, but it'll give you an idea. Start looking for Glasgow,
then go South-West.....

http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/getamap/

Tim

"Jaques d'Alltrades" wrote in message
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Cucumbers? The variety I've germinated (can't remember the name right
now) said OK for a cool greenhouse, so I'd hoped they too might grow
outside.

Probably, but you'd have been better (probably) with a ridge cucumber.

I expect the chillies, melons etc will need to stay in the
greenhouse primarily for the heat.

Yes. I had some on a windowsill and some outside, and the outside ones
never presented me with a ripe chilli, but I had loads from the ones in
my front room.

Thought you were just up the road from me in Norfolk.

You should be able to grow chillis outside in a good year - last year my one
chilli plant produced enough ripe fruit to see me and several other family
members right for some time - in fact I still have a coiuple of paper bags
full of them in the kitchen.

Could be a variety thing?

Cheers
Dave R

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Yes. I had some on a windowsill and some outside, and the outside ones
never presented me with a ripe chilli, but I had loads from the ones in
my front room.

Thought you were just up the road from me in Norfolk.

This is true. And I am TAAAW.

You should be able to grow chillis outside in a good year - last year my one
chilli plant produced enough ripe fruit to see me and several other family
members right for some time - in fact I still have a coiuple of paper bags
full of them in the kitchen.

Plenty of nice green ones....

Could be a variety thing?

Could be - they were seeds from imported jalapinos which fell out of the
machinery before they hit the liquid nitrogen.

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