David K

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Sweet Pea Queries

Posted: 08/07/2012 at 21:08

frensclan wrote (see)

I have always grown sweet peas but am in a new garden (well was a bit of a field last year which we are slowly bringing back to cultivation) which is on heavy clay and floods at the first sign of rain of which we have had a lot up here in Carlisle. Still I have 3 lots of sweet peas on the go. One batch sown in pots and planted out about 5 weeks ago another straight into the ground which looked so unwilling to go that I planted climbing beans in between them and a few spares I put in an old plastic box. All seem to be going well and in fact the ones sown straight into the ground soon caught up with and overtook the earlier pot ones and are now flowering in amongst some reluctant bean plants. I had my first vase of flowers yesterday. I use feed made from either comfrey or dandilions whichever is growing at the time. Both seem to really get things going. So far the waterlogged soil does not seem to have harmed the plants although I have notices that a lot of the flower stems are a little shorter this year.

Hi, Frensclan - given this year's atrocious weather, I would say you have done really well.

Fork Handles

Posted: 08/07/2012 at 18:56

Knew it would end in tears!

Fork Handles

Posted: 08/07/2012 at 13:55

Thanks, Geoff....praps I'm not turning into a Victor Meldrew then!

Don't wish to whinge and only post here because it's where most of the peeps I know from the old boards hang out, BUT (there's always a but) .....does anyone else notice the lack of (not always) of a simple thank you when you've taken trouble to help someone on this forum.

Transplanting raspberry bushes

Posted: 08/07/2012 at 11:22

Hi, Leslie.......yes you can transplant raspberries.

This is best done in October after fruiting and while there still sufficient warmth in the soil for the roots to re-establish.

You ask if it will affect next year's crop. If they are autumn fruiting raspberries, the answer is no, if they are summer fruiting you will lose next year's crop.

Stunted strawberries

Posted: 08/07/2012 at 10:51

Hello, Jinny....The problems you describe with the fruit of your strawberries is almost certainly down to lack of pollination, others are weather related.

In fact, it would be more accurate to say that both problems are down to the rubbish summer.