lavenderlass

Quince

I hate to admit it but I have been throwing the fruit away, but not any more.  Next year I shall be saving every fruit that is on the plants and trying the receipes and tips you have all kindly given.  Figrat your jars look delicious thanks for the photo.

Quince

Have just got round to watching Gardeners World on iplayer and Monty saying how Quince is the nicest fruit and can be added to stewed apple, but what I don't know is the fruits are so hard, you cann't chop them so do you stew them first?  Loved watching Carol and the clematis.

Latin

They say if you want to remember something, associate it with something similar that you will remember.  Don't know if it works, but good luck with the degree.

Quince

Many thanks for all the replies and especially to Figrat for the recipes.  I will certainly try to make jam next year.  With the fruits being so hard I supposed they couldn't be used for anything (do they soften eventually?).  Will hope for plenty of flowers next year so that I can try out the receipes.  Again many thanks.

Quince

I have two quince in my garden, one red and one white and I have noticed that each has a spray of flowers on them (lovely to see but surely not the time of the year).  Also I have always thrown the fruit (is this what they are called) away, is there anything that can be done with them other than throwing them away.  Must say it is nice to see the flowers as others are dying back.

mmmmm rhubarb

I have a rhubarb in a pot which I planted this year in the spring and which has had several sticks on it.  I understand you shouldn't pick the rhubarb in the first year, so now I am hoping that I can get it through the winter without losing it.  I plan to wrap the pot in bubble wrap and top up the soil and then keep my fingers crossed.  I also bought a raspberry this year (Autumn Bliss) which can be grown in a pot and again I am hoping it will survive the winter.  There are flowers on it at the moment, but I think the weather is against it this year.  Hopefully we will have a better year next year.  It is worth trying as you never know.

Plug Plants

Didn't manage to remove the fabric altogether as not sure whether too, but did cut through it and manage to open it up a bit, but as you say Sotongeoff doing it without damaging the roots must be difficult.

Plug Plants

Thanks Kate, I'm glad someone else has been wondering which is best.

Plug Plants

Hi, Yesterday I received an order of pinks which I had sent for.  When they came the actual plugs were in good condition but the roots looked as though they had been grown in little pots of some sort of fabric.  I have noticed this before with a few plants I have sent for and have not always had success with them.  Do you leave the fabric around the roots or is it better to remove it?  I would love to know what others do.

Plastic Greenhouses

Thank you both for your replies.  I like to try and grow cuttings for baskets, pots etc. and this is the only way. Hollie-Hock, I also have a home-made cold frame but am not sure just when to transfer seeds from the windowsill to the cold frame.  Would love advice please as I would like to try tomatoes from seed.  (Cold frame mainly used for perrinial (sorry not right spelling) cuttings in case I lose any in the garden over winter.)

Dwarf Pear Tree

Fruit in pots

Rhubarb in pots

Clematis cuttisngs

Dhalias

Bare root geraniums

Quince

Plug Plants

Plastic Greenhouses

Climbing rose

Storms

Mistake

Mistake

Keeping cosmos

Keeping cosmos