SixOnSaturday

Good heartache , September already ! There ’s a little part of me that is quite protruding , that the excesses of the summer weather are behind us , and a point of normality is touch on . That , and of path it ’s nearly clock time to be placing incandescent lamp parliamentary procedure !

1 – Zinnia ‘ whirligig ’ . Very few of these survived to be plant out in the garden this twelvemonth , victim of me trying to develop too many things from seed . I just have this solitary works , which has grow one solitary flower . I quite like it , so I recall I will get these again next year .

2 – Cayenne chilli . I had bragging architectural plan for chillies this twelvemonth , but they have get along to not much – the spring was too cold for the industrial plant to get going and I lost a good few to ice in the nursery . Eight plants survive , including this one . I have precisely two cayenne pepper chilli so far , one of which is colouring up nicely . Next year I will be start them off in the house and continue them there until they get too vexatious , or until the last frost date , whichever come first .

3 – Tagetes ‘ cinnabar ’ . I got these seed from the HPS ejaculate scheme this year . The original is from Great Dixter , I believe . At first the flora were nothing special , but they have flowered profusely and unendingly for a couple of month now . The plants get to a effective sizing too , I design to maturate again next class if I can pile up or get time lag of seminal fluid .

4 – Compost worms . I endeavor to turn the heap once every one or two workweek . I have three insert bays , each about 1 cubic meter . I used to keep one empty , into which I would bend the active muckle . Earlier this class I decide this was a waste of composting volume . I now use two bays for active heaps , the third is for ruined compost . This is not commonly full , so I bend the 2nd heap into this ( covering the finished product with cardboard first ) , then the first into the second , then the third back into the first . It ’s a minute of a palava but I love doing it and it ’s a good bit of upper eubstance usage . Anyhow , these fellas were hard at employment digesting the compost materials . I often inquire idly how many of these worms are in my mound . Thousands , I expect .

5 – Acorns . More specifically , the overhang branches of next door ’s oak tree tree . It drops acorns on my veg plot , often resulting in short oak tree seedling where I want them not . It also create a sightly bit of tincture , to the potential detriment of my veg - ontogenesis . I tolerate this from the nearby apple tree as I get to use the Malus pumila . I intend I am going to have at the oak tree with my telescopic pruning proverb . It remains to be seen if I can absent the broken branch without causing greenhouse havoc .

6 – Acer palmatum ‘ osakazuki ’ . I grew this blighter from seed this year . It occupy month to germinate then stayed obstinately small . I potted it on to a 1L pot with John Innes # 3 and it seems to be doing OK . Most importantly , it has survived the ridiculour raging ironic weather condition . Now I just have to decide where to put it once it has grown on a bit . I might have it on the patio in a big grass .

Have a great weekend , do n’t bury to check in during the 24-hour interval as more posts get added .

I ’ll be back next week with another # SixOnSaturday .

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