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I have grown some roses from cuttings. I thought I had taken a cutting of a yellow climbing rose, but it seems to be a little pink rose, another one is thornless and pink and I was sure it was off a white thornless rose. I have not been able to find much about this on the web, some people saying it ...

will you be dishing them out to the trick or treaters? That is very impressive, the ground nut scheme didn't ever take off, why was that? I will be giving this a go next year

Haven't seen him on fb either, the winds have started coming back up from the SW again now, things are still a bit windy, but not like they were, we were lucky here I think

Ophelia has now moved up the west coast of Ireland and is currently in Donegal and parts of Northern Ireland, the winds seem to be gusting now from the North West, which is the Atlantic which is right, it started out this morning blowing from the East and South and changed round about 3pm

The storm has hit Cork quite badly, they got it first this morning, it has been moving up the west coast and we are feeling the gusts, at the moment, this is no worse than we have had in the past, but the storm is still centred round Galway as far as I can make out. The whole of Ireland is closed, t...

Hi welcome to Ish. I am in Ireland too, but in the wet bit, we have also restored an old house, you might be interested in the Inspirational Homes site, we open our house along with lots of others over the weekend in October for people doing restorations, self builds etc http://www.greendoorireland....

I wish I had done all my fruit trees as step overs or something now, the rooks come down and peck every ripe apple, usually just once, a big beak into each lovely apple. Looks a lovely productive little tree

Hi, I was born in Berkshire, but left 9 years ago, welcome to Ish

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anybody know anything about grwing Valerian (V. officinalis)?

In what respect, cultivation or use as a medicinal plant

is the rust on the old hankie, what are you using it on

mulching is also the key to avoiding blossom end rot, I use a lot of grass mowings in my tunnel, grow hundred of pounds of tomatoes a year and never have a problem, use soaker hose in the soil and then a good mulching

Looking wonderful. I am quite inspired by your grape, I keep thinking I will put two in my tunnel, but I am really bad at pruning things back, I have a hard time side shooting tomatoes, they just look so happy growing away. I am guessing you have to keep pruning off side shoots etc to keep it tame?

it's wall to wall smug round here

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