Gardening with Joey

[Joey66]

Nice full border that Joey - Can't stand it when it's just single plants dotted with loads of bare soil inbetween. Especially when it's tiny little bedding plants.

No weeds in there top quality ground cover permeable membrane cored with Oyster pearl gravel then My wife son and I planted through it putting a good mix in the cross shaped holes and re - fitted with the material to stop any weeds ....
I designed it on the hoof not like the Chelsea Gardening snobs - just my 30 years horticultural experience - some delicate plants some easy plants - its set for life now should have done a before, and after photo......
with my illnesses it got out of hand glosphated the lot off -, and started again that's one year old....all hardy plants...

 

[carlos21]

No weeds in there top quality ground cover permeable membrane cored with Oyster pearl gravel then My wife son and I planted through it putting a good mix in the cross shaped holes and re - fitted with the material to stop any weeds ....
I designed it on the hoof not like the Chelsea Gardening snobs - just my 30 years horticultural experience - some delicate plants some easy plants - its set for life now should have done a before, and after photo......
with my illnesses it got out of hand glosphated the lot off -, and started again that's one year old....all hardy plants...

Hi Joey can you give me some rep please.

 

[Eggs]

.....suggest you don’t Internet order from Gardening Express. I ordered a few things a month ago with 3-5 day delivery and I’m still waiting. It’s only when you look at the reviews you discover they look dodgy.

 

[coollino]

.....suggest you don’t Internet order from Gardening Express. I ordered a few things a month ago with 3-5 day delivery and I’m still waiting. It’s only when you look at the reviews you discover they look dodgy.

Not sure if you have seen this?



Wow, the responses are awful.

 

[Joey66]

.....suggest you don’t Internet order from Gardening Express. I ordered a few things a month ago with 3-5 day delivery and I’m still waiting. It’s only when you look at the reviews you discover they look dodgy.

There will be a delay due to COVID-19 - better to sow your own seeds & use a window sill TBH and then put them in small plugs in a sheltered sunny part of your garden under a small cloche plastic tunnel then harden off yourself ....

 

[Eggs]

There will be a delay due to COVID-19 - better to sow your own seeds & use a window sill TBH and then put them in small plugs in a sheltered sunny part of your garden under a small cloche plastic tunnel then harden off yourself ....

...thanks Joey, actually took a few cuttings last year from a climbing rose in my in-laws garden which surprisingly took. I’ve now planted them in mine and my sons, so I’m keen to try more of that.

 

[Joey66]

...thanks Joey, actually took a few cuttings last year from a climbing rose in my in-laws garden which surprisingly took. I’ve now planted them in mine and my sons, so I’m keen to try more of that.

Most plants root remember it is the conditions you need to root them in - not only just taking the cutting correctly - often not explained on Gardner's World.......plus other horticultural programmes.....

 

[Spadge Vernacular]

Has anyone on here ever successfully taken a cutting from an apple tree and grown it into another fruiting tree?

If so any pointers?

 

[Joey66]

Has anyone on here ever successfully taken a cutting from an apple tree and grown it into another fruiting tree?

If so any pointers?

They are grafted on to a vigorous rootstock, so a cutting off the top of the tree is fruitless.... pardon my pun -
Many fruit trees and some ornamentals are grafted onto rootstocks. These rootstocks control the vigour of the plant, allowing the cultivation of trees and bushes in a smaller space than if they were grown on their own roots.
Cordons and espalier apple trees are better on a south facing wall .....

 

[degsy]

No weeds in there top quality ground cover permeable membrane cored with Oyster pearl gravel then My wife son and I planted through it putting a good mix in the cross shaped holes and re - fitted with the material to stop any weeds ....
I designed it on the hoof not like the Chelsea Gardening snobs - just my 30 years horticultural experience - some delicate plants some easy plants - its set for life now should have done a before, and after photo......
with my illnesses it got out of hand glosphated the lot off -, and started again that's one year old....all hardy plants...

I love it when you talk all earthy and dirty.

 

[Spadge Vernacular]

They are grafted on to a vigorous rootstock, so a cutting off the top of the tree is fruitless.... pardon my pun -
Many fruit trees and some ornamentals are grafted onto rootstocks. These rootstocks control the vigour of the plant, allowing the cultivation of trees and bushes in a smaller space than if they were grown on their own roots.
Cordons and espalier apple trees are better on a south facing wall .....

We have an ancient apple tree in our garden, remnants from a Georgian orchard and its has developed a strange green mold looking covering over the trunk and wider branches. It produces wonderful cooking apples and I would be gutted if it went so I am wondering if I can somehow create another.

What is a rootstock mate?

 

[Joey66]

We have an ancient apple tree in our garden, remnants from a Georgian orchard and its has developed a strange green mold looking covering over the trunk and wider branches. It produces wonderful cooking apples and I would be gutted if it went so I am wondering if I can somehow create another.

What is a rootstock mate?

It's a vigorous growing related stock to cultured varieties e g. to top culture is slow growing and takes ages to fruit, so the graft a close relation of genus & species onto that stock to get a nice flavoured apple on it -
EG - Have you ever seen suckers on Roses - that is the wild rootstock coming from below the Budded on variety of rose .....
You can take cuttings, but will have a slow growing plant that will take an age to long to fruit.....

 

[Joey66]

We have an ancient apple tree in our garden, remnants from a Georgian orchard and its has developed a strange green mold looking covering over the trunk and wider branches. It produces wonderful cooking apples and I would be gutted if it went so I am wondering if I can somehow create another.

What is a rootstock mate?

They are Malling rootstocks so many - here is a link for you -

Rootstock research at East Malling: a history - NIAB EMR

www.emr.ac.uk

 

[Spadge Vernacular]

It's a vigorous growing related stock to cultured varieties e g. to top culture is slow growing and takes ages to fruit, so the graft a close relation of genus & species onto that stock to get a nice flavoured apple on it -
EG - Have you ever seen suckers on Roses - that is the wild rootstock coming from below the Budded on variety of rose .....
You can take cuttings, but will have a slow growing plant that will take an age to long to fruit.....

It had a load of suckers growing but I pruned them all to the trunk.

 

[Joey66]

It had a load of suckers growing but I pruned them all to the trunk.

The correct thing to do - In my City & Guilds - it did my head in learning about that Malling rootstocks, but little did | know later in my career I would be budding thousands of roses in a gang on to a rose rootstock named Simplex ...... hard field work the ones the English don't like doing - I loved it........
We got about a 90% success strike -