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IAfter your post Manics, I had a look in my cupboard and found a Coco peat block thats been there for years will it be OK for Tommies when I plant them on into black buckits. :-\ :D
planted onion sets [ sturon ] in cell trays to plant out late march
just seen the weather for tonight, gonna be a frost at minus 1 in my area.. just hope the new asian pear tree will be ok (better be, as it was quite an expensive purchase!) - well, should be as it's next to the sheltered part of the lotti next to the shed...
On Sunday1. Sowed Tigerella2. Sowed Yellow Bell Peppers3. Planted 4x Shallots in pots4. Washed plant pots. :D
Irridiumsorry about the frog. I don't like dealing with dead animals either, but it is ok with a long handled shovel if I have to .... frogs are too useful but perhaps it was an old frog and its time had come .....Don't worry about the Asian pear unless it is flowering. The tree is fully hardy, mine has come through several pretty grim winters just fine. The problem is the flowering period. It flowers very early, and this means that there are few other pollinator trees about (Williams aka Bartlett is a reasonable pollinator or another Asian Pear). And frost gets into the flowers most years. My tree is now well established, nearly 20 years old and has been bearing well in the last few years. It seems to space its flowering over a longer period and so some of the flower misses the frost. It took a few years to get there. My husband wanted to cull the tree at one stage, because it took years before it produced. Unless other pears are flowering in the vicinity with a time overlap, you may have to think about hand pollinating. They are well worth a bit of effort. Good luck with yours.