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Fairweather
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Had a great day on the allotment and got lots done at last. Put my broad beans in, sowed so carrots, beetroot and spring onions and started giving my shed a lick of paint.
If it's just gone floppy from a brief period of being underwatering it'll probably bounce back, they can be fussy though. You'd need to have a look at the roots to see if it's more fucked (plus check leaves including undersides for pests) - looks like it's in coir so personally I'd be repotting anyway as standard.
Callie
Pivoting
Alocasia? I got a nice one from IKEA. It's almost totally dead
wanna buy it off me for £1?!Apparently they do not like too much water and can easily get root root. It might not like direct sunlight.
I love semi dead plants though. One garden centre near me always has some. I can't say I've had loads of success but I like trying.
smmudge
i know the smudge is true
OK thank you I will, what should I be potting it in? Also minor point but it's just "leaf" atm
Alocasia? I got a nice one from IKEA. It's almost totally dead
Apparently they do not like too much water and can easily get root root. It might not like direct sunlight.
I love semi dead plants though. One garden centre near me always has some. I can't say I've had loads of success but I like trying.
Yes that's it Alocasia. Apparently it likes 'bright places but not direct sunshine' how fussy can you get!!
OK thank you I will, what should I be potting it in? Also minor point but it's just "leaf" atm
Yes that's it Alocasia. Apparently it likes 'bright places but not direct sunshine' how fussy can you get!!
Yeah they are fussy dicks tbh.
I make my own potting mixes - about two thirds orchid bark to one third chunky/woody compost mixed in if possible (not claggy cheap peat-based stuff and nothing with ingredients added "for moisture retention") and maybe a bit of perlite would be your best starting point if you want to do the same, or you can probably buy premade special alocasia mixes online for about the same money if you only want enough for one plant. If you want to just buy a bag of something then I'd go with orchid bark but one of the earthier-textured brands if possible, Miracle Gro is better than Westland for this iirc.
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
Might be mice
two sheds
Least noticed poster 2007
yes I think the mice had my pea seedlings. I've put some more in and now have six which I'm planting indoors to (hopefully) avoid little bastard mice. A couple of months I pre-ordered some more pea plug plants which arrived the other day so I now have another six which I'm also planting indoors. Am severely hopeful of getting fresh peas this year which will the first time I've tasted them for a good 20 years 
Aladdin
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Spent yesterday digging out a bed and picking out stones & dobey clay. Two carloads of the stuff went to the recycling plant.
My whole body can barely move today. And there are still stones to pick.
Also lots of that bindweed. Sick of pulling it off/out. It's so hard to get rid of
My whole body can barely move today. And there are still stones to pick.
Also lots of that bindweed. Sick of pulling it off/out. It's so hard to get rid of
Just had a lovely video message from one of my now-ex gardening customers with a wildflower meadow update. It was already great - I've posted pics in the lawn mowing maniacs thread in previous years - but I sowed yellow rattle and a load of other stuff last autumn and iirc they were sceptical at the time about my methods (scuff, broadcast, stamp ), they definitely said in the message that they'd given up hope of it doing much, and now it's looking brilliant.
), they definitely said in the message that they'd given up hope of it doing much, and now it's looking brilliant.My refugee trees are doing great too. The pear that got dug up from a neighbour's allotment and left in a bucket behind my shed for months 
before I eventually planted it in that same work garden is already chucking out enough fruit to need a serious thinning, and the philadelphus (yeah I know but refugee shrub doesn't rhyme) I put in at the station looked happy when I was there yesterday.
Really love coming back to plants after time away and finding them thriving, and especially hearing about the joy and pride they've brought other people.
before I eventually planted it in that same work garden is already chucking out enough fruit to need a serious thinning, and the philadelphus (yeah I know but refugee shrub doesn't rhyme) I put in at the station looked happy when I was there yesterday.Really love coming back to plants after time away and finding them thriving, and especially hearing about the joy and pride they've brought other people.
Aphids would still be my first guess tbh. They might be hiding under/inside the leaves right where they're curled tightest. Have you seen any ants going up and down the trunk?Anyone have a clue what may be going on with my newly planted apple tree?
Its leaves are curling in and everything I've googled suggests aphids but there isn't any sight of them. Could it been the sun?
I'm worried it's going to die.
Can you take a close up picture of the leaves, both how they look at first glance and then uncurled and the undersides?
Idaho
blah blah blah
Young tree needing more watering?
Saffy
Under the duvet..
This might be it too, although we are watering regularly but maybe not enough?
two sheds
Least noticed poster 2007
I had potato blight in the leaves one year but the potatoes themselves were all fine and edible.
Idaho
blah blah blah
They look pretty healthy to me - but I'm not an expert
TopCat
Putin fanboy
Encouraging!
Idaho
blah blah blah
I don't know if I've ever not had blight. Usually still get a crop.
Yeah they might be thirsty, how much are you giving them? I'd do one to two big watering cans once a week for new trees, maybe twice a week at the height of summer if the ground was really drying right out in between. A proper soak and letting it dry out a bit in between is better than little and often.
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