Gramaisc
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Today, I decided to pot up some cuttings that I stuck in a spare piece of ground last October - most have survived and reawoken, but they could do with moving on a bit now.
This involved using a tray to do the potting in - it fits neatly between the front rails of the greenhouse benches. A piece of forward thinking design coming to fruition - or a total fluke - only I know which it is...
My nut sack on the floor contains the last of the compost I made two years ago, by shredding loads of stuff and rotting it in a cold frame - lovely fine stuff. I used this to fill in around the root balls that I dug up.
I now have a dozen roses, eight escallonias and a couple of skimmias (I think), I don't remember doing them and, as healthy as they looked, they had few roots evident - I probably should have left them in place.
There's a few odd cuttings left in place for now, in case I have failures here. The roses that went out last year are doing well this year.
This involved using a tray to do the potting in - it fits neatly between the front rails of the greenhouse benches. A piece of forward thinking design coming to fruition - or a total fluke - only I know which it is...
My nut sack on the floor contains the last of the compost I made two years ago, by shredding loads of stuff and rotting it in a cold frame - lovely fine stuff. I used this to fill in around the root balls that I dug up.
I now have a dozen roses, eight escallonias and a couple of skimmias (I think), I don't remember doing them and, as healthy as they looked, they had few roots evident - I probably should have left them in place.
There's a few odd cuttings left in place for now, in case I have failures here. The roses that went out last year are doing well this year.