Week thirty four
2006
Sunday 20th August 2006 I don’t normally take cutting of my dahlias but generally divide the roots up when I want new plants. This year however I did take some cuttings of my newly named Dahlia – ‘Laslett’s Tequila Sunrise’ in the spring and I must say that the blooms from these plants are strong and clean. Great for cutting for the house and possibly even for the show bench. But I know nothing about exhibiting Dahlias other than what I have watched on television.
2005
Sunday 21st August 2005 The day started grey and dull but ended sunny and still.
I have neglected the battle against the bindweed in the last couple of months and in some places it has romped away from me, it's white flowers the mocking proof, however, those areas that I dug over in the spring are now easy to dig again and I have been removing what weed remains there. This seems to be the best way of dealing with it, dig it out leave the ground empty then go back and dig it out again and repeat the process until no more comes growing through. The hardest part for me is leaving the ground unplanted.
2000
Sunday 19 August. Sowed the second row of onions and planted out a row of strawberries in a warm damp drizzly day that rained in the evening.
The new strawberry bed was well prepared occupying the ground that had this years early potatoes in, after it had been fortified with compost, the ashes of fire used to destroy blighted potato tops, moldy onion tops and the usual perennial weeds.
The small spring cabbage plants, grown from the seed sown at the end of last month, needed weeding but are doing well and will be ready to plant out September/October.
