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i wonder whether we as personalities, have a compatability with certain plants. it just strikes me that i have success with some plants and not such good results with others- wondering if other people have noticed the same. for instance, i am consistant in not being able to grow gooseberries, in different places and different years, but they never do well- this year my nieghbors plants are laden, my plants have 1 lonely goozegog between them! this also extends to redcurrent- it has shriveled and died for no apparant reason.
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carrots.
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Raspberries. Ugh. The canes arrive alive and never see the light of day again.
Oh, and curcubits that require greenhouse growing. 
Chillies seem the most successful - I wonder if that's good or bad for my personality.
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Yup, me too. Even if I manage anything they are too small to be a mouthful. Ever hopeful though, I have planted a row this yearOriginally posted by taff View Post
A garden is a lovesome thing, God wot! (Thomas Edward Brown)
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Swede. And you wouldn't write home about my carrots or garlic either!Whoever plants a garden believes in the future.
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Am very hit and miss with veg, but love growing herbs and flowers from seed. Perhaps I deliberately pick easy ones
but I get so much pleasure from them.
Well chuffed to see honeysuckle I bought as a very spindly thing about 3-4 years ago now much fuller and covered in flower buds for the very first time
Kirsty b xx
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I had ONE good year of garlic about five years ago but have had no joy with it since!
Its not for the want of trying though! I've planted in spring/summer and autumn. I've used shop bought and 'proppa' stuff from the GC. I've planted at various depths, I've started in modules, direct sown but still fail miserably!
Wish I could remember what I did RIGHT that year?
My Majesty made for him a garden anew in order
to present to him vegetables and all beautiful flowers.- Offerings of Thutmose III to Amon-Ra (1500 BCE)
Diversify & prosper
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On to my third sowing of beetroot, can't get the darn things to grow at all, and with flowers it's carnations that don't like me so they sulk and die.Comment
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Clematus. Love them, would love to grow them but have never manged to get one established. Even when my mum plants them for me and shes good, they die on me
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Hamsters, had 2, they both died within a week. Do they count?
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Dunno what this says about me but - my nettles and brambles are super duper this year!! So are my garlic
Happy Gardening,
Shirley
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I thought I could grow garlic until I moved here - you should see the fresh garlic sold in the markets at this time of year. Things of great wonder and beauty.
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lindyloo - dig up and swap your bush for theirs !
sorted
"Bloomin birds eating all the berries!!"Comment
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I'm too lazt to grow anything that takes a bit of looking after. S'why I'm rubbish with brassicas and salad.A simple dude trying to grow veg. http://haywayne.blogspot.com/
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Practise makes us a little better, it doesn't make us perfect.
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chris marks- thier bigger than me!!!Comment
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