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Garden gone crazy

Bizarre UK Weather

         

HelenDev

9:33 am on Oct 13, 2007 (gmt 0)

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Have any of you other green fingered peeps out there found that your garden is, well, behaving a little unusually for the time of year?

Last year, my tomatoes were all over by October. This year (I think due to the terrible weather in June and July) the tomatoes didn't really get started until August and were not greatly abundant. Now I go outside and find a scenario from Day of the Triffids out there, the plants have grown enormous, the tomato harvest is improving, and the flowers have appeared again, so I guess even more tomatoes are in the pipeline!

I have one lettuce (the sole survivor from two packs of seeds) which is still doing well, and I have a whole patch of beetroot, which I didn't get around to planting until a month after I should have, but which seems to have turned out well!

Other plants which I would have expected to stop flowering or die down are flowering again for the umpteenth time.

Let's hope the frost doesn't come suddenly and spoil it all!

Dabrowski

2:39 pm on Oct 13, 2007 (gmt 0)

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I have some Penstemon, that are apparently annual. They've flowered twice a year for 3 years now! I just keep cutting them back and they keep growing.

Also I have a Phormium that has loved the weather this summer, it's almost as tall as my girlfriend now!

dreamcatcher

8:38 pm on Oct 13, 2007 (gmt 0)

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I`ve seen more squirrels this year. :)

dc