| Date |
Journal entry |
| September
30th |
Season
over now but still quite a few blooms on the plot. As always some successes and some
failures. Lots of tidying up to be done and stools to be boxed up and stored. Making plans
for next year - numbers, varieties etc.
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| August
5th |
Overhead
protection put in place during last week. Most varieties being moved into bud bags now.
Some early varieties now into large bags - New Stylist and Kimberley Marie.
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| July
30th |
Continuing
to liquid feed up to calyx split. A few more varieties have their buds at this stage now -
Yellow John Wingfield, Peter Rowe, Lorna Wood, Lynn Johnson, John Harrison, New Stylist.
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| July
21st |
Nearly
everything secured now, only Millennium to go. At last a few days of warm weather and it
seems to be making a difference. Buds developing nicely. First Kimberley Marie buds
reached calyx split during the week and bud bags put on.
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| July
11th |
Securing
buds in most cultivars, some noticeably later than others e.g Chessingtons, Woolley Pride,
Woolley Globe. Continuing cold with little or no sunshine. Winds northerly/north easterly
which doesn't help. Liquid feed continuing but with reduced frequency/strength for
Chessingtons, New Stylist, Peter Rowe.
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| July
1st |
Buds
visible in most cultivars now. Earliest New Stylist buds being run on. Plants seem shorter
than in previous years, especially Chessingtons. No summer in Aberdeen so far, still too
many days when daytime temps don't reach 15C and at night we drop to 5-6C.
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| June
24th |
First
buds visible in several cultivars - Cornetto, Lorna Wood, John Harrison. Continuing with
liquid feed roughly every 6 days (Chessingtons on half strength).
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| June
18th |
Strongest
winds in 80 years hit northern Scotland in the early part of last week. Amazingly very
little damage to the chrysanths. Most Vanessa Lynn now run-on. Taking the third break down
from the first crown bud as the run-on stem. Click here for a
picture of the plant after run-on.
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| June
11th |
All
plants putting on height now. Feeding programme started. All plants now reduced to the
planned number of laterals - most are carrying two but some down to one (Chessingtons,
Yellow Gingernut). First Vanessa Lynn buds run on, one plant appears to be 7-10 days
earlier than the others.
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| May
28th |
Two
days of almost non-stop rain this weekend, need a bit of sunshine now I think. A couple of
photos available showing the beds where disbuds are being grown. The first bed contains
the mediums and the second contains the large
varieties.
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| May
20th |
Early
sprays planted out today. Heavy rain during last week has certainly given the early
disbuds a rush of growth, laterals coming along quite nicely.
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| May
10th-12th |
Planted
the early disbuds in the final positions and pots. Root systems generally good.
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| May
6/7th |
All
beds prepared for planting next week. All plants sprayed with insecticide and fungicide.
Most varieties showing good development in breaks.
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| May
1st |
Many
plants wilting in warm sunshine. Some plants have developed roots mainly on one side of
the rootball - strange. Prepared plots ready for fertiliser dressing as recommended by
soil analysis.
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| April
9th |
Started
to move sprays into larger containers.
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| April
2nd |
Moved
lots more plants into 5" pots yesterday. Weather is awful today, snow showers all day
long, temp at 2C. Looks like winter is hanging on for a while longer.
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| March
26th/27th |
Moved
a number of cultivars into 5 inch pots: Wingfields, Woolley Globe, John Harrison, Carlene
Welby, Peter Rowe, Clapham Snowflake, Lorna Wood and Amanda Preston.
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| March
19th |
Chessingtons
stopped. Second spray bed prepared.
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| March 11th |
First few plants moved into 5inch pots: Lynn Johnson and some Chessingtons.
Mixed more compost for 5inch pots, used sterilised materials. Prepared new bed for early
sprays.
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