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I cut back my poor much-abused bonsai (a.k.a pet trees) using my poor much-abused scissors -- probably much too late in the year, so we shall see if they survive. The probably-prunus is now 7 inches high, although it suffered greatly over the hot summer, probably due to an inadequate root system due to my heavy pruning in order to convert it from a vertical to a horizontal pot. The birch is now 12 inches high and I think about six years old; I am still waiting for it to show some sign of going silver!
Out of the four spring onion stubs that I planted out at the start of the month, only one has survived; the others were either frosted or rotted off at the base for some other reason. I have two more on the windowsill in the kitchen, but have been hesitating to plant them out because they have the most colossal trailing roots which are hard to fit into a pre-existing pot -- it will be a job and a half.
My washing-line snapped this morning and dumped a couple of shirts into the mud below (I really need to sweep up where the old tomato-pots were, having now removed all the plants). The string always wears through eventually, but of course it actually breaks at the worst possible moment when you are in a hurry :-p I shall have to get out my Pot of String and rig up a new line; my third so far. The secondary clothes line has been functioning perfectly ever since it got its new buckle, with the sole issue being that the end of the tape that gets threaded through the buckle is becoming very frayed. I tried trimming it and rubbing wax onto the new end, but it didn't help.
Out of the four spring onion stubs that I planted out at the start of the month, only one has survived; the others were either frosted or rotted off at the base for some other reason. I have two more on the windowsill in the kitchen, but have been hesitating to plant them out because they have the most colossal trailing roots which are hard to fit into a pre-existing pot -- it will be a job and a half.
My washing-line snapped this morning and dumped a couple of shirts into the mud below (I really need to sweep up where the old tomato-pots were, having now removed all the plants). The string always wears through eventually, but of course it actually breaks at the worst possible moment when you are in a hurry :-p I shall have to get out my Pot of String and rig up a new line; my third so far. The secondary clothes line has been functioning perfectly ever since it got its new buckle, with the sole issue being that the end of the tape that gets threaded through the buckle is becoming very frayed. I tried trimming it and rubbing wax onto the new end, but it didn't help.