14th July 2008

Pelsall Imperial is up to its old tricks of blowing its tops off despite me covering the the top of the pot.
I started feeding Twyford Gold and Harry Revill this week with Chempak no 1.
I top dressed White Fairweather along whith the Olwyn familly but the Fairweathers don't seem to be growing so they are going to get a feed of Nitrogen to see if they will shift as the buds are due the 1st week in August.
Barry Bickerdyke read about my problems with white rust and kindly offered me some West Brom and Primrose West Brom so I went over on Friday to pick them up .All his plants look very well.

I started to knock the laterals down this week to the following:
To 3 Shirley Sunburst,Olwyn and Sports,Primrose Charles Tandy and Hesketh Knight
To 4 Yellow Seedling,David McNamara, and Roy Coopland
To 5 Kay Woolman
To 8 Harry Tolly
I sprayed with Systhane on Saturday as part of my spraying routine.

I went to the Sweet Pea National at Chatsworth on Saturday just to have alook.
As you walked into the room the scent was overpowering and the exhibits were excellent.
I have put some pictures on the Photo section of the Diary for you to have a look at...