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carmen-sylva

Found peace among the flowers, birds and insects in my garden... and discovered a new passion. Strong supporter of organic gardening. 🐝 🐦 🐞 🌱 🐝

Cosmos

  • Season Icon Late WinterLate Winter 2023
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carmen-sylva

This was this morning. #seedlings 🌱🪴😊

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  • Season Icon Late WinterLate Winter 2023
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carmen-sylva

“I won’t buy too many seeds this year” 😊 Ooops.

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  • Season Icon Late SpringLate Spring 2022
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carmen-sylva

#advice needed please. I planted out the Cosmos seedlings and they are constantly under attack by slugs (and ants!), lots of casualties. Is there any organic, kill-free solution to slugs? #slugs

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usgardentags

#beertrap #eggshells or #diatomaceousearth

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anges

Could you keep the seedlings somewhere else in pots until they are bigger plants?

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carmen-sylva

@anges I could keep them in the greenhouse a while longer but they are already so big, their roots want to spread out!

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anges

Try putting gravel at the base of each plant. I'm going to try this with my dahlias.

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carmen-sylva

@anges Thank you, I’ll try.. 💓

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  • Season Icon Mid SpringMid Spring 2022
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carmen-sylva

#Cosmos Mixed growing nicely although sown quite late!

3w
  • Season Icon Mid SpringMid Spring 2022
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carmen-sylva

My initial batch of Cosmos turned out to be very frail and slow growing so this is a second batch sown about 2-3 weeks ago😍looking good and growing nicely in the greenhouse #cosmos #gyo

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  • Season Icon Early AutumnEarly Autumn 2021
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carmen-sylva

@gjones Yes, we had a mild autumn so far so there’s still a bit of colour in the garden. X

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racha

so pretty. beautiful color on them

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  • Season Icon Early AutumnEarly Autumn 2021
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carmen-sylva

Still a happy spot, this one. And a sunny day today 🥰

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  • Season Icon Late SummerLate Summer 2021
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carmen-sylva

Well if the bees are happy then I am happy 😊 😍

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crabby58

They look very happy 🐝 😃

3w
  • Season Icon Mid SummerMid Summer 2021
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carmen-sylva

Cosmos, Verbena

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carmen-sylva

@gjones Thank you!

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  • Season Icon Mid SummerMid Summer 2021
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carmen-sylva

#Cosmos doing great! Fed with garden compost 😍

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  • Season Icon Early SummerEarly Summer 2021
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carmen-sylva

#grown-from-seed

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anges

Lovely! 😍

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Davidward

Lovely pic Roxanna 🤩

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carmen-sylva

@anges @Davidward Thank you!

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  • Season Icon Early SummerEarly Summer 2021
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carmen-sylva

There you go, bumblebee, hope you feel better now 😍

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carmen-sylva

#grown-from-seed

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crabby58

Beautiful

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carmen-sylva

@crabby58 Thank you Thelma

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  • Season Icon Mid SpringMid Spring 2021
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carmen-sylva

Took me 2 hours to clear this little patch and to plant some Cosmos seedlings. It was a bit of an impulse but I decided that they’ve suffered enough in the greenhouse. 5 degrees tonight 😬 I really hope they make it 🤞

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carmen-sylva

Do not be fooled by the sun on the background. It actually snowed earlier today 😬❄️❄️❄️But the seedlings are keeping cozy in the greenhouse.

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  • Season Icon Early SpringEarly Spring 2021
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carmen-sylva

Another round of re-potting today and moving seedlings in the greenhouse. #Cosmos #RedSunflower #TallSunflower #MexicanSunflower Sadly, #Hollyhocks didn’t make it - same as last year, fungal disease. Has anyone here grown #Hollyhocks from seed successfully? Where’s the trick?

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carmen-sylva

@dirtgirlworld Thank you so much! I’ll give it another try!! 💖🤩😘

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crabby58

Great advice👍

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  • Season Icon Late WinterLate Winter 2021
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carmen-sylva

Seed sowing has began today 💖 in very tiny steps

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  • Season Icon Late SpringLate Spring 2019
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carmen-sylva

Question about plastic plant pots please! Can you recycle them and where? Not referring to the small seedling ones - those I’ll reuse next year. But the bigger ones, not sure what to do with them. #advice #advice-pots

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rachelbrooks

I either put mine in the recycling bin (not black ones because they can’t be recycled) or I take them back to my local nursery

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carmen-sylva

Thanks, @rachelbrooks - I’ll wash them all and try giving back to the gardening centre. Hopefully they’ll re-use them.

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carmen-sylva

@rachelbrooks My local gardening centre (Wyevale Gardening Centre) doesn’t accept returned plant pots. I wrote a letter to the Manager as I find this unacceptable, considering that other nurseries seem to accept. 😤

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rachelbrooks

Oh. That’s bad. Maybe the smaller, independents are more accepting 🤔

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Sephy

If you were closer ide take them happily haha @carmen-sylva I'm ALWAYS in need of any container for this nauseating obsession lol 👊👍👌✌😎😜

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