Bud Burst!!

[Her Lushness]

Well Robert we types with one finger mainly, some of us intelligent English folks can do two finger types, but the weather, well not so simples, it rains, it snows, it blows, I swaps you for life in Canada, yes ???

OH NO! Karl's been at the looney juice again....

[kampervan]

how are they going to grow its SNOWING

[lockwood1956]

They are "Geordie" grapevines, and as such can go out in the cold with no coats on!

[rjb222]

Well Robert we types with one finger mainly, some of us intelligent English folks can do two finger types, but the weather, well not so simples, it rains, it snows, it blows, I swaps you for life in Canada, yes ???


just avin a larf mate take no notice

Gosh Duff you split me up man. They broke the mold when you showed up man.

[Duffbeer]

Don't know what you mean Jo You got snow again Ian ? get the sledges out

[Duffbeer]

They are "Geordie" grapevines, and as such can go out in the cold with no coats on!

Just a scarf ? I hope it's a long one dude, cos you Geordie guys have a reputation, know what I'm sayin old bean

[spritzer]

Gosh Duff you split me up man. They broke the mold when you showed up man.

Every cloud eh Robert

[rjb222]

Every cloud eh Robert

I will give Duff this he is golden and original.

[lockwood1956]

Vernon lives!

6th April and we have bud burst

whoo hoo

this is vernon, he has awakened after his many transplanting's and is now in a settled home (he seems to like it)

all the other vines, raspberries, hop, blackberries, kiwi fruits, fig, currants (Red and Black) gooseberries and rhubarb are coming on stream

many of my strawberry plants survived the winter too

life is good!

[crusher]

All the fruits in my garden are back to life like your's Bob (the Timperley Early rhubarb is over a foot high allready!) Will be freezing some soon as in the juice extraction tutorial.
The exception is the vine
I think there is time though, it was alive when I pruned it about a month ago, keep the fingers crossed.
The hard winter has killed quite a few plants though, even a couple of well established Rosemary bushes havn't survived!

[lockwood1956]

Vines are pretty tough...

have the buds swelled at all yet?

[Cellar_Rat]

Have to say we have lost a couple of vines - however the regent variety only seems to provide bird feed and not wine grapes so hay ho.

[crusher]

No, nothing moving yet.

[David]

many of my strawberry plants survived the winter too

I lost about 200, leaving only about 100 left, and what makes it worse is that for some reason they sent out hardly any runners last year. It's going to be an expensive re-stock.

Blossom has been opening on cherry plums in the hedgerows all the way across Oxfordshire, Bucks. & Bedfordshire for over a week, but there's none open on the sloes and I've only seen the first on just one wild damson (and it wasn't one of the 20 or so that I have growing).

[goldseal]

A big sigh of relief - it appears at least one vine survived my brutal pruning