The revenge of the stripey socks - a DFW adventure

boredofbeingathome

fayjmck wrote: »

well i feel like carp - so - sorry for the rub in my birthday lobster - was eaten (couldn't taste it much) 3 days later - as a last ditch attempt - before he went in the freezer - poor pet - his last few claws are now in the freezer.

at least it wasn't cake - bleurgh

Sorry bob - in fairness I feel terrible - but boris was yummy

:oSorry i didn't mean it like that, i meant to put a :rotfl:after the sentence..poor timing on my behalf there.

glad you had a nice time and the sea air will clear up snotty nose and what not.

Sends you frugal online fishcake, by way of apology...grovel, grovel, grovel:D:D:D:D:D:D:D

Pippilongstocking

boredofbeingathome wrote: »

:oSorry i didn't mean it like that, i meant to put a :rotfl:after the sentence..poor timing on my behalf there.

glad you had a nice time and the sea air will clear up snotty nose and what not.

Sends you frugal online fishcake, by way of apology...grovel, grovel, grovel:D:D:D:D:D:D:D

Was just kidding nowt to apologise for - I worry sometimes we get some of the best food in the world locally for not much money - so I shouldn't go on!!

The poor must eat lobster eh? I think its very ironic - no money but a cracking lobster for lunch on the beach at a very selective restaurant very DFW :rotfl:

Frugal fishcake - yummy!!!

Pippilongstocking

Away to the office for a bit - sniff - one of my fields - KW in background Willow to the left - willow to the right

boredofbeingathome

My kind of job that is, away where no one can bother me..and lobster for din dins, yum.

lucielle

Lovely blanket. My mum used to crochet blankets similar to that one for us when we were kids.
L

Pippilongstocking

Hiya
Blanket rocks I am sure we had one when I was wee but not so colourful!!- thank you SM x x x
Bob nice office eh? Sadly only get lobster once a year if I am good!
Sadly I only get to hide their during field work

EssexHebridean

Awww - poor you Fay - was wondering where you'd been - getting a bit worried about you but glad you're on the mend a bit now. That lobster was a bit of a beast wasn't he - excellent, thanks for sharing the photos. I know what you mean about fancy food for a less than fancy price - we eat things like Scallops when we're up on North Uist as they are so reasonably priced - brought a big box back with us to - now split up and in the freezer - yummy!

My car has a brightly coloured blanket made of crocheted squares too - made by Mum and I when I was first learning to drive. It's been in all my cars since I passed my test in 1991. (18 years ago yesterday!)

Keep yourself tucked up nice and warm - lots of lemsip and hot drinks and hope you're feeling better soon xxx

Pippilongstocking

OliveOyl wrote: »

Warning dumb question alert

(I've come in from gardening lucielle - maybe that's what everyone else is doing)

Here's the dumb question:
the bit that comes out of the seed first, is that the root or the shoot?

I just want to know if I'm planting my sprouted seeds upside down, I'm sure they'd cope if I did, but I'm curious

You are going to hate me for this but it depends on the plant, where its from and how it would grow naturally - ignore the waffle below

You will learn to generally not mention the word 'plant' or how does a plant do this .......my kids now run - screaming

Plant need moisture, heat, light/dark and 02 (oxygen) - they are all important - if its too wet, cold or hot or in too deep and it might not get enough air - they are simple but need a balance to let it do its stuff - just like us

Generally what happens is the embroynic radicle (the new root part) comes out of the seed first - then it can anchor the seedling in the soil an start to absorb moisture. Then the baby shoot emerges from teh seed with the cotyledons (little seed leaves - which normally don't look like the proper or true leaves) which will push up through the surface.

BUT they do this differently for different plant groups



Some plants the first thing that happens is the new first root will be pulling rather than pushing them through the soil - beans do this BUT peas etc keep their seed leaves under the soil and just push up a tiny seedling and then germination starts.


Generally though - they know who they are and how to do it - a root will generally gravitate to hook itself into the soil - most 'individual' factors for plants will depend on how they grow in the wild - some plants need a real period of cold then warm (stratification) to germinate thinking that its summer. Some plants need another trigger like fire, or lots of moisture or a specific amount of light/dark

EssexHebridean

"Martin Clunes Islands of Britain" - ITV, on now if anyone is interested to see what life is like living on an Island. He's on Shetland at the moment, and will be looking at the Hebrides later in the programme - not sure if he's covering Orkney as well.

OliveOyl_2

Hmmmm, I may have understood some of that.......:o

It was me peas that confused me, (germinating on damp kitchen roll, so no soil for anything to cling onto.) and fortunately I didn't sow them deep (which I have tended to do when sowing them in the garden because we have lots of birds who think my veg plot is theirs to scratch over )
They're now in their toilet rolls and I have high hopes.......

Bob Flowerdew would love my veg plot at the mo. I have raised beds made from pallets,potatoes growing in bags and Evian (posh lodger) bottles as individual cloches. Secondary glazing panels work as cold frames and me seedlings are in toilet rolls :rotfl::rotfl: I even have plans to build self watering containers with some leftover plumbing........

I still manage to kill things though.....:o