Nice people thread 2 - now even nicer

PasturesNew

LJ, I'd invite you to mine for the weekend, except I don't have a "mine". This homeless lark's a bit of a nuisance sometimes.

inspector_monkfish

You don't need sky tv, you just need to get onto the link I gave to sky's website!!

PasturesNew wrote: »

Phew ... that gets me out of saying "I hate footy, no idea who's who or what's going on or when" as there's no Sky here

Heck, freeview's fairly recent!

misskool

WOOP 3 more courgette flowers this morning in the rain. Except they were boy flowers. Need some girl flowers so I can start eating home grown courgettes

Davesnave

misskool wrote: »

WOOP 3 more courgette flowers this morning in the rain. Except they were boy flowers. Need some girl flowers so I can start eating home grown courgettes

I have summer & winter squashes forming and a cucumber, but no courgettes. The early ones died from too much 'young' manure, then I put another lot of seed in a glass of water to get it going, and promptly washed it up by accident.....:o So, the third lot will be started today.

Mange tout peas are flowering, so they shouldn't be long.:)

Lovely drop of rain yesterday. Much needed, but it's b*ggered up the hay-making for now.

silvercar

Davesnave wrote: »

Chillis need a long season, so you need to start in February.

Mine have started flowering.

The best chillies for the 'occasional gardener' are the variegated ones. Not strong growing, but attractive & small enough to bring into the house in early winter and even as an unusual Christmas decoration.
This type will overwinter too, meaning a faster start, though probably more bugs, in the following year.

I'm growing more peppers than I need this year, as a trial, and because I'll probably save quite a bit of seed. Sold half a dozen at the weekend, though!

We did everything wrong, started in May (why were they still being sold that late?) planted seedlings out too soon and they died in the autumn.

lemonjelly

Great shout with Bletchley Viva!

Having done a philosophy degree, Alan Turing is already an interesting character...

tomterm8

In the past, we tended to use chillies as a pot plant. The flowers are pretty, and so are the chillies. Never grew enough to warrant planting out, just kept a few in the polytunnel. All in all, pointless because we don't like chillies anyway, but very pretty.

lemonjelly wrote: »

Having done a philosophy degree, Alan Turing is already an interesting character...

His theory of information and computing is probably the reason we are typing on this forum today. He was, in my view, a genious the equivalent of einstein.

PasturesNew

Just been outside, some purple flowers (I asked if they're primroses but they're not), white roses in bloom, sweet william in full bloom. Also lots of lillies out and in bud.

PasturesNew

lemonjelly wrote: »

...philosophy degree...

I could do that. Sitting and thinking. Easy!

SingleSue

My front garden is starting to look very lucious (sp?). Lots of green, lots of flowers...and looks like I am going to get a good crop of tayberries and grapes.

The back garden is looking equally good, strawberries are coming on as are the peas and gooseberries..and lots of lots of very colourful flowers.

There are more things out there but they are the ones I know...the rest my brother has to tell me what they are until they achieve recognisable form.