Nice people thread part 4 - sugar and spice and all things

tomterm8

silvercar wrote: »

Blighted Busy lizzies. Now virtually decomposed. Do I need to remove them? Can I plant busy lizzies in future years or is the ground now contaminated? Could it spread to other bedding plants?

1) if the bizzy lizzies are virtually decomposed, remove them and either burn or put in the recycling bin if your council does them. Don't compost at home; the council composting is different because it operates at much higher temps.

2) I don't know, because it is hard to know exactly what is wrong with them, but if you have had problems with a species in one location, my general rule of thumb is try a different plant for the next few years.

3) Depends exactly what it is, but if it hasn't spread already, it is unlikely to.

lostinrates

misskool...dh lost my engagement ring putting it ''somewhere safe''. Its somewhere in side something that we didn't check in either NYC, or an antique shop in Hampstead or to someone who bought something from an antuique shop and will have got a very lucky surprise.

My wedding rings are somewhere in the street in a Somerset market town. Because I swell and shrink a lot the rings that normally fitted me just fall off sometimes.

DH's wedding ring he lost in a field.

DH now wears a ring from a silver shop/...he bought a few. I have a new wedding ring which I just don;'t wear when I'm not swollen or when I'm too swollen. One day, if that ever stops, I will have it resized.


Meanwhile.....get a little bowl for by the sink/downstairs and drop yours into it when you get in in the evening. I have some in my dining room, which is where the answer pohone is, and when I get in I check massages and drop the rins/earrings/bracelets I have on into the bowls. Gradually they fill with junk jewellery and I take the little bowls up and replace the stuff into wear I store jewellery upstairs.

lostinrates

tomterm8 wrote: »

1) if the bizzy lizzies are virtually decomposed, remove them and either burn or put in the recycling bin if your council does them. Don't compost at home; the council composting is different because it operates at much higher temps.

2) I don't know, because it is hard to know exactly what is wrong with them, but if you have had problems with a species in one location, my general rule of thumb is try a different plant for the next few years.

3) Depends exactly what it is, but if it hasn't spread already, it is unlikely to.

If its a bed of only bedding could you have a fire there...would that kill stuff off I wonder?

PasturesNew

misskool wrote: »

well, it's not a good start to the day when you can't find your wedding and engagement rings is it?

Dunno, I've never had either of those.... I doubt I ever will as there'd be very limited options to purchase such items by somebody chained up in my basement

misskool

tomterm8 wrote: »

Er.. have you checked the bins?

Or the floor under the normally-safe-places?



Do so. After all, even if you were going to move them anyway, Tesco doesn't know that, and you will have to do it ahead of schedule

Yup, just left a note so bin doesn't get emptied. I remember putting something in the bin yesterday evening

big knot in my stomach. it's not even the money, i'm going to get them welded onto my fingers if i ever find them....

lostinrates

misskool wrote: »

Yup, just left a note so bin doesn't get emptied. I remember putting something in the bin yesterday evening

big knot in my stomach. it's not even the money, i'm going to get them welded onto my fingers if i ever find them....

please relax, you WILL find them. Just need to do it calmly and methodically, you know they are somewhere in the house, thats how you will certainly find them.

A torch helps, check every inch of space with a torch, even in the light, it focuses the hunt on a small area, so with methodical serching no ring-sized area goes unsearched.

misskool

lostinrates wrote: »

misskool...dh lost my engagement ring putting it ''somewhere safe''. Its somewhere in side something that we didn't check in either NYC, or an antique shop in Hampstead or to someone who bought something from an antuique shop and will have got a very lucky surprise.

My wedding rings are somewhere in the street in a Somerset market town. Because I swell and shrink a lot the rings that normally fitted me just fall off sometimes.

DH's wedding ring he lost in a field.

DH now wears a ring from a silver shop/...he bought a few. I have a new wedding ring which I just don;'t wear when I'm not swollen or when I'm too swollen. One day, if that ever stops, I will have it resized.


Meanwhile.....get a little bowl for by the sink/downstairs and drop yours into it when you get in in the evening. I have some in my dining room, which is where the answer pohone is, and when I get in I check massages and drop the rins/earrings/bracelets I have on into the bowls. Gradually they fill with junk jewellery and I take the little bowls up and replace the stuff into wear I store jewellery upstairs.

would it be really bad to read about you two losing rings has cheered me up slightly? I'm so stupidly sentimental about them. He doesn't even wear anything. he's gone off into hiding as I've gone into rabid mode. I don't even know where to look if they aren't in the bin.

please please please please let them be in the bin.

and buying some sodding bowls.

(sorry you lot, a bit self obssessed, will do blight in a bit,they strike fast so if you have it, you will know about it immediately. and being warm and wet is NOT helpful. other fungal diseases which are less worrying and more just annoying is botrytis (or similar spelling), which is localised and will only affect plants without much air circulation).

tomterm8

lostinrates wrote: »

If its a bed of only bedding could you have a fire there...would that kill stuff off I wonder?

The reason for burning the plant is simply to get rid of any infection. So, in part, yeah it would kill it off.

But, broad rule of thumb is there can be more wrong than the disease.

So, for example, the location you have planted in could be too windy, or too wet, or too acidic, or not in the right soil type for the particular species (or the opposite, whatever), which weakens the plants there. In which case, they are more likely to have problems.

Secondly, depending on the nature of the plants, different plants can wear out the soil... taking different nutrients... same basic principal as crop rotation. Which again can weaken a particular flower if you keep planting the same thing... or even the same family of plants in the same place...

And of course, depending on the illness, either spores can stay in the ground for years, or virus / bacteria can survive in the vegetable matter left behind... you can never dig all the roots out, not the really thin one.

So, general rule of thumb is crop rotation for bedding plants... don't grow the same genus for too long in the same location... if a species has a problem in a particular location, don't grow it there again for a few years, grow a plant of a different family.

Of course, if you still love the plants, you can grow 'em in containers... that will work too.

lostinrates

misskool wrote: »

would it be really bad to read about you two losing rings has cheered me up slightly? I'm so stupidly sentimental about them. He doesn't even wear anything. he's gone off into hiding as I've gone into rabid mode. I don't even know where to look if they aren't in the bin. .

No, that's why I told you.

Calm down...he is more important than your beautiful rings. kiss him, go and have a drink and ask him to search with the torch. He's calmer now I guess.

michaels

I never take my wedding ring off - but then it doesn't have any bits that could get damaged and the odd scratch makes it look weathered...

When I went on holiday I took my pile of credit/debit cards for security, the pile was about 50 cards high (mine and DW's to be fair) so I am never short of a suitable card for on-line purchases. More often when I am out I find I haven't got the current 'right' card as it is left next to the PC. Having said that I am currently in urgent need of a new card as all my 0% purchase slow stooze cards are maxed out buying house bits.

I looked on the DIY board re water softeners - I didn't realise there was such a thing as a water softener anorak until today.