Nice People Thread No. 14, all Nice and Proper

Generali

lemonjelly wrote: »

Tiger Tomatoes (supposed to be stripey?)

Actually I think they bite off the back of your head if you don't take care.

lostinrates

lemonjelly wrote: »

Got my backside into gear with planting seeds yesterday before heading off to the bowls match.

Into the ground I've sown:
Purple carrots
Normal carrots
Onions
Spring onions

Into pots I've planted:
leek
Thyme
Basil
Cucumbers
Beans
Peas
Tomatoes
Lettuce
Rainbow Swiss Chard
Tiger Tomatoes (supposed to be stripey?)
Yellow Courgettes.

Lets see how we get on...

Rainbow chard is fabulous. I've not found as good a strain as my mother grew years ago, but its good, durable and healthy. We grow it as 'cut and come again' and the stuff sown last spring is feeding us still now, like our silver beet. .


We planted a Jerusalem artichoke bed today. And I started the tiniest bit of weeding around my rhubarb. ( and I mean the tiniest bit). I plan to do a bit more tomorrow and tues day, try and get it weeded ( its really not a big patch ) in those two short sessions.

The white garden looks a bit bare from the moving of some things last autumn. We moved a very big buddleja to the back garden.....necessary but still sad ( how much something had grown in FIVE years we'd been here...one of the first things we planted!). We have another the same size or bigger to move this autumn, but still want that privacy this year at least. I also think We'll have to move a non flowering mock orange blossom in autumn. Its leggy and crazy where it is, but just no flowers, and too big really.

But there is a point in the white garden where it is NOT bare, and that is where the weeding stopped as we hit a BIG patch of weeds that needs some serious enthusiasm and commitment to clear. :o:o. I believe in those weeds there are some pretty white parrot tulips but.....you'd never know!


Edit: the other thing I'd like to get done this week is to move my wild strawberries in pots to be ground cover in unplanted bits of the herb garden ground level beds for now. Better than weeds.....even when they act like them they are useful ground cover. And that means I can top up my pots more easily. We might, if we are really lucky, get to look at creating the soft fruit garden ( man power over money? Apart from weed killing stuff.. ) this year and then be pleased to have more of them as more ground cover in the new place!

vivatifosi

This is for Gen and anyone else who likes cycling...

I've been watching the Paris Roubaix today, don't know if you saw it, SPOILER ALERT don't read next para if watching later.

The peloton was riding on cobbles a couple of mins behind the main group when the barriers on a level crossing came down. A couple of riders got hit by barriers and about half the peleton rode around before the police stopped the rest of the group. Still one rider broke free and got across the track, just before a TGV came steaming through. Scary stuff! The police then slowed the front half of the peloton down until the first half caught up.

They're mad I tell you! V excited. This week bought our tix for the World Champs at the Olympic velodrome next year.

GDB2222

Who organises a cycle race through a working level crossing? That's grossly unfair to any riders who get held up for a serious chunk of time.

Percy1983

My swing seat in the garden has blown over again, I think I best anchor it.

There isn't much space on the feet to bolt it down but wound it be worth gluing it down?

Any recommend glues for such a task?

purch

vivatifosi wrote: »

I've been watching the Paris Roubaix today,

Bike racing is mad.

Paris-Roubaix is even madder :eek:

That Degenkolb is a monster.....he could easily beat all the top sprinters in a flat out sprint (apart from maybe Kittel & Cav) and also a monument like this.

Milan-San Remo & now Paris-Roubaix..............:T

michaels

We also took the DKs to the movies this morning and saw the Annie remake, very much our cup of tea, then straight on to a birthday party for DS (and DD2 ended up going as well as she is class mate with party boy's sister) and then a quick trip round Morrisons; took up most of Sunday though which is normally my lie in day where everyone else goes to church. Can't wait for new car which is due 'any day now', emergency little car's slipping clutch is getting worse and worse to the point that we avoid steep hills, not sure how we are going to unload it once we have new car, garage just laughed when we suggested a trade in!

silvercar

Some NP have been through the planning process.

Our back to back neighbours have submitted a PA to do a loft conversion; the plans show a velux style window in the middle of their roof which I guess will be slightly higher than it is now. the height won't be a problem as their house is lower than their neighbours, but I don't like the idea of a window overlooking us. Could I object on the grounds they will overlook us, including our rear balcony? Our back garden is about 200ft and their's must be 100ft, but still...

LydiaJ

silvercar wrote: »

Some NP have been through the planning process.

Our back to back neighbours have submitted a PA to do a loft conversion; the plans show a velux style window in the middle of their roof which I guess will be slightly higher than it is now. the height won't be a problem as their house is lower than their neighbours, but I don't like the idea of a window overlooking us. Could I object on the grounds they will overlook us, including our rear balcony? Our back garden is about 200ft and their's must be 100ft, but still...

Overlooking is one of the few things that planners take seriously. They can make them make the window too high up to see out of, or glazed with frosted glass or something. It's worth putting in a response. But don't they have any other windows that overlook you - from the normal upstairs perhaps? That's assuming this loft conversion is going to sit on top of a two storey house. If they're doing a loft conversion on a bungalow it makes perfect sense, of course.

zagubov

lostinrates wrote: »

We went to ones in our villages and found that there is the most amazing garden behind a house in the ' main street' of one of the villages, one doesn't expect a garden of over six acres behind a house ' in a row' however grand the house. When one drives past one would believe an acre would be improbable

silvercar wrote: »

Could I object on the grounds they will overlook us, including our rear balcony? Our back garden is about 200ft and their's must be 100ft, but still...

Crikey! Rub it in for us Londoners! I've lived in places where if we all opened our back windows we could practially shake hands with our neighbours!