Awful weather - typical Brits talk

Farway

twopenny said:

One box of chicken poo left in Morries. Do I buy it for myself or for a friend who'd like it? Moral Dilemna   

What a problem, but how typical for a present for a keen gardener, a nice box of chicken poo

ArbitraryRandom

YoungBlueEyes said:

Yep it’s a buddleia. I’m absolutely-deffo-lutely sure I took a pic of the label but my phone has ejected it for not being swish enough, or something.

It's lovely and odd (how I describe myself ) - I think it's what I know as 'Orange-ball-tree' if you wanted to find it. 

Not sure where the week has gone! Picked another 4 courgettes which will do me this weekend. Think one of my two plants is on the way out, but it started a goodly amount before the other so that make sense. Thinking I'll tip out another tub of pots this weekend - the next one in the line is the charlotte and vivaldi mix (the leftovers) so it will be interesting if I can tell any difference  

Scattered a load of seeds this morning. The nature reserve place had a seed swop (so I need to make sure I take some back!) and I picked up yellow poppy and mixed aquilegia. I also had some fennel, sweet cicely and the borage seed I'd ordered which was delivered yesterday. So they all got mixed and dumped in a semi shady spot towards the back (well away from the beds) where they can do their thing or not as they prefer. 

Still have photos from last weekend - the first couple are more 'architectural': 



I think Queen Anne's Lace (aka wild carrot) - but there's several lookalikes: 


Bee bum! 


And dinner last night  

Farway

Nice pics Arfbs, I like the lichen one, and courgette envy, still waiting for mine, but they were a late addition

Now, the first tom of my year, growing outside, my own saved seeds, 

Ladies & Gents, I give you, Ta Ra - Bloody Butcher

twopenny

Beauties Farway

Do they taste good? I can't remember if this is your first time.

Mine at last are getting height but seem to be bushing out as well. Very healthy but too close in this scenario so - There may be trouble ahead...........................

I've been gardening. Irritating neighbour has left ivy to grow in our far corner. I've cut it and used SBK ( I still have some of the old stuff) pretty sure she won't notice brown ivy her side, or care.

Everything is very poorly and dry apart from the mamouth Helebore I bought in a sale. It does give flower when there's little in winter so whether to move it or move my poorly dark red favourite that's hanging on my the skin of it's teeth I'm not sure.

I''ve reinstated garden edges and stuff, a lot more to do for a tiny plot but sans car my 'bits' are horribly painful. Tempted to keep going but really I should put stuff away.........decisions decisions.

BTW, there was an emergency and they didn't get round to looking at the car.

greenbee

Tip on blood tests - if you tell the phlebotomist/nurse/whoever that you have mobile veins and they don't seem to understand why you are mentioning it, book in with someone else. There's a different technique for them (they need to go in from the side). I have small, mobile veins - and there's a limit to the number of times they are allowed to try each vein. 

I need to draw a large plan of the garden, and then get tracing paper to put over the top of it so I can play around with designs. I also need to decide what to sow in the bed that the broad beans are coming out of - possibly a brassica as the bed is netted, and what will go in the three new beds I've created. I might have to look in my seeds. I also need to sow more lettuce and radishes in the planters by the house. 

YoungBlueEyes

Ooh that is a dilemma 2p. I'd buy the box for your friend because you have some already, then everyone has some Fingers crossed your car is still fickle today so they can see what you're talking about. If mammoth helebore is happy I'd leave it be. Do you have a different spot your favourite red could move to? Or does it want lifting and putting in hospital corner? 

Thanks for the medical vein advice Farway + gb, even though S0d's law says I'll not be in the docs for another decade now I know that ha haa.
"If it's jam then B & apple with my apples, here are some starting to swell, Champion, which is doing well this year" Good that you labelled your apple pic cos I thought you were turning into a Yarkshireman there for a minute It must have been your daughter's one I was thinking of if you've had yours for that long. Bramble gin always makes a good present  

"Lovely and odd", I reckon that takes care of the folks on this thread Arb Brilliant pictures - your dinner looks yummy yum yum I've never seen lichen like that before, so intricate and beautiful. That's definitely a calendar shot, or front page on here at least. 

Pa paaarrrppp for your Bloody Butchers I've only got toms on one little plant and I'm not sure if I've watered them wrong or they're blighted...My grobag ones are all filling out and have plenty of flowers, so maybe they're just late bloomers... the high temps next week might do them rightly.

What sort of design plans are you thinking of gb? A full rejig or a bit of shuffling...? And if you're short of seeds I have squillions here :rolleyes:

OT warm here already. Sunny and windless and there's not a breath out there Not even meant to be that warm today, the heat will be next Monday and Tuesday said the weatherman last night. It's meant to cloud over though and hopefully it does, I've titivating to do in the garden. Me sweetpeas have all come out at once and want tying up now, and I need to find something to hold up my gladioli (?) cos they've come out rightly in the heat too. They do look well but they're a bit wobbly already. No I can't be more specific cos I don't actually remember buying or planting them  

Farway

Sunny & bright, with gentle puffs of breeze, but not hot, ideal really.

twopenny said:

Beauties Farway

Do they taste good? I can't remember if this is your first time.

Mine at last are getting height but seem to be bushing out as well. Very healthy but too close in this scenario so - There may be trouble ahead...........................

BTW, there was an emergency and they didn't get round to looking at the car.

Yes, they do, decided I like BB, not just the memorable name, but tastes good, quick maturing and Heritage variety so comes true from seed.

First grew them a couple of years back, and I've stuck with them despite keep trying others on offer.

I think recent weather has given the garden a spurt, lots of stuff is catching up now,  and bushing out, the nasturtiums are romping away, leaves as large as your hands, moosssive

Fingers crossed for car.

I may need to water the front pots today, despite the rain they seem a bit dry, but all growing well

Tried for a hibiscus flower photo, but the open ones are up too high, OK for bees but no use for camera. I'll have to wait awhile for the lower ones to open.

My wall baskets with fuchsia in are another one loving this weather, some fuchsia were T & M & some Morries, of course the labels have faded so no idea what is what , all nice though

I may try for individual flower close-ups & attempt a poncey artistic montage

Had my first bean meal yesterday, only three beans , but it's more than I had all last year, so I count that a success.

Two were the flat yellow French climbers and one young broad bean, very pleased with the way the B beans are performing, as they were a late and unplanned addition

Quite by accident, the emergency late bean sowing seems to have paid off, so far. 

And I reckon my newly opened Celebration runner bean flowers can match, for looks, some sweet peas. Lovely salmon pink, photo to follow.

Here's my first B beans, Luz de Otono, said to be quick to mature, and I believe it, sown on tissues end may, potted on early June, planted out late June, picking now. I do pick and eat the young pods whole, like Runner beans.

And, here's a poncey fancy collage, from start to finish

-taff

Look at you all photomontaging it up like a pro...! Those beans look good. Sadly, mine are all in the last legs of their journey to the fjords...there's always next year...maybe...

Went to Wales to see my sister for a few days and started the getting rid of process of my mothers clothes and did some weeding, general fixing of a few things [ I'm the diy bod, she is attempting though]. I always want to attack the garden when I'm there, but I do an hour or two and then creak like mad for the rest of the day. Came back after four days away to find mine in quite a good state really. Everything needed watering but it's not too bad.

Caught up on four ish pages of posts and have forgotten everything except mechanics are rubbish in some instances [ I could tell you the cv boot cover story but I won't, suffice to say they tried to charge me for my own new boot cover] . Morries is doing it's shoppers proud with thos eplants, what a good idea to actually have people looking after the plants. And some new dressings were needed I hear? Waggy non medical finger. And then I had to google what the old test for diabetes was so now i need to know, who did the test ybe, you or cissie or the lovely cousin? Arb, what manner of spiky plant is that? And nice job cooking...score on the edging tiles

Loving the globe buddleia thing too, I definitely will get one of those..And building work proper starts Monday so expect 'I'm stressed' posts...

twopenny

Good to hear all the good news, Farway seems to be winning right now on the food front. That montage is ace. You clever old stick

You should find a use for that

Bluey, how you feeling? Odd that you didn't know you had diabetes. There are usually signs so hopefully not too bad.

Taff that's a tough job. I've done it twice and it's heartbreaking. But once done not too bad. I still have my mothers jumper she knitted. It's an odd but comforting keepsake.

I was suffering today, it's the getting up and walking from the garage wot done it I think. Need to start again with the routein regieme.

They didn't get around to my car because of an emergency And I missed the last swim because it was there waiting. Still, so far it's starting. Perhaps it was an oil thing and it's sorted out? Fingers crossed.

As I've had a set back with the old aches and pains I did jobs then read in patches. Love doing that. You get to relax and get things done.

Buckets of water  with epsom salts from my bath, to save on the water bill. Washing carpets (who knew they'd look so much better) and using water run off for the hot tap in jugs to water stuff. Pots soaked, gutters cleared so all in all productive.

Painted the old black outdoor lanterns white. Then an unpredicted shower but seems ok. I've painted better.

Some bees are back around the lavender and Bumbles with huge nectar sacs. I must look up how they use it.

Loads of plums, I'm shame faced to say I was greedy and didn't thin them. But I eat them as they ripen and don't save them any more. Anyone making plum jam, don't go to the bother of stoning them. Cut but boil whole. The stone will help it set and then rise to the surface where you can skim them off.

Don't know about beans. I have lots of flowers on the sunny planted one but nothing happening - much like the tomatoes.

The birds have vanished too.

Mix of weather, sunny morning and good British summer feel, not too hot, then dense rain cloud and repeat.

Love to our friend who is missing in action. I feel like singing Auld Lang whatsit.

Farway

Another sleepless night, not 100% sleepless, woke up about 0130, and it was just dozing from then on, I did listen to the radio, must have been gripping because I've no idea what interview I listened to

Got up about six, breakfast & then water & feed the pots at the front, the ones I should've done Friday except it tipped down then

All done now, which is good because it's supposed to be scorchio for the next few days

I'll do the back later today, now it's dried out a bit

twopenny said:

Good to hear all the good news, Farway seems to be winning right now on the food front. That montage is ace. You clever old stick

You should find a use for that

I was suffering today, it's the getting up and walking from the garage wot done it I think. Need to start again with the routein regieme.

They didn't get around to my car because of an emergency And I missed the last swim because it was there waiting. Still, so far it's starting. Perhaps it was an oil thing and it's sorted out? Fingers crossed.

As I've had a set back with the old aches and pains I did jobs then read in patches. Love doing that. You get to relax and get things done.

Buckets of water  with epsom salts from my bath, to save on the water bill. Washing carpets (who knew they'd look so much better) and using water run off for the hot tap in jugs to water stuff. Pots soaked, gutters cleared so all in all productive.

Loads of plums, I'm shame faced to say I was greedy and didn't thin them. But I eat them as they ripen and don't save them any more. Anyone making plum jam, don't go to the bother of stoning them. Cut but boil whole. The stone will help it set and then rise to the surface where you can skim them off.

Don't know about beans. I have lots of flowers on the sunny planted one but nothing happening - much like the tomatoes.

The birds have vanished too.

Anyone fancies trying a montage / collage, the one I used, free online, no sign-ups etc, here https://pixlr.com/photo-collage/

Hope the creaks & aches ease off, and the car has had a stern warning about its behaviour, or non behaviour.

When I made plum jam I left the stones in, and went for the real lazy bu66ers option, told everyone there were stones in so watch out , much the same as the "may contain bones" blurb on pies & fish Fs

I was thinking about my broad beans, wondering if I can squeeze another lot in before winter?

From opening the packet to putting some on my dinner plate was two months, but I do eat them young.

I think I'll give it a go & start some on damp tissue later today

Not sure if my runners will set beans, but here is a flower. If I had loads, they'd be very ornamental just as flowers.