Awful weather - typical Brits talk

Dustyevsky

YoungBlueEyes said:

Speaking of sitooteries, we went to Filey yesterday and I saw this. It's all just concrete lumps but they've tried to do something with textures and shapes, it looks good in real life - 

A black something. Looked like a bullrush or summat -

If I sat down in Fileyhenge, the looming concrete 'things' would spook me and I'd be checking the ones behind hadn't moved closer!

Your 'bullrush' is Pennisetum 'Purple Majesty.' Sadly, it's an annual. The bird's looks like a Pied Wagtail. They always pop up here when the swallows have left, but it's not time for that yet, surely?

I only came here to say Sainsburys were selling 3 x 40 litres of Levington for £10 when I passed through yesterday. It's a trifle coarse  but I think Farway uses it too.

twopenny

Oh forgot to say, our diy store has Cannas for sale in bloom!

Want me to get you some Farway  

So tempting as they have some fancy fern at £3.

Yes, that sitooerie doesn't do it for me. Too agressive. I like to be amid flowers, butterflies and bees.

Some heather OT........after sunset the ponies were going to their bed but wouldn't pass us. Realised it was the sticks so I put them down.

This one went to see what they were  

Come over really hot though low light and cloudy. Really humid so what's done is done today.

May go out to finish painting the light and deadhead if it cools off later.

Lots of watering done from bath water, washing up water and also used for cleaning the car. Got to save the pennies where you can

ArbitraryRandom

Farway said:

Growing in buckets is not ideal, TBH, as 2P says, they will get blown over, top-heavy, a tall & wet plant in a mid-December gale has no chance

Sampled my Bloody butcher & Veranda red tomatoes. Couldn't wait any longer.

The BB are more my taste, I found V red a bit sharp, but perhaps if I'd left it to fully ripen?

Thanks both - unfortunately no space in the ground (beds) until the rest of the broad beans come out - but that will be in the next few weeks so hopefully soon enough for them to cope... 

Spoke to neighbour yesterday who asked if I minded her trimming back 'the bush' that was growing over the fence - wasn't sure what she was talking about, because I hadn't realised quite how enthusiastic the runners (and apparently one of the squash) were being.  



Told her of course anything that tries to escape over her side she should feel free to cut back (and sorry!) but that if she waited a couple of weeks she could have the free runner beans in compensation Also took it as an opportunity to offload some courgettes and potatoes, which seemed to be appreciated. Pleased to note above, right at the top, there's just a few pure white flowers. I assume these are the moonlight beans making an appearance. Given I put in about equal amounts of both, I think it's fair to say the painted ladies liked the garden better  

A couple of other notable mentions - my first tomato is ripening! Thankfully I only planted two types, so even though I didn't keep track of which was where, I can tell you confidently this is a Tumbling Tom Yellow The Balconi Reds have a few fruits but nothing starting to colour as yet. 



And finally, I didn't get a picture, but was genuinely surprised to find tomatoes growing on one of my potato plants! I shouldn't have been surprised - they're closely related after all. Googling tells me they're not edible but that you can potentially grow new plants (hybridised) from the seed if you start them indoors in winter. I've already bought my seed pots for next year (to be delivered in early winter) but might be interesting to try a couple for the experience. 

Google even tells me there's a variety (TomTato) which produces both edible tubers and fruit... but unfortunately not cultivation magic, they're grafted  

https://www.thompson-morgan.com/p/tomtatoreg-improved-ketchup-n-friestrade-ketchup-and-chips/T69168TM

Farway

Blackberries picked, loads & loads still to come on there. This year the berries are a bit smaller but more of them. Still juicy & tasty.

Already sorting out next year's crop, oiked a wandering cane over to train along the useless espaliered red pear, one thing a walking stick can do that a hiking pole can't 2P

Spotted a very wobbly rat down the bottom of the garden, looked very wobbly & disoriented. He weaved slowly way under some brambles. I left him because it appeared he was not long for this world anyway, poisoned maybe?

Fileyhenge, looks like Rhino horns to me, is it some sort of pagan orgy place? [Asking for a friend]

Dustyevsky said:

I only came here to say Sainsburys were selling 3 x 40 litres of Levington for £10 when I passed through yesterday. It's a trifle coarse  but I think Farway uses it too.

Yes I do, or have. Not too bad, no tree trunks in it, and plants seem to like it. And that's not a bad price!

Currently, I'm using one delivered by Milk & More, I got a new customer discount, and it's price includes delivery along with your Jersey Gold top. Not sure of mix but IMO it is like compost used to be

https://www.milkandmore.co.uk/Pantry-&-Home/Garden-Compost-&-Soil-Delivery/Durstons-Multipurpose-Compost,-40L/p/75944

Nice beans Arb, envy oozing out of every pore. Your neighbour will be a happy bunny, or should be given the price of shop ones.

I picked half a dozen of my flat French beans to go with dinner,, they have white flowers

Here are my pink-flowered Celebration Runners, setting nicely now, even saw a bee in them, I was too slow for bee bum pic though

On left are the purple flowers of my hibiscus. The yellow splodges are tomato flowers.

On the right, the green monster is the pyracantha

pink_poppy

I was thinking cat's teeth for Fileyhenge. Not somewhere I would want to sit, tbh.

Lovely photos, AR, twopenny & Farway.

The weather warning has changed to include tonight as well as tomorrow. Heavy rain and the Rest & Be Thankful is closed, or about to be closed again, due to risk of landslides... Bloomin' weather...

wort

I hope the birds aren’t migrating yet 🥲 I want some more summer. 

YBE I wasn’t sure wether the filey sitooterie was dead conifers at first glance , then it reminded me of the white dog poo you used to see😂 I planted my pyracantha because my sister had one trained espalier like on a white wall and the berries it used to get were amazing. Needless to say my up against the wall shrub ended up 6 foot tall and at least 3 foot wide ! 

YoungBlueEyes

Fileyhenge Dusty It's for kids really, the seats are only little. It's on the edge of a camping site on the north side of Filey. I think the tall white ones are meant to be whale tusks like them crossed ones in Whitby. From the days when men were men and fishes were whales and times woz 'ard. Possibly. I wouldn't want it either but an unusual variation on the theme Sorry Farway, your orgying friend will have to keep looking ha haa!

Thanks for the bulrush ID Dusty. It was out the front of an old folk's home so that makes sense. If there's ever a plant in those places it's almost certainly got a royal name. Bless 'em. 

Ooh I like your inquisitive pony 2p, it's belly reminds me of the Escher-ish sky here the other night. Are you allowed to/did you stroke him/her? Looks so velvety and soft. Aren't they beautiful  

More mislabelling there I see Arb, that is quite clearly a triffid! Are you making room for all the beans you'll be getting off it? Gawd you'll never be done eating them Looks like you'll have plenty of toms too, they look a lot healthier than mine  Not sure I like the sound of TomTato…. you gonna try doing some? 

Oh aye, where did white dog poo go wort?! Wasn't it the sugars and carp in the dog food that caused that? Not sure where I've got that from tbh... 

OT Warm now and getting warmer. And warmer. Top temp this aft of 27'c so anyone needing warming up or drying out can come to mine. Grand drying day though cos we've a lovely breeze thank god or it'd be too much entirely!

Dustyevsky

YoungBlueEyes said:

Fileyhenge Dusty It's for kids really, the seats are only little. It's on the edge of a camping site on the north side of Filey. I think the tall white ones are meant to be whale tusks like them crossed ones in Whitby. From the days when men were men and fishes were whales and times woz 'ard. Possibly. I wouldn't want it either but an unusual variation on the theme Sorry Farway, your orgying friend will have to keep looking ha haa!

Oh aye, where did white dog poo go wort?! Wasn't it the sugars and carp in the dog food that caused that? Not sure where I've got that from tbh... 

OT Warm now and getting warmer. And warmer. Top temp this aft of 27'c so anyone needing warming up or drying out can come to mine. Grand drying day though cos we've a lovely breeze thank god or it'd be too much entirely!

Oh, I think we should have all sorts of sitooteries, good, bad and ritualistic, especially in Olympic month.

Wort's comment there stopped me in my tracks. Maybe white dog poo is the sort of thing one doesn't think too much about, but like the disappearance of other everyday things, it comes as a surprise when someone points it out. Those hessian sacks of dog biscuits in the grocers would be one of them. Perhaps they were responsible? Oh dear, I liked eating the black ones!

We shall be lucky to top 21c here today. It's raining at present, but only wussy stuff. It will suit working outdoors later. Last Friday, we did something nawty here, which I'll show you folk later, but meanwhile, here's another garden visited on Saturday.....with its own lake and a sitooterie at the end of it.

Seemed a long trek for the elderly owners, especially as their house garden had wall to wall sunshine potential.

As you can see, those blackberries creeping into the top picture were nowhere near ready, Farway. We're a month away too in Dusty Acres, even with the cultivated sort.

twopenny

Well that's weird. I've only just seen yesterdays posts. They didn't appear then,

Farway, interesting site. I'm not sure me or my neighbours would want disturbing in the early hours but it's a useful site. I'll hang on to that in case the car and leg have a hissy fit together   

Bluey, no you can't pet the wild ones. There are signs saying 'I bite at one end and kick with the other' and 'don't drive over my dinner' in grassy spots.

But there is a pony centre where you can pet the trained ones. They are good natured with a sense of humour. They are the oldest pure breed of pony from before the Doomsday book. And I love them!

I had a visitor the other day I guess that's the best for a garden grown from scratch.......and some tiny grass hoppers. Don't expect me to try and photograph those

Wonderful photos of the garden sucesses. Wish you were my neighbour Arb. Mine grow nothing on one side - and I mean just scalped grass, and massive weeds on the other.

I am distributing plums and raspberries to neighbours in small amounts (if they want more they can grow their own ) as I don't have freezer room for it all.

One young blackbird and some small birds called into the garden today but didn't stop. I'll get out there and do stuff, clean the bird bath, put out seed etc and paint, just general stuff.

The using the bath water on the garden is working well. I can justify the bath for the achey bits and drench the garden with buckets of water.

Cool and densly cloudy again. It goes really muggy when the sun tries to get through. Positively chilly last night but that meant a good sleep and some work can be done.

Right, off to the garage again..........

Farway

Dull start, wouldn't be surprised if it rained, probably the wussy stuff like Dusty's

I always thought white dog poo was due to them eating bones, either postmen's or cows, which no one seems to feed dogs with these days, lack of butchers maybe?

I remember those sacks of dog biscuits, I never had a favourite one, all tasted fine to my young palate

Dustyevsky said:

As you can see, those blackberries creeping into the top picture were nowhere near ready, Farway. We're a month away too in Dusty Acres, even with the cultivated sort.

That is surprising, even the hedgerow ones are ripening here. I know my Thorn Free one ripens later than Merton, but that is an advantage.

I have just remembered I need to check my “new” one, Helen, it only had a few on because it only went in last year

The fruit protection bags for my grapes are on the way, supposed to be only ten miles away & delivered by 10PM

If OK I may use some to protect my apples, last year the birds had a go at some, which of course then lets the rest of the creatures in

If rain holds off I want to dead head the pelargoniums at the front, and finish off tying in the blackberries for next year.

Not sure who mentioned they'd seen cannas in flower going cheap, Pah , my one is growing well but seems very reluctant to flower, a bit like my sweet corn, so far it's nice tall green bamboo like grass.

At least they are growing, so that's a bonus

What has done well are my fuchsias in wall baskets, offer from T & M plus some from Morries. 

Planted into Leverington compost, BTW.

As delivered in May

And now