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Awful weather - typical Brits talk
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YoungBlueEyes said:Does lemon tree have a moving out date..?Sort of. The youngsters will be leaving gradually from the end of the month. Their stuff? Also, variable. The lemon's no bother. I expect everything to be gone by October, but sometimes I expect too much!
One thing's for sure, I'm not taking on another garden!
Gaillardia is on my list now taff. Rozanne is already doing service in many places here. Every year she fights it out with a hydrangea and a cistus in a horrible place by the road....and wins.Here's a climbing rose for 2p spotted at the garden we visited on Monday. Sadly no one knows what it's called, but it was 60 years old when grubbed out of a hedge and various bits propagated.Like other doubles, it's tight for the bees, but very healthy with no sign of black spot.In the next picture, you have to guess what happened. I'll only hint that there were some hydrangeas involved. It's a sad story with a somewhat sad ending, but maybe all is not lost.OT: warm and sunny. I've just bought a Ninja from Martin's email today.That's one thing the youngsters will be removing PDQ!
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Hot & sunny, no wind to cool it either.On a brighter note, my back has eased a bit, so watering can restart.Managed to log in here, having confirmed I am still Human.Good & not so good news on job then YBE, still got a job, but the weeds grow bigger at home. Maybe your rottery relations will get lucky.FWIW I did jury duty at Winchester, many years back, far more enjoyable than going to workArson & TWOCing BTW, both Not Guilty, needs proof beyond doubt etc.I have a tomato baby
Variety unknown, one of the sickly ones I just bunged in. Hoping it's an IOW yellow cherry plum, but like any of your children, all are nice.
There's something very odd with some toms in my conservatory. Small leaves, misshapen stems, some deformed bits. I wonder if the rotten compost has weedkiller traces in it?Previous reports about compost do say tomatoes are especially susceptible to residual weedkiller traces.Dusty, the hydrangea linked pic, I spot tyre tracks, so, fell off a lorry or was hit by one?Now my back is more normal, I hope to inspect the fleeced strawberries, hoping to find at least some for another tasteToday is the turn of my hard red pears, hoping they at least will stew one day before they go rottenEight out of ten owners who expressed a preference said their cats preferred other peoples gardens8 -
I'm a confirmed human too... Still getting 'there was an error performing your request' though.
Farway, I got some free pears from Lidl a couple of weeks ago and they're still rock hard. I've heard they go from inedible hard to inedible squishy overnight.
Could you get a water butt for the front garden to make watering easier??
What a lovely rose, Dusty.
I'd go with what Farway said regarding the tyre tracks. I think the pot/trough is just slightly beyond repairbut hopefully the hydrangeas lived to fight another day.
Grey and dreary here this morning, with heavy drizzle first thing. Tomorrow looks better. Maybe.'A watched potato will never chit'...7 -
The waterfront looks lovely wort, imagine having that ony uor doorstep every day...Rottery acres rejig?ow about something [cough] like erigeron? it does like it dry! [scampering away now...well, ok, lumbering like a tree trunk away] Poppet ::snort::dusty, that's a lovely rose..there were loads of climbing roses at the OG on Saturday, all scented too..Looks like an errant digger of some kind [ was the SiL driving?] The flowers in the front garden are much shorter than the one I bought so that's something to be aware of too.Farway, my toms have absolutely romped away since changing the compost, they're bigger now in smaller pots than they usually are...If yours are in a consevatory,t hey should be enormous by now, if they aren't, it's got to be down to compost. You could try giving them an all purpose feed to see if that perks them up but I di remember aminopyralid poisoning, and they were obviously curled and rubbish in that stuff. Your pears are a lovely colour too.If anyone has any peach or orange pelargoniums, would you ind saving me some seed please? It's like unicorn poo looking for that colour round here...seems red and pink are in, orange is out...Non me fac calcitrare tuum culi5
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Hello everyone,
It's been a busy old week despite hoping it wouldn't be!
Those deep purple pears look amazing Farway - I'm not a fan of pears for the exact reasons identified - rock hard to inedible in the twinkling of an eye. I'm glad your back is feeling easier - best not having frustration in the mix too when you've got jobs mounting up. Loving your pivot on the pea situation - we are really are a "glass half full" bunch on here aren't we?!
I loved Madeira wort - we went years ago for a family holiday and your picture completely capture the lush feeling of the island. My kids don't fancy returning but it's definitely on my "List" (one of many "Lists" I have !!).
Sorry to see what's happened to your hydrangea Dusty I dread to think what's actually happened! It's good news you've got goods and chattels slowly making their way out of your home! Since I downsized I am a bit of a harridan about keeping things from accumulating in my home - I specifically sorted my garage so I have space which I can store stuff! My garden is the exception to this self imposed rule - more is more as far as my garden is concerned and I get wobbly when I see bare ground
Love the IoW pics YBE - sounds like you had a lovely time. Thanks for, in the (paraphrased) words of Bullseye's Jim Bowen, showing me "what I could have done" with my wobbly brick sets in my growing area! I definitely wouldn't have had the concentration to do a job as good as those on your pic. All this talk of erigeron and how ace it grows in some gardens makes me realise it's become the fleabane of my life (groaaaaan)
It's a shame your expensive rose hasn't lived up to expectations 2P - I have realised I'm a big rose fan but they seem to grow better in my border than my pots. I'll be buying a couple for my new border I think.
I think you've got the best of the weather at the moment PP - drizzle and rain sounds perfect. IT's so hot here at the moment. I am sun worshiper but I like my sleep and the hot, humid nights make it difficult for me. I hope the job hunt goes well. Working full time definitely impacts your time on here hahaha
Apologies if I've missed anyone.
Quick couple of pics from my early morning walk yesterday - I tried to not get a turbine in but it is quite difficult in that area! The wheat is almost ready - there were swathes of pale green in the fields but I reckon it won't be long until everything is golden. I thought it was interesting that there are two crops in one field.
I am pondering what to put into the new border I am developing in the sunny side of my garden and I noticed how Mother nature is so much better at arranging borders than humans! This pic is from the edge of a field and is quite beautiful I thought.
Anyway, I'll sign off now and wish everyone a smashing afternoon.
((WM))
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pink_poppy said:I'm a confirmed human too... Still getting 'there was an error performing your request' though.
I'd go with what Farway said regarding the tyre tracks. I think the pot/trough is just slightly beyond repairbut hopefully the hydrangeas lived to fight another day.
Grey and dreary here this morning, with heavy drizzle first thing. Tomorrow looks better. Maybe.I don't feel human.According to the Honiton Road Hiccuppers it's 23c right now, and I've been angle grinding! Happily, I've run out of angles to grind, but not teeth. Couldn't find the thingy for changing the disc; it's lost among other people's stuff, probably.
You're all partially right about the photo. Originally, it was a mushroom tray with 6 hydrangeas in1 litre pots in it, but that was before I passed that way with the ride-on yesterday evening, with sun in my eyes! Earlier, I'd popped the plants behind the hedge because they were newly potted and wilting in the heat. What you see there is all that was left. My mower has a heavy-duty deck for paddocks. :The hydrangeas were propagated as a gift for friends, who moved away when a close neighbour revealed insensitive plans for a development beside their property. I grabbed some cuttings not long before the new owners' diggers moved in to make a car park.Four plants were due to be handed over soon for our friends' new garden, not far from 2p.
But....all may not be lost. Among that pile of detritus, I found some bits, including roots, so half a dozen of those are back in the cold frame!Might get one or two to take.....and in a year or so...
-taff said:Farway, my toms have absolutely romped away since changing the compost, they're bigger now in smaller pots than they usually are... I remember aminopyralid poisoning, and they were obviously curled and rubbish in that stuff.The curling leaves and twisted stems are the give-away for weedkiller residue. If Farway hasn't got that, it's just carp compost. Here are the toms from the open garden; a couple of polytunnels full, but slow compared with ours.'Tis the feed, I tell you! Leaky pipe watering is OK, but it doesn't beat smelly comfrey water!
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I still haven't got round to growing any comfrey, but I do now have barrels that I plan to use for comfrey/nettle water.
I also need to work out whether I can use a solar pump system (like the irrigatia flo pro I have for the greenhouse) with the miles of leaky hose in the veg plot. It would be much more efficient than connecting through a hose fitting (they leak, and timers/programmers seem to be even more leaky).6 -
I missed WM's post yesterday with the great photos. It's not clear what's growing in the field with the wheat. Is it ox-eye daisies or feverfew, perhaps?
The field edge is very pretty and diverse, so I suspect that's been specially sown as part of a scheme. When I was taking school parties onto HRH's farms, back in the Light Ages, the farmers had to leave 10m around the edge of the fields 'natural.' It worked. 20 minutes counting minibeasts in quadrats, covering both areas, showed huge differences.
The kids were only moderately impressed. They really wanted to go to a farm where they could pet the animals!Awake in the early hours today, so took a snap at silly o'clock. Oak tree and passion flower.Dawn seemed to start at around 03.30.With 25c forecast again today, I'll start early and then, at midday, it'll be siesta time!
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So only another couple of weeks ish and you'll be sans yoofs then Dusty. That'll fly by. That's a bu99er about your hydrangeas but hopefully the root bits will be happy to be rescued
Do you ever hear from your neighbours then? Have they settled ok in their new place? My ever-so-delightful etc neighbours have a couple of Ninjas and they love them, never cook with anything else now (judging by the number of times they beep in a day). Neighbours shouldn't be plural actually for there's only him in there, I don't know where she's gone... "Honiton Road Hiccuppers"
Relations are still poor Farway so we'll have to take a few noughts off the Rottery Acres budgetWhen my sister lived dahn sarf in that Lahdan Tahn she got called up for jury duty. It was a big famous case, in all the newspapers, and she hated it. I don't know what's the matter with her, I think she must be the milkman's... Anyway. Good news that your back's eased up, you can wreck it again now with the watering! Weedkiller in the already duff compost is Michael Extraction territory
I hope it's something else... do they just want some fresh air round their gills maybe? Are they just in wee trays you could get outside?
Enjoy your grey and dreary pp, the heat is coming for you! Possibly. I used to get pears from Lidl/Aldi but they were always rock hard until the minute before they were rotten. I had better success with those wee ones in bags called Fun-Sized or Kids or something, they behaved themselves. I can't remember now what they were - I think they were more like a Williams pear than a Conference but the name escapes me. Very tasty and juicy they were, maybe lift those if you see some...?
Pelargoniums taff, are they wot used to identify as geraniums? I've 2 white ones here but I'll keep my eye out on my walk to work in case I can get close enough to anything that might stick to meBig Boss Man calls all the girls poppet, we've 2 boys and he calls them either "son" or "fellah". AFAIK he's never asked the boys to make the tea... I'm not joking when I say it's the 1950's
Seconded that we need a shoreline at Rottery Acres. A good one, and private too. And boat/s.
The properly laid tile patio thing was round the back of Queen Vic's gaff wm. It's an odd angled pic cos there was scaffolding everywhere, but it did look wellI like your 2fer field, I've never seen that before either - was it one field with 2 things in it or 2 fields with the hedge taken out? That mish mash field border is lovely, can you replicate that? Mother Nature sure does do it better eh.
Fingers crossed for your solar pump system gb. Is it a complicated rig and have you all the bits for it? I'd say go for it then, before the crazy heat gets here. How's Anonymous Dog doing in the heat? Is this his first summer...?
OT warm here, too warm really, and it's been too warm all nightI've the house opened anyway to let the humidity in *sigh* and it has made it a bit cooler at least. Currently 15'c with a high of 24' to come, they say.
I took some IoW biscuits across to The Oracle last night and she was saying she loves the heat. She'd rounded up some of her girls and they'd gone sailing on a canal boat yesterday. She's actually looking forward to the frankly ridiculous heat that's coming Saturday! She's an animalI had a hen who could count her own eggs - she was a mathemachicken.8 -
Love to see banks of wildflowers anywhere. I always go out for evening drives may and June just to see them because they are lush around then. This year wasn't great I think because of the dry.
One bank on the main road used to be all poppies and everyone loved it. Must be a different farmer now cause there's not a one in sight.
Went to the seaside yesterday but it was still hot.
I'm of the open all doors on the cool side brigade and get a draft through but I'm lucky I can do that.
At least it was hydrangeas Dusty. They are usually bomb proof. Glad you managed to rescue some.
Wort, my nails are the same. You used to be able to buy ridge filler that made them look like new but the current stuff is rubbish.
Bluey when you make the tea and coffee make it horrible or nearly cold . They'll stop asking 😈
Taff get that comfrey, you can get dwarf comfrey which makes life easier. The bees love it.
Now I've lost track of who said what...... I'll try and do better.
Meanwhile got a full nights sleep praise be but this is my beautiful climbing rose today. The heat over the last week has done for the flowers.
I can rise and shine - just not at the same time!
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