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Awful weather - typical Brits talk
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Mixed messages from the BBC…And how cute is this wee ripe tomato 🍅 it was the size of a pea compared to the other two, but lovely and sweet…'A watched potato will never chit'...8
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I've had hellish trouble trying to log on this morning, I don't know if it's this place or my wifi.
Woohoo for your car deciding to only be broken enough that it'll keep another month Dusty
That's exactly what I've done with my hydrangea wort, cut off the ugly bit and moved it away from the white oneFingers firmly crossed for your olive trees. Will you go back for the gaura?
Aye my wineberry did fruit but they were goppin' Farway. Maybe your boysenberry will be happier now it's go something to hold on to?
Aww 2p I love that link. The odds of that must have been slim at best but weren't they happyGood luck with your camera woes, I couldn't tell you a bluddy thing about cameras so I'd be no help
Welcome back Less, did yous have a good time away (apart from the grass scorching heat)? I'm pleased my hydrangeas are outside and can't see this screen from there, I don't want them getting ideas about being pink + white :rolleyes: That lily is a beauty, I can smell it from here
Jeez you are up early pp! Getting a good going over at the hairdressers is always money well spent imoIf you've a B&Q up there, try them for lupins. That's where I got mine from and they've been great doers. I'll send you some seeds if you like though
Hopefully headache is just because of the change in weather and not Bertigo related
I'll keep my fingers crossed for your possible job
And look at your toms! That is sooo sweeeee'
Looking at your weather forecast, that shows where the drunkards get there info from
Or is it the other way round...
OT Well here's something none of us have said for a while - it's desperate foggy out there, foggy! It's starting to clear now, I can actually see the bottom of my garden but I couldn't when I got up. Welcome back Autumn, I've missed youI had a hen who could count her own eggs - she was a mathemachicken.8 -
It's been a while [ in reality maybe a week?] I was away helping empty cupboards and the like so now I have a bootful to get rid of today. I've now seen a load of fab photos, all the super sharp insects and the burbling robin brook, sunsets, parched grass and zinging flowers...I'm assuming some of those at least were front page worthy?Geez those last few days were hot hot hot, quite a few plants died despite me trying to stop them but they were obviously reading from the Norwegian Handbook.ybe, maybe check your wotsit for wine weevil? I dunno...Love the A Slugs Journey too
And a lovely place! But I'd want it moved darn sarf where growing veg and tomatoes is much easier
If only you could move an island. Going to have to look at the Rivers one now too. How about somewhere in Yorkshire with rolling hills and fab countryside? To be fair, there's quite a lot of it up there.
I'd never heard of a Buck Moon but I have now. I love how it looks like a smiley face when it's full too. No wonder all the old pictures drawn of it had one. Perhapy you should have done a compo instead, and claimed it in new plantsYour car journey sounds a bit ropey pp, hopefully you're all ok again and new hair will help with that. fingers crossed for your interview. I have air con that works but it's no good when it's so hot your hands are cold but your neck is still sweating. [A journey that normally takes an hour and half turned into three last week] Love your tomatoes! They're red for a start!gb, I don't envy you spetic tank nonsense. But you could try a local engineering firm for a new lid, or a fabricator of some sort who could probably make you a replica one.wort, glad your wedding went well, ...about the yapping [ another anti fan of small yappy type things]Pigdog was a favourite in black and white war films that Germans used to say wasn't it?At least you have some growing bean plants 20, mine went the way of most things this year and turned up their toes. And West Coutnry time is definitely a thing. I think it's a great thing, and it happens when no one is clock watching for their life. How did you get a black background on the nettle pic? It really really pops! I'd maybe take a punt at slamming my own car doors very loudly when I know he's trying to sleep. Or go out there and ask him if you can show him something and slam his door then gently shut it.Sorry that was an essay...In gardening news I now have an outside tap that is just in time for the hospepie ban which I will ignore as I am allowed to. A tiny bit of rain means some of the waterbutt is full, must get on and join them all up. And get a kit for the greenhouse. I did put the fig in the ground though and I've done a lot of prep moving of stuff ready for the removal of raised beds stage. And I put Princess Jasmine somewhere else to see if she'll grow.
Non me fac calcitrare tuum culi8 -
I was up early as well, no headache, just bunged up hooter and too hotWatered my ex fallen over courgettes, again, to ensure compost is wet & heavy. They look like they will recover, not pristine show ones, but OK in a battered way.The squished, but tough plants in DP border are recovering as well. Which is why I chose them, premonition or what?The newly opened lily is orange colour, I'm now waiting for a few more buds, and some sun, before I get a picAnd, Ta Ra, I have a foxglove spike appearing, which is odd because I thought they were biennial, and these are spring hatchedI know some biennials will flower in first year given right situation, just never had it happen to me, I suppose all the heat and dry has frightened it into flower before it's boiled aliveOr, a bit heretic here, all the extra CO2 and warmth is good for plants?Hose pipe ban arrives on Monday, not for me 'cos I'm Portsmouth water, supplied from aquifers deep under the chalk.It's the Southern water supplies, from rivers, that are affectedMessage from DD, her “gardener” pulled up, AKA weeding, the thornless blackberry I gave her, and do I have another one?I do, as it happens, they do root readily. Better news is the fig cutting I passed on at the same time is growing well.Now I need to find the blackberry cutting, I have an idea where it is, but there's a lot of vegetation around thereJust refreshed-taff said:Pigdog was a favourite in black and white war films that Germans used to say wasn't it?Yes, that's where I got it from, old war comics & films"For you ze war iz over"Eight out of ten owners who expressed a preference said their cats preferred other peoples gardens6
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Poppy if I'd known you were up we could have had a chat. Pieface woke me 4.50 and with all the windows closed it was stifling so didn't get to sleep till 6 later woken by someone parking in the layby and fancy car alarm went off twice.
So grumpy!
Taff you're getting so much done so fast. Your watering system sounds very efficient. Congratulations on the tap. I'm still waiting for a new one 7yrs on. West country time 😉
Yes I have slammed car doors while he's having his nap, and leaf blower but I don't think anything gets between those ears 😬
Need to get on with domestic nonsense which is eternal at the moment since the bank made a mistake with my savings.
And need to water.
Thick cloud and muggy here thanks to enough rain to wet the pavement but not the garden. It wasn't even wet enough to dampen my feet when I went out barefoot just enough for stuffy which is why I've done the country and seaside thing.
Can answer everyone when I get on the laptop tonight.
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Welcome back taff
Does feel like you've been away longer than a week... Are cupboards successfully emptied now? Is fig a fully growed fig? I'd be feared mine would die on me if I planted it out
I spose being a bit furver sarf you get more clement weather
Hopefully you've got all the bits for your greenhouse kit and you get it built before the rain comes.
Bunged up hooter Farway have you caught lurgy? Good to hear DP Border is recovering, maybe it's all those extra nutrientsYour heretic notion made me laugh! Whisper it softly <could it be true though?!> Has DD sacked the gardener over-zealous weeder? Lucky you can resupply her
I've a gladioli coming out here and I didn't know what to call it, but "spike" is just right so I'm pinching that, thankyoukindly
Hope your bank sort themselves out soon 2p, I spose it's a 3hr round trip to find a branch now, not that the staff are a bluddy bit of use when you get thereI was thinking about you and your camera woes last night - if it's not a new one you're after would a rake round the salerooms (if you have any nearby) prove fruitful? Then you can hold them and feel if they fit in your hands right.
OT Autumn continues apace here, it's 17' and raining. Only mildy raining with more robust stuff on it's tail, then no rain. Possibly. The humidity wants dialling down a bit frankly, 92% is higher than it's been for a while. The 'news' thing on my computer yesterday said there's a huge wall of death coming tomorrow, full of wind and rain and thunder and lightning, and that we should Take Action and Prepare ourselves and our properties and plan journeys carefully. A few months worth of rain will fall in a few hours, it said :rolleyes: I must remember to fill my waterbutts too - there was a story about a huge sinkhole that's appeared in a town that was caused by a massive long-standing water leak. Those things bear no relevance to each otherI had a hen who could count her own eggs - she was a mathemachicken.5 -
Good morning, hope everyone is well. I’m not good at remembering peoples news so excuse my memory of a gnat brain.
My day off Weds , was a refilling the emptied bin and I have another bins worth sat in the garage with chopping .
It started at the front the hebe Amy has gotten straggly so severe chop for her, Abies likewise.
Now round the back and there’s a few bigger changes I want to make so started those, two hebes one in middle border I’m hoping to remove ( not touched yet) and one at the bottom of the garden that is now down to the root which will need digging out. Needed saw and loppers to remove,then chopping small to get into bin.
I decided too many shrubs which I love for keeping the garden colourful all year, are taking up valuable real estate and I want more flowers. Probably making more work as there will be more dead heading and weeding involved.
Next on my hit list was a haircut of the hacking kind for the forsythia. All my shrubs seem to have expanded in width as well as height.
Ive 2 items that need to think about moving not sure where to yet though.They are my Barnsley baby which seems unhappy, I mentioned before that it was leaning and I dug it out to reposition, and discovered it is quite a bit of clay in there . So not sure if it’s that or the heat but the leaves haven’t looked well and only a few flowers just coming out now.
The other casualty is the tree/ shrub which I cannot recall the name of, its dark leaves and stems, and get pink blossom before the leaves. I think that needs moving from full sun.
rather dull start to the day who knows what is in store.
Pp hope the job is what you want and the haircut gets you in. 🤞🏻Focus on contribution instead of the impressiveness of consumption to see the true beauty in people.8 -
wort said:Dusty those plants were good prices,
The standard olive trees I rescued haven’t lost any more leaves so hopeful I can keep them going.
I can’t say too much about dd and the house saga, but very annoying as she’s in rented and been paying almost 2 years rent whilst this has been going on, whilst the house owned by family has been sat empty. Not the family stopping her moving but the solicitors.I support that GC, because it has a range of smaller plants at low prices, and thus competes with Morries etc. o:It's quite hard to kill an olive. Ours are planted outside, and regularly lose some or all their leaves in winter, but they bounce back.A solicitor might hold up a sale for that long if there's a glitch in the paperwork. They shouldn't wave it through if doubts remain. There were problems with our deeds here, which others had simply let through in earlier sales, but our solicitor wouldn't budge until matters were clarified and corrected. It did help that the vendor's solicitor was in the same practice, a few metres away, though!A few neighbours excepted, most people in this area are pleasant and sociable. I think it has a lot to do with being on the West Country time 2p mentioned. And I believe in Karma in a general sense. i.e. Whatever you do returns to you, eventually, with interest!Farway said:Dusty, helpful folk, there are a lot about, just the rotters seem to crop up when least wanted. No way of knowing, but maybe a touch of Karma & doing unto others at work?I had a third nice thing happen too; a lady in the village popped by with some seeds of a mat-forming, tiny, pink that might be 'Fusilier.'
LessImpecunious said:Also having a welcome courgette/marrow explosion - in part inspired by Dusty's comment about courgette in polytunnel - one experimental plant in greenhouse pot has been cropping for at least a couple of weeks,Sorry, I was out of the loop yesterday. Just too much running around to do since youngsters' car went in for repairs while they're living 'between' houses.....12miles apart!OT: Damp start, but the sots down sarth reckon it will brighten-up by the time I go shopping, hopefully not in the van! I have a hedgehog picture coming, but for now a pussycat will have to do!Santolina chamaecyparissus 'Lemon Queen'in the foreground.
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More sun, rain maybe a sprinkle later but no wall of death promised hereSo, out early weekly feeding the pots at the frontWe could really do with proper rain here, my apples are smaller than normal, lack of water to plump them upBut torn now, my Merton blackberry is ripening & ready for a crumble sized picking this weekend. Cue waterfall from sky then.wort said:They are my Barnsley baby which seems unhappy, I mentioned before that it was leaning and I dug it out to reposition, and discovered it is quite a bit of clay in there . So not sure if it’s that or the heat but the leaves haven’t looked well and only a few flowers just coming out now.YoungBlueEyes said:
Bunged up hooter Farway have you caught lurgy? Good to hear DP Border is recovering, maybe it's all those extra nutrientsYour heretic notion made me laugh! Whisper it softly <could it be true though?!> Has DD sacked the gardener over-zealous weeder? Lucky you can resupply her
I've a gladioli coming out here and I didn't know what to call it, but "spike" is just right so I'm pinching that, thankyoukindly
I think my bunged hooter could be hayfever, or dust from the parched groundDD has kept gardener, I suppose easy mistake to make, one blackberry looks like any old bramble unless you knowMy heretic thoughts must not be spoken aloud, or you slot into Flat Earther territory. DYOR etc but plenty on YT, remember it's only a conspiracy theory until it becomes fact.HTH with Spike, but maybe glads are posh and a Spire?DP border continues to recover, here's proof of nature returning to self sown nasturtiumVerse by my mate Chat, to make it easier to readNo need for roses, songs, or prose—
Just six legs each and a leaf to doze.
So if you spy them side by side,
Know bug-sized love is hard to hide. 💚
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Farway said:Or, a bit heretic here, all the extra CO2 and warmth is good for plants?Message from DD, her “gardener” pulled up, AKA weeding, the thornless blackberry I gave her, and do I have another one?-taff said:Pigdog was a favourite in black and white war films that Germans used to say wasn't it?Yes, that's where I got it from, old war comics & films"For you ze war iz over"This heretic suggests the Romans didn't plant vineyards here because it was a waste of time. Their diesel chariots must've caused that extra warm period.Sorry to hear of your DD's loss.
I bet the root was recoverable, though. Some of the small hydrangeas I accidentally mulched with the ride-on are recovering, back in their cold frame. A few new leaves appearing.
I must've read different war comics. In mine they didn't say much more than "Achtung!" and "Himmel!" but maybe mine were easy readers.As regards "For you, the war is over," Visiting the Rhineland as students in 1970, we met some farmers in a village pub, where one of our number admitted to hailing from Nottingham."Ah, Nottingham!" exclaimed one farmer, "I was a prisoner of war in Nottingham!"Almost all of us said, "Oh, sorry!""No," the guy said, "not sorry! The English treated us good,and we were glad the war was over for us."He then insisted on buying us a round!8
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