Awful weather - typical Brits talk

greenbee

I've got some new trellis up, so need to lift some turf and plan some planting There are honeysuckles ready to grow up it, but I'm sure I can fit in more climbers and lots of stuff growing at the base. 

However, before that I need to plant the comfrey that was donated last weekend (and is in a chicken feed sack outside), and mend the bulb planter. I'll also need to add soil and compost where turf has been/will be lifted, and replant the honeysuckle that had to come out to put the post in. 

Dull and overcast today, so might leave most of the gardening till tomorrow and do indoor stuff today. 

twopenny

Sounds like you are making a home Greenbee. It's exciting when you get to the planting and the expectation of something beautiful and comforting.

It's so wet out there that the swim things I hung out were wetter when I bought them in 😐 so I don't know about mowing the lawn Dusty. It's sodden. I don't follow the weather forecast now. Beeb site is aligned with met again but it's still very wrong.
I look at the sky and the birds/wild fowl etc.
Cloud building on the horizon. Ponies eating late means rain tomorrow.
Shame it's not tonight as more fireworks going off. 

Went to look for deer but they aren't gathering yet which is odd. 3 herds and none to be seen. Lovely autumn though, nothing photograph able as I was too late for the sun.
Lovely to get the sun this morning. Warm too.
But cold now. Could do with the rain clouds to warm it up a bit.

wort

Dusty love the colour of the Hesper thingy. I think I have similar does it come in pale pink? 

Farway and 2 p I am the same re phone, mine is losing charge quickly too. It is around 8 years old but I’ve no clue with phones dd bought me this, before that I used cast offs !! 

I certainly won’t be paying those amounts 2p.
Theres no chance I can cut the grass, as it’s wet and I’m too busy with dd2 moving still.
off to work now have a nice Sunday 

YoungBlueEyes

Morning all, on Remembrance Sunday

Those are good answers 2p and Farway. What I would have said to her - if my stoopid brain would've given me it - is "and how do you know I'm not?"  

We went to York yesterday and did some christmas shopping. Well the presents for his Oribble sisters and kids are bought. Marks' have got a beauty collection thing in a straw beach bag half price at £30 so they've all got one whether they like it or not. 

The weather's changed, marginally. It's cloudy and damp and cool out there now. 7'c my phone says, it's been a while since we were in single figures...

https://www.thejournal.ie/quentin-willson-top-gear-dies-6868889-Nov2025/

Dustyevsky

greenbee said:

 I need to plant the comfrey that was donated last weekend (and is in a chicken feed sack outside) 

Hopefully it's the clone which doesn't set seed. Naturally, the seeding kind may be used before it has a chance to do so, but I don't trust myself! 

twopenny said: I don't know about mowing the lawn Dusty. It's sodden. 
Cloud building on the horizon. Ponies eating late means rain tomorrow.
Shame it's not tonight as more fireworks going off. 

Sodden or not, yesterday I decided to get the neighbour's rough 1/2 acre done, plus as much of ours as time would allow. The ride-on can mow wet grass. I'm a bit saddle-sore now, but at least it's not hanging over me.   

wort said:

Dusty love the colour of the Hesper thingy. I think I have similar does it come in pale pink? 

Farway and 2 p I am the same re phone, mine is losing charge quickly too. It is around 8 years old but I’ve no clue with phones dd bought me this, before that I used cast offs !! 

I certainly won’t be paying those amounts 2p. 

Yes, the Hesperantha comes in pale pink and that version is called 'Mrs Heggarty.' 

RE phones, I'm still on an old Samsung Galaxy 7, which stops me doomscrolling away from home. The battery's fine, but I'm thinking of upgrading, especially when I subscribe to the OS Mapping app. I may not have said, but Bing, which formerly provided access to OS maps for free, has recently dropped that feature.    Clueless Yanks!
Anyway, getting to the point, when Mrs Dusty recently upgraded, she bought a refurbished Samsung for around £220, which looked, and worked, like new. Plenty about! 

Hope your DD soon completes her move-in wort. Ours still has a 20' container full of stuff here!  

YoungBlueEyes said:

The weather's changed, marginally. It's cloudy and damp and cool out there now. 7'c my phone says, it's been a while since we were in single figures...

It was 12c at around 03.00 according to our hedgehog camera, and it still is. According to the quaffing quacks, everywhere around us is getting downpours, but we shall escape with just a light sprinkling now and again. That's proving true so far....  

On the hedgehogs, we had only 21 pictures last night, and 3 of those were of a cat. Normally, the camera takes around 60-70. This probably means the hogs are beginning to hibernate. Mrs Dusty is away for a few days returning the Outlaws to their home, and stocking the freezer etc, so I'm guessing. She can tell one hedgehog from another, and I can't!   
I might have a quiet Sunday, regardless of what the weather does. We don't need any seeds, but it's nice to try something new.    I agree, Farway, Golden Rod haven't inspired me much in the past. However, anything which pleases the bees is worth a go. For the next few months, the plants likely to please me most will be this kind:

Mine aren't so far forward or so beautifully bug-free, of course! 

(Edited following valid comment from Farway!  )

Farway

Dull but sort of bright, at least the Remembrance parades will be mostly dry and reasonably mild

Love the Jingle Bells 2P, I have seen them for sale in Morries but thought they'd be insipid & pale. One may find it's way home with me next time I spot them, and your photo through window gives it a nice ethereal look IMO

Dustyevsky said:

Wow! The modern Boysenberry has a complex history, Farway!  It's parentage seems so convoluted, the RHS list the name status as 'Unresolved.'  However, it seems the current varieties have had the dr awbacks bred out. Propagating itself is definitely a bonus. 

I was not aware of possible drawbacks when I bought it. It seems healthy & robust now, but not yet fruited so plenty of time to turn into a lemon. 

On YT there is one chap who has grown it into a hedge, self rooting along the way, he is 'Merica so lots of room. The easy to root is certainly good, seems to root far more readily then my Merton blackberry for instance

I'd think Dusty Acres would suit one 

Managed to clear out the old figs yesterday, figs are all set for winter now. While scrambling to reach a far flung fig I broke a branch off, so did the decent thing and stuck it in a pot of soil to make a fresh one, perhaps. Nothing lost is there?

Dustyevsky said:
Anyway, getting to the point, when Mrs Dusty recently upgraded, she bought a refurbished Samsung for around £220, which looked, and worked, like new. Plenty about! 

 Mrs Dusty is away for a few days returning the Outlaws to their home, and stocking the freezer etc, so I'm guessing. She can tell one from another, and I can't!   

Ta for 'phone tip, I had Samsung once before and found them fine, unless you set up a password which you forget and the stupid thing will not let you get back in despite pleading & threatening, resetting etc 

So a friend told me

I initially read the Outlaws bit that only Mrs D can tell the difference between the Outlaws 

I had one of my Champion apples yesterday, wow, they have improved with keeping  , sweet & juicy. I bet stored properly, and not in a carrier bag on the floor of conservatory, they'd keep well until Christmas

No gardening but may try for photo if sun comes out

twopenny

Well it's been a gloomy start and damp of course. Also still around 7c so chilly.
Been a glorious autumn for colour but not transfering to photo ops. Still, lovely driving through it for colour as long as possible.

Good news on the apples and figs Farway. Result 😀

Oooo I'd love to have a salad area that looked like that Dusty..... but I think the bugs would quickly find it if I tried.

Wort, don't know where you get your energy from.
I've made a note that I must try harder 😐

Bluey that's a good result too. I found a way to enjoy shopping for my hated aunt. Nothing was ever right so I'd buy chocolates she wouldn't eat but my uncle would love or get pleasure in looking for something deliberately unsuitable 😁 lots of fun that.
All I've done today is read, eat, pulled two healthy Feverfew type flowering plants out of big potassium there are already 3 plants established there so I need to replant somewhere because everything flowering must be treasured in these dark days.

Future note is to remove the geraniums on the patio pot that haven't flowered all year. I've got so used to them I didn't realise.
Daffs ready for after Christmas - but what now? Snails and slugs hide there so primulas are a no-go.
Just thought..... I have self seeded marigolds and the Feverfew 😀
Worth a go.

This forum is useful even when it's talking to yourself 😆

LessImpecunious

Dustyevsky said:

Mine aren't so far forward or so beautifully bug-free, of course!  

Was about to say wow/ compliment you on these til I read the last sentence - mine are a fraction of the size and the molluscs which have been hiding in the greenhouse are making inroads    Except for the giant red mustard, which self-seeds liberally in my veg plot and helps to bulk out meagre kale, cabbage etc pickings over winter...

A full sun day yesterday, as forecast for once, but today's heavy rain materialised only for about 5 minutes, otherwise just dull. No good photo ops, but here's one from t'other day when there were dramatic skies towards dusk...

YoungBlueEyes

Morning all, on Richard Burton's 100th birthday  

Re phones - I just go to a Game/Cex type shop and buy from there. I always pick the palest-skinned+facial-furnitured one and it's worked out right so far. I'm only 1 or 2 models behind (I think) and never spend more than a couple of hundred quid or so. 

Wort has DD much to do to the house or is it just decorating and stuff? Will she be sorted for christmas..? 

Ahh I like your Greens bed Dusty. I'd love one meself but the slugs wouldn't let me have one. Is DD using you as free storage for their stuff then? Were you tempted to set fire to the bladdy thing on bonfire night..? 

A boynsenberry hedge sound like a winner Farway. Rottery Acres will have to be huuge for all the bits we want in it. Fingers crossed your fig stick decides to go for it.

2p it's glorious Autumnal colours up here too, gawd I do love it. I can't get any of them to come out right on a photo though Have you seen any likely candidates for your next house..? 

Ooh that is a dramatic sky Less, misty and murky and lovely. I like how you've framed it with the trees too  

OT raining. It was properly persisting it down when I got up this morning but it's only rain now. 12'c my phone says and I'd say that's right. The sobers have given lashing rain this aft and then thunderstorms and lightning at about 1800   Aye we'll see.  

YoungBlueEyes

Pics. 

We did park+ride into York the other day, it’s good the things you can see from the top of the bus - 

I tried to get a pic of the moon rising the other night but it wouldn’t come out right - 

(The bright thing in the trees at the bottom of the pic is the moon.)

Oh and a Rottery Acres - https://www.daft.ie/for-sale/detached-house-coolmain-castle-kilbrittain-kilbrittain-co-cork/6095470

Right, off to work *sigh*