Awful weather - typical Brits talk

Farway

Dry & grey, 

I did hear on radio the Aurora is up & about today, the sun's gone mad & ejecting stuff so if dark skies should be visible even down here. Of course it's grey & cloudy so fat chance

Another hoarder here, sometimes pays off when Our Betters decide some things we use are not good for us and change or remove them. I still get  frozen stuff from Bejams 

Dustyevsky said:

Farway said:

Dustyevsky said:

I've looked-up 'Vulcan,' and oddly, the photo I took looks nothing like what's pictured on the packets.  

After your posting I looked up Vulcan, seems it's not as we thought

My assumption is the blighters sowed Vulcan and then selected the purple seedlings

Cutting out a stage or chunks to achieve a desired result can get you in biggly trouble

First class detective work, and I love that last comment!  Unfortunately, I'm not in a position to sue the RHS for misleading me so cruelly. 

Back in the everyday world, I've sown 'Bright Lights,' costing just over £1 from Premier seeds, and I'm not selecting particular colours. My guess is they'll all taste similarly earthy, which is a quality I like, but recognise not everyone feels similarly. I have some outdoors and some in the polytunnel, hedging bets regarding the severity of winter.

Remaining with veg, here are the Fig Leaved Gourds (Shark Fin Melons)

"Bright Lights" was the one I grew, nothing wrong with it if space permits. 

I like the look of those gourds, could be on my list for next year as I'm thinking of growing some ornamental ones, but I see that one is edible, used in soup anyway

twopenny said:

Defied Dusty's warning and went to big town yesterday where it was mostly dry and the leg held up well. As did the phone but the battery drained out again last night so I'll get a cheapie while I look. New is cheaper than second hand it seems.
But I kept getting sidetracked by cameras which I was much more interested in 😬

Phones, I've driven myself mad by looking, the one I quite liked, good camera, Pixel, I now find runs hot and does not have long battery storage, so 'd be forever charging it, which is why I'm changing in the first place. The hunt continues, but I do have the luxury of more time

I dare not look at cameras, with my hoarding habit I have quite enough already, and some cameras are just too heavy for my wizened frame these days, maybe, once we move to Rottery Acres, clone Charlie & her Dimmocks could steady my tripod? 

Caught up with GW yesterday, and remained awake this time. 

The thalidomide lady was thinning out Jap anems with her feet, I've got all four appendages and my Jap Anems went North.

Plus an apple man, and for once I was with him, he trains branches down to horizontal, as do I. 

All I'm missing is growing cordons, I'd like to but space, and now time, are not on my side

Off to volunteers' annual "Thanks you" buffet this afternoon, I intend mooching into Morries on the way, still looking for something to put in my wall baskets / pots now Wallflowers opportunity has passed. 

Plus, if one around, Jingle Bells clematis

Probably full of dying Christmas trees by now

-taff

Day four of Christmas cake making looms, but hopefully the last two and I may squeeze out one more from what's left, and an apple crumble to take to OHs mums as she is providing the tea/supper/evening meal tonight. No gardening has occurred due to pretty much rain every day, but lots of looking and added/amended plans for things has been happening which I should have written down I expect or I'll forget them. The gladioli are now down for a move and maybe the thing whose name I have forgotten, deutizia sp? maybe...Sweet peas are still attempting to flower and the cheapie tubers of dahlia are flowring their little hearts out. And the arum lillies are attempting to flower again too. What is going on? 

I thought I'd try something different with the comfrey this year for next year, so experiement one is just the leaves in a sealed bucket to see if they break down to non stinky powder, and experiment two is leaves in a bucket with a very small amount of water to see if they will also crumb but be a bit more moist...Stinky juice is good but also....stinky....:) Beautiful colour on the misleading chard too.

Jesus, lookit the size of them peppers!! Here!! wta....

bantry house looks a bit posh doesn't it? Not sure I could cope with all that culture stuff, maybe I should live off the kitchens with some nice old wooden tables and stuff...Still can't see the link...

And look at you growing bulbs which were Norway bound Farway! Could this be a sign of good things to come? Nice bit of detective work too...Have a lovely meal! 

You're a bit busy wort, Did her bf know my parents by any chance? I had to stamp quite firmly on that gene a few years ago otherwise we would now be drowning in fabric and god knows what else...

greenbee, you can neverhave too many bulbs...because there's always the chance they want to go to Norway. 

Don't envy you the driving 2p, dark+hard rain=squeaky bum time for me...

P.S I did laugh at canutes potential not-dam

greenbee

Farway - do you fancy a trip to Norfolk to give me a lesson in how to train/prune my fruit trees?