Awful weather - typical Brits talk

Dustyevsky

Just popping back to say blustery showers of hail continue here, with almost sunny bits in between…..

And T&M have some reduced seeds + free P&P for the weekend!

https://www.thompson-morgan.com/available-now/seeds

I'm sure I've seen the pink centred daffs, too, 2p. Maybe it was eBay, along with the blue roses and psychedelic heather! 😂

twopenny

Come over all black and chucking it down here too.

Seems like 10 green bottles on this thread 😄 , and now there are 3. But Farway and I kept it going last time and now we have help Dusty. Good news about the seeds but I'm awash with those I collected. Must get around to sowing them this weekend as perfect weather if any can escape the birds fattening up.

Farway

It was a wet & wild night here as well, toppled my potted grapefruit over despite being sheltered. No damage done, and now back upright

My daffs in wall baskets, "Martinette" have suffered from the wind, they were lovely upright soldiers, now more like drunken sailors 😂

Slugs have nobbled the Jetfire daffs, yellow lace curtains now

2P said Did you see the article about rare pink daffodils? I'm sure I've seen them around here but who knows

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm2140pnx46o

I've seen them around, RHS Wisley was where I first saw them. Oddly enough I was looking for some to buy yesterday, just to make a splash & something different. If I find some that will not break the bank I'll get some

2P talk of long handled trowel has given me an idea, got a link 2P? I'll have a look around anyway, one I used to have was just Chinese carp and bent when put to the test, but it's all balance isn't it? Too much and may as well pay someone to plant stuff

I found a lone survivor yesterday, a Muscari, not rare I know, but it is the sole survivor of a trough full the fell into neglect and then a cat knocked off the wall, to finish sideways in flower bed, where it lay all Covid. Last year I found one bulb and poked it in the front, and Lo!, up it pops this year. that one deserves to live.

My front patch will resemble a convalescence ward, with the Zombies coming back to life. Once the soil gets warmer I'll sprinkle some seeds around as well, LIAM, episode 99 will be among them, as will Verbena episode 48, Marigold Episode 15

Too soggy to even squelch out, so it's watching others on YT and dream of summer goodness as I sort the tomato seeds for sowing this weekend

Just refreshed, damn you Dusty, now I have T & M tempting me. 😁

twopenny

This is what I got but there are others, possibly better.because if it's anything like the extending hoe it collapses for a pass time 😏 but some duct tape will sort that when you've got your length.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/146569299440?mkevt=1&mkcid=1&mkrid=710-53481-19255-0&campid=5338690633&toolid=20006&customid=1d86a01b8a961ec19bc0c9a874ec5dc1%7C%7C&loc_interest_ms=188

I might continue to use it if it doesn't bend or buckle and save my back.

Love muscari. Lovely colour early. I won't plant them again because they take over.

Less unusual cloud formations forecast. Here's what's coming our way 🫨

-taff

You are not alone… 😁

As far as seed mountains go, I've just been through mine and there are a lot…And quite a few are of the I'd like to sow variety but realistically don't have room for them all.. Although I am glad I beefed out the carlin peas last year because I may be eating those in the future judging by current events.

Weather here was blowing a gale yesterday and then lashed it down last night with added sleety haily snow this morning followed by bright sunshine now. I've been making beds for the greenhouse so I went to the reclaim place and asked him very nicely to cut the boards I bought which means screwing together tomorrow and buying allotment shop compost on Sunday probably.

Your hedge digging skillz are impressive Dusty, especially by hand, oooff…lovely wallflowers too…you're right about you all being ahead, I havent sown anything yet, I've got a few more days before i lose the battle though so plenty of time ? I managed to find some International Kidney this year so seaweed feed is a prerequisite… I've never heard of Ana prepping but now I've found her…

Your mangy tout would do well as 2p says if it can buy you something nice, even if it's some more chicken pellets..what else is in the pot with the beans? Happy alive plum tree week!

2p, good luck with the not doing stuff, I'm sensing a defiant 2p future for you :) Shame about your blossom being blown off but your long handled thingy is impressively sturdy looking. I have one with a wooden handle from the local hardware store I'm hoping will last too. That park view is lovely , beautiful burst of colour. I made do with a spray of roses from lidls…Lovely tulips, my late ones are just poking their heads up now.

I've got the muscari taking over bu I do love the pops of colour. I forget where they are though when they die back so they're naturally kept in check by me digging them up to plant something else forgetting where they are. Which reminds me, I have thuggy spanish bluebells in the back so they will go to Norway later on this year. The whitebells are a stayer though.

LessImpecunious

2P Did you see the article about rare pink daffodils? I'm sure I've seen them around here but who knows

[Also still here! (just - notifications have stopped arriving so may explain some of the dropoff in contributions…)] Had heard about it - I did buy some pink daffs maybe 10 years ago or so, and their offspring are still just alive in a pot but have not flowered for years - I'm presuming if the bulbs fatten up enough they might do eventually? But these were, as far as I remember, marketed as a novelty , not a heritage variety… Looking at the beeb article we also have something that looks very like the double white - not something I (would have) bought, but there do seem to be quite a number of unusual varieties in this and a nearby garden once belonging to the same previous owner…

Hadn't heard the cloud forecast - yours look like Cumulus congestus 😁 Hope that wasn't your new plum blossom flying northwards….

Since I'm here, and have been a bit absent recently, and daffs are in the news, here's a pic I took a couple of weeks ago as my wild-type daffs (supposedly the native sp. bought in from reputable wild flower supplier maybe 15 years ago) daffs stared to flower - intended to post at the time but lacked the round tuit - with added ball-obsessed pup as bonus for dog-lovers, wondering why I'm not retrieving her ball from the undergrowth and photographing it instead😁

YoungBlueEyes

Morning all, on International Pi Day 🙂 Looks like we all survived Friday the 13th then? Speaking of Days - when I rang Cissie last week I wished her happy International Women's Day …..there was a long pause….. and she said "what's the matter with you waiting to be told to have A Day? D'ye think I wait to be told to have A Day?!" Words to live by, god love her ❤️

It's all a bit miserable here so I haven't been on. A thing happened at work that upset me, but we're going ahead because legally it's the right thing to do. Me + BBM properly disagreed about it. I was wrong even to have mentioned it, apparently, it was beyond my remit 😏 So I'm job hunting again, with a fervour. Himself has realised he hates his job, all the driving and being away from home and being out in all weathers. We've been keeping the dentists in business too - I had a new filling the other day but me gob's still sore from all the messing about he was doing in there. Himself went one better - he had yet another accident at work yesterday and knocked out his 6 front bottom teeth. So off he went to Leeds for an emergency appointment (that's where his boss has a dental plan thing for the lads) to get sorted. They've sawn off the broken bits and left the roots in, and they'll fit him with implants. He looks like he's been catching bricks with his mouth or summat, he's a right mess. Moron.

I was washing the dishes last night, with the window open, and I heard a lovely soft sound. Me + Merlin went out and it was these -

Damned yanquis, they know no bounds.

Anyway. OT sun's out but it's a bladdy cold wind. I've been in my garden most mornings this week, and thank god for it for it's kept me sane. If only it looked like I was making a difference 🙄

Dustyevsky

Maybe Mrs Dusty was somewhere under those magnificent, towering clouds yesterday afternoon, 2p. She reported snowy stuff and hail.😐️ I missed it, being 2c 'warmer,' down on the coast in my walking friend's garden. We inspected the plants, and made some plans, but didn't do any actual gardening.😄 Ten minutes outdoors was enough! 😬

-taff said: I havent sown anything yet, I've got a few more days before i lose the battle though so plenty of time ? I managed to find some International Kidney this year so seaweed feed is a prerequisite… I've never heard of Ana prepping but now I've found her…

There's plenty of time yet for seed sowing, and it does look like a good time to get a deal on seed potatoes. I always intend to do some in a large container, and then don't get around to it. There's always so much happening at this point in the year, and especially this year, with winter jobs still incomplete.😔

I found Ana while vicariously reading some prepper chat on the Forum. I suspect she was then the acceptable face of preparedness, before she began to hold….err….less conventional views. It seems she's still buying stuff in Lidl, and finding some items not so great…Well, who knew! 😂

I, also wondered what Farway had in his bean pots, along with the beans, so thanks for asking.🙂 My guess is something like spring onions, to ward off aphids and provide a secondary crop.

Your daffs look very appropriate for the location Less I think I've spoken before of how we won a big bag of daffs in a raffle and planted them in our wild mini-wood. They were all weird double things that stretched for the light, before the weight of their blooms mad them collapse! 😖 I weedkillered them several years running, but one clump still returned this year! True survivors, so I've decided to let them stay. 😕

A lovely, bright start to the day, and the inebriates were correct, it wasn't quite freezing.🙂 I covered all the tender things in the polytunnel just in case.

Today's photo is the view from a friend's new build. That's Dartmoor in the distance, and the fence shows the extent of the plot. Impressive, and even more so IRL, as it's a complete 180degrees. But….they are somewhat very exposed, and the land is all agricultural, so there can be no flower beds! However, an orchard is perfectly acceptable, as is an allotment growing food, and grass is grass, wherever it is! 😉

Dustyevsky

Bluey said: Morning all, on International Pi Day 🙂 Looks like we all survived Friday the 13th then?

Is there's an 'e' missing? International Pie Day would be 3.142 times more interesting.🤠

Survival yesterday was definitely in the balance a couple of times. I blessed the new all weather tyres twice en-route to the shops. People were in a careless, hurrying mood, which I put down to the continued naff weather and being Friday. Either way, there was a 15 car pile-up on the M5 near Exeter, which made the digital sign which often reads, “It's better by bus!” almost true. 😰

Sorry to hear of your woes. I hope your and Himself's mouths are soon pain free and sorted. I can confirm the benefits of implants, especially if someone else is paying.😉 Mine's better than the real thing.

Legal stuff can be really cruel, no matter how often one recites “Laws is laws!” I was leaving anyway, but what pushed me out of my awful, well-paying gubmint job early, was one of those situations. I refused to apply the law to an old, blind granny, and you can't do that…it's a disciplinary etc. Or you can walk. Turned out walking was not the trauma I expected….as one door closes etc. I hope you soon find something better and less stressful.

YoungBlueEyes

This'll be the same for me Dusty, I'm not actually out the door yet but mentally I'm done. My mouth will be fine - it's only sore because the dentist had hands like bear claws so my gums are achey from the stretching and bashing they took. Himself will be a long road but even though he got seen near instantly and he's getting the whole for free he's still managing to be grumpy about it.

Yep pie is deffo triple the insterest of Pi ha haa! I'm doing pie for the dinner tonight, yum yum. Himself's will be smushed about with a plateful of gravy and a load of mash. If he whines about it there'll be nothing but champ in his future 😈