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Awful weather - typical Brits talk

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  • Farway
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    Sunny agin, & set fair for a few more days

    Wowee on the tom Dusty, there was I peering hard at mine,hoping to spot even embryo flower buds, none, nuffin' Be July at the earliest here and that will be going some.

    No BG for me yet, non licence payer so iplayer is off limits and not yet appeared on YT. GW is there and BG was last year, I'll just have to bide a wee while

    Talking of GW, I see Monty was sowing purple podded peas, nice to see he is at last catching up with me ! 😄Mine are in a pot, and will go out soon, only have three plants [old seeds] but will be used for next years seed supply

    YBE Thanks for Sherry Baby Farway, I'll be singing that all day now! When I was feeding the birds I checked on Cherry Baby and it's gorn - if a squirrel snaffled it I hope it gets the runs. Shipbag. Are you in for grapes this year do you think?

    I'm feeling very left out with all this salad talk, I'll check my packets today and see if they've given me any 🤞 I've got some peas to plant today (if it's not too late..?) Himself went out yesterday and came back with some so I'll get them into pots today and see what transpires

    Glad you liked Sherry baby, even after all these years it still sticks in my head. Oh dear, Cherry baby didn't last long, had it properly "set"? I find the my birds etc at least do the decent thing and wait for them to ripen first

    Grapes, still waiting, high hopes but I say same very year and never get far. maybe this year? No flowers on it yet, waiting for all the leaves to unfurl.

    Good luck with peas, should be fine, my Mange toots are about a foot high & bumbling [I wrote climbing, spell checked into bumbling, fits better so I've left it] up the twigs, no flowers yet

    Red Spider on the salvias, wouldn't the spiders just die off if you put the salvias out side now? Or have I got that wrong? And NASA, I see they used an old model of camera for the moon pics, cos nothing better these days.

    Today I have a the last of my toms to pirk out, Gardeners' Delight dragging their heels. I know we all know, but the growth difference in varieties is very apparent.

    Now then, now then 😈 Here's moon taken with an old camera yesterday, includes my Judas tree, which is it's best year ever due to a week of sun & decent weather, without winds ripping the blossom off

    Left large for moon view, spot the cones coming on?

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    When an eel bites your bum, that's a Moray
  • Farway
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    Sorry Bluey, but I am a cherry baby snatcher 😁

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    When an eel bites your bum, that's a Moray
  • twopenny
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    Everything is starting, how much can stay the course?

    I woke up ill this morning and caved this afternoon so no gardening. Annoying when you fit the chores in first then can't manage the bit you want 😬

    But I can give you cherries. The brown bits are the flowers on the end of cherries and whole sprays of them on the right 😀

    But we've months to go for things to go wrong....

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