Awful weather - typical Brits talk

YoungBlueEyes

Just quickly popping on to say good luck tomorrow 2p, I hope it all goes well and you’re out before you know it 🙂🍀

middlewife

You beat me to it! Good luck 2p, take the drugs and do your physio! See you on the other side, middlewife, hope you like the crutches, thick walking socks pad the handles.....tinsel optional

twopenny

Aw thanks folks 😊

LessImpecunious

Best wishes from me too 2P….

Impressed by May Toms, don't even have a flower yet, but my first cucs are flowering and swelling; and as for manky toots am way behind the competition - I have just planted out my third batch of sowings this year (as the scorching sun has finally diminished), first two were demolished by voles or pigeons…

Anyhow, a pic or two, don't know if you'll be able to see, as photos, like the rest of the forum, seems to have been a little erratic of late

Flowery "lawñ"

And closeup of Iris just visible in middle distance of first pic, only had two flowers last year..🙂

Farway

Much cooler & fresher this morning, hopefully my hay fever itchy eyes will clear up soon. Rain, maybe tonight.

Nicely done on the ripe Tom Dusty, I join Less in not even flowers on mine yet, but Paul Robeson has promising buds, he seems way ahead of the other varieties.

Nicely natural lawn Less, can we glam it up an call it a Wild Flower meadow? I love the clothes dryer addition because amid the apparent abandon of the long grass and summer blooms, the clothes dryer introduces an unexpected note of structure. Its radial form echoes the organic patterns surrounding it, transforming a commonplace garden fixture into a strangely poetic focal point.

Spot any AI BS slop? 😈😂

Any one watch Anna with the thick accent on YT? She has certainly crammed plenty in her garden. She was trying to get the point over that everyone should, if possible, try & grow something to help ease cost of living, even if only a lettuce. Not sure how the cost of the gear equates to saving money, but longer term maybe.

In light of that I popped some beetroot seeds into the wall baskets as I sowed the lobelia & alyssum yesterday. I've only just realised it will be Red, White & Blue. Will I now get door kicked in a knock on door from thePolice, for far right gardening? 😁

I've found old packet of Welsh Onion seeds, so nothing ventured etc, I'll sow some in between the toms at the front, if they grow at least it will be something to add to salads.

Today is strawberries, these are unknowns that come up every year, I have one or two, slugs have the rest. Herb Robert says "Hi".

Dustyevsky

Less: Impressed by May Toms, don't even have a flower yet, but my first cucs are flowering and swelling

We all have different strengths, according to our weather, soils, available time, growing facilities etc. I've no chance of a cucumber for weeks yet.😔 That tomato was also a one-off. Others have plenty of toms, but all of them green. Naturally, I'll be taking seed from the forward one in the hope that it has an extra early fruiting gene knocking-about. Not the one pictured, though….I ate that! 🤣

I like your naturalistic style of garden.😊 There are parts of ours which are like that, but Mrs Dusty goes for a more high-maintenance approach, which is all very well, if the time and energy levels are there. As age takes its toll, we'll either have to sell off part of our garden space, or move. I'd be more than happy with 1/4 acre now, if it had good soil, structure, and some maturity. Visiting other people's gardens, Rosemoor etc, suits me fine. Given another go, I'd have 1/4–1/2 acre at home and buy a woodland nearby.

Bluey: Just quickly popping on to say good luck tomorrow 2p, I hope it all goes well and you’re out before you know it 🙂🍀

I realise it's not what you meant, but at my last op I was certainly out before I knew it. Outside the theatre door there was a very large toy chimpanzee swinging from the light fitting. The anaesthetist said, "Bet you can't guess what he's called!" …..He was right! 😉

Grey here, 15c, and it'll rain before I can light my bonfire. It's all tree branches too small to use as firewood and too large to compost. We so need a big shredder!

Here, just for Farway, is the sauciest female courgette flower I can find, complete with insectuous pollination! 😉

Farway

Dusty Here, just for Farway, is the sauciest female courgette flower I can find, complete with insectuous pollination! 😉

And a saucy double entendre as well 😂, ten points + a bonus

wort

YBE I find my acers prefer shade, so mine are against a north facing fence. They all started as tiny things from supermarkets.

I spent 4 hours trying to clear a bed of Spanish bluebells from dd2 s garden thousands of bulbs I dug out and you can bet I didn’t get them all . WM how about some heuchera for colour ?
I’ve given away all but 3 tomato plants, I just need to repot again now.

2p fingers crossed for your Op.

Forcast is rain for the rest of June.😳

LessImpecunious

Farway Nicely natural lawn Less, can we glam it up an call it a
Wild Flower meadow? I love the clothes dryer addition because amid the
apparent abandon of the long grass and summer blooms, the clothes dryer
introduces an unexpected note of structure. Its radial form echoes the
organic patterns surrounding it, transforming a commonplace garden
fixture into a strangely poetic focal point.

😂

Yes, meadow if you like, but really just lucky that soil is very thin in that part of the garden, and all wildflowers seem to be extra flowery this year judging from roadside verges, etc as well as own garden… My "naturalistic" style equally by luck as much as judgement, just seems to have turned out well this year (if I ignore the exploding weed population - heartened by Dusty's comments that many run out of steam by July (or at least by November 😁) - sadly so do many of the non-weeds,in this garden at least…

And (saucy or not) no courgette flowers here yet either, tho' I hope for one soon with plant in large greenhouse pot (worked last year)… I have a glut of lettuces though, and the rain of last day or so has resulted in explosive growth of red mustard seedlings which are a very reliable weed self-seeder in the veg plot; this year accompanied by self-sown chard seedlings en masse which I've never managed before…🙂 Good growth, but not sure I want a whole month of it thanks Wort 😁

YoungBlueEyes

Good morning all, on the day after Marilyn Monroe would’ve been 100 (I’m only on my phone).

Another quick pop in to see if 2p is alright…

I see what you mean about ‘soon out’ Dusty, I thought that as I was writing it. I wonder what the chimp’s name was… Woohoo for a May tom 👏🏻 Is that an actual record?

Thanks for pointing out my acers can’t cope with the real world. Trust me to buy woke acers fgs. And you giggling at them Farway, I hope you courgettes turn out to be lezbeens 😆

Digging up eleventy squillion bluebells is no mean feat wort 👏🏻 I thought acers preferred shade but the labels say otherwise. I’ve tucked them under my rasp forest bush so they’ll be light and dripped on but not exposed 🤞🏻

That’s a lovely flowery lawn you’ve got there Less. Are you leaving it for longer to see what else appears..?

Funnily enough I’ve got a pic of my lawn. (I hope it comes out alright on here.)

Really quick point+shoot through my kitchen window as he stalked past. Shipbag. Mind it’s one fewer so 😀

OT raining on and off and rained in the night too. They’ve promised forecast mentioned in passing we could/might get thunder and lightening today, or not, but it will/won’t rain again a bit or a lot, possibly. Filthy muggy though, the humidity’s in the 90%s 😕