Awful weather - typical Brits talk 3 October 2020 at 5:41PM in Greenfingered MoneySaving 1.9K replies 38.6K views

Black_Cat2

Farway said:

Black_Cat2 said:

No rain for an hour so popped out and cut back my herbs (like DD265 was planning to do) and wrestled with the weeds surrounding my carrots. Good crop this year - been in the ground for months so they're huge! Too many for me and the other half to eat. 

The carrots will be OK in the ground for while yet so no need to panic

Yes, was thinking of making carrot cake just to use some of them up.  Probably a good idea whilst it's raining 🤔

Catsacor

Mmmm, love carrot cake, my favourite recipe is from the Cranks cookbook (yup, very 80s !).

Black_Cat2

Catsacor said:

Mmmm, love carrot cake, my favourite recipe is from the Cranks cookbook (yup, very 80s !).

Nothing wrong with the 80s lol, will look it up 😁

Catsacor

Morning BC 😊
You've been doin' that rain dance again, haven't you 🙄😆
Hail here earlier, can't wait to see what the rest of the day brings - at least the wind direction's changed though, very warm out again today 😊

Davesnave

Black_Cat2 said:

Catsacor said:

Mmmm, love carrot cake, my favourite recipe is from the Cranks cookbook (yup, very 80s !).

Nothing wrong with the 80s....😁

There was Margaret Thatcher and we only had a 28' garden.....that's just two things off the top of my head.

Looks like a pick n' mix day today, but might get some wild planting done. I have a bank of rugosa roses to finish off along the roadside, some alder buckthorn to stick in a hedge and another eucalyptus to insert behind a nasty neighbour.

Apodemus

Davesnave said:

...and another eucalyptus to insert behind a nasty neighbour...

Ouch! That'll make their eyes water!

Catsacor

Looks like a busy day for you then.
Why does the new eucalyptus have to do exactly, is it a mature specimen that you're hoping will blow over in the gales onto them ? 🤣

Davesnave

Catsacor said:

Looks like a busy day for you then.
Why does the new eucalyptus have to do exactly, is it a mature specimen that you're hoping will blow over in the gales onto them ? 🤣

Long story....far too long...so let's just say that the neighbour tried to intimidate me when I dared to alter things on a patch of  land near their property, so we have a copse of unwanted trees behind the laurels and barbed wire fence that now separate us and him. Behind those trees, we have a line of  'proper' deciduous specimens, like copper beech, Swedish whitebeam and wild service tree, with buddleias for the butterflies. They're what we see.

So, the eucalyptus is just going into a gap in the 'hotch-potch' section, where it may turn into firewood in 5 years or so. Everything in there is expendable.

Black_Cat2

Catsacor said:

Morning BC 😊
You've been doin' that rain dance again, haven't you 🙄😆
Hail here earlier, can't wait to see what the rest of the day brings - at least the wind direction's changed though, very warm out again today 😊

Morning C 😹.  Sun has peeped through (briefly) today so I might get to do a bit more outside - yay!  Rain dance wasn't me, honest!  Rumour has it my neighbour is out in the moonlight in his altogether prancing about like a good-un, so he's your culprit!  I am ofc a lady so can't confirm the rumour one way or another 😉

@Davesnave - lots of good things in the 80s, like... umm... okay you have a point.  Best thing was the bad clothes and outrageous perms so it didn't matter if you woke up straight out of bed looking like a scarecrow because back then you were good to go! 😁

Catsacor

Davesnave said:

Catsacor said:

Looks like a busy day for you then.
Why does the new eucalyptus have to do exactly, is it a mature specimen that you're hoping will blow over in the gales onto them ? 🤣

Long story....far too long...so let's just say that the neighbour tried to intimidate me when I dared to alter things on a patch of  land near their property, so we have a copse of unwanted trees behind the laurels and barbed wire fence that now separate us and him. Behind those trees, we have a line of  'proper' deciduous specimens, like copper beech, Swedish whitebeam and wild service tree, with buddleias for the butterflies. They're what we see.

So, the eucalyptus is just going into a gap in the 'hotch-potch' section, where it may turn into firewood in 5 years or so. Everything in there is expendable.

Ah, right, i see - a nice tall, established, eucalypt crashing into their place it is then 🤣🤣🤣