Awful weather - typical Brits talk

Farway

Woolsery said:

I note the way the management denies any responsibility for damage or losses. Is that in the event of someone being crushed by a falling sunflower, a sudden attack by pollen beetle or walking into the doorpost while trying to see how far up the big one goes?

I would beware of climbing it; we did a panto about that once.....

Had to be done, standard car park driving by clients is reverse until you hit something or plough through fence until car stops

Dull day here, looks like it rained just a bit overnight, not enough to leave puddles but some dampness about

My climbing beans are feeling the chill now, leaves yellowing & all closing down, but I found another ripe fig while mooching about and spying on observing what next door is doing to the garden, it's all been cleared so being as it will be a BTL I guess it will be instant jobbing handyman trip to B & Q and plonk pansies in or similar

Here's one of the toms at the front, just bunged in left over plants, not trained or trimmed but watered along with the rest of plants in pots. Looks like Sungold to me. The other pic is unripe, but I like the lizard stripe look

Woolsery

Our visitors have all gone home to their cities and there's a strange calm in the house and outside this misty morning. There's been rain overnight in reasonable quantity, so I hope the logs arriving in about 20 minutes won't be soaked. If they are, I'll go elsewhere for the next load. We've used the same supplier for years, but the business has changed hands.

Little subtantial to report; certainly nothing as appetising as the toms above, Farway, though if size is important, my cucumbers would be up there with the best! Most are going to the chickens and the smaller ones I catch early come to us. If they do as well next year I doubt if I'll bother with protected cues again. For reference, I'll repeat they're Konza from L*dl.

On the subject of driving, the car I bought DB has been pre-stressed with a few obvious scrapes, but I've learned that's of little consequence. We've driven virtually every car we've owned into the ground, maintaining them well, but never fussing over trivia and parting with them via eBay at a tempting price just before catastrophe strikes! The only exceptions were the Audi that broke its cam belt and the Volvo 240 estate that was so awful even we couldn't live with it! The kids used to shout, "Heave-ho!" whenever we approached a roundabout. I'll let you into a secret about that one....I bought it after visiting Carol Klein and seeing she had two 240 estates. She might have been great on plant associations, but she was rubbish on cars!

Update.

Logs were OK  and so was the guy who brought them, so two more loads will be coming. That should get us through winter, regardless of how the electricity supplies go.

Farway

Getting dark outside after bright start, probably Woolsery rain arriving?

Hope it rains because my gout has returned to the left paw, which would make watering very difficult and slow . The gout could be a side effect of the anti gout pills, it's one of the known problems while the nasties are removed from my blood

liberty_lily

It's been mostly sunny and warm here this week but nothing more than some strimming achieved, although in other garden-related jobs I've busied myself prepping the covered area of the courtyard for the new outdoor sofa we hope to get....all part of selling the lifestyle when the time comes, lol 😆😉

To that end we spent the bank holiday trawling local garden furniture suppliers/garden centres hunting for end of season bargains, but whilst we did come across some good reductions at one place, nothing really appealed to us both 🙄

Instead we've found a great online deal that we'll hopefully order in the next few days. I'm looking forward to getting rid of the massive table that's currently there (found in a Shaftesbury salvage yard when we lived in that part of the world  - marked up at £695, it cost us nothing as we traded it for a vast amount of Shaftesbury green stone from the outbuilding we demolished to make way for a kitchen extension 😀) so I can instead have a comfy sofa to read on in a shady spot!

We didn't have a great deal of rain overnight but it's begun now so good thing we've indoor stuff planned for today!

No pics from me, but loving everyone else's 😄

Woolsery

I'm somewhat lacking new photos here lily, but this one from a while ago could be relevant now we've had a decent drop of rain!

As usual, the heavy stuff seems to be shimmying past us for the rest of the day, but more in prospect later. I need to plant at least 100 tough perennials in the stream garden, so every little helps.

Right now, splitting logs!

twopenny

Wonderful photo woolsery!
I havent seen any garden birds for months. Even the crows, pigeons and magpies have left. 

Farway sorry to hear that. Sounds exasperating and painful even if it is supposed to be good eventually.

There's been a bit of something not rain and not drizzle. It wets the paths but doesn't get under the plants which is deceiving.

My 2 runner beans were toughish but I had to get something from all that work. I'll probably give some tomatoes away as they aren't big enough for salsa or soup. I may as well get some good will from them.

Most things seem to have survived, just, but it's a sad looking Autumn flowering.
I have managed a blackberry and apple crunble tonight. Neighbours windfalls, and blackberries from lots of different sources. Really yummy. Even mature trees and brambles don't seem to be able to produce much.
Beats the supermarket deserts hollow though 

Woolsery

There were blackberries on our walk through the nature reserve just over a week ago, 2p, but only the ones down in the damp area by the river were any size. I'm hoping with the heavy rain that's falling now my 'wild' blackberry on the edge of our mini wood will produce some big berries. It's a thornless one called 'Chester,' supposedly for garden cultivation, but DB doesn't like it, much,so it's relegated to the wilds.

Speaking of DB, I was alarmed when she told me last week she'd just pruned the Lakemont grape! I rescued two stems which are in water, but I don't give much for their chances of rooting.

It's fairly hammering down outside. I think that's the watering done.

Hope the gout soon  lets up, Farway.

Apodemus

twopenny said:

I havent seen any garden birds for months. Even the crows, pigeons and magpies have left. 

That's not good!  Hopefully they will be back with you when the garden returns to green again in autumn.

I've got a good crop of wild brambles in the garden at the moment, which only goes to show how poor my attention to weeding has been this year!  Unusually for wild berries, they are sweet enough that I've been picking a few each morning to have with my cereal.

Farway

Huge thunderstorm last night, woke me up, but at least no more watering worries for a few days, just as well because now my right hoof is affected by gout, and I can barely walk, good news is my left hand is going back to normal so here's' hoping same happens with my foot

Woolsery, bad news on the Lakemont, have you tried bud rooting? That may not be the correct term. I've had success from that, and you get lots of chances from one stem. And Chester blackberry, not tried it, but I've seen it, can be prolific, and I suppose if only for pies or jam then it's fine, maybe it's a more commercial one, but my SIL has one?

One success, my on offer Santana apple tree from T & M bought earlier this year, I found one apple on it, going manky and brown, but enough good bits left to sample it. It's a cracker, even though not fully ripe it has a crispness with sweet & sharp in good proportion. One to look forward to next year, with more rain & larger fruit I hope

Today's pic is my pears, also bought on offer from T & M. This is Beurre Alexandre Lucas, not yet ready and hoping the rain will get some juice into them

twopenny

Yes bucketing down last night. 
It's gone through the foliage too this time. Plenty more on the way apparently. Just the way as I was finially looking forward to my holiday at home this week now the tourists have left.

No gardening today. I want everything to have a rest and recover.
I did buy another plant while shopping. No name but I already have one, late flowering and no watering during drought. Maybe needed.

Farway not good. I have something that seems to create a new problem every time I seem to be getting on top of it. It's a b...... and depressing but no option but to keep on trying. Best wishes.