Awful weather - typical Brits talk 3 October 2020 at 5:41PM in Greenfingered MoneySaving 4.7K replies 118.8K views

Farway

YoungBlueEyes said:

(Ooh gwan that pear graft, you can do it! ) 

I don't know where I got it from that you're to burst toms onto kitchen paper and dry them out before you plant them. They all dried out anyway and I've got them planted now. But it's taken me all morning to peel them off and get the wee bits of paper off them and I've sore hands now - it was that pernickety! And just be oxymoronic about it I don't want them all coming up cos god knows what I bladdy do with 150 seedlings

Trick is as you squeeze them out to be like a dog wiping its bum on the grass, keep moving as squeezing , hope that's not too racy for here

That way you get even spread and can sow attached to paper, just tear a bit off

Lovely pic again

YoungBlueEyes

Ah ok, good tip  

I thought, not sure where I got it from but, kitchen paper now has a bit of plastic in it for strength (?) So I sat and picked every last wee bit of paper of each seed before I planted em. 

Not as racy as the BD was 😉

twopenny

Farway got there before me 
Yes tear off a bit of paper with the seeds on.

Okish this morning as diystarter said and it went downhill from there. Chucking it down by lunch and chilly. So I went dancing 
On the up side it's stopping me from moving plants again and giving them and me a rest.

YoungBlueEyes

Ooh dancing, that's a nice change of scenery 2p. Or did you mean whacking the radio up and dancing round your living room?  

Is your Christmas flower out yet Farway? Gardening sure teaches you patience eh. Other than another small carrot harvest nothings moved at all in my garden

Cooler here this morning. It was sunny and breezy all day yesterday apart from an hour or so in the middle when the wind got up and it absolutely persisted it down! Not that them drunkards produced a warning, obviously.

Farway

Dry & windy, rain building its strength up to make sure we get a proper soaking later, currently over Bournemouth according to the radar

Out for prescription collection this morning, checked on the volunteer garden while there [it's adjacent building] and all the daffs are out and looks like the £land forsythia has settled in at last and is looking quite colourful

The sage has not liked the cold, very brown & manky looking, it was one of the living herbs from Asda, been in a few years and this is its harshest winter. Some life in it so may perk up come sunshine

YoungBlueEyes said:

Is your Christmas flower out yet Farway? Gardening sure teaches you patience eh. Other than another small carrot harvest nothings moved at all in my garden

Yes, thank you, but the clowns at T & M have yet again mislabelled items , here's what it should be, and below is what it is, bog-standard red. nice enough but not what I ordered

My other one should be this, but is also bog-standard red,

Stiff e-mail on way to T & M once I have all the order details suitable for a whinge

YoungBlueEyes

Bloody hell, they're not even close! Are the not bog standard ones dearer? I'd be upset about that like, pretty as yours are.

Farway

Dull outside, no doubt more rain. Only gardening today will be to compose my complaint e-mail to T & M about the amaryllis, found the order now so have evidence of what I ordered.

And later if it gets a bit warmer, split up & pot on my Hot Lips cuttings

in_my_wellies

Evening all, I've returned from my short break and need to catch up so six hours outside today, lovely and sunny with only a couple of short showers. I found a bag of 50 mixed daffodil bulbs. Far too late but I planted them anyway - I won't be here to see if they come up next year anyway. It made me smile when I read on the bag 'bulbs not affected by growth in bag'. Well they'd certainly done that!

@Farway, I would complain too. I know yours were wrongly labelled but I wonder if it was a poor year for amaryllis bulbs. I bought two as gifts, premium ones in boxes. I noticed the bulbs were smaller then usual and both came up with just one stem and only two trumpets rather than four. I returned them and after a small discussion I was very reluctantly given a refund.
Love your description removing seeds from a tomato - made me smile

YoungBlueEyes

Hi @in_my_wellies, nice to see you. How you getting on? Any joy with the house hunting?

wort

YBE great job in the garden it’s looking great. Good that you can get to the panels from behind.
I too bought clematis from morries when we had one, it’s long since closed down now. I did get a set of 3 cheap from the newspaper one time. 1 of which is a fast grower and gets loads of flowers a bit smaller than the standard clematis, and I saw one in the garden centre just the other day for 45.00 pound ,I nearly collapsed.
The weather nutters have been forecasting rain for the last few days but not been as bad as they said an hour yesterday of the fine stuff that wets you through, and sent me scurrying to fetch the washing in yesterday. I got bedding out Thursday though not fully dry and lovely day Weds got all my work stuff dry.

woke this morning at 6.15 then remembered the hour , so gave myself an half hour before getting up, it’s sunny as of now though the forcast is 🌧🌧all day! Contemplating what can be done outside, the garden is looking good though lots of buds, flowers and colored leafs unfurling.
beautiful bronze leaves on the Spirea and Acer. The blossom on the Ko-jo-no mai is lovely but has been a bit blown by the recent winds.
I am hoping the shoots I can see are the peonies that I planted last year , they are in that vague area, and I was hoping that I didn’t dig them out when I moved my Acer.
Wish I was better at food items but they never do well for me. Farway is lucky I live so far-away as I would be scrounging his tomatoes come summer. 😂