Awful weather - typical Brits talk

Farway

Promise of sunshine & warmth, but it's wet and cold right now, maybe the drunkards should look out of the window first?

The  e bay blackberry Helen has perked up now it's in the daylight and not upside down in a lorry somewhere

My Firestorm runner seedlings also have a yellow tinge, not green , I wonder if the compost is tainted somehow now suppliers use all sorts of rubbish recycled materials, remember the weedkiller saga that killed off loads of growers stuff?

I'm going to make up some weak fertiliser to water on in case it's a mineral deficiency

Today I'm sowing some climbing French beans, purple ones, old seed, but it's to make up for the runner fails

Here's my yellow seedlings, cucumbers first

Dustyevsky

Farway said:

Promise of sunshine & warmth, but it's wet and cold right now, maybe the drunkards should look out of the window first?

The  e bay blackberry Helen has perked up now it's in the daylight and not upside down in a lorry somewhere

It is warmer down in these parts this morning, but miserably dull. Better is promised later, plus a wind suitable for the massive conflagration I have in mind. Don't want to do that over the BH weekend if I can help it!

Not sure what my raspberries/blackberries are doing, but I'll look and report later, maybe. Some of my toms have done well, but others haven't, even from the same batch, so it must be down to either compost mixes or different amounts of watering. At present, I'm not organised enough to do anything even vaguely analytic.

Put my two early courgette plants out to start hardening them off this morning. Might even commit to an early planting out on the compost heap next week if 16c arrives, as promised!

YoungBlueEyes

Ooh they do look a bit washed out Farway, would a tiny drop of tom feed help them..? 

I bet Helen is happier, who wants to be upside down in a dark truck 😁

They said we’d get a band of rain overnight, few hours worth maybe. It started at 1900, heavier by bedtime, rained all night and was still raining when I got up this morning. Drizzling now still from about 0830. Never mind timings and regions - I reckon they've got the country wrong 😬

How’s Mrs Dusty? Hobbled or hobbling…? 

Dustyevsky

YoungBlueEyes said:

How’s Mrs Dusty? Hobbled or hobbling…? 

Managed to wash her own feet this morning, so that's one job off my list.  She's doing all her exercises and all seems well, thanks. Sadly, she can't stand long enough to clean out all 12 bird feeders, so I was caught for that job today.

Sun's breaking through here....a bit.

Farway

Dustyevsky said:

YoungBlueEyes said:

How’s Mrs Dusty? Hobbled or hobbling…? 

Managed to wash her own feet this morning, so that's one job off my list.  She's doing all her exercises and all seems well, thanks. Sadly, she can't stand long enough to clean out all 12 bird feeders, so I was caught for that job today.

Sun's breaking through here....a bit.

Same here, and found this fella taking advantage of it on a pile of old tea leaves

PS, it's a slow worm for those wondering

YoungBlueEyes

Good to hear Mrs D is up and about but gawd I couldn’t have someone touching my feet no matter how poor a state I was in 😨

Slow worm? I thought it was a bit of bacon rind Are slow worms the ones that aren’t slow and aren’t worms…? 

RAS

And aren't snakes and give birth to live issue. Surprisingly strong.

twopenny

Got a sun tan today! Bit gloomy this morning but wow the sun came out, wall to wall blue sky and warm, so warm! It was the main topic of conversation.

No tomato seeds here still.

Went to the garden centre to look for a small tree. £70!!!!!!!!!

Tom plants not great and not what I wanted so forked out for the proper BFB. Seemed a lot but it was 2.5kg which was value against the 'cheaper' ones when you looked by weight.

Morries not much choice for trees but I did come away with a gooseberry plant, found I'm missing my goosgogs after years of cursing them in my last garden, Tescos tom plants had leaf miner badly and not equal leaves.

Popped along to our charity plant stall but no toms. She had the perfect tree in her own raised bed but said she couldn't get cuttings to take so I got the name and will research.

Managed to get my privacy net stapled up, trimmed what I thought were dead twigs on my ailing plum but one wasn't and got the last of the old canes out from the raspberries. Wobbled up a step ladder and tied up the honeysuckle at the top of the fence to stop the peeps in attic conversions looking at me.

Got info that a lady was selling toms outside her house in aid of Romanian street dogs so went searching. Beautiful plants! Came away with 6 GardenersD, 1 Marmalade and 2 San Mazarno @50p ea...........plus some angels fishing rods.£3. Just rounded it up as a good cause and such nice plants and put a tenner through the door.

She had rhubarb crowns and fresh sticks but I just about managed to resist

Tomorrow is the Gardening Club plant sale Of course I won't go, theres nothing I need!!

Dustyevsky

YoungBlueEyes said:

Good to hear Mrs D is up and about but gawd I couldn’t have someone touching my feet no matter how poor a state I was in 😨

Slow worm? I thought it was a bit of bacon rind Are slow worms the ones that aren’t slow and aren’t worms…? 

Mrs D has a 'foot woman' once a month. She's a qualified nurse. She might be what they call a 'podiatrist,' but it's no good asking me; I was a teenager in the 60s and my studies stopped at ankles. 

I've found some people scared of slow worms because they look a bit like snakes, but they're really harmless lizards and not slow at all.

YoungBlueEyes

Calm and still here this morning. The sun came out last night just in time to set, but it was nice to see it

£70 for a tree 2p.....  What kinda tree was it?

I was in Lidl yesterday lunchtime for some flowers to take to mum+dad. They had daffs again, the heads were mostly closed but they were fat and seemed to have an orange tinge to them. I hope they're lovely for mum loved daffs  

A couple of new birds on my feeder earlier - 4 starlings (1 appeared the other day, now it's 4 ) and a single magpie. Not happy about either of them tbh. Apart from a handful of pigeons and my blackys all my other visitors are wee birds and I like that. I had starlings at my last house and I was glad to leave them behind. They're such bullies. I don't want my birds having to fight them for food now when they've wee babies to feed... I've bother enough from the squirrel/s! Grrrr.