Awful weather - typical Brits talk

twopenny

These things happen Farway.

You need to walk around and call it's name 'grape vine' over and over again and it will appear.

Unless it went on the compost heap of course.

Yes it's strange the problem plot.

Looking now none of the plants have thrived in that area.

There is another smaller area where the 3 Rosemary plants died. One potted I put at the front and it thrived. Still in a pot I put it back and even with watering it's dying almost overnight again. I'll move it later and see.

Yet the sage I planted is huge! I'm talking over 3ft across. Photo somewhere to ask ' prune small, prune as standard, leave to keep down weeding'. Will post when I find it.

YoungBlueEyes

Ooh I like your hens Dusty, how much bigger will they get? Hope they're settling in ok. 

Did you find your grape vine Farway? Where was it? If you find the 'lost things and stuff' hole, send me my lovely old trowel back will ya please

I wonder what's going on with that side 2p? That's such a difference innit. Is it something to do with the soil...? 

Lovely and cool here. It was a slightly misty dawn, almost autumnal, so someone up there's taken notice of what I said yesterday

I think they are messing about with the gubbins again, it's taken me ages to post this... Paragraphs keep disappearing... As I'm typing nothing appears on the screen then it all appears at once. Hmmm. 

Dustyevsky

Farway said:

Nice chickens Dusty, a relief BFlu is past for the moment.

Hmm.... with biosecurity in place, BF isn't much of a problem for us, especially as we're well away from migratory water fowl. It's the regulations we worry about most. No point in having chickens if they have to be kept locked-up like big commercial flocks.

Ronald Reagan's 'scariest sentence in the world' comes to mind. It was something like: “Hello, I'm from the government, and I'm here to help.”

Well, according to the drunkard's radar, the rain was all around us yesterday, but there was only a 15-minute smattering of the stuff here, so light I didn't stop working. We were putting in some new shrubs. Like 2p, we have a place where everything struggles. I’m fairly certain it's where there's an old, perforated drainage pipe at depth, which dries the area out, extra fast. We were adding lots of rotted manure and compost and planting a few toughies. By tea time, my legs seemed to be ache-free, so it was a useful, work-out.

Eenymeeny

Hi, long time lurker here. I love to catch up on your little chats each morning, thank you. On the subject of lost items. I couldn't find my favourite secateurs yesterday. Managed without them but you know what it's like... I seemed to remember putting them down and removing gloves to tie a knot. Searched everywhere including the green bin, just in case....
Eventually as we were locking up last night I mentioned to OH who calmly told me that he'd picked them up near the fruit cage and put them on a rack in his shed.....  Hmm nothing else to say!  Have a good day everyone

Farway

Welcome Eeny,

Yay, the rain arrived yesterday late afternoon , real heavy stuff and then drizzle. At least an hour of it. Everywhere is looking fresh again this morning, and the muggy air has gone. It's a bit misty but brightening up, and I bet the plants will zoom away now

In other good news, the missing grape vine turned up , hidden amongst all my other garden debris curated items.

No secateurs, trowels etc though.

I have potted the grape up, again, no idea what to do with it once it recovers, obviously in a pot it will just succumb again, and not really got an open ground space suitable, but I have at least a year to think about it before it needs moving again

I'm beginning to wonder if my Lakemont grape also has eaten roots, it has never really done well, but is in the open ground and came from a reputable supplier not a £1 special from a supermarket

More good news, the Peace rose I was moaning about, it has a new shoot, maybe it was just pining for the fjords and had now got over it? More likely it has settled in with fresh roots and realised its life is not going to get any better, so make the most of what it has.

2P, your problem area, is it accessible by a crafty neighbour? Maybe spray drifting over or something like that?

PS, forgot to mention, early start & sowed some Persian Jewels love in a mist, plus some radishes & LG lettuce.

The lettuce may be a forest, somehow zillions of seeds gushed out of the packet, gulp. Oh well, I like lettuce

And, trumpet fanfare please, the yellow, flat French climbing beans I sowed end of last week have germinated, that's quick, must be ideal for them

Picture time, good & bad

My ripening strawberries, but they are in squirrel territory, so I'm going to try and put wire mesh over them later

And my poor old vine weevil grape, you can see the fresh white roots starting to grow, so it does want to live

-taff

Have you tried an experimental dig down to see if there's anything there? We found all sorts when digging out one piece of garden including an exhaust pipe and I found a pad of concrete situated below the surface that had been used for a line pole but had been covered over the years by grass and more grass..

Sunny here now after two torrential downpours but my waterbutt is not as full as it should be because obviously, me being me, I thought the tap was closed but no, it was open so al that lovely liquid went nowhere it was going to...But I get to play in the garden today with  guttering for the greenhouse and a new [actually old] tank to turn into a makeshift pond..Looking forward to that.

YoungBlueEyes

Welcome Eeny Thats one trouble I don’t have - himself knows better than to get into my gardening stuff ha haa! 

I dunno about chatbots etc but there’s definitely someone listening and granting wishes. With my autumnal dawn, and your grape and revenant Peace rose Farway… Is there a gardening god? Ooh, who’s the patron saint of gardeners? (DuckDuck tells me it’s St. Fiacre. You’re all welcome!) 

And can one of yous send some rain this way please, dry as a bone up here. I might be speaking too early tho cos the drunkards have given their thunderstorm notion another 24 hours to come true. It’s on til midnight tonight now. They say. 

ArbitraryRandom

I honestly can't understand how the air can feel so cool (relatively - I'm still in a t-shirt) and damp and yet little to no rain! 

I've got money on it finally tipping down tonight. The neighbours are off on their holiday at 2am and they've had a really tough year with one thing and another so it wouldn't surprise me if the current dry spell around here was their karma giving them some balance. 

No fruits from my strawberries as yet, but several fruitlets and still lots of flowers to come

Eenymeeny

Thanks for the 'welcomes' to the thread, much appreciated. I used to post a lot but when the forum was updated I stopped getting notifications from the forums that I was interested in so just bookmarked a couple that I really enjoy. Maybe I should see if I can fix that....
That's what was so surprising about the disappearing secateurs YBE. I don't touch his stuff, he doesn't (usually) touch mine. We even have our own sheds!  He's so untidy it would drive me mad to share!

twopenny

His and hers sheds? Brilliant!!
Problem area mystery - no drift, my badger run is behind, 3ft of garden I'd like. And a large grassed area behind.
It was all dug out from turf. No garden before. Everything around about 3ft is fine. We'll see when I tackle it.
Ditto the rosemaries dieing on one small spot (gardeners world says fungus) yet 2ft away one is flourishing. And how can a fungus affect one in a pot?
Think there's more than a garden god. I think I've got a poltergiest!

Rained a lot at home today it seems. Garden looking better. But I was in Cornwall in the sun 
Now isn't that just perfect......