Awful weather - typical Brits talk

Farway

Baking hot, but watering completed & roses dead headed.

And the radishes sown Monday have germinated already, seeds are loving this weather

-taff

Baking hot here too, a lot more sun than usual thanks to a lot of the tree missing and wow, what a difference it makes to see so much new sky. I've watered the poppy seedlings I'm trying to keep alive. I forgot to take the last lot out of the greenhouse on Saturday and they all fried to death while I was driving up and down the motorway] Everything else is just waiting on somewhere to plant them [ hurry up potatoes! I need the space!] or just sitting in the sun thinking about growing. No rain forecast here till Saturday and I'm down to two waterbutts out of four. I have got some greenhouse guttering though and need to silicone around the seal edges to watertight them. And I have been the recipient of an old water tank to make a pond, need to silicone some plastic on that in the holes after the lovely neighbour removed the old pipework for me and an old trug planter to bring back into use after some new screws are added to strengthen it. It's all go.

Eenymeeny

We have hedgehogs too. I love checking the trailcam every morning. I'm an early riser, so it's my treat to have the garden to myself and the birds before everyone else starts moving about. My neighbours probably think that I'm batty but the urge to weed, deadhead or water while still in slippers and dressing gown is very hard to resist.
June is a lovely month in the garden isn't it? It certainly is 'busting out all over' I seem to lose control of it after that. It seems to do it's own thing. I've become a lot more laid back about it now. If you encourage wild life you can't really moan when things get eaten can you?

ArbitraryRandom

Eenymeeny said:

I'm an early riser, so it's my treat to have the garden to myself and the birds before everyone else starts moving about. My neighbours probably think that I'm batty but the urge to weed, deadhead or water while still in slippers and dressing gown is very hard to resist.

I'm most certainly not a morning person (or a sun/hot weather person!) but I'm also out at the crack of dawn and my neighbours probably think I'm equally crazy - mostly for me so that I can be safe back inside before it gets to hot/the pollen wakes up...

I would water at night but I fill the can from the outside tap and when it's dark it feels like I'm making too much noise (I try to be a considerate antisocial person, after all )  

But this is my first year of actually trying to garden, and I'm sure it takes time to acclimatise to being (gulp) outside during the day  

In happy news, my waterbutt was delivered today. The folks are going to visit in a couple of weeks so my dad can do the scary bit of actually cutting the drainpipe. I'll do the next one  

twopenny

Eeny, my neighbours out at the crack of dawn when I'm after some tai chi or breakfast  in the garden
I've used dark fleece over the adjoining trellis so we're not over looking each other. But I'm aware of her pottering and in and out of her shed. Could be worse, she could be mowing the lawn as I've known some do at 7am.
Of course I'm a night owl and will mow the lawn in the evening....

I have watered some plants while in my swim robe, this weather is nuts!

Eenymeeny

It's nice to see that we're all trying to be considerate although not everyone is like that. I have a few neighbours who like to share their choice of music, smoke from fires, screaming and shouting to each other over the fences. Not to mention dogs being put out and left to bark for ages... We try not to moan too much and tell ourselves we're lucky to have some quiet times during the day and we know that it could be a lot worse!

twopenny

Oh my neighbours are quiet for which I'm mostly thankful but sometimes I'd like to see a pet or them rushing of somewhere exciting. A bit of life.
Five do nothing and go nowhere though their home is immaculate of which they are very proud. Unfortunately mine is not because I'm out doing stuff and my dodgy health means I can deal with the house or going out.......my choice 
Wish their desire for perfection extended to my place :-))

Dustyevsky

The countryside is often noisier than town. Contract personnel can begin at 05.30 and it's sometimes hard to tell their machinery from jet planes, it's so loud. Tonight, Mr Sheep was playing musical fields, so there was a real hullabaloo as the animals were moved from one place to another over the space of an hour. They keep calling to  their lambs to check they're OK for ages afterwards.

Until 10 pm we were still weeding and planting. Then, after shutting the hens up, I noticed a 'blob' halfway across the newly cut field. Yes, it was a hedgehog, but we know they come into the garden after we leave because their calling cards are everywhere!

The house.....err, we won't mention the house!!

YoungBlueEyes

Morning person here too. I'm long up, washed, teethed, and sat out with a coffee by 5am. At that time in the morning there's only blackies pidgeons doves and a couple of squirrels up with me. It's heaven, and I wouldn't give it up for the world Mind you hedgehogs and a trailcam would be the cherry on it

Arb fill your watering cans during the day and leave them in the sun, then water at night. That's what I do. I've a load of big buckets that I fill and leave out. I think the plants like it better, not such a cold shock. 

It's hard to be a considerate person when your neighbours are anything but, it really is. An eye for eye'd leave the whole world blind 

Gawd is that how fast radishes grow Farway, or are you just green fingered? My seedlings are not loving this weather/I'm doing something wrong. The ones on half the paint pot lid got a bit further then gave it up, and nothing appeared in any of the choc trays. See that's why I like buying big stuff - harder to kill. Well except for the toms, which just aren't dying no matter how neglectful I am

I was out yesterday morning looking for whatever damage the HRT had inflicted overnight, and the toms were in need of more water - they were all droopy and sad - but there's a couple of tiny green toms on one of them! So I'll start putting tom feed in the watering can. Will that be ok for my rasps too?

I've got Handsome today. Lovely neighbour is doing a course at work - How can we be even more inclusive and accepting of each other at work and left leaning in general without actually falling over. That horseship leaves me cold. I wonder if I'd be able to keep my mouth shut if my job foisted that on me. Think I need to do some sort of self-employed something...  

OT fog lifting, heat coming.

Eenymeeny

'The countryside is often noisier than the town' I remember staying with my sister and husband and being woken up by the farmer with his tractor and trailer dropping off turnips for the sheep in the opposite field. Followed by the row of demijohns popping away on the windowsill as the rising sun warmed them up. (It was the 70's )  Since sat navs their quiet road has been 'discovered' as a short cut to a local trading estate. It's quieter where we live!
I've been trying my hand at radishes too for the first time. They're in a window box and showing leaves,. I'd read to scrape a bit back and if it's red it's ready. Tried one yesterday, it was tiny, about the size of a marble. I've popped it back in and will try to be patient. I've heard that they go woody if left too long though. Any tips please?