Awful weather - typical Brits talk

Eenymeeny

If it turns out to be NZ flatworms they had them in Northern Ireland and realised that they disappeared eventually.
It seems that they are cannibals... I listen to Gardener's Corner on Radio Ulster, other radio stations are available A lady said that her husband was a teacher and put three in a jar overnight to take in to show the children. The next morning there was only one chubby one left!

Dustyevsky

LessImpecunious said:

Farway said:

MY LG crop, was just on its way to bolting I think

I've found that to be the rule with LG lettuce - finally makes a decent looks-like-in-the-supermarket head, then immediately bolts...not sure that flavour is the best either...

Despite copious watering, my first-sown LG has bolted too. It also happens to be the week when we're medicating the chicken food, so I can't even give them to the hens yet!

 

Not best-mooded this morning due to Mrs Dusty making the ridiculous demand that we relocate the new hens at night, when they could equally have been given the freedom of their new run today, in daylight. We finished the job at 22.30.

Some young (er) people who live with us woke me at 06.00, setting the washing machine off and generally banging-about, the cat was sick and it appears to be raining, on and off, with more to come. With my sciatica playing-up, I'm reminded of  Tony Blair's theme tune, "Things Can Only Get Better." Well that didn't work out either, did it?

Quick, let's have a photo. How about a new-to-me Shasta Daisy I saw at Rosemoor? Very neat habit and obviously suited to smaller gardens, but I'd still like some.....

ArbitraryRandom

Blegh. I'm feeling you today Dusty. I got out of bed on the wrong side or something - maybe I should get back in and try again tomorrow  

OT, this morning I woke HOT at about 7/7:30 with the sun streaming through the window. Roll on 8:30, and I put on a long sleeved top, the sun has been completely replaced by grey cloud, and the forecast is saying rain. 

The app is very confidently reporting 100% chance of rain at 10, with rain starting in 27 minutes precisely(!) 

We shall see...

YoungBlueEyes

Speaking of Radio Ulster, anybody needing a bit of fun try Connor Phillips - 1030-1200 It's BBC so you can get it on their Sounds app.

Eeny I don't know if your worm story is pleasing or disturbing! *shudder*

Funny how many daisy plants are so similar you need the leaves the tell them apart. I was only thinking that yesterday. I've a few in my garden and they really are a variation on a theme. Suits me like cos I love daisies, even if they aren't as nice as Dusty's pic... 

ArbitraryRandom

YBE I'm hoping not; my hope is the tight lid will keep the smell in until I'm ready to actually use/dilute it. That's kind of what I'm testing. It's only 4 pints (2.2L), but I've also got a 6 pint (3.4L) bottle clean and waiting if this works. 

If it doesn't, a spare wheely bin right at the end of the garden might do the trick, but I'd need to buy and fit a tap. 

Re the worms, I guess once they've wiped out the local worm population and you *know* they're extinct in the area, it means it's easier to repopulate? I would hope that it's taken seriously and some 'expert' (I'm from the Government and I'm here to help!) can be found/hired to ensure they are actually gone so you're not just feeding them new worms. 

twopenny

Another whose weather is all rain today. If only!
Thanks for the converter Abs, turns out its a Tiff and I tried to cgange it on Paint as per Google said but it wouldn't save. Will try yours tonight.

Never did get to Greencombe for relaxing-though one of my drawings is my avatar.
The old stooped gardener poem.

Yes Bluey, it looks much better out the back. Almost like a real garden 
Have plans for the shape of the lawn and moving stuff to clumps so easier to water.

Another busy day so no gardening time.
Lots of sparrows and dunnocks even eating the blackfly off the beans. My neighbour and I stopped feeding them apart from a bit.
Swarms of ladybirds by the beach on Friday and a couple in my garden!

Farway

Sunny start but could be some of Dusty's rain later

Your Avatar looks like I feel at times 2P

Lack of worms, could just be poor soil lacking in good stuff. 

The car park volunteer border was just that, baked, poor, dry and wormless. 

After a few years it has some worms now, we just piled all the fallen leaves on it, plus rotted down grass cuttings that were not "proper" compost but added bulk. Just left on surface for winter to do its thing, and eventually it has helped, not good loam like Monty D's garden, but a touch up from concrete

I think I had NZ flat worms here, look liked leeches, they were a notifiable pest once, not sure about now. Mine vanished after a few years, so maybe they ate what was available? And the area they were in is isolated by concrete wall foundations

Plenty of worms in my garden now, so seems the NZ FWs never came back

My toms are coming along, and I'm impatiently waiting for some colour. Sprayed anti whitefly stuff again, so far so good

They look nice Shastas Dusty, I like them, especially as I grew mine from seed and have them both in volunteer border and outside at the front. The butterflies were on the front ones the other day, by the time I had a camera they had vanished, of course

However, here is one of the newly opened lilies, no scent, just pretty

Dustyevsky

Thinking about 'water composting,' in a sealed container, won't bacteriological action be mostly anaerobic, unless you loose-fit the lid, or open it daily?

On a completely different subject, we have been honoured this year with the permanent presence of a thrush, which has put the blackbirds' singing to shame for sheer inventiveness. I'm not confident it will stay, long-term, but the signs are good. There are plenty of young blackbirds in the hedges, and the cats show no interest, having learned it's not worth the hassle they get, not only from the blackies, but also robins and wrens, which tend to join-in if there's a fuss going on!

Although most Shasta daisies die out quite rapidly here,  there's one that doesn't. We got it from MiL, who was given it years ago by"someone in the village,” so we've no idea about its identity. Apparently, 'Becky' is well known and highly rated, but she slipped past me until last Thursday!

-taff

AR, just a thought, but if you put it in a bucket with a loose lid you'll end up with rat tailed larvae, beneficial to your garden with the planters, you could build a box frame around them if you wanted a solid seat. Four solid legs, sink them in the ground, bit of postcrete and a nice wide bit of board on the top [ just wide for comfort, not implying anything!]

Dusty, oh dear...next time put your foot down with a firm hand and plead sciatics...nice daisies, I like them too, but the ones I had were really prone to blackfly, or are they generally and I'm just being picky?

Farway, that is indeed a pretty lily..

ArbitraryRandom

Dustyevsky said:

Thinking about 'water composting,' in a sealed container, won't bacteriological action be mostly anaerobic

Would that be a problem?

I was figuring rotting is rotting...