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I would say your lettuce need transplanting outside, Blue, but what do I know? Mine have all bolted!
Won't grow LG again.
Ate my first outdoor tomato this afternoon. It was really only half-ripe, like Farway's example, but "gather ye rosebuds (and tomatoes!) while ye may."Don't tell them Pike Arb!I will. The beautiful lacewing starts life in stagnant water as a Rat Tailed Maggot!
Nice fritillary there, Gorse. I noticed they were about on the buddleia here today too. There's really nothing to dahila breeding, if you don't mind a random factor. Just pop a couple together, let the bees do their thing, as in your photo, collect the seed, and then sow it next year. If you get a lot of seedlings, be critical of the foliage and pick the best to grow on. When they get a flower, give away the ones you don't like. Yes, there are more sophisticated ways to shorten the odds, but I was absent the week they did Gregor Mendel, and anyway, at that time the only genes I cared about were those of Levi Strauss and Co!I would say your priorities were right 2p, especially having used this beautiful sunny afternoon to dismantle the marquee. I'd rather have been gathering rosebuds with like-minded folk.....Great photo of the cornflowers and poppies! Wow!"There is no such thing as a low-energy rich country." Dr Chris Martenson. Peak Prosperity5 -
Oh, all right then, here's another Theo pic.....Things are getting serious now...What happens next? Answer tomorrow; same channel, random time!"There is no such thing as a low-energy rich country." Dr Chris Martenson. Peak Prosperity8
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Lol Bluey, I know what you meanTaff, someone was trying to persuade me to move to Sabat (Borneo) and I was worried about growing my own veg. They pointed out that very fresh veg is sold in every street so no need to go to all that workDusty, there was more than those two flowers but it's hard to get it to show. I was trying to get the flocks of butterflies but they just look like blobs wrong in the shot.Love that last one of the thrush and the worm!
Seen outside a village pub............................
Wanted, customers
No previous experience needed as full training will be given
Apply within
Sadly they weren't open. A cold beer would have gone down a treat.
Very warm here, cool early on and now also but phew during the day.
Tomorrow rain in the afternoon, so I'll be wandering again. Free range eggs from the next village along and an Italian coffee me-thinks. Then on to the boring stuff. Another helping of beens tonight. I ought to go out an water but I'm hoping that it will be real rain tomorrow.
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Wonderful landscape 2P just gorgeous far views and big sky. I'd say your day was well spent. I wouldn't mind getting some training in at the pub, if they're willing to teach...
Taff sounds like you're in your element there. There's a lot of knowledge and painstaking work goes into a great garden, but equally it's trial and error, happenstance, crikey, even kismet!
Putting plants in the wrong place is a speciality of mine, and sometimes I think it's because I quite like digging them up again to try elsewhere. Isn't it the Japanese who say that you should never stop building your house? That could equally apply to gardens, I think.
So many folks on here saying their ground is dry, plants are dry etc. It's very different here, any shortfall in rain from earlier has been made good, and then some! I mustn't become too complacent though, being on a hill the ground dries very quickly. We only had a spot of drizzle today with some not really warm sunshine. Apparently a scorching 40° August is "quite possible" according to one headline today. Yes well, anything's possible. Don't know about weather persons being drunkards, more like partakers of magic mushrooms in my opinion.
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Gorse, beautiful picture, what a great coincedence, beautifuly taken advantage of.2p, how could I have missed that too? So so pretty.Dusty, I can just imagine you a la David Bailey, pose for the camera! click click click!I wish I had a great garden Gorse, but it's a [fairly large ofr these times but still quite small in my eyes] back and front garden of a 30's house. I'm just not using the space effctively.Sunny and very bright this morning although showers are forecast, and it's green bin day tomorrow so I'd better cut what little grass I cut this year ready. I did rather severely prune the bay bush out the front yesterday though so it's half full of tha., [and I meant put heuchera under it. The geum goes in the facing bed...which will get the run off from the porch roof]Non me fac calcitrare tuum culi3
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I've just lost a long post from trying to be smart and going back to read a previous post
I (tried to) right click copy, go back and read, come back and paste. But it didn't work! I shoulda used the 'save draft' button :rolleyes:
So. 2p your pic is good enough to be a screensaver imo. I could sit looking at that view all day. Good chat with the farmer too, that kinda thing makes your dayI hope you get some rain this aft, it's meant to be on it's way from the west said the weather man on r4 this morning. Fingers crossed you get useful amounts
That pub sign made me giggle
taff what will you do with your olive tree? Does it want moved or a new home entirely? Those sound like proper growed-up gardener issues to me, so I vote yes for mature
Dusty you didn't need to mention anything to do with that particlar varmint *shudder* I might keep a dish of water sat in the garden though in case it encourages more lacewings. Looking forward to your next Theo pic, I hope it's him looking directly at the camera with a worm draped in his beak.
I can't venture far today cos I'm waiting on the gutter man coming. I need to get my droopy garden tied up, it's all looking a bit tired and slumpy. I think if I put my lettuces outside the snails would have them in a New York minute though so I'll keep em indoors but move them to my cool kitchen and hope that revives them. Time will tell.I removed the shell from my racing snail, but now it's more sluggish than ever.5 -
It was quite nice out there at 06.00, but I saw the signs then: watery orange sky and thin cloud edging in from the west. Now, it's Greysville.
In a few hours, the big local Fair Day will be in full swing as the downpours arrive.
Mrs Dusty intends to go and see sheep. Me, I've seen 'em before; I see them every winter!
-taff said:Dusty, I can just imagine you a la David Bailey, pose for the camera! click click click!Theo knows I'm there, but takes no notice if I stay at a respectful distance.The other blackbirds disappear at this time of year and we rarely see them near the house. I don't know why that is; it might be feather changing time, but I see some holed-up down in the mini-woodland and along the streamside connected to it. As regards he pictures, I was just lucky enough the sequence of events worked out at a speed I could cope with. The final frame could have been a let-down, but it's not!
"There is no such thing as a low-energy rich country." Dr Chris Martenson. Peak Prosperity6 -
Gorsebush said:Apparently a scorching 40° August is "quite possible" according to one headline today. Yes well, anything's possible. Don't know about weather persons being drunkards, more like partakers of magic mushrooms in my opinion.They know where their funding for the beer (or the mushrooms) comes from, and the agenda there is climate fear. It's a good replacement for other fears that have come in handy in recent times, especially as everyone's guilty of doing something awful, like wanting to get about and stay warm.I'm not a climate change denier; I've lived long enough to know the UK weather's generally more benign in winter than it used to be, if more unpredictable. I also know that if the many thousands of years' worth of ice cores are studied, planet Earth had hot and cold periods in its past without any help from us."There is no such thing as a low-energy rich country." Dr Chris Martenson. Peak Prosperity3
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Dusty what was the name of the weather thing you use? Vartabilly or summat? Is it more accurate/less inaccurate than the others...?
I'm with you there on climate change. The climate is definitely changing, but I ain't having all the 'Climate Change' shabang that the news reports. As one very small example - when I got married 25 years ago I wanted the middle-ish of May cos that's when the daffs were out in our area and I wanted them in the photos. We ended up just missing them but there were a few still going. My daffs now are up and out and long gone by May. Changing climate, yes. 'Climate Change', no way Pedro. Gravy train, cash cow, golden goose etc.I removed the shell from my racing snail, but now it's more sluggish than ever.3 -
Lumme, everyone's been busy since I last looked!Sunny start, Asda delivery has been [Kippers for dinner
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YoungBlueEyes said:Dusty what was the name of the weather thing you use? Vartabilly or summat? Is it more accurate/less inaccurate than the others...?
Your rose, just sit tight, don't fiddle with it, patience while it gets some oomph into its roots. Next spring It'll burst out and have flowersYour lettuce, others have said, mine's the same, except for those the slugs had.My radishes are a disaster, all leaf and no radish, the leaves are now flea beetle raddled & I nearly binned the lot yesterday2P, what a gorgeous picture of the wild flowers, and no, time well spent. Life is too short and can change overnight, so enjoy what there is while you are able toIf you want Cabbage Whites I have plenty, they have discovered my sacrificial nasturtiums and are busy laying eggs, caterpillars next week I guess, which will be ideal because the will "trim" the nasturtiums back to let light in for my tomatoes
I may take some photos for "nature study" purposes. Of course, I don't suppose it's called that these days.I've been to Borneo,[Navy days] so veg growing would be a very different, the pests as well. There were fruit bats with huge wingspans, put aphids to shame.GorseB, love the dahlia pic, my butterflies just won't stay still long enoughClimate change, heard a bit of a heated argument on radio the other day, one problem is we, in UK, will most likely benefit for warmer climate. I'll leave that thought hangingRight, off to grab camera and get snapping before the rain arrivesBut, here's a salad on the way, my first cucumber for decades, shame no radish or lettuce to go on the plateEight out of ten owners who expressed a preference said their cats preferred other peoples gardens7
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