Awful weather - typical Brits talk

YoungBlueEyes

That sounds ideal Murphybear Himself is non fiction war books, I’m anything that’s not Mills and Boon or sport or sci-fi. He’s starting to take to Joe Pike and Jack Reacher and Dave Robicheaux though so there’s that. 

The seed was a creamy light grey colour but more on the grey side. It was about the size of a cherry stone and just as hard. Only round though, not a rim round it. I am sort of coastal, a handful of miles up from the Humber rather than on an actual coast. If that helps? 

It’ll be a weed, I just know it. Some desperate breed of something that I’ll be sorry I bothered with :rolleyes: 

Edit - it was just laying in my grass. No more found. Yet. 

Farway

twopenny said:

Oh beautiful Farway!

I just lost a long post this morning so I'll try and summerise.

Joy! I've got another truss of GD tomatoes  Trouble is it's autumn weather so comfort food rather than salads. I'll just have to get a grip.

Not so Joy. My self fertile Cox has doubled the size of it's branches (good) but one right across the lid of my compost heap

Hope the GDs crop in time & may blight avoid them. 

Your wayward apple branch, still just time to cut it off / shorten it and call it summer pruning. Bear in mind it will grow a new one, short, from the cut, so try and choose a cut just above a leaf that points where you want the new shoot to go

Good haul Arbs, I spotted garlic chives in there, I sowed some years back, it is another if it likes it, it will stay plant. Pretty white flowers that bees like. I hate garlic but I put up with this growing

PS, I know you'll love Laura crab apple, the commemorative one in the Volunteer garden has loads of crab apples on this year, it always has except last year, and now I'm wondering if someone has jars of crab apple jelly stashed away from last year? I'll try & get a pic of this year's crop next time I'm there

ArbitraryRandom

YoungBlueEyes said:

That sounds ideal Murphybear Himself is non fiction war books, I’m anything that’s not Mills and Boon or sport or sci-fi. He’s starting to take to Joe Pike and Jack Reacher and Dave Robicheaux though so there’s that. 

The seed was a creamy light grey colour but more on the grey side. It was about the size of a cherry stone and just as hard. Only round though, not a rim round it. I am sort of coastal, a handful of miles up from the Humber rather than on an actual coast. If that helps? 

It’ll be a weed, I just know it. Some desperate breed of something that I’ll be sorry I bothered with :rolleyes: 

Edit - it was just laying in my grass. No more found. Yet. 

Thanks for the more info, but I'm officially giving up (at least until it's bigger) - I've checked my references and I'm drawing a blank  

I will say that it's a fairly large seed size for most common weeds, so it could be something interesting that originally had fruit around it. 

Farway said:

PS, I know you'll love Laura crab apple, the commemorative one in the Volunteer garden has loads of crab apples on this year, it always has except last year, and now I'm wondering if someone has jars of crab apple jelly stashed away from last year? I'll try & get a pic of this year's crop next time I'm there

It wasn't me...  

But yes, it was the posts earlier in the thread that put the idea in my head, so I'm blaming you guys entirely! 

Dustyevsky

I will eat veggie; I just chuck a few prawns in with whatever it is. Like many people of my generation, I was brought up on Fish & chips fried in lard, Sunday roasts, and lots of cheap meat e.g. liver & bacon. I even ate tripe, till I found out what it was! These days, we all need to make meat go further, which is fine by me.

Farway said:

Today's pic, it was going to be Winston Churchill fuchsia from a cutting, but it had a visitor as the shutter clicked, I wish I could claim it was my highly honed photo skills but 'twas not

Looks like a Buff-tailed Bumble, but that's a very restrained 'Winston Churchill.' I thought he was big, double, blowsy and somewhat OTT? Never grew him for that reason, as I prefer singles, with the major exception of 'Annabel.' Smashing pic anyway.

Had lunch, including blackberry & apple crumble and Lidl ice cream, then fell asleep looking at padlocks for the barn. Woke at 15.00 and since then I've been mowing, as it was getting really out of hand. Had to use the ride on just to get it down, and follow with the push along to pick up. There's another 3 hours still to do. Next year I'll get a ride-on that picks up, but I'll have to keep the present one too, as it copes with the rough areas that killed several other mowers.

While I was looking for somewhere new to dump all the grass cuttings, I spotted a Common Lizard basking on a pile I made about two weeks ago. It's fermenting nicely, but dry on top, so a great place to chill-out in the sunshine and wait for ants to happen along! No camera, of course, but if it's sunny tomorrow I'll see if it's still around.

We've introduced the new, young hens into the flock by cunningly placing them on the roosting perches at night, but they're Gallus domesticus non grata at present. Curiously, or maybe not, it's the lowest pecking-order hens that have given them the most grief. A day will come, however, when instead of giving way, they push back.  After all, they'll eventually be the largest birds in the flock. There's a moral there somewhere!

Edit: Bluey, I think your mystery plant is Forget-me-not too. I've just grown some water Forget-me-nots, and they've grown so fast they'll flower this autumn instead of next spring.

(Not my picture....caught running loose on't internet.)

YoungBlueEyes

Ha haa Arb! Well you lot are my references, all I’ve got is questions I don’t know of any weed that has such a big and resilient …pip? I’ll do weekly photos to see if that helps. It really is scooting along. It’ll die now I’ve said that, obviously. 

2p you’ll have to sort jars out for autumnal chutneys now yours are playing the game  

Fingers crossed for the common lizard 🤞🏻 and that the girls don’t do too much damage when they start retaliating!

ArbitraryRandom

And is it possible you planted the seed in some compost that had a different seed it in?  

Because Dusty is right it does look like a forget me not - but with a 1/4 inch flower that would be some impressive seed! 

YoungBlueEyes

Well it was fresh compost straight from the bag, but I wouldn't put it past me Your forget-me-not does look the same though Dusty.  A very short amount of time will tell eh. 

Another beautiful autumn morning here. Quite a nice peach smudge dawn and a bit of a breeze. Humid again It was desperate here last night, there wasn't a breath. If it wasn't for the (unscheduled) rain I might have slept in the garden. I forgot to say - storm Betty didn't do much here but Cissie got a bit of a battering. There'll be plenty to come down the aquaduct 2p! 

Gonna have a good trawl through the shops in town while I'm out this morning, looking for Hessayon's books :fingerscrossed:  

Dustyevsky

YoungBlueEyes said:

Well it was fresh compost straight from the bag, but I wouldn't put it past me Your forget-me-not does look the same though Dusty.  A very short amount of time will tell eh.

The thing is, Forget-me-not seed is everywhere. It sticks to animals and the plants themselves break up as the tops die and get blown about. It's the ultimate self-seeder. Whatever you planted in the pot may not have come up yet. Big seeds often take a winter of weather before they do.

Farway

Dull and mild again, supposed to get hot later, near record according to my computer, but it lies

Dusty, got me thinking now about the fuchsia, not another mislabelled one , I was given it by another volunteer, cunning plan was to plant lots in the Memorial volunteer garden bit, but it turned into such a slow & weak grower that idea has all but been abandoned.

There are / were four Memorial roses in there, but with the droughts & very poor soil they are very poor & nearly dead, sticks. 

If it were just me, I'd have them out & plant something more suitable to the conditions, but I'm not the boss of that, the person who spent years fund-raising & organising it is obviously protective, so it's a tad "difficult", even more so because of the reason it's there, wartime memories etc

Picked the lower cluster of Happy Days tomatoes to ripen indoors, still blight free but wanted to grab that bird in the hand. There are a couple more left which are ripening & I expect I'll pick them this weekend

If the weather keeps, I'll pick more of my blackberries this afternoon, for the eventual jam or crumbles

Autumn has arrived, my dismal plum tree has decided it's had enough and is shutting down for winter with leaves now turning yellow

Today's pic as taster for Arbs, is Laura crab apple in Volunteer patch, 2021 Spring

Dustyevsky

I was thinking maybe Laura for a memorial tree in my friend's garden, which 'mustn't get big,' but on the other hand, 'it's got to look like a tree, not a pillar,' so I guess she's out!

Winston Churchill courtesy of the RHS:

Pleasant morning here: sunny, not especially windy and I'm still mowing...Grr!