Awful weather - typical Brits talk

YoungBlueEyes

Warning heeded 

How about this then - morries hebes - 

These’ll be alright won’t they? Pre user error I mean  

Also, here’s my apple (pear is a bit behind) 

They say the temp is rising but the wind’s picking up so it doesn’t feel warm at all now. Indoor to do seeds next. 

I think the Post Office has cut the clothing budget to try and stay afloat, and have therefore abandoned trousers as an option. It’s shorts or run round nekkid. 

pink_poppy

I've been given 3 Kerr's Pink potatoes to chit and have an egg box to sit them in on the windowsill. It's my first foray into growing potatoes, so fingers crossed for me please   

ArbitraryRandom

pink_poppy said:

I've been given 3 Kerr's Pink potatoes to chit and have an egg box to sit them in on the windowsill. It's my first foray into growing potatoes, so fingers crossed for me please   

We can learn together - I've got my first seed potatoes this year as well and plan to annoy the thread with lots of questions in due course  

YoungBlueEyes

All fingers tightly crossed here. Sorting out my mags yesterday I'm sure I saw one of them had something on growing potatoes. If it's not on their website I'll put up a pic of the article if yous like? 

Got my seeds sorted yesterday and I do have some toms that are cascading They're cherry tomato "peardrops", and they're yellow, so that'll be nice to grow with the seeds I squidged out of one of my little red ones last year. Either beer cans take a while to work or they don't work at all cos I've got tulips trying to come up and they're being chomped down to ground level. Aren't slugs erseholes  

This made me smile - apparently there's a Tree Of The Year competition, and Poland won it this year with Heart Of The Garden. 
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-68351596

I'd just got the hebe pic taken yesterday when it started raining. Not that any of them had forecast it, but they all gave rain after it started. Which shows progress cos at least they're now looking out the window. No rain forecast today either (yet) so it's flowers up to mum and dad and then round to Posh Friend's for lunch. According to the sobers it'll be apricitous today with the UV up to 3 at lunchtime. 

twopenny

Have a lovely time at Posh friends house. Does she serve posh biscuits and coffee?

Been raining here again. Gone chilly. About 9c with north wind so no chance to get the strawberry plants in that I picked up from friend. The strawberry bed is green with moss as it's at the bottom of the slope so needs digging.
The forecast says wall to wall sunshine 

Fingers crossed for you both with potatoes. As I used to bury mine in the compost heap to save space I doubt I'll have advise to offer  . 

pink_poppy

Ooh, what potatoes have you got AR?? I'm going to try chitting some Maris Piper that I bought from Aldi, but remembering Farway's warning about some supermarket potatoes I might have to actually buy some seed ones. And what will you be growing them in?? I'm thinking about reusing the 'plastic' hessian bags we have, I just have to somehow punch drainage holes in them.

Cascading yellow toms sound lovely, YBE. Are you thinking for your supermarket metal baskets (that was so random, btw)??

Hope you're ok, Dusty.

Weather is set to be dire today with 40+mph winds for a few hours. My poor daffs are going to be trashed   

Dustyevsky

pink_poppy said:

Hope you're ok, Dusty.

Yes, thanks. I'm just being quiet, for once.  I've been under the weather a little in the last few days, losing all sense of smell and taste, so it may have been that illness I've found it so very hard to catch in the past! Decided to rest yesterday, went to bed early etc, and today's breakfast tasted almost normal.  It remains to be seen what the knees do later, of course, but I could actually put my shoes on this morning without doing weird contortions. 

It's been raining here, but I think 2p and I will get a decent day later, though not very warm due to the wind direction being from the NW.

That's a very fine tree there in Poland, Bluey. The sweeping branches remind me of the one 2p posted in Luccombe.

It's a pity the BBC couldn't give such prominent coverage to the Polish farmers' protests on Wednesday, though I suppose only 70 000 of them turned out, so a single sentence sufficed! It's a war in all but name.

-taff

That is a beautiful tree YBL, the Polish one sorry, not the apple my potatoe growing advice is stick them in something and see , is that helpful?

Dusty, i grew a chocolate habanero last year, just for the shoots and giggles, it was for sale at a local plant sale in a pub so I thought why not. I have to admit though, jalapeno is more my style and liberally doused in sour cream or tzatziki or whatever. I did once wipe my nose with fingers that had chopped chillies, big mistake, I was walking round with toilet paper dipped in milk shoved up my nostrils for hours. However, my friend had done that and visited the toilet, so she had it worse I think...The chocolate ones produced two very small green chilies that I strung on astring to dry...still unused. Maybe rub some in your knee? Or mustard or something....

It's bit pot potting on today, I have a mock orange [ It should really be in the ground but there's only space out the front and I love the smell so pot it is] to do, a palm tree that came as a swap for some garden furniture, it's only about three foot but it will be impressive in thirty years it's a Chamaerops humilis [I copied and pasted there] it makes about five or six leaves a year so it'll be a while, and one olive will go in a bigger pot along with the medlar and quince.

Funny, I remember last year thinking, wow, that's a big pot there, now this year I'm thinking, they're more medium sized and I can go bigger....familiarity etc

ArbitraryRandom

pink_poppy said:

Ooh, what potatoes have you got AR??   

I picked up one of the cheap kits from T&M for around £15 which had three potato bags (about the size of buckets, so not huge) and a few each of Charlotte, vivaldi and maris piper. 

They are also currently sulking on my windowsill (just down the way from the seed) and if they don't wake up before the 1st April then I'm just going to plant them and hope for the best... honestly, the ones from my last supermarket shop are sprouting loads better already  

Farway

Dry & grey, cold weather due this weekend now my pear has blossom.

Up early to get my tootsies done and check the volunteer patch, it looks grand right now, the grass chap has mowed the green stuff, avoiding chopping down the daffs in the green stuff, and the magnolia is out.

I'll post a pic once I'm  sorted out

Dusty, does sound like the thing we mustn't mention. DIL is a magnet for the thing. But now it has affected her with long thingy, she keeps coming over weak & dizzy, off work and unable to drive or go out because never knows when she'll come over odd. Hopefully you will shake it off without any after effects except an empty Sottish medicine bottle.

Went to Morries after my toe job, lots of plants & stuff, none of the suggested on for the tub but still came ways with a trailing fuchsia to pop in there for the moment. 

And another Autumn raspberry, "Heritage" apparently an old variety but tasty.

And a perennial poppy, only young plant, but it'll grow

Very tempted by the fruit trees, plenty there Blue, had to harden my heart on an apricot but leaf curl will just snatch it from me, I'll make do with raspberries for now

Nice tree pic, will the Ska tree ever be a contender one year?

Yellow toms in basket sounds good, YBE. Looking them up, they sound good, and attractive as well.

Here's my tomato forest, there are Yellow Balcony in there, which I grow every year from self saved seeds, so hopefully Peardrops will be as suitable

If you peer, you should be able to read the labels [idea blatantly stolen from Dusty]