Awful weather - typical Brits talk

-taff

Dusty, I did laugh at fondling your herbage...2p, then you must tell me your trick...Whenever iPut mint in a pot it always ends up really straggly and never lush or healthy looking after a couple of months...That's a lot of blossom though ybl, fingers crossed for lumpy results

I'm orf to a local grow your own this morning to pick up hopefully a ton of spent compost [not a literal ton]. I have designs on a new raised ned, no idea where I'm going to put it but logs will be in the bottom etc, and it'll just be used for salad stuff. One of the trugs I acquired last year is serving as a seedling bed for now, it's so much easier to plonk a bit of  something in it and then dig it out when it's grown on a bit rather than stick it in a tiny pot, forget to water and it die. Every year I learn something new, honestly.or more accurately, i learn what needs ot be done to keep stuff alive betterer.

kiss_me_now9

Is shooting a pigeon with a nerf gun illegal? Asking for a friend. 

-taff

nope. have at it...

Farway

Having computer troubles so if I vanish you know why

Dustyevsky

Farway said:

Having computer troubles so if I vanish you know why

Oh dear, it was updating day on Wednesday. I returned to a screen with icons neatly rearranged where I don't have them, but nothing worse. While I can't tell my ROM from my RAM, unless it has two horns that is (!) I know of a company in this part of the world that properly refurbs wee Dell desktops, the size of a paperback, and sells them with a years P&L guarantee for around £100.

kiss_me_now9 said:

Is shooting a pigeon with a nerf gun illegal? Asking for a friend. 

Absolutely fine, but don't swear at it if you're in Scotland, or you might be had for hate speech.

-taff said:

Dusty, I did laugh at fondling your herbage..

As someone who used to sell herbs, I accepted very early on that people would want to squeeze and sniff them. It's normal. Frankly, I was amazed by Ms McVicar's attitude, but she was the one who became the successful entrepreneur, so what do I know? 

Farway

I seem to have survived a Windows update, plenty of blue screen time and one System restore, with a lunch break in between to allow all the zeros & ones to get themselves in the right order

Dustyevsky said:

Farway said:

Having computer troubles so if I vanish you know why

Oh dear, it was updating day on Wednesday. I returned to a screen with icons neatly rearranged where I don't have them, but nothing worse. While I can't tell my ROM from my RAM, unless it has two horns that is (!) I know of a company in this part of the world that properly refurbs wee Dell desktops, the size of a paperback, and sells them with a years P&L guarantee for around £100.

Sounds handy Dusty, my current one is a Dell, second hand ex office stuff from Amazon seller. Check your PMs.

With chesty parts up computer I used the imposed opportunity to pot on my toms, loads of them, it was my accidental forest, nearly thirty of the blighters. But all done now & siting soaking up the sun after a jolly good watering.

I have way too many, but I know they will soon go at the volunteer place, maybe 50p a pop, or two for a quid offer

In the sun my apple blossom is out, as is the cherry, and Judas tree may it this weekend. Camera dusted off & ready to go.

Today is Toad Flax. 

One of the pretty weeds. 

Its ancestor started life on a wall in Largs years ago when I was working up there, some stuck to me and has taken to life in the Soft South like etc etc.

Even crept into my conservatory via a wee gap

This one is on a wall pillar, no idea how it arrived there, but nice to see it.

-taff

Dusty, not so bad last year, squeezing and smelling was on the menu. I still wouldn't argue with her though...

Farway, I love that stuff, so pretty!

This weather absolutely no good at all. Thanks to it, i got myself sixteen bags of spent compost for a quid [ I felt guilty so I stuck another quid in the box], then stoped off at two garden centres, bought nothing in the first one but a big cream ish terracotta pot and two lots of pelargoniums. Damn this climate change. The car said it was 23 degrees.

On returning home, I can't find a cheaper metal raised bed than in the first garden centre so now I'm going to have to go back to it and buy one....

twopenny

Taff, Take a look at lidl middle asile. I saw them, they will need treeting but meah not difficult.

Farway, i just photographed some toadflax. Pretty stuff I like.

Kiss, i used a water gun on over-excited pigeons outside my bedroom. They looked accusingly but didn't come back.......it works for yowalling cats too.

Dusty love the supermarket river. I thought I had the best supermarket view with a heritage railway and the moors 

Sorry, I'm lost now....bbut I remember how good Blueys espalered apple is. 

Been super sunny here, 15c tonight. No work done, just had to be out in it.
Did some pot swaps, the dutch iris have refused to flower and been slug attacked. I collected some and sent them on holiday.
Bought some geraniums for£3,50 for summer pots so I can pretend it's summer.
Seedlings on the garden table for sun and sorted the mix ups - i think.

Tomorrow back to cloudy.

Dustyevsky

It was purely coincidental that I took a photo of Ground Ivy this afternoon, the flowers of which aren't far removed in appearance from Farway's Ivy Leaved Toadflax, which grows on walls, rather than under hedges.

I believe both plants might be used as part of a salad. With Ground Ivy, in the mint family, a little goes a long way!

ArbitraryRandom

Dustyevsky said:

I believe both plants might be used as part of a salad. With Ground Ivy, in the mint family, a little goes a long way!

I didn't know that - I think I have some in the garden, but I'll need to make a positive ID when there's not builders tracking mud and cement over everything near the path. At least the internet assures me the most common lookalikes are a couple of dead nettles that aren't toxic. Sounds interesting (mashup of rosemary, sage, mint and thyme with a mild bitter aftertaste). 

On the garden front, builders in today yesterday to start to reinstate the path and check all of the concrete has set appropriately. It's looking really good (compared to what it's been like all winter anyway).  They'll be back on Monday or Tuesday to grout the patio and render the outside of the beds to match the house. At some point next week 15 tons(!!!) of topsoil is being delivered. 

Then I can start planting  

Middle bed (about 3.5x1.2m) is already mentally allocated to the Lonicera harae, 2 x Lonicera caerulea and the mojo mulberry I got last year which are currently in pots. Might not be permanent homes, but I do think that middle bed will end up as fruit.  

Plan for this year I think is the far bed to be beans/peas and the veg I've managed to sprout (basically entirely experimental), then the one nearest the house would be my gourds and salad bar/herbs (the things I care about and don't want to forget to water ). Including hopefully my trailing/bush tomatoes which I'd quite like if they were coming down onto the patio...