Awful weather - typical Brits talk

twopenny

I hope you get some relief soon ancientofdays. Enough so you can direct and point to what you want done.

Oh bliss not to be freezing any more. Never thought I'd be glad to see more rain but I am.  The lamas and sheep in the fields are not looking best pleased

Went for  a drive to top up the battery on the car and a walk to look at the snowdrops in my friends estate of a garden. Oh the envy. They are several feet deep in flower all along the river bank. It's really stunning.

Found there are still plants for sale in the village on the way back. 10 (natural not cultivars) snowdrops in the green for £2. Didn't have my purse but it will go back and buy enough to get a drift around the new little tree I planted. Might as well go the whole hog and buy some for my back garden too

Davesnave

Ah. I thought it wasn't really a DIY job AoD. Poor you! I have a daughter with a peculiar condition where her joints can pop out, and she can usually get them back again, but people who have that know about it.

Not a great deal to report. Planted some garlic and Swiss chard, soaked the polytunnel peas and diddled around in the hope the rain would ease, but no luck. I have literally dozens of geranium phaeum and other ground cover stuff ready to plant along the stream bank, but not in a rainy gale with the stream rising again.

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Davesnave said:

Ah. I thought it wasn't really a DIY job AoD. Poor you! I have a daughter with a peculiar condition where her joints can pop out, and she can usually get them back again, but people who have that know about it.

Not a great deal to report. Planted some garlic and Swiss chard, soaked the polytunnel peas and diddled around in the hope the rain would ease, but no luck. I have literally dozens of geranium phaeum and other ground cover stuff ready to plant along the stream bank, but not in a rainy gale with the stream rising again.

I like that one, excellent ground cover 👍, i grew it over a dry stone wall which looked nice, provided accommodation for various wildlife to boot.

Davesnave

Catsacor said:

Davesnave said:

Ah. I thought it wasn't really a DIY job AoD. Poor you! I have a daughter with a peculiar condition where her joints can pop out, and she can usually get them back again, but people who have that know about it.

Not a great deal to report. Planted some garlic and Swiss chard, soaked the polytunnel peas and diddled around in the hope the rain would ease, but no luck. I have literally dozens of geranium phaeum and other ground cover stuff ready to plant along the stream bank, but not in a rainy gale with the stream rising again.

I like that one, excellent ground cover 👍, i grew it over a dry stone wall which looked nice, provided accommodation for various wildlife to boot.

Yes, some of the older varieties can be dull, especially for shady spots, but alba and some more recent cultivars are brighter.

e.g. Joan Baker who I've multiplied up to about 15 plants in 2 years:

Decent morning out there so far. I may get to plant a few!

Farway

Davesnave said:

Catsacor said:

Davesnave said:

Ah. I thought it wasn't really a DIY job AoD. Poor you! I have a daughter with a peculiar condition where her joints can pop out, and she can usually get them back again, but people who have that know about it.

Not a great deal to report. Planted some garlic and Swiss chard, soaked the polytunnel peas and diddled around in the hope the rain would ease, but no luck. I have literally dozens of geranium phaeum and other ground cover stuff ready to plant along the stream bank, but not in a rainy gale with the stream rising again.

I like that one, excellent ground cover 👍, i grew it over a dry stone wall which looked nice, provided accommodation for various wildlife to boot.

Yes, some of the older varieties can be dull, especially for shady spots, but alba and some more recent cultivars are brighter.

e.g. Joan Baker who I've multiplied up to about 15 plants in 2 years:

Decent morning out there so far. I may get to plant a few!

That's because I now have your rain, very damp outside so not going out there

If it isn't raining tomorrow I may drive by Wickes's post doctor visit & see if compost is about, however since my recent problems I'm not sure I can lift 50L of compost, I'll just have to try it & find out

The alternative is get it delivered which may yet happen, just the natural MSE tightwad in me recoils at this idea

greenbee

Farway - I can't currently manage going out for shopping as a result of long covid, so have had all my compost delivered. I've reminded myself that it is saving me fuel and time as well as energy. It still annoys me, but I've made up for it by having much more delivered that I would be able to stick in the car at a time!

Farway

greenbee said:

Farway - I can't currently manage going out for shopping as a result of long covid, so have had all my compost delivered. I've reminded myself that it is saving me fuel and time as well as energy. It still annoys me, but I've made up for it by having much more delivered that I would be able to stick in the car at a time!

Thanks for this, I suspect I may find myself in the same situation,

Just been pricing it up delivered but I do have to check weight of say 50L bag because I suspect it may be dumped neatly stacked at the end of a long sloping public path adjacent to the road & not walked /wheeled to near my front door.

I'll go along to Wickes weather permitting tomorrow to check if I can lift or not, a year back i would've had no problems doing so, but I suppose 7.95 delivery is reasonable in the circumstances, and like you I'd get a few bags to make it worthwhile, especially with my toy sized car

greenbee

I got mine from Marshalls - it took 2 weeks for delivery, but as I was ordering it I got 300l (in 50l bags, which were dry, so flexible enough to be able to lift unlike the 100l bales!) plus a couple of small bags of seed compost and some other stuff. The compost was all packed in cardboard, and was delivered by yodel who did have the sense to open the gate and reverse in as far as they could before dumping it on my porch. If you were only ordering a couple of bags they might well bring them to your door as they'll have to come and knock on it anyway. I wouldn't have found it easy to pick up in the cardboard, but I took that off and shoved it in the bin, then stacked them all on the porch. The 50l bags from last year are busy defrosting... 

Davesnave

I get mine in 125l bags from B&Q. I can still manage them, but I remember when they were 150l and I don't think I'd manage those now. The B&Q stuff is very variable, so I've tended to buy a bag, open it in the van and if it's OK , buy some more. I won't need so much now we're not selling plants any more, so maybe I'll treat myself this year to some Melcourt posh stuff they sell at the farmers' store.

Only peas planted today. Dearly Beloved had a string of jobs for me.

Farway

Ta Da, after Dr's [passed for the moment] I went along to Wicke's, and I can lift 50l OK so I've just ordered 4 x 50L of own brand multi plus 2 x 50L of Gro -sure farmyard manure

I've had Wickes' own brew before & it was good stuff back then, the FYM will be for general mulching rhubarb, apples, roses etc.

Only bought it because having the delivery anyway

Certainly quick, delivery tomorrow between 7am - 7pm. The store is only a couple of miles away so I'm hoping it'll take awhile to load the lorry and it doesn't arrive at 0701 am

PS, I may get a small 20l seed compost for the Jungley store, non in Wickes and venturing into L's or £land is still a step too far for me just yet