Awful weather - typical Brits talk

YoungBlueEyes

I can't take credit for bee bum season, sadly. I can't remember who coined it but it was someone on here - possibly Farway, not sure. Good though eh! 

Have you decent neighbours? The best solution would be for them to move their bins out of the sun really. I'm not sure how you'd get something to grow up fast enough and be strong enough smelling for long enough to cover hot whiffy bins... Unless you bought a full size something maybe? 

Dustyevsky

pink_poppy said:

Aw, I love Montana Rubens - my mum and dad had that in their garden and it was stunning. If I got that I could let it scramble over the top of the log store too.

There's a white one too, equally good.

https://www.ballyrobertgardens.com/products/clematis-montana-var-grandiflora-m

It was a chilly start today! Hopefully, the last frost for us, but we could get a few more small ones like that. Brilliant sunshine now, and already good to get free heat from the conservatory.

YoungBlueEyes said:

Dusty if/when your neighbours ask what the machinery is for I'd purse my lips and look up to the the sky, then in a stage whisper I'd say "they're piling up, I've got to start burying them" and nod and walk away. I would too, but I'm like that.

While I'd like to, I'm not engaging with anyone. The matter's settled. Discussion's only likely to lead to acrimony. Most will probably ignore us, or not care, but there's one large guy who's suffering major buyer's remorse, and he's bound to want some kind of verbal aggro. I won't give him the chance. I'll have to keep Mrs Dusty under control, though!

Speaking of control, I found myself following this van last week and giggling. When we slowed for a mini roundabout, I was very nawty and took a snap , capturing a bit of terrible driving too!

EX16 is the Tiverton postcode. Mods please note: this was over 30 miles from Tiverton!

YoungBlueEyes

Well then I'd like to change my answer. Don't be being funny with large persons that have buyers remorse, you'll only become the receptacle for all their anger, however misplaced that is. 

The van made me giggle, I love stuff like that. See also - clever shop names. Some of them are pure brilliant.

Dustyevsky

YoungBlueEyes said:

Well then I'd like to change my answer. Don't be being funny with large persons that have buyers remorse, you'll only become the receptacle for all their anger, however misplaced that is. 

The van made me giggle, I love stuff like that. See also - clever shop names. Some of them are pure brilliant.

Best fireplace we ever bought was from Flamin' Grate. (Not the one that's now in South Devon, I hasten to add. I know nothing about them.)

Mr Angry has every cause to be grumpy, but had he engaged a surveyor, or had the ability to spot the potential issues himself, he wouldn't be where he is now.

Farway

Sunny but chilly start, supposed to get very warm later this morning, hope so because I want to get out and sort out the runner bean spot, my beans are climbing the walls in desperation now

I have them hardening off, but they will go out whatever this weekend, unless the polar bears get them first.

Wish I'd take a pic of DD clematis while I was over there. I have no idea what one it is, came with the house, but it's a picture smothering an otherwise dull fence along a pathway from front of house to back.

YoungBlueEyes said:

I can't take credit for bee bum season, sadly. I can't remember who coined it but it was someone on here - possibly Farway, not sure. Good though eh! 

Wish it was me that coined it, but it wasn't. I do remember it generated lots of bee bum pics, quite insect !!!!!! at times.

PAS, nce garden there, my daffs are long gone and looking straggly now. Can we tempt you with a nice espalier apple or two on your fence? >:)No? How about a thornless berry?

I've moved the few marigolds & cosmos that germinated outside to harden up a bit, and make space in the conservatory now i have the bedding geraniums in there

Dusty, I think you were asking about pears setting?

Checked mine and bees have done the bizz, at least looking like taste of pears this year

I think my mislabelled pear could be a Red Williams, seems to fit the description

YoungBlueEyes

Flamin' Grate    There's a Sally Army hall in Skegness, they bought a shop across the road from it and turned it into a chip shop and called it His plaice  

Must just be you that I remember using it first Farway... whoever it was we're getting good use out of it anyway. Sitooterie has (deservedly) grown legs, I'm hoping TwiXer is next... 

I wonder if my sorrowful pear will buck itself up and produce flowers. I might go out and give it a dem gud threshing. Or a right royal talking to. 

-taff

Paspatur, lovely view, much better than mine which is a rendered wall [for the now] . Very funny Dusty. YBL, there was one near us in Wales called A Fish Called Rhondda..And that montana I can get behind. SOmeone in Walres had it scrabling all over their shed and back wall, I used to walk past inhalng as deeply as possible, I've never smelt anything as gorgeous before or since although a phildelphus comes close to being as nice.

No gardening today, well, until late, cosmos to sow and stuff..might have bought more plants yesterday..oops...

ArbitraryRandom

I've been doing some scary math...

The internet recommends that raised beds have 1 inch of water a week (so about 0.623 gallons per square feet). I now have about 200 square feet of raised beds - and 0.6*200 is 120 (about 550 litres)... aka 80 litres a day/8 trips with my watering can if there's no rain. (Though I am assuming my perennial herbs won't need the same amount of water as the annual veg once established)

I really need to get more organic material into these beds to hold onto the rain. And maybe a bigger water butt. And maybe an irrigation system...

Thinking about that - anyone know how to work out what diameter of pipe I would need to hold a volume of ~16 litres of water across a run of ~3.5m?  (Edit, I think an 8mm diameter - or two 4mm would do it? Using a cylinder area calculator online. Both 8 and 4mm seem common sizes in plumbing so definitely doable...)

I'm vaguely considering I could sink pipes with holes drilled in them a few inches under the surface along the length of the beds with a bend coming up to the surface at one end - would allow me to just fill the pipe during our two weeks of summer and water the roots without danger of it splashing/ evaporating/ missing anyone/ under-watering... or is that a bad idea?

twopenny

Beautifully sunny but still cold. The wind is not quite so aggressive.

I used to drive over the moors for work Pas
We'd have peonies booming where I live and id drive up high past daffodils and then snowdrops and back down again to daffs. It was lovely to get the extended seasons in one day.
Each village has its own climate too.

Got bored with the indoor work Bluey and then there were appointments that interfered with the flow. One and a half bits finished. Hoping to get more done at the weekend.
I need to replant seeds too.

Whatever was devastating my thyme and chives has attacked some potted wallflowers now.
Perhaps if I dump those the bugs will go along with them 

Social thur and fri. Photo thing is 'pop of colour'...... mines 90% flowers of course  

greenbee

Bury some leaky hose in the beds before you fill them up @ArbitraryRandom - I did this when I had deep raised beds and it saved a lot of effort in dry summers. I set up hose connectors on the giant water butts (200l x 2) nearby, but could also water with the hose. Obviously if there was a hosepipe ban I'd fill the waterbutts and then use those to water... It means a lot less water lost to evaporation too.

Cold here. I contemplated going out to do some planting, but as I'm technically working it's a bit cold to garden in work clothes today.