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GF, i have some of his programmes on dvd, I'm saving them for a pouring down day. Sorry, she did another couple, not more, so there's journey to the south which would be the thirdt one, and another one about travelling across the top of africa [ see how much that one stuck in my mind] morocco or tunisia or something...[spot the geopgraphically challenged....yep, moi]Dusty, my favourite one was Piglet Willies French Black, I had the seeds off Zazen a long itme ago and they were my go to eating tom but disaster this year means I may have some, I may not. The bigger ones tend to split, like Paul Robeson and Crimean Black, and the cherry Chocolate ones will, the Black Truffle don't but they are the ones that can sometimes taste a bit fusty, and it's not all fruits, it's just one or two, but enought to annoy me. I also found my tomato growing is changing. I'm aiming for more paste tomatoes this year, as lovely as fresh ones are in a salad, I like to cook with them too...dammit, I need a bigger greenhouse....and I went down a rabbit hole there and found some papers on the video stuff...I think I'll just plan to garden as long as possible and continue to not watch news because the world is full of scarily stupid quick fix people. Whereas we know we have to wait for good things. Sometimes forever if the slugs had their way.2p, I don't work like a trojan honest, I potter with intent. I'll fight you for the trough too.
that's a good idea about blowing stuff out of gravel....
ybe, yeah, erseholes, the lot of them...what did you lie about? or what did your granny think you lied about? I feel my parents disapproval quite keenly sometimes but that's probably me projecting, probably because I know in any given situation, what they would do and sometimes I'm just not sensible. I have some clippy things for the beans but all it's done is enable the slugs and snails to climb further up. All of my beans are now looking like they're not going to make it. Is it worth re-sowing now? the runners anyway. Panicking because when the build was an unpseicifed date in the future, all was good, now it' a specified ish date and there's so much to clear, build, decide about, organise and the money [ we have it, but we';ll have nothing left after it]....for a while anyway, but OH is a spendthrift so it'' start building again...I've been pottering [sorry!] and done some potting on, trying to make more room in the greenhouse. I went out there about 12 last night because I'd forgotten to close the door. Good job I did, there were some massive slugs feasting away on what beans are left and my epazote [ which I really really want to live] so I patrolled and flung them on to a package holiday somewhere else. I'm just going to get my drill out to make some holes in the long pots for the orangey geraniums [ my favourite colour of them]. Has anyone saved seed from them? Is it easy? do they cross pollinate? I know nothing Jon Snow...Non me fac calcitrare tuum culi6 -
I can't cope with my tatties getting any taller, taff, the bags are already starting to lean where I've packed them with compost more on one side than the other
Your garden is looking lovely, YBE - has your builder started on the wall yet??
The weather has been hit and miss here - gorgeous today and on Saturday just gone, bloomin' cold and damp yesterday and the forecast for tomorrow and the rest of the week is 10-11 degrees. Brr, so much for flaming June. May was lovely though
We went for a walk yesterday and the path was full of these weeds plants in the wrong place...
I don't know if anyone on here can remember the amazing Sand Martin 'hotel' I posted pics of three or four years ago. I can't remember if it was last year or the year before that it was razed to the ground 'accidentally'I went back to see it yesterday, hoping that it had sprang back to life, but it's a fraction of the size it was
there were a few birds flying in and out of the nests, but nothing compared to what there was. I'm so angry and sad about it...
And finally, out for another walk today and I spotted this wild rose, which reminded me of AR's dog rose. Look at that blue sky compared to yesterday's...
'A watched potato will never chit'...8 -
Hmm, the person who reposted that geoengineering video presumably doesn't realise it is 11 years old, and that the chap in it was just discussing theoretical methods of climate modification, some of which I remember reading about (in Geographical Magazine or New Scientist) in the late 70s while doing Geography A level...
The Met Office's views on the subject are also a little less tinfoil-hat provoking than the comments below the video suggest (https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/research/climate/earth-system-science/met-office-position-on-geoengineering-research)...
OTOH we have a thick blanket of cloud here, not right for June, shouldn't it be summer here by now?....
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I feel for you Poppy.We had a wide area of wetland known as he Summer meadows by the farmers that used them.Councillers said 'there's nothing there' apart from hares, wildfowl, reed birds, frogs, snakes, rabbits, hawks, herons etc. it's now being built over for industrial - supermarkets, premier inn and factories with some houses.Love the flowers.Just tuned in to say Poundland do plant clips which I've been buying for a couple of yearsWonderful things take a fraction of the time of string.Sheesh, I've been woken by my neighbours son leaving to do the school run and bring the kids back.Now 3 huge Open Reach vans, blokes shouting at each other, to get him better wifi
The kids are crying.
I said I wouldn't have 'thoughts' but really? She's gone out as she always does if there's a problem.
I can rise and shine - just not at the same time!
viral kindness .....kindness is contageous pass it on
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They are the ones I use 2p! I found the big ones really handy but appear to have lost them all and only have the small ones left. Trip shopping then...edited - councillors, also all erseholes...So I went to split the geum I bought yesterday to find it's actually four plants rammed together in one big pot. I left two together because they were a bit wee but that's three plants for 4.99 which I'd call a result. The geraniums are soaking to put in the pot which I've anchored to the dead bay tree so the fox cubs don't bash it off when they're playing, little erseholes [ybe - definitely catching on]...I'm determindely not doing anything I should be doing today but I have found some of that plastic stuff to roll up seeds in, it was in a shoebox that is now in the recycling, so I've put it in my work area to hopefully remind me to try it.Lovely pictures pp!Non me fac calcitrare tuum culi7
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That's just awful, twopenny - what a shame to lose so much wildlife
I've dug out the 'before it was bulldozed' pic of the Sand Martin nests - you can see why I was upset to see it yesterday...
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LessImpecunious said:Hmm, the person who reposted that geoengineering video presumably doesn't realise it is 11 years old, and that the chap in it was just discussing theoretical methods of climate modification, some of which I remember reading about (in Geographical Magazine or New Scientist) in the late 70s while doing Geography A level...
The Met Office's views on the subject are also a little less tinfoil-hat provoking than the comments below the video suggest (https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/research/climate/earth-system-science/met-office-position-on-geoengineering-research)...
OTOH we have a thick blanket of cloud here, not right for June, shouldn't it be summer here by now?....I think their blurb underneath suggests they did know. Maybe they were cashing in on renewed interest. In fairness to myself, I saw part of another video from a source I'm not sure about, so I searched for something from the inebriates, and that's what came up.As for weather modification, we in Devon have suspected the Lynmouth flood disaster was caused by cloud seeding, and over my lifetime little snippets supporting this theory have dribbled out, as things that are hushed-up tend to do.The thick blanket of cloud stayed here too, despite assurances it would break in the afternoon. After shopping, we put up the aerial supports for the tomato bed and I planted the first of the Veranda Reds, which will be potted. It has 5 tomatoes on it already."There is no such thing as a low-energy rich country." Dr Chris Martenson. Peak Prosperity8 -
pink_poppy said:That's just awful, twopenny - what a shame to lose so much wildlife
I've dug out the 'before it was bulldozed' pic of the Sand Martin nests - you can see why I was upset to see it yesterday...But the birds are returning!Our swallows, which I thought would never arrive, have come here in good numbers again. Not as many as around 2010, but I'm hopeful.
Is there no 'authority' you could send your before & after photos to?"There is no such thing as a low-energy rich country." Dr Chris Martenson. Peak Prosperity7 -
ybe - those are exactly the sort of clips I've been trying to buy from the local shops but the only things they could offer me were these horrible blighters.
They're so much fiddlier especially when you aren't as dextrous as you used to be.
PP - I did remember your photos of the sand martin hotel and am saddened to see its reduced state. One can only hope that karma will overtake the perpetrators.
Lovely rose though.
I thought I'd managed to take a photograph of a bee bum visiting one of my chives but all I've captured is the lovely willowherb that is flourishing like the proverbial green bay tree so I'll have another go tomorrow.
The weather here is mystifyingly peculiar, I was woken by the chill around 3am and had to resort to more bed covers and a hot water bottle then this afternoon it was so muggy that digging made me feel quite exhausted. Whatever is causing this had better stop it soon or we'll all need a spell in an expensive hospital.
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goldfinches said:The weather here is mystifyingly peculiar, I was woken by the chill around 3am and had to resort to more bed covers and a hot water bottle then this afternoon it was so muggy that digging made me feel quite exhausted. Whatever is causing this had better stop it soon or we'll all need a spell in an expensive hospital."The UK had its warmest May and meteorological spring on record according to provisional Met Office figures in what was also a wet and dull season for many."Roughly translated, this means, "Little frost, and those guys north of Doncaster had somewhat better than usual weather"By the way, pp, I loved your photo of Hesperis matronalis growing wild.
"There is no such thing as a low-energy rich country." Dr Chris Martenson. Peak Prosperity6
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