Awful weather - typical Brits talk

YoungBlueEyes

Some pics. 

Looking down through a wiggly willow tree into a stream running up the middle of a garden 

How to keep slugs off yer lettuces 

A couple of signs 

And some pretties 

YoungBlueEyes

It won’t let me do them all at once grrr 

YoungBlueEyes

Oops I didn't press refresh before I posted. Hopefully you aren't gonna be long recovering wort, you don't want to be doing your back in while waiting on the other bits healing  

Hopefully you get rid of whatever it is soon pp, are you a pre-packed sandwich eater..? Whatever the name of your pond bits, I like it  

I don't think of you as a Walking Dead sort Farway, but imagine watching something like that and noticing the gardens  

I hope those ducklings made it through in one piece 2p, and I liked your link too  

Oh and anyone is welcome to any of my words, erse and babby blackies being my favourites but all the others are available  

Right, off to see if I can get a bit of fun outta the other boards then it's housework 

Farway

The stopped yesterday & sun crept out in the afternoon

DS managed to get the fig back vertical, so now when I water it the water should seep in instead of running off.

Taff, why didn't I think of that spade as a lever trick? Doh! Anyway sorted now.

My there are a lot of sickies around, hope you're all feeling a bit better, even if not 100%. I know just how painful & awkward things can get without full mobility.

YBE, I like that sheep skinning advice, very insightful. Hope you find another temperature bobbin thingy, I'll have to check mine because I don't remember seeing it for a while, but maybe it's behind all the Bills on the mantelpiece?

GF, welcome to tomato flower club, but we have a way to go to catch Dusty with his actual fruiting one

The rain is a mixed blessing, waters everything well, but some of my ripening cherries have now split . In past years, this has been the signal for the Invasion of the Snails. Mollusc equivalent of all-you-can-eat Pic N Mix.

But, this time some are ripe enough, just, to be picked, so I had a couple of the split ones, not fully ripe but ripe enough to taste of cheery.

I count this as a harvest. Loads more to come if birds etc can be kept off, fingers crossed, could this be The Year?

With the sun I also planted out the broad beans, managing to snap one top off , which should recover.

And the two courgette are also out in the final positions with the sweet corn, plus blue slug sweets added

Runners are out hardening up, weather permitting I'll make a start on their new home this afternoon.

I have some plant rings on the way, having seen them on here, 2P was it? I'll need them to try & sort out the rocketing growth on the apples & pears, fruit trees, not Cockney rhyming slang .

Dustyevsky

Just a quickie from me to prove I'm still in the land of the living....not the living dead! If there is a Zombie Apocalypse, and the shops are shut, you could always eat the canna tubers.

Firstly, sympathies to those of you feeling poorly today. Mrs Dusty isn't doing great, either. Her new knee, (now over a year old) has been playing-up, so this morning she's back to using a stick. She does have an appt with the surgeon that fitted it, but it's a month away yet.  

More immediately bothersome is the need to drive one of the ladies who walked around the open gardens with us to the opticians. She'd normally drive herself, but she hasn't been right since. So, it's possible the lovely day we're experiencing here will turn into a round trip of 40 miles, instead of further taming Dusty Acres, which is still capable of turning rogue. I was down by the stream yesterday, and had to retrace my steps thanks to all the lush growth.

My picture bank is getting rather thin, but as it's now full-on rose season, here's one of ours that's supposed to be climbing over the archway pergola thing, but isn't...yet. It's Arthur Bell. Never heard of him. Maybe he was the brother who gardened, backalong, rather than play around with tin cans and bits of string....

Farway

I had an Arthur Bell rose, a sickly child and long gone to fiords

Arthur was one of the Whisky Bells, ding-dong.

Working_Mum

What a small world YBE - I also visited those gardens yesterday!! The lettuce in drainpipe is actually my Uncle's garden - it is a really gorgeous one I think. I live near the big bridge in our area 
I got absolutely drenched to my skin - took me a couple of hours to warm up again after I got home.

pink_poppy

I think it is a touch of food poisoning, but nothing to do with pre-packed sandwiches. Unfortunately I think it's the homemade roasted butternut squash and lentil soup. The lentils were out of date, but well cooked, so I don't think it was that. I'm wondering if I didn't reheat it properly though. I've had to cancel a hospital appointment booked for tomorrow, just in case I still feel ill.

Lovely pics of the open gardens - it makes me want to go for a wander around some. Definitely a small world, Working Mum.

Sorry to hear Mrs Dusty's knee is playing up - she must be fed up. Lovely rose, btw.

Ding dong indeed, Farway   It did make me smile that you're noticing gardens whilst watching a presumably gory TV series.

It's looking nice and sunny outside - shame I'm stuck in bed sipping water...

Ps - domestic nonsense, not housework, YBE

Dustyevsky

pink_poppy said:

I think it is a touch of food poisoning, but nothing to do with pre-packed sandwiches. Unfortunately I think it's the homemade roasted butternut squash and lentil soup. The lentils were out of date, but well cooked, so I don't think it was that. I'm wondering if I didn't reheat it properly though. I've had to cancel a hospital appointment booked for tomorrow, just in case I still feel ill.

Sorry to hear Mrs Dusty's knee is playing up - she must be fed up. Lovely rose, btw.

So d's law says you'll be fine tomorrow, pp. Hope you are anyway, as it looks like the best day of your week, weatherwise.

Mrs Dusty is fed-up, but she's made her knee work well enough to take her friend to the appointment. It seems we still need the automatic car. It's the only one that works properly, too! I'm taking my 4x4 off the road (or selling it if anyone will buy!) rather than shell out another £250 on insurance and £30 a month road tax. I'd prefer to invest in the van, which like me, has lost its turbo temporarily. It's a pig to park in Sainsburys, but otherwise quite acceptable, and we need it for tip runs recycling expeditions.

So, I thought I'd have the afternoon to myself when one of the owners of the commercial yard nearby hailed me.... Unfortunately, he didn't want to discuss the huge sum he might wish to pay us to acquire drainage for his potential building site, but merely asked that I cut back the hornbeam hedge, because I forgot it last winter. I was too polite to point out the hedge was only planted because his fence was failing, and he'd never fix it, agreeing instead, I'd chainsaw the offending branches this afternoon.

Farway

Quick update, only been gone a few hours and more sickness around, very healthy all this gardening.

The worst bit is lack of mobility when a gardener.

I'm not really a zombie film type, or any of the superhero ones, but Walking Dead just caught me on an off moment, flicking through, as you do.

Another one which I liked but not really one I thought I would is Fallout

Both way out of my normal watching

Is it me, or are those drain pipe lettuce on the way to bolting?

Your soup PP, could well be, I think soup can be a Petri dish sometimes. 

Years back, I made some tomato soup for a packed lunch at a Family History venue.

Fortunately, the building had handy loos. 

Hope you are soon well enough to be up & about

Managed one pic, it's Calendula Fiesta Gitana plus bees knees

I grew these as a response to discussion a bit back about edible flowers, Pot marigolds, seems petals are edible & can be used like Saffron but not sampled yet

Another plant has very orange flowers but takes rotten photo, I must try harder