Awful weather - typical Brits talk

Farway

My weather has changed this morning, after a nice cooler night for sleeping, it's now dull with a chill wind, sounds like 2Ps.

However, it's also feed Friday, so out early feed & water the pots at the front. I'll do the same for the back this afternoon if weather holds.

Changed over to tomato feed for some, now that flowers & fruit are forming

My two courgette plants, in with the sweetcorn, are growing, which is good because I half expected the slugs to have eaten them

twopenny said:

Amazing photo Farway. Have you thought of sending them to the Beeb - though they don't pay. A competition anyway.

The clarity and detail are incredible!

What Goldie said about the apples. They're 'ok'.

Thanks all for photo comments, and Alicef for identifying it.

I have sent photos to Beeb before, some were shown on Sarf Today so a brush with fame.

FWIW, I used an old manual focus Pentax 135mm lens on a mirrorless camera.

Thanks also for the apple updates, could be Limelight for DD, but plenty of time for me to get waylaid by a super bargain in Morries for instance.

Arbs, you & me both with the cherries, no pies but a taste is a bonus. 

Mine have all gone, eaten by everything except me , just pips left despite mesh etc. But I enjoyed the blossom and the possibility of some juicy cherries.

My on offer T & M seeds arrived, carrots & next year toms.

I sowed the carrots yesterday, in a large pot, under no illusions because it seems carrots are Devils to geminate, some sort of coating on the seeds and then just want to die if they germinate

They take at least a fortnight to decide if they want to head to the fiords

These are the round ones, Paris market, Atlas. I'm only doing it because DS said he couldn't find carotty carrots in the shops.

The runners sown on tissue paper early this month and then planted out are rocketing away now, leaves are hand sized and seem to have escaped the slugs.

If they crop well, I may have to rethink bean sowing, later beats early sowing?

wort

Afternoon all, I’m afraid I’ve been reading sooo many books that I’ve not read along for a while. Also whilst we’ve had the sunny weather I’ve been outside with my book in the shade, so the tablet doesn’t work outside. I’ve a number of pages to catch up on. 

My philadelphus is the yellow leaved one I posted for identification earlier and does smell like bubble gum. What I do love the smell of is my choisya I have 1 at the front and 1 at the back the flowers and leaves smell lovely ,so many mention the 1 near my door asking what it is that smells so nice.
Re the beds I think proper old fashioned horse manure might be needed , absolutely stinks but I’m sure it’s the best fertilizer. Sorry I can’t recall who asked.
2p I gave up on sweet peas as they get eaten ,my MIL used to have buckets of them and she said to keep picking to keep them flowering, but I can’t even get to a bud stage.
Also I can testify that impatiens do get eaten by slugs , so little blue sweeties have been employed. I should take pics to show the girl at the nursery who told me they don’t.
Dusty you should have enough Tomatoes to feed the southwest there.
Farway that’s a pretty coloured buddleia, nicely matched by the colour of your writing.

Well the weather broke here yesterday wind and showers ,followed by torrential rain and crazy wind last night. Still windy and showers today back in the sweatshirts.

wort

2p love the pics of gates and bridges, proper country garden look.
Dusty the green in your landscape is a delight, I could have sat looking at it all day too.
YBE I had to laugh at the grey headed bulbul , maybe it’s global boiling.

wort

This is one of my hydrangeas

wort

this one was blue with black stems but even using ericaceous compost in the pot it turned pink x

wort

This is an evergreen climbing variety 

pink_poppy

Your hydrangea is further along than mine, wort - lovely.

Farway, I thought it was just my family that described carrots as carrotty    

I did the supermarket mooch around this morning so that I could buy wine at 10am   I got a soaking when I came outside though - all my shopping bags got drenched, as did I... It's quite windy here and one of my tatties has fallen over - serves me right for not earthing them up more - there's just too much foliage

As mentioned above, the weather is rubbish. Chilly at 13 degrees and wet and windy. Forecast is for more of the same. And guess what... the schools break up today. Same thing happened last year...

YoungBlueEyes

It’s all cloudy and windy and a bit darker here now. Lovely. The drunkards must have a ‘it’ll rain in the next hour’ button that pays them whenever they add it to the app, 8 hours in and it’s still dry as a bone. Shocker. I don’t think it’s got enough oomph in it to make it’s way over the hills from your side wort/pp… I keep reading good things about choisya, that can go on my list. 

Beautiful hydrangea pics Glad you’ve had good weather to get sat out. Makes a world of difference eh. 

Later sowing sounds like it'd do you rightly Farway, no chance of knocking stuff on the floor if you've not started them yet ha haa. 

Anyway. I actually came on to see if anyone can put a name to a flower that's come out now. It's from a bulb and I definitely planted it cos I did all my bulbs in 3's so I could see what was meant to be there and what was a blow-in. It's a beautiful fragrance, sort of a thick/peppery/savoury sort of smell. No I didn't keep the box. Or label it *sigh*

The flowers are small and the stems are skinny. Any ideas please…?

twopenny

No idea, sorry.

But you're problem with open doors and cats..................

This was my soloution

 

It's a sliding door so easy. There must be a way with an ordinary door.

This one raises 6" at night for the hedgehog to get through and drops at night. From Morries.

There's also expanding trellis £1 screwed to the top of the fence as they were getting on my neighbours bins and over.

I did have that all swept clean before the last storm and this wind

goldfinches

Ybe - could your mystery flower be a freesia? I can never get the buds to open when I buy them as cut flowers so am not very familiar with their appearance but the fragrance sounds right.
The Merlin bird app does work much better if you go into the settings at the bottom of the Sound ID screen and choose Europe: Britain and Ireland under Bird Packs which is the first option at the top of that page and if you let it know your location too as it cross references with all the other users in the same area as you. 

wort - lovely hydrangeas especially the climbing one, I used to have that outside a previous kitchen window and always loved looking at it when I was doing the washing up.

Farway - some of the carrots I sowed germinated then half of those got munched by the slug army and when I resowed that area nothing germinated so you're doing better than me I think. Very interesting to hear that later sowing does better, I'm adding that to my list of possible exculpatory excuses when/if the plot is criticised for tardy cultivation next spring.

2p - great anti-feline solutions there, very decorative too. Nice to hear you have a hog, must be one of the few in your county as well so cherish him or her and see if you can persuade them to reproduce! We need more native wildlife to eat all the slugs and snails that have flourished this year otherwise we won't be able to grow anything next year at all.

I've been suffering the ill effects of being wrenched around by the physiotherapist who gaily asked if that hurt and if so where while I tried to keep a stiff upper lip but am finally feeling better so will be cycling plot wards tomorrow and am expecting a bumper crop of thistles etc., fingers crossed.