Hosta - just gone back a few pages for a proper look at the pics your friend took of your garden (saw them on a phone during the week, and promised myself a big screen look at the weekend )
Good morning everyone. Dull and grey here and not good for holiday makers. Lots leaving early yesterday. We actually got rained on but while we were out and not at home unfortunately. Went to the shell museum - crammed full of shells of all shapes, sizes and colours - far too many in fact. They need to do some serious editing but can't fault the staff for enthusiasm..
Then on to the Potager Extraordinaire which is an organic garden growing mainly curcubits and tomatoes in many shapes, sizes and colours but also bananas, peanuts, sweet potatoes, quinoa and more usual stuff like brassicas, beans, leeks and lettuces. They grow bidens and tithonia in amongst their tomatoes to attract good guys and fend off baddies. Very pretty.
They had a polytunnel of strange gourds including "Caveman's club - improved"!
I went to see how they do it all in this drought. They cheat - seep hoses hiding under tons of organic matter and manure.
DL - hope Mrs is doing better. That floor you want to eat Belgian casserole off was the day before the removal men arrived with their botts and the furniture. It would have to be boeuf bourgignon or coq au vin now as we're in the Vendée.
FG - careful of your back with all those slabs. OH is picking plus today. Hasn't spotted my improvements in the potager. I'm waiting for ructions.
Have a good day everyone and please feel free to send spare rain my way.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
Hi chicky - hot bed is coming along quite well thanks. I put in some sweet peas to fill it until some of the perennials and shrubs grow. Still a bit to do - trellis to put up and a bit of rearranging () plus a clematis to get. The cornflowers I stuck in have become rampant, but I'm loathe to cut them back as the bees have been enjoying them so much.
Where are you off to on your hols?
You just reminded me about Hosta's pix. I forgot to comment on them - really beautiful, especially the lake.
Strange gourds indeed Obelixx You can have some of our rain if you like. We've had plenty for the time being. The slab shifting is more awkward than anything else, as the ground needed levelling, so lots of faffing and relifting to get it right.
If it would stay dry, I might get a little more done out there, but of course, as soon as I put a washing on - the rain came on
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Wonky Those are beautiful ... Papa Womble will be very pleased with those ... wish him well from us.
Fairy, those sheep are lovely ...... but I've a soft spot for Southdowns ... I used to keep a small flock ... the breed was traditionally kept in orchards ... they're compact and easy to manage ... they're so biddable that you can virtually paint a white line on the ground and they won't walk over it ... not escape artists like so many sheep ... also they don't bark trees like some, they just like nibbling the grass.
We also had Manx Laoghtans ...........escape artists and real 'characters'. Our ram (Harald) badly injured my thumb joint by smashing it against a fence post with one of his horns. A real problem for a week or two when I was milking the goats
Just heard from son ... he was in the stadium last night ... watched Mo and Usain then was in the VIP lounge at the same time as them afterwards (son was doing comms, whatever that is) .
He said Usain Bolt was very interested in the technology, cameras, lighting, sound etc asking the cameramen if he could have a go ....... he chatted to a girl who was doing the lighting ... she had to go and sit down for five minutes afterwards
Son said Bolt is very tall ... and Mo isn't
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Chicky, it was just a big patch of weedy grass when she moved in with one very large sycamore and a couple of bamboos. we cleared a raised bed under the tree and cut the lawn away from the fence so it could be edged properly with shears. We also removed the bamboo. Looks much better now and she can cut beds out as and when she has the time and the funds to buy plants. I'm just glad she's showing an interest in gardening, Firstborn can't stand it.
Ooh just heard the first rumble of thunder and 'it's as black as a bag over Bill's mothers'.
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Morning Liri - missed you there
Hosta - just gone back a few pages for a proper look at the pics your friend took of your garden (saw them on a phone during the week, and promised myself a big screen look at the weekend
)
Absolutely stunning
Morning Chicky!
Good morning everyone. Dull and grey here and not good for holiday makers. Lots leaving early yesterday. We actually got rained on but while we were out and not at home unfortunately. Went to the shell museum - crammed full of shells of all shapes, sizes and colours - far too many in fact. They need to do some serious editing but can't fault the staff for enthusiasm..
Then on to the Potager Extraordinaire which is an organic garden growing mainly curcubits and tomatoes in many shapes, sizes and colours but also bananas, peanuts, sweet potatoes, quinoa and more usual stuff like brassicas, beans, leeks and lettuces. They grow bidens and tithonia in amongst their tomatoes to attract good guys and fend off baddies. Very pretty.
They had a polytunnel of strange gourds including "Caveman's club - improved"!
I went to see how they do it all in this drought. They cheat - seep hoses hiding under tons of organic matter and manure.
DL - hope Mrs is doing better. That floor you want to eat Belgian casserole off was the day before the removal men arrived with their botts and the furniture. It would have to be boeuf bourgignon or coq au vin now as we're in the Vendée.
FG - careful of your back with all those slabs. OH is picking plus today. Hasn't spotted my improvements in the potager. I'm waiting for ructions.
Have a good day everyone and please feel free to send spare rain my way.
Hi chicky - hot bed is coming along quite well thanks. I put in some sweet peas to fill it until some of the perennials and shrubs grow. Still a bit to do - trellis to put up and a bit of rearranging (
) plus a clematis to get. The cornflowers I stuck in have become rampant, but I'm loathe to cut them back as the bees have been enjoying them so much.
Where are you off to on your hols?
You just reminded me about Hosta's pix. I forgot to comment on them - really beautiful, especially the lake.
Strange gourds indeed Obelixx
You can have some of our rain if you like. We've had plenty for the time being. The slab shifting is more awkward than anything else, as the ground needed levelling, so lots of faffing and relifting to get it right.
If it would stay dry, I might get a little more done out there, but of course, as soon as I put a washing on - the rain came on
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Wonky
Those are beautiful ... Papa Womble will be very pleased with those ... wish him well from us.
Fairy, those sheep are lovely ...... but I've a soft spot for Southdowns ... I used to keep a small flock ... the breed was traditionally kept in orchards ... they're compact and easy to manage ... they're so biddable that you can virtually paint a white line on the ground and they won't walk over it ... not escape artists like so many sheep ... also they don't bark trees like some, they just like nibbling the grass.
We also had Manx Laoghtans ...........escape artists and real 'characters'. Our ram (Harald) badly injured my thumb joint by smashing it against a fence post with one of his horns.
A real problem for a week or two when I was milking the goats 
My great grandfather bred and showed Lincoln Longwools ... the Rastas of the sheep world http://www.lincolnlongwools.co.uk/b
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Dove....love your sheepy stories
Ob....thanks .....BB it is then ......those gourds look interesting .....are they edible ?
Just heard from son ... he was in the stadium last night ... watched Mo and Usain
then was in the VIP lounge at the same time as them afterwards (son was doing comms, whatever that is) .
He said Usain Bolt was very interested in the technology, cameras, lighting, sound etc asking the cameramen if he could have a go ....... he chatted to a girl who was doing the lighting ... she had to go and sit down for five minutes afterwards
Son said Bolt is very tall ... and Mo isn't
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Chicky, it was just a big patch of weedy grass when she moved in with one very large sycamore and a couple of bamboos. we cleared a raised bed under the tree and cut the lawn away from the fence so it could be edged properly with shears. We also removed the bamboo. Looks much better now and she can cut beds out as and when she has the time and the funds to buy plants. I'm just glad she's showing an interest in gardening, Firstborn can't stand it.
Ooh just heard the first rumble of thunder and 'it's as black as a bag over Bill's mothers'.
That link to Lincoln Longwools isn't working on here ... it works via Google ... here's a pic
Aren't they fabulous
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Yvie, keep the wet weather over your way please .... I'm just about to hang a quilted mattress protector on the line
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.