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  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505

    I was leafing through an old plant catalogue when I saw the strangest thing - tomatoes and potatoes on the same plant. Why? I asked myself.

    Has anyone tried it?

    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Joyce21 says:

    Why is fog referred to as pea soup?

    Have never seen green fog!

    See original post

     You would have Joyce if you lived in London in the 1940's / 1950's ??

    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • B3 I think I have vague memories of seeing something like that. Who would even come up with that idea and why???

  • Joyce21Joyce21 Posts: 15,489

    Lyn - I remember the thick Glasgow fogs of the 1950s when even the bottom of an underskirt would get covered in grime.

    SW Scotland
  • Yes , I believe the fog or smog during the great London smog was green or yellowish sometimes due to pollution . The closest I came to it was a few years ago when Moscow and its regions suffered from underground peat fires .

    Meanwhile just out of a very cold lake after an invigorating swim image

  • B3 I believe they are called tomtato or some such horror. I suppose if you are very short on space you get toms on top & when finished empty the pot for some spuds. Never tired them I suppose as Toms & spuds are they same family (solanum) some bright spark thought it was a good idea. Apart from novelty value I can't see it catching on that much.

    AB Still learning

  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Dachalover says:

    Yes , I believe the fog or smog during the great London smog was green or yellowish sometimes due to pollution . The closest I came to it was a few years ago when Moscow and its regions suffered from underground peat fires .

    Meanwhile just out of a very cold lake after an invigorating swim image

    See original post

     opps! Wrong person, ?

    Last edited: 02 September 2017 13:40:42

    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090

    No fog or mist here.  Lovely sunny day.

    Been out for the day and had lunch at teh seaside on a cosy veranda protected from the breeze and with views across sparkling Atlantic to Ile de Ré.   Snoozle in the sun since and a read of the Times which is the first one I've seen here.  Normally it's the Mail or Telegraph which we leave on the racks.

    B3 - Beechgrove tried those things one year.  Waste of time as they gave poor yields of both spuds and toms.  Space saving I suppose if you're gardening on a balcony and determined to have veg.

    .Pat - our friends in Manley Heights had a kookaburra nest outside their guest bedroom window.  I learned to dislike them a great deal as the cackling started well before dawn.

    Busy - hope you had good weather for your BBQ and that all went well.   You too for your hill FG.

    Liri - hope the neighbours have come home OK and the cats have been fed.

    Hello to those I've missed.  Off to water the pots now.

    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)."
    Plato
  • Pat/Ob ....I have never heard what a kookaburra sounds like but if it is anything like a Siberian crow.....then I wish you quietness image

    MIL always brings in something from the garden for the table for dinner ....which is oven baked honey glazed pork chops.....with red cabbage , broccoli and carrots .....and my BH's mashed spuds .....I have no idea what this is ......?

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  • Joyce21Joyce21 Posts: 15,489

    A begonia of some type by the look of the leaves?

    SW Scotland
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