Morning all. Morning Mr Smart A*se, Smuggy McSmug Pants
Sun is shining, but I need to do some more HW before we go back to Norfolk on Monday. Lots of deadheading to do too. The veg garden is full of weeds, almost a lost cause. Will deal with it in October but I expect the weed seeds will be sown by then.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
morning all, thanks Fairy for lovely photo, I could smell the air? Flumpy have a super holiday, well done Hosta, my oh takes everything apart, photoing as he goes for reconstruction, it usually becomes apparent what’s wrong and the rewards of self achiement huge! Pat, what size is your fireplace?! oh removed all the euphorbia as he is worried about my eyes. I hate to tell him he only thinks he has removed it all lol! however question. Is it ok to put on the compost heap? thanks
Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.” A A Milne
Very cosy picture Pat 😀. Love the new name Mr Smart A*se Smuggy McSmugpants ......wonder whether Nora and the crew would let that one through 🤔
Off for my youngest niece’s 18th birthday celebrations today ....all our younger generation are now adults, and my eldest niece (other side of the familan) got engaged earlier this week too. Time marches on 😳🤪🙄. Looking forward to a good catch up with my sisters - haven’t seen them much this summer as we all had holidays that overlapped. But we are off for a weekend on the North Norfolk coast together very soon, which will be fun.
@Hostafan1 (or Mr SASMcSP) - thought of you when I was watching GW last evening. Dunno if you've seen it yet but there is a delightful Italian gentleman on who, apart from being totally charming, said of his cherished Brugmansia plants "they are not toxic. They are only poisonous IF YOU EAT THEM' (big smile to camera). I laughed like a drain.
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Ha ha, I thought of MrSASMcSP too when watching last night's episode, but not for the same reason. There was a LOT of dogginess and I could hear the groans from here, @Hostafan1
That Italian chap was an absolute delight though, wasn't he?
Morning everyone
'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
@Hostafan1 (or Mr SASMcSP) - thought of you when I was watching GW last evening. Dunno if you've seen it yet but there is a delightful Italian gentleman on who, apart from being totally charming, said of his cherished Brugmansia plants "they are not toxic. They are only poisonous IF YOU EAT THEM' (big smile to camera). I laughed like a drain.
Ditto, wasn't he just so charming? I also noted the advice " don't just put grit in the bottom of a hole, you just create a sump and plants sit with their roots in water"
Some before and after pics.
One week, a turf lifter, well, two actually: one petrol and one manual, and 12 dumpy sacks of compost. Next week I'll get a rotovator and do the whole lot, then more compost on top and leave for the winter. 160ft x 10ft or 50m x 3m.
@Hostafan1 (or Mr SASMcSP) - thought of you when I was watching GW last evening. Dunno if you've seen it yet but there is a delightful Italian gentleman on who, apart from being totally charming, said of his cherished Brugmansia plants "they are not toxic. They are only poisonous IF YOU EAT THEM' (big smile to camera). I laughed like a drain.
We watched that and I turned to OH and said 'What a lovely man' and then Monty echoed my words.
And yes ... we laughed too ... what a lot of common sense he spoke
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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Morning all. Morning Mr Smart A*se, Smuggy McSmug Pants
Sun is shining, but I need to do some more HW before we go back to Norfolk on Monday. Lots of deadheading to do too. The veg garden is full of weeds, almost a lost cause. Will deal with it in October but I expect the weed seeds will be sown by then.
thanks Fairy for lovely photo, I could smell the air?
Flumpy have a super holiday,
well done Hosta, my oh takes everything apart, photoing as he goes for reconstruction, it usually becomes apparent what’s wrong and the rewards of self achiement huge!
Pat, what size is your fireplace?!
oh removed all the euphorbia as he is worried about my eyes. I hate to tell him he only thinks he has removed it all lol!
however question. Is it ok to put on the compost heap?
thanks
A A Milne
Off for my youngest niece’s 18th birthday celebrations today ....all our younger generation are now adults, and my eldest niece (other side of the familan) got engaged earlier this week too. Time marches on 😳🤪🙄. Looking forward to a good catch up with my sisters - haven’t seen them much this summer as we all had holidays that overlapped. But we are off for a weekend on the North Norfolk coast together very soon, which will be fun.
But first, tea ☕️ and sausage 🥪 .......😋
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
That Italian chap was an absolute delight though, wasn't he?
Morning everyone
I also noted the advice " don't just put grit in the bottom of a hole, you just create a sump and plants sit with their roots in water"
Some before and after pics.
One week, a turf lifter, well, two actually: one petrol and one manual, and 12 dumpy sacks of compost.
Next week I'll get a rotovator and do the whole lot, then more compost on top and leave for the winter.
160ft x 10ft or 50m x 3m.
And yes ... we laughed too ... what a lot of common sense he spoke
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.