Bright and sunny again here but we've had 5mm overnight. Welcome but not enough to soften the soil for bulb planting. Might get some more over the weekend but it'll be the same drip drip and not proper stuff.
I hope you get some rain Pat, even if it does make you sticky for a while. That's a big mill pond LG. Hope your brain is in gear for tomorrow. Do yu have to do the double digging or just describe it? Can you advocate no-dig as easier and more productive or is that frowned upon?
FG - love the little wings image.
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)."
LG. Love the photo. Good luck with the double digging. Hope the ground isn’t too hard🙄. I loved the nomenclature side if Horticulture study. I had done a year of Latin at Uni, so much of it made sense.
I have to do the double digging, Obxx - this is the practical course. We've also gone over the details of no-dig, single dig etc. but they were all covered in much more detail - pros & cons, soil science etc - on the theory courses. It's piddling down all day today so it'll be a muddy business!
Nomenclature is one of my favourite things too, Pat. This test is very much basic principles though - as you can do the courses in any order, it's not as involved as the theory courses, as not everyone has done those yet.
Hope those that need rain get some.
'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
Daughter 2 and family have just gone, after an early lunch. They will be spending the afternoon hoovering up cluster flies. I've lent them my carpet shampooer.
It's raining. We thought of going to the SM this afternoon but it's a bank holiday. Daughter has just rung to say they passed it on their way home and it's open. So we'll probably go, need more milk, butter and sugar. Made a chocolate cake this morning for pud, the squidgy in the middle sort that uses bars of chocolate and whisked egg whites, helped by 7 yr old grandson. The others went out in the rain before lunch to look for mushroom but came back with a bag of sweet chestnuts instead.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
OH wanted to go shopping today too Busy but our Leclerc is closed. Others are but not my cuppa. We'll go tomorrow on our way back from Créativa at Nantes.
What will you do with the chestnuts? Our first garden in Belgium - rented - had sevreal sweet chestnuts and their spines were devils for pranging the mower's tyres. Can't tell you how often they had to be replaced or repaired. Won't be planting one here.
Love a squidgy chocolate cake.
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)."
I have to do the double digging, Obxx - this is the practical course. We've also gone over the details of no-dig, single dig etc. but they were all covered in much more detail - pros & cons, soil science etc - on the theory courses. It's piddling down all day today so it'll be a muddy business!
Can I ask you something? perhaps to ask at your next "lesson" ( if that's what they call them? Tutorials? anyway, you know what I mean ) I know all the theory of why "double digging" is good, but TBH I've never found any "facts" to back it up. Surely some horticultural centre/college/ parks department has run proper, "double blind" trials somewhere on the planet to see if it actually does improve things? I can find no real data to back up the theory. I can't double dig here anyway, in places I've got less than 6" of soil then solid rock, in others 12" then solid clay.
A foodie friend living in Cyprus has just posted this
"...We had a heavy shower last Wednesday then more heavy rain on Saturday,
this has bought on the autumn flowers. There were already little blue
squill's in the garden but that is watered. Overnight more squills, some
small grape hyacinths and a couple of the tiny,white, maritime
daffodils have appeared outside the front gate. There are autumn
crocus,both white and mauve out in the country side. This is just the
start...."
Green with envy doesn't even start to describe it!!!
Thought you'd all like to share this on such a dull and damp November day.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Good morning all , another month goes racing by , soon be Christmas 🎄
Eh up GWRS - that sort of talk can get you banned Lovely pic LG - glad you had a good time. Back to Blighty and the cold eh? Pleasant job, fly hoovering, BL...not! That's a good bargain Hosta. I've been very restrained and hardly bought anything new. I did buy some bulbs from Peter Nyssen and have got them all planted in little terracotta pots on the new shelf, and some in a bigger pots. That's my lot Off to take daughter for a drive in a mo, so I'll catch up later I hope.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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Bright and sunny again here but we've had 5mm overnight. Welcome but not enough to soften the soil for bulb planting. Might get some more over the weekend but it'll be the same drip drip and not proper stuff.
I hope you get some rain Pat, even if it does make you sticky for a while. That's a big mill pond LG. Hope your brain is in gear for tomorrow. Do yu have to do the double digging or just describe it? Can you advocate no-dig as easier and more productive or is that frowned upon?
FG - love the little wings image.
Nomenclature is one of my favourite things too, Pat. This test is very much basic principles though - as you can do the courses in any order, it's not as involved as the theory courses, as not everyone has done those yet.
Hope those that need rain get some.
Daughter 2 and family have just gone, after an early lunch. They will be spending the afternoon hoovering up cluster flies. I've lent them my carpet shampooer.
It's raining. We thought of going to the SM this afternoon but it's a bank holiday. Daughter has just rung to say they passed it on their way home and it's open. So we'll probably go, need more milk, butter and sugar. Made a chocolate cake this morning for pud, the squidgy in the middle sort that uses bars of chocolate and whisked egg whites, helped by 7 yr old grandson. The others went out in the rain before lunch to look for mushroom but came back with a bag of sweet chestnuts instead.
What will you do with the chestnuts? Our first garden in Belgium - rented - had sevreal sweet chestnuts and their spines were devils for pranging the mower's tyres. Can't tell you how often they had to be replaced or repaired. Won't be planting one here.
Love a squidgy chocolate cake.
I know all the theory of why "double digging" is good, but TBH I've never found any "facts" to back it up. Surely some horticultural centre/college/ parks department has run proper, "double blind" trials somewhere on the planet to see if it actually does improve things?
I can find no real data to back up the theory.
I can't double dig here anyway, in places I've got less than 6" of soil then solid rock, in others 12" then solid clay.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Eh up GWRS - that sort of talk can get you banned
Lovely pic LG - glad you had a good time. Back to Blighty and the cold eh?
Pleasant job, fly hoovering, BL...not!
That's a good bargain Hosta. I've been very restrained and hardly bought anything new. I did buy some bulbs from Peter Nyssen and have got them all planted in little terracotta pots on the new shelf, and some in a bigger pots. That's my lot
Off to take daughter for a drive in a mo, so I'll catch up later I hope.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...