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Reasons to be cheerful 2019 - the antidote to Curmudgeons' Corner

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  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    I've paid 8p on my credit card ( more than once ).
    Like @Fairygirl, pay it all on card, get reward cards and pay it off when my salary hits my bank. 
    Devon.
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    edited October 2019
    Been into town with OH to get his birthday presie - a new camera and couldn't resist a new pair of stylish boots for me. A bit higher heel than I normally wear but I think I will be able to stagger from the car to the restaurant!  
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    They're looking good @Hazel-1. I've never done them - the scent is too much for me inside. Will they be ready for C'mas time?
    I'm assuming they're hyacinths ?

    'Taxi boots' then? @Lizzie27 ;)
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    My Clem viticella ‘Queen Mother’ is still covered with blooms 😃 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    You've got it, @Fairygirl
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • josusa47josusa47 Posts: 3,530
    Just opened my leaf mould stack, and it's the best I've ever made, hurrah.  First time, I used a plastic mesh cylinder, it was too dry and the leaves didn't rot.  Next year, I tried bin bags, too wet so the leaves didn't rot.  Then I used some jute mesh bags I was given; the leaves rotted, but not as fast as the bags, so the heaps collapsed and blew around the garden.  Last autumn, I went back to the plastic mesh, but lined the cylinder with two thicknesses of corrugated cardboard.  Perfect result.  Enough to mulch two of my veg beds, so I can re-use the mesh with fresh cardboard.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Well done for persisting and finally getting a good result.
    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
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    I want to heap praise on whoever it was who planted the eleagnus hedge between the Wrose car park and the village church ... the scent today was wonderful 🥰

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    Unlike compost, leaf mould does not need to be turned, it is a different process. 
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    I miss having leaf mould  :(
    I've been contemplating nipping along the road and brushing up all the leaves that have fallen off the trees  ;)
    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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