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Curmudgeons' Corner 3. I blame it on the scapegoat🐐

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  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    As much as I wanted the rain I am a bit peeved that I hadn’t got my patio tubs all planted up. Ā I did go out last night and put the parsnip seeds in so they’ve had a nice wash in.

    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.Ā 

  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    Me also! I looked atĀ  new hoses yesterday in Homebase, still undecided. I was thinking of getting another one to put on the lower level where the lawn and main borders are, to save me having to lug the big one to the front of the terrace, unreeling it all and throwing it 5 ft down onto the lawn. I'm trying to think of ways to make gardening easier for me now I'm over 27!
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    edited June 2019
    You're welcome @DovefromabovešŸ˜‰
    I got mine for a similar reason. @Lizzie27. Got it connected up and tested. No leaks! Will connect the shorter patio hose to the longer one on the reel as and when. Do it. You won't regret it.😊
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    That’s why I got a soaker hose for the front garden ... now it’s there ā€˜permanently’ and all I have to do is to run the hose down the side path and connect it to the soaker hose in the front garden ... no more lugging full watering cans (sometimes a dozen times or more) around to the front, with my dodgy painful shoulders 😊 

    Could you do something like that @Lizzie27?

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





  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    And that makes it rain too? You should do it more often @Dovefromabove
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Yes Ma’am ! 😃 

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





  • LG_LG_ Posts: 4,360
    I tried a rainmaking method yesterday but it went a bit awry. We had a two-minute long heavy shower in the morning, then it cleared up. I decided to sacrifice my washing by not only hanging it out with big black clouds overhead, but then going out - dangerous! As my bus approached its destination - 3 miles from home - the heavens opened. Torrential rain, people running for cover, the works. Hurrah, it worked! I got wet but no matter, it RAINED.Ā 

    You guessed it: got home, not a drop had fallen. I need to work on my rainfall placement spells.Ā 
    'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
    - Cicero
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    šŸ’” Anyone know the right steps for a rain dance?

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





  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    You get a tin bath and add some water (this is the 'seed' water). Then you put your right leg in your right leg out in out in out and shake it all about.
    Works every time.ā˜”
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • debs64debs64 Posts: 5,184
    I am in Liverpool visiting family it is persisting down!Ā 
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