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Reasons to be cheerful - 2020

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  • Nanny BeachNanny Beach Posts: 8,719
    Er, is "slap the Panda" rude!!!!
  • Nanny BeachNanny Beach Posts: 8,719
    Ah, Dove, my font of all knowledge, I have grown Broad Beans for the first time this year, keep hearing about "pinching the tops out", does that just mean the centre top leafy bit?
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    A big branch of my wisteria had blown down and away from the wall wires but fortunately doesn't seem to have snapped right at the base, although I can't see that very well as the irises are in the way. I've managed to hoist it back up and secured it with Soft-tie for now, fingers crossed. What's amazing is that none of the tall bearded irises in front of the wisteria have fallen over.
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • josusa47josusa47 Posts: 3,530
    Fairygirl said:
    I received my '2 metres p****' T shirt today. Took out the labels, and laughed out loud at the washing instructions - they must know no one ever reads them  :D



    A few months after Trump was elected, someone posted on Facebook the label of a garment they'd just bought.  It said:  "Made in USA.  Sorry our president is such an idiot."
  • NewBoy2NewBoy2 Posts: 1,813
    Just parted a cat and a large frog from a stand off by my home pond.

     B) 
    Everyone is just trying to be Happy.....So lets help Them.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Nanny Beach said:
    Ah, Dove, my font of all knowledge, I have grown Broad Beans for the first time this year, keep hearing about "pinching the tops out", does that just mean the centre top leafy bit?
    When the first bean pods are swelling I take off the top leafy part, steam and serve with butter or parsley sauce. A real gourmet treat. 😋 
    it also helps to avoid attracting aphids to the plants. 

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





  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    That's brilliant @josusa47 :D
      
    Shame the same can't be said for the president....
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • josusa47josusa47 Posts: 3,530
    Carrot thinnings in my lunchtime salad - such an intense flavour.
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    Another blow for tax dodger Branson
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-52802520
    Devon.
  • tui34tui34 Posts: 3,493
    edited May 2020
    @Dovefromabove Your idea of pinching the tops of young broad bean plants sounds so delicious.  I dive in and pick very young beans, toss them around (whole) in a pan with a few flakes of dried chilli.  Broad beans are finished here, but I have frozen a couple of packets for this winter - steamed and served with butter - what waist??  Oh, that top button!!
    A good hoeing is worth two waterings.

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