Morning all. Noisy here, electricians drilling in the utility, loft insulators sawing joists...
West Yorks slugs are clearly made of stronger stuff than French ones, @Obelixx. I lost my Aconitum napellus to the enormous slimy beasties a few years ago. Perhaps the slugs were desperate because I refused to plant anything said to be attractive to them.
Hi @chicky, if you're awake! Good to see you back safe. Hello @Pat E and thanks for the jigsaws - great for keeping me occupied in a noisy house.
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
Haven't tried them on the French slugs yet @Liriodendron but aconitum were never munched in Belgium. Snails are a greater problem here so we'll see. Planning to sow some this year.
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’ve de-cobwebbed everywhere, cleaned the downstairs cloakroom, dusted and polished all the downstairs (including the complicated dining chairs), vacuumed and buffed the parquet, shaken the big hide rug, brushed all the soft furnishings and draped a load of washing in the study ‘cos it’s spitting with rain outside.
Now I need a coffee 😇 ☕️
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Haven't tried them on the French slugs yet @Liriodendron but aconitum were never munched in Belgium. Snails are a greater problem here so we'll see. Planning to sow some this year.
No slugs on aconitum or penstemon.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
Good lord Dove, whatever for, are you expecting visitors? Sounds like you positively like housework! I've never understood the attraction. I'm now sitting here contemplating what is probably a fortnight's dust on our granite hearth but at the moment I don't have the energy to do anything about it.
Good lord Dove, whatever for, are you expecting visitors? Sounds like you positively like housework! I've never understood the attraction. I'm now sitting here contemplating what is probably a fortnight's dust on our granite hearth but at the moment I don't have the energy to do anything about it.
Far from it 🤣 But I'm a bit of an 'all or nothing' girl ......... so I leave it until I can see the dust without my glasses on, then give it all a good going over ... a fortnight's dust? Is that all? 🤭
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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West Yorks slugs are clearly made of stronger stuff than French ones, @Obelixx. I lost my Aconitum napellus to the enormous slimy beasties a few years ago. Perhaps the slugs were desperate because I refused to plant anything said to be attractive to them.
Hi @chicky, if you're awake! Good to see you back safe. Hello @Pat E and thanks for the jigsaws
😅 I’ve de-cobwebbed everywhere, cleaned the downstairs cloakroom, dusted and polished all the downstairs (including the complicated dining chairs), vacuumed and buffed the parquet, shaken the big hide rug, brushed all the soft furnishings and draped a load of washing in the study ‘cos it’s spitting with rain outside.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
Friends are arriving this afternoon to stay a few days.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.