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HELLO FORKERS 🌻 July ‘20

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  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    If it's in the shade, or not more than about 20 degrees, I can manage that @floralies :D
    It all adds up though @Lizzie27, so any walking is beneficial, especially uphill. 
    I'm hoping to get out on a hill soon.The schools go back in a couple of weeks, so I'm hoping things will be quieter. I dread the thought of everywhere hoaching with idiots. 
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    Hi all

    Well it isn't raining today, which is great, but I have a cold which isn't.
    Mole is very active, which is a pain, but at least I am  collecting the mole hills for potting compost.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Have a hot toddy @punkdoc.   Good excuse to indulge.

    Moles are busy here too but a minor pain given all the other stuff and I have been training OH to gather the soil rather than spread it so I can mix it with bought compost for potting on.  The blighters need to learn not to leave bindweed roots in it tho.
    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
  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043
    OH's garden in Norfolk has an uneven lawn because of years of people gathering mole hill earth. He read an article about washing the earth back down the holes using a garden hose so he tried it and it worked. I don't understand how the earth that moles dig up can be any better than the garden earth, it's the same - just broken down so it's finer, but it won't always stay like that.

    The septic tank inspection man came and the buyers came to watch him inspecting.

    I now have another nice white tooth, well, pale yellow to match the other elderly teeth. Son has removed old filling and fitted a partial crown, he prepared it last week.
    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    You chose your son’s career well @Busy-Lizzie ... I don’t have a lot of use for mine’s sound engineering and production skills, lovely tho he is 😆 

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





  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    I agree abou mole hill soil @Busy-Lizzie but what I have in beds that are working needs to stay there and in the beds that aren't working it's like rock at the mo so I'm taking the path of least resistance and only because I have yet to find a compost like John Innes no 3 here.
    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
    Good morning all 🌞 😎 ☕️ 
    It’s gorgeous out there ... sun sun sun ... and OH cut and edged the grass yesterday in preparation for @WonkyWomble’s visit tomorrow (his idea), and I got the worst of the weeds out of the veg patch and did some deadheading. It’s looking relatively smart-ish 😉

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





  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    it's back, certainly wasn't on my search list earlier.
    Ihope you have a lovely time together tomorrow . XXXX to you all
    Devon.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    It was on page 3 or 4 when I found it @Hostafan1 😎 

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





  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    I went back to the 28th !! Most odd
    Devon.
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