Ah, also love dogs. Well. Folks having done my grump of the day, this one both pleased and annoyed me in equal measure. Forkers will be aware of saga of us forking out loadsa money for fence which is meant to be neighbours responsibility,and 8 years of huge brambles some with stems over 4 inches in diameter, ruining our garden, meaning we couldn't put up the summer house the size we wanted,had to. Leave quite a few feet behind it. Well,they have new neighbour the other side. My friend just happened to be walking by, told me "new neighbour" went round and told him to remove brambles that were encroaching. The one you know about said he would pull them back thru and cut them off. Well, you know what will happen there. My grump is why didn't we do this!!!
I managed to sneak another garden centre visit today between work and kids and I finally found an Acer Shirasaramalandingdong (I can never spell that one) that was actually a healthy plant for reasonable money. All they seem to sell around here is palmatums but I've been after a shirasawatsitcalled for ages.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
I managed to sneak another garden centre visit today between work and kids and I finally found an Acer Shirasaramalandingdong (I can never spell that one) that was actually a healthy plant for reasonable money. All they seem to sell around here is palmatums but I've been after a shirasawatsitcalled for ages.
I managed to sneak another garden centre visit today between work and kids and I finally found an Acer Shirasaramalandingdong (I can never spell that one) that was actually a healthy plant for reasonable money. All they seem to sell around here is palmatums but I've been after a shirasawatsitcalled for ages.
I think I will always call it Shirasaramalandingdong from now on 🤣
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”—Marcus Tullius Cicero East facing, top of a hill clay-loam, cultivated for centuries (7 years by me). Birmingham
I'm tentatively putting this in the RTBC thread... farming neighbours, well into their 70s, have traditionally burned peat on their fire - in common with many old families they have turf cutting rights on common land nearby, though now they buy their peat in, rather than cutting it themselves. They bought their last ever delivery this winter; its sale is being phased out, and they feel that though it's part of their way of life, it's time to give it up, for environmental reasons.
The spinoff from their use of peat is that they have 5 very large sacks of what he described as "peat dust" - the little bits which break off the blocks in the shed where he keeps them. "Could you make use of it?" he asked me... well, although I wouldn't dream of buying peat, it would make no sense not to use what is, for him, a waste material, I think. Feel a bit guilty but what can I do with it other than make sure it doesn't just get thrown away...? My camellia and acer will love it.
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
I think you should feel virtuous😇 I love the smell of a turf fire but the environmental cost is too high.
My grandmother used to have peat fires too. The amount used on fires in the home must be minute compared to other uses and I really don't see that continuing to allow its use for that purpose would do any significant damage.
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East facing, top of a hill clay-loam, cultivated for centuries (7 years by me). Birmingham
The spinoff from their use of peat is that they have 5 very large sacks of what he described as "peat dust" - the little bits which break off the blocks in the shed where he keeps them. "Could you make use of it?" he asked me... well, although I wouldn't dream of buying peat, it would make no sense not to use what is, for him, a waste material, I think. Feel a bit guilty but what can I do with it other than make sure it doesn't just get thrown away...? My camellia and acer will love it.
I love the smell of a turf fire but the environmental cost is too high.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
My grandmother used to have peat fires too. The amount used on fires in the home must be minute compared to other uses and I really don't see that continuing to allow its use for that purpose would do any significant damage.