I did watch a video this morning about lining or 'double-potting' terracotta pots for moisture-retention reasons. That is a great shout about the potential alkaline properties though. Maybe a half-compost bag with drainage holes would do the trick?
Hello all, interesting weather everywhere! We have sun and a cold wind, no sign of rain. We had the sand from the Sahara yesterday, the car was covered in it, OH had to wash it! We often get it in the summer not in the winter. Interesting pots @Biglad not seen any like that over here. OH isn't going out on his bike is he @Dovefromabove ooh I hope not. Thumb is healing nicely thanks to the antibiotics I am taking for the cat bite!
Yes @D0rdogne_Damsel, the yellow sky was due to Sahara dust. A friend in Switzerland and another in Spain had Sahara dust too, must have covered a huge area. Haven't looked at my car yet, didn't realise it was dust until after dark when I read about it. Probably gone now as it's raining again. You are lucky being able to dig your bed, too wet here to dig anything and I would really like to start and get my plants in. But it is only February.
I think @Pat E that your plant with the butterflies and purple flowers is wild oregano, but I expect you know that.
I hope OH's cottage in Norfolk is OK in the snow and the wind. NDNs keep an eye on it.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Yes, @floralies he went on his bike ... he's just walked in the front door so all is well ... the road at the bottom of the rise is a bus route so it's regularly salted and gritted in this weather and he has a sensible bike with grippy tyres, not a narrow-wheeled racing type so it's quite good in snow compared to some. Now he's gone upstairs to the spare room to change his clothes and wash thoroughly before coming into the rest of the house ... he does that every time he's been out near other people. He really is scrupulously careful about not bringing the virus into the house ... no one could take more care.
Glad the thumb is mending ... mine is just a patch of rough skin now that catches when I knit ... I shall rub some more of my special handcream around it. If that doesn't work I'll attack it with an emery board.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
That's good @Dovefromabove always a worry bikes and snow! I hope he found some "interesting" cheese. We do the same thing when we have been shopping, change of clothes and a wash, shopping gets wiped and surfaces where shopping has been get cleaned, sometimes I think it is over kill but we have a routine now and so far all is good.
Hello everyone. We have sunshine but it's cold and set to get colder and freeze over the next day or so which means no gardening. Too wet to weed and too cold to prune or sow or plant. All the rain slid off to the south and east of us yesterday and presumably the desert sands too.
My thumb is sticking out like the proverbial but the wound is clean and healing. Few more days yet before I can sew anything. Planning to try and clear some stuff out of the barns today, including an old dresser which won't appreciate being roofless when they come to demolish the last of it. Need to decide what to do with an old tennis table too.
Keep warm and safe, those of you who have snow and gales.
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He got everything on the list @floralies ... the 'interesting' cheese is St Agur ... and extra things he bought that weren't on the list include fresh pears, walnuts and red wine vinegar cos he'd noticed Id made a note that we needed some soon .... I can see something like a blue cheesey fruity nutty something happening soon 😋
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Definitely something along those lines @Obelixx ... I even have some oranges waiting to be used for something
I spent a little time working in Stockholm a few years ago - just short visits. There was a cafe near the place I worked that sold cardamom flavoured buns with coffee and also a lunch of goats cheese, walnuts, chicory and honey on toasted walnut bread. Absolutely delicious. I was in there most days at some point. Mind you, I don't think I had a bad meal at all there - never cheap, but always really good.
Morning all. No snow here (none expected) just grey skies and a cold wind. Not gardening weather - better get the sewing machine out
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I did watch a video this morning about lining or 'double-potting' terracotta pots for moisture-retention reasons. That is a great shout about the potential alkaline properties though. Maybe a half-compost bag with drainage holes would do the trick?
Interesting pots @Biglad not seen any like that over here. OH isn't going out on his bike is he @Dovefromabove ooh I hope not. Thumb is healing nicely thanks to the antibiotics I am taking for the cat bite!
Yes @D0rdogne_Damsel, the yellow sky was due to Sahara dust. A friend in Switzerland and another in Spain had Sahara dust too, must have covered a huge area. Haven't looked at my car yet, didn't realise it was dust until after dark when I read about it. Probably gone now as it's raining again. You are lucky being able to dig your bed, too wet here to dig anything and I would really like to start and get my plants in. But it is only February.
I think @Pat E that your plant with the butterflies and purple flowers is wild oregano, but I expect you know that.
I hope OH's cottage in Norfolk is OK in the snow and the wind. NDNs keep an eye on it.
Glad the thumb is mending ... mine is just a patch of rough skin now that catches when I knit ... I shall rub some more of my special handcream around it. If that doesn't work I'll attack it with an emery board.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
My thumb is sticking out like the proverbial but the wound is clean and healing. Few more days yet before I can sew anything. Planning to try and clear some stuff out of the barns today, including an old dresser which won't appreciate being roofless when they come to demolish the last of it. Need to decide what to do with an old tennis table too.
Keep warm and safe, those of you who have snow and gales.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Morning all. No snow here (none expected) just grey skies and a cold wind. Not gardening weather - better get the sewing machine out
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”