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HELLO FORKERS 🐇 🐣 🐑 March ‘21

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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    I get what you're saying @D0rdogne_Damsel ... but up to this year notifications of pests and diseases etc would've been governed by the same legislation and regulation here as in the EU ... so the likelihood of their transmission would've been less, in theory at least.  Now we will have our own legislation and regulation which in the future may not be the same as in the EU ... the EU can't rely on us making sensible decisions about such things just because we're neighbours (I mean, our recent history re decisions hasn't been convincing) ... so the EU has to keep to it's rules and we have to keep to ours and there has to be a cut off date ... it may seem arbitrary but that's the way it is ... much as I loathe it. 

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





  • I'm with @Busy-Lizzie, this Brexit has a lot to answer for!  :'(
    • “Coffee. Garden. Coffee. Does a good morning need anything else?” —Betsy Cañas Garmon
  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043
    I'll say! I always took plants back to France when I came by car, so much more choice in England and the plants were better quality and bigger.

    No rhubarb at the Norfolk cottage @Dovefromabove, but nowhere to put it, no vegetable garden there.
    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    As I said, this country's  recent decision-making doesn't inspire confidence.  :'(

    We grow our rhubarb near the house, with the grapevine ... it's just as attractive as some of the big leaved 'structural' ornamentals    B)

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





  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889

    Anyway, my legal hostas have arrived, 3 x 7cms pots - so what do I do with them now @Hostafan1. I have chosent the  spot, it is well dug over and weeded, what next? Any advice gratefully received. :)
    I'd put them into bigger pots for a wee while to let them bulk up a bit .
    Devon.
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    That's what I would do too, @Hostafan1, but as our resident expert, I thought i would only say it, if you agreed.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    punkdoc said:
    That's what I would do too, @Hostafan1, but as our resident expert, I thought i would only say it, if you agreed.
    As the Great Richard Hodson of Hawthornes Clematis once said:
    " What I know would fill a book. What I don't know would fill a library."
    Devon.
  • Allotment BoyAllotment Boy Posts: 6,774
    Hostafan1 said:
    As the Great Richard Hodson of Hawthornes Clematis once said:
    " What I know would fill a book. What I don't know would fill a library."
    That's a great quote,  so true. 
    Not really the same vein but watching the tribute to Murray Walker last night as he often said " those that can do, the rest of us have to talk about it. "
    AB Still learning

  • Pat EPat E Posts: 12,316
    I find find the topic of moving plants around a bit interesting.  Hubby at one time worked in Quarantine and one of his duties was to check incoming planes for things brought into the country.  At that time they used to walk down the aisles with sprays going over passengers. (This was in Darwin which was usually first port of call).  I don’t think they’d get away with it nowadays.  I’ve first hand experience of a close friend who came from overseas and smuggled veg seeds in the Consulate bag which wasn’t checked. I must admit we were both shocked that they had been able to get away with it. 😳. 

    Anyway, since it’s after midnight here, I’m closing for the night. Catch up later. 
    S. E. NSW
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Goodnight @Pat E  sleep tight 😴

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





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