I think @Hostafan1 might have got out of bed on the wrong side this morning 🙄 @star gaze lily ... good morning to you and @Chivetalking We'd better make him a cuppa ... anyone else for a brew?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Yes please really dry throat here, make mine strong no sugar!! Reason for throat, bonfire somewhere near yesterday really acrid and yes all the windows open
Morning all, Off to Secondborn's in a while as she's having a bit of a family do in the garden for Jonah's 5th birthday, all within Covid regs.
I post on both Rezz and Forkers and generally find great people on both.
Have a slight toothache at the moment and I'm keeping my fingers crossed that it doesn't develop into anything more serious. After today things get a bit less hectic.
@raisingirl Thank you for the lead. I must admit that the ads for heat pumps pop up all the time on Facebook. You only have to click once on something .....! We had 12 (German made) solar panels installed in 2011 - I sell the production to the EDF and get a good return. Apparently, the return now is about half and the panels are Made in China. We took out a loan and the return pays the repayments and some of the electricity used in the house. The Company who installed them is reliable and is on hand with any mishaps that may happen.
To the French contingent @Busy-Lizzie, @Floralies, @D0rdogne_Damsel and @Obelixx You are right DD, maybe not frosts but we are getting low temperatures next week - nothing over 18°C pm and cold nights. Also lots of cloud and overcast skies. The tomatoes won't take off at this rate, BL! The few peppers I planted out seem to be still standing.
Greetings Forkers. Bright and sunny here and set to get warm. The coldest we are to expect is 5C around dawn on Wednesday but with a wind chill factor making it feel like 1C so will still be protecting my babies. Desperate to get the citrus pots outside and they should be OK on the front of the house - south facing so no north wind - but maybe the tender fuchsias need an interim stop out the front too.
Then I can get my new seed tray shelves installed in the polytunnel and grow my babies on in there in safety. I need to sow some PSB and leafy things and have another go at carrots and spring onions as the cold snap seems to have done for my first attempts.
Bone dry out there still but we should get a dribble next Sunday now. May Day weekend here but won't make any difference as we'll still be in lockdown tho from the 3rd we can go more than 10kms again.
Hope everyone's OK, especially @punkdoc and his mum and anyone else struggling with difficulties.
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)."
My forecast has now changed again, I use AccuWeather, but I'm very nervous about putting stuff out. I'm still grieving about the dozen or so crispy, brown hydrangeas. 😱😏🙁
On a more positive note ( and I know @Hostafan1 will laugh
) I have been brave enough to put my hostas out, so now have a new Hosta bed. 😊 Gardening is all about patience.
Not sure how this is going to affect the new well area, where I'd planned to put Empress Wu, but the absent neighbour has come and cut down the overhanging tree this morning - not quite so shady now 🤔
Astonishingly, he was really chatty, offered to pay half towards the new roof on the well. I've actually never seen him before, he's the husband of the grumpy lady who cuts the grass weekly. I offered him coffee, he refused because it makes him shake, but then we had a chat about the possibility of selling just a little bit of the adjacent garden (south facing). He said he would say yes, no problem, but he thought he'd never get it past his wife. It's actually her land, inherited from her father, he said she's very attached to it (malheureusement), but he would broach the subject. Anyway, at least we've opened negotiations again. Only taken 7 years since it was last mentioned and she's not spoken to us since. 😯
Also very pleased I've managed to drown 4 Lily beetles in jam jar of soapy water so far today. 😅
Anyway, pic of my new 'shady hosta bed'. @Hostafan1, look away now.
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Good morning @Dovefromabove ......yes I think he did 😉😊
We had 12 (German made) solar panels installed in 2011 - I sell the production to the EDF and get a good return. Apparently, the return now is about half and the panels are Made in China. We took out a loan and the return pays the repayments and some of the electricity used in the house. The Company who installed them is reliable and is on hand with any mishaps that may happen.
To the French contingent @Busy-Lizzie, @Floralies, @D0rdogne_Damsel and @Obelixx You are right DD, maybe not frosts but we are getting low temperatures next week - nothing over 18°C pm and cold nights. Also lots of cloud and overcast skies. The tomatoes won't take off at this rate, BL! The few peppers I planted out seem to be still standing.
Then I can get my new seed tray shelves installed in the polytunnel and grow my babies on in there in safety. I need to sow some PSB and leafy things and have another go at carrots and spring onions as the cold snap seems to have done for my first attempts.
Bone dry out there still but we should get a dribble next Sunday now. May Day weekend here but won't make any difference as we'll still be in lockdown tho from the 3rd we can go more than 10kms again.
Hope everyone's OK, especially @punkdoc and his mum and anyone else struggling with difficulties.
On a more positive note ( and I know @Hostafan1 will laugh
) I have been brave enough to put my hostas out, so now have a new Hosta bed. 😊 Gardening is all about patience.
Not sure how this is going to affect the new well area, where I'd planned to put Empress Wu, but the absent neighbour has come and cut down the overhanging tree this morning - not quite so shady now 🤔
Astonishingly, he was really chatty, offered to pay half towards the new roof on the well. I've actually never seen him before, he's the husband of the grumpy lady who cuts the grass weekly. I offered him coffee, he refused because it makes him shake, but then we had a chat about the possibility of selling just a little bit of the adjacent garden (south facing). He said he would say yes, no problem, but he thought he'd never get it past his wife. It's actually her land, inherited from her father, he said she's very attached to it (malheureusement), but he would broach the subject. Anyway, at least we've opened negotiations again. Only taken 7 years since it was last mentioned and she's not spoken to us since. 😯
Also very pleased I've managed to drown 4 Lily beetles in jam jar of soapy water so far today. 😅
Anyway, pic of my new 'shady hosta bed'. @Hostafan1, look away now.