Morning Dove and Hosta, we woke up as well at 5.30 am, unusually for us. I made cups of tea, then we tried to go back to sleep. OH did but I couldn't, so have been reading since 6.30. I've been sorting out old gardening books, mainly from charity shops, and trying to choose which ones to keep and which ones to recycle. As we've got to move the bookcases soon for new carpets to be fitted, I thought I'd take the opportunity for a book cull. The book I've got at the moment is one printed in 1993, The Garden Problem Solver, a Readers Digest one. It lists all the chemicals you could use to kill various weeds - horrifying to modern sensibilities.
I can now see blue patches of sky appearing so am hoping we get some sunshine today, yesterday was very overcast and showery. I'm going to a friend's Plant Sale later in the village, in aid of Prostrate Cancer and will take some of my surplus plants along. I really, really, do not need any more plants!
Dove, could you remind me please of the weather programme you use, I think you recommended it to me before, but I lost it when my old laptop died and can't remember the name. The BBC one is useless for this area, as it uses data from Bristol Airport which is a good 30-40 miles away from us.
So sorry for all you poor sleepers. I go to a logic puzzle website, several good ones available free, and do one or two of those until my brain is clear of other thoughts. Unusually for me, I slept through till 7am, and only woke because I was crying so hard in a distressing dream I was having. That’s all faded now, so I can get a start on my day. Green bins this week, so I’m pruning those rhododendrons that have already finished flowering. Probably some laurel hedge too.
You can set your own and several other locations to see what the weather is at the moment and what the forecast is. I've got several locations of friends and family so that I can check to see whether @Hostafan1 is going to be warm enough or whether it's too wet for him to cut his grass 😉
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Morning everyone, not sure what is going on but I had a very restless night too. I hope the forecast is more accurate today as it rained all afternoon yesterday. I did get back out in the early evening, and pruned a part of the front hedge, mostly just to fill the green bin, now they are charging £70 a year I want to make maximum use of it. Â
I can sympathise with that, Allotment Boy! We have two green bins, collected fortnightly at a charge, and I swear that through the winter, filling them has been the only thing that has got me out into the garden!Â
My Under-gardener has just been a hero ... I was struggling to dig out a load of Geum Urbanum from the Wilderness behind the pond ... it seems to have appeared since the Tree Pollarders' visit ... maybe the seeds were in their trouser turnups or somewhere? Anyway, he has told me not to do such precarious stuff and has dug it all out himself ... he said it was in his own interest 'cos otherwise he'd only have toÂ
1. pull me out of the pond later or 2. Cook his own dinner tomorrow because I'd have pulled my back
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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The book I've got at the moment is one printed in 1993, The Garden Problem Solver, a Readers Digest one. It lists all the chemicals you could use to kill various weeds - horrifying to modern sensibilities.
I can now see blue patches of sky appearing so am hoping we get some sunshine today, yesterday was very overcast and showery. I'm going to a friend's Plant Sale later in the village, in aid of Prostrate Cancer and will take some of my surplus plants along. I really, really, do not need any more plants!
Dove, could you remind me please of the weather programme you use, I think you recommended it to me before, but I lost it when my old laptop died and can't remember the name. The BBC one is useless for this area, as it uses data from Bristol Airport which is a good 30-40 miles away from us.
Still in bed after another terrible nights sleep.
Weather looks good, so I need to make an effort.
When you don't even know who's in the team
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Unusually for me, I slept through till 7am, and only woke because I was crying so hard in a distressing dream I was having. That’s all faded now, so I can get a start on my day. Green bins this week, so I’m pruning those rhododendrons that have already finished flowering. Probably some laurel hedge too.
https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/forecast/u12gmt1fz#?date=2021-05-29
You can set your own location. Â
There's also an app on my phone called The Weather Channel at
 https://weather.com/en-GB/weather/today/l/fd8312c323ad84622ee92764f081d5b5c7207e7ead48b4bde7c71bb2a556e1f4
You can set your own and several other locations to see what the weather is at the moment and what the forecast is. I've got several locations of friends and family so that I can check to see whether @Hostafan1 is going to be warm enough or whether it's too wet for him to cut his grass 😉
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
1. pull me out of the pond laterÂ
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2. Cook his own dinner tomorrow because I'd have pulled my back
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.