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🐌CURMUDGEONS' CORNER XIV🐌

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  • Nanny BeachNanny Beach Posts: 8,719
    Having had fish and chips on the beach, sitting in the car killing time going to jab center in an area we don't know, hubby has his window down and guess what,a bird flew over the car managed to poo,so that it went inside the car and all down the door,! Lucky we have alcohol wipes,must have at least been a vulture by the amount of mess it made
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Apparently it's lucky😒
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    I planted some borage seeds in cells a couple of weeks ago, two seeds to a cell with the plan to just end up with one per cell. I ended up with 100% germination and pricked out the weaker plants fairly early on. Then I decided to plant out the weak plants anyway rather than waste them. The photo below shows my original plants in the left hand four columns and the pricked out 'weaker' plants in the two on the right. I'm either a terrible judge of plant potential or the fresh compost has given them a boost.

    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    That happened to me with sunflowers. I don't like them so I sowed them for my husband in the hopes they'll die. I couldn't bring myself to bin the thinnings so I potted them and they're doing better than the ones I left and now I'll have to find a place for twelve plants unless the slugs get them. I might be lucky.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    B3 said:
    That happened to me with sunflowers. I don't like them so I sowed them for my husband in the hopes they'll die. I couldn't bring myself to bin the thinnings so I potted them and they're doing better than the ones I left and now I'll have to find a place for twelve plants unless the slugs get them. I might be lucky.
    Now you're just being silly B3.  It's a scientific fact that slugs and snails only eat the plants you want to keep.

  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    😒 true. I can't remember the last time I saw a weed with slug damage @KT53
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • KiliKili Posts: 1,104
    edited May 2021
    Supermarket fruit that are nice one packet then the next packet of the same variety is too sour to enjoy. What is that about Tesco gala apple growers??

    It's why my partner wants a fruit and veg plot in our rear, sloping garden. I'm being very uncooperative about it. I really like the wildlife upper half and the formal/informal ornamental lower half. Any very plot has slope and aesthetics against it. The only part I'd give up to it, because it's tucked away from the house, I still think isn't right. It's nice as it is but it's not really big enough for much cropping. So I'm being a bit obstinate about it and only seeing the problems and difficulties. We're close to an argument.

    What can you do? Conflicting demands on space in the garden. I said put it in the front. That's the only flat area. It's a rectangle if lawn surrounded by borders on three sides with a path and house  on the other. She says people will play silly buggers with veg grown there. Either steal it, damage it or wee all over it. In say just wash everything before eating it. What's the problem?


    Only one answer NorthernJoe.

    Happy wife - Happy Life. 


    'The power of accurate observation .... is commonly called cynicism by those that have not got it.

    George Bernard Shaw'

  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    I can never understand why people sow 2 seeds and throw one away.
    Just sow what you need plus a few spares just in case.
    Obviously  one will be weaker. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    Lyn said:
    I can never understand why people sow 2 seeds and throw one away.
    Just sow what you need plus a few spares just in case.
    Obviously  one will be weaker. 
    I concur.
    Maybe some folk  have too much money?
    Devon.
  • Nanny BeachNanny Beach Posts: 8,719
    I dont do an Heir and a spare, nothing wasted here
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