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🦃 CURMUDGEONS' CORNER XIX 🦃

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  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I'll take your word for it @Lizzie27😒
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • ErgatesErgates Posts: 2,953
    Re tattoos, it’s always seemed to me as nonsensical as if I’d had myself permanently sealed into a pair of bell bottomed jeans when I was a teenager. Highly fashionable at the time....... At least piercings can be removed, unless they are the type where the hole has been stretched.
    One good thing about the current fashion though, I have a rather ugly group of broken veins on the front of my lower leg. I’ve bought some long life eyeliner and lip liner, and have been practising turning them into a temporary ‘tattoo’ in case I want to wear a skirt this summer.
  • floraliesfloralies Posts: 2,718
    That's a good idea @Ergates might have to try that myself!
  • Anyone else clocked the price of seeds this year. I know F1 varieties always cost more but £4.49 a packet  for blight resistant tomatoes , and I bet there's no more than 8-10 seeds a pack. Trouble is there's no point growing ordinary one's  outside on our Allotments now,  not if you want any kind of decent harvest. 
    AB Still learning

  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    My guess is that after last season's blight disaster everyone's going to be looking for blight resistant varieties.  They'll be at a premium.  

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





  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    I quite like the look of these.
    premier seeds are a reputable company, I buy almost all of my seeds from them.
    https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/393637993182?hash=item5ba6a71ade:g:j5gAAOSwQfFhbt5G
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • Nanny BeachNanny Beach Posts: 8,719
    Much love going to Raisingirl, been there too many times. 
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    My old Pyrex jug has finally cracked. The measurements were Imperial and Metric ones, so I reckon it's got to be at least 30 years old if not more. Hope I can get another one, I still don't think in metric.
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited January 2022
    @Allotment Boy  I had decided to give the garden a year without tomatoes following the huge losses to blight last year ... but I've caved in and ordered two blight resistant varieties from SimplySeed.co.uk

    Crimson Crush which I've grown before and liked, and Losetto which are new to me.  Both packs at under £2.50 for around ten seeds, which I think is pretty reasonable these days. 

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





  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    I haven't looked at tomato seeds this year. Still have some Sungold left as I didn't grow them last year, and lots of the Piccolo ones I gathered from the bought tomatoes. They were excellent, so I'll be saving more of those. 
    I expect blight resistant ones may well be more popular this year though, as you say @Dovefromabove. Growing undercover helps, so it's the one benefit of living in a colder/wetter area  ;)
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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