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  • plant pauperplant pauper Posts: 6,904
    pansyface said:
    Rockall.
    James Dean.

    Sorry I think I may have misread that one @pansyface 🤣
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited August 2023
    @wargarden … if it’s plans and diagrams of UK gardening around the time of WW2 you want, can I recommend a wonderful book ‘How to Make a Garden Grow’ by Heath Robinson, published by Oxford Press. It was first published in 1938, and gives an insight into gardening trends on the eve of the Second World War while also addressing common concerns faced by gardeners.

    i think you’ll find it very enlightening. 

    Used copies are available at very reasonable prices from Ebay, Abe Books and all the usual online second hand book suppliers. 

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





  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I want the well-trained tree @Dovefromabove
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • war  garden 572war garden 572 Posts: 664
    edited September 2023

    Dovefromabove it is a rather crude but humorous book.  

    i read it free on archive.org 

  • Dovefromabove it is a rather crude but humorous book.  
    So you’ve read it? And still you don’t ‘get’ the English … 🤷‍♀️ 

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





  • Definitely @pansyface … and from there … German Bight 

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





  • I have known the English "get" replace "e" in get for 'i"
    for along time. what other country eats  toads
    when rest of world eats frogs. also  what is this so-called
    abomination called vegetarian haggis   you would think the
    original is bad enough. 

  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    Haggis is more associated with Scotland, but being american you probably think it's the same as England
    Devon.
  • @pansyface Ooh, you should use vegetarian toads. I'd recommend Linda McCartney's red onion and rosemary toads as they taste very rustic. I'm not very good when it comes to the hole though, it's a disaster every time I try so I cheat and buy the frozen giant ones. 
  • Definitely Cromarty don’t you think? 

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





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