Linda Taylor 2 , pickled cumber , never though of that just goggled how to make it , will suggest to O/H
made black current cordial for the first time and it was great , especially mixed with Cava , cheers
glad everybody is well
just got back from pub , have been organising the watering of allottment as away from Sunday , next door will water garden and greenhouse , in fact have filled water butts up from stream this afternoon at home and Saturday will fill water cubes at allottment
Thanks Runnybeak. Aches subsiding, though not surprising since I've been lounging around for 2 days. Our weather man keeps rabbiting on about the effects of our current El Nino event - depressing if you let it get to you. It is interesting though - explains about sea temps, wind direction, rain events, etc etc. all very scientific.
My main interest is having the temperature up enough to plant veg seeds into my unheated greenhouse, so I've been browsing through my packets of saved seeds. Do any of you get a black tomato called Kumato. I originally bought the tomatoes in Wooworths, enjoyed them so much that I seed saved- about three years ago now. They have bred true and are nicer than the Black Russian - sweeter, firmer and a good size to eat the whole tomato at a sitting rather than having to store half a tomato in the fridge.
Calm, mild and dry here at the moment, but rain is forecast - we certainly need some!
Hope everyone with aches and pains gets a better day today.
Pat, it's good to hear about your garden in Oz - I have family in Tasmania - they're virtually self-sufficient in fruit and veg - or they were before the fires a couple of years ago - now they're re-building etc.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Up early today so i can get a good sleep tonight, because of my long shifts at the weekend
It's damp this morning but as Verdun says, the ground is so dry, I can't say Kent has had a single week, weekend or even day of real proper rain. Half a day at most, once this summer
My soil is builder's rubble, light sand and bone dry and I am always amazed how plants still manage to live in it
I tend to plant new things in deepish holes with piles of compost added to improve things, obviously I choose appropriate plants, most of the time, I have three astilbes that struggle through my gallons of watering to keep them going. I didn't know their requirements when i bought them, will probably take them to my parents (in my car) because they have a naturally moist area in their garden that I don't have
Today is garden designing. Trying to refine my choices and get that blend of planting just right.
Dove, yes the bushfires are a real hazard. Hubby is a volunteer bushfire fighter with our local brigade - I posted a couple of his photos earlier today of fire running up a Eucalypt and an after shot. I think I put it on the garden photos thread - can't remember now. I saw the news casts of those fires in Tassie - terrible devastation. I dread the season starting each year, but we have to accept these things if we want to live in this sort of environment.
Pat, the bushfire fighters are very brave! My cousin and his wife are the couple that took their grandchildren into the water under a jetty to keep them safe - their grandpa took a photo on his phone to send to their mum who was away at a funeral to show her they were all safe. It was even on the news here in the UK. Terrifying.
The robin is back for his mealworms today - he didn't turn up at all yesterday and I thought I'd bought a new load of mealworms for nothing - but he's busily taking beak-full after beak-full off to the hedgerow where they nested before, so it looks like they'll get eaten up
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Dove, yes the speed the fires can move at is unbelievable. The fires actually create their own velocity once they get going. Getting under the jetty was lucky.
i bought a bird feeder which has an inner section which I thought would give the finches and other small birds a chance before the bullies (rosellas) got to the seed. some chance - the rosellas hang on to the outer rails and stretch their necks until they can reach the inner tube. I tried to get photos of the, but they aren't clear enough to demonstrate what I'm trying to show.
Here'a photo of our little "owl faced finches" feeding on the ground. they sound like little children yelling in the distance (like they do when running along a beach).
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I make redcurrant cordial, the only way I like redcurrants, apart from jelly.
Linda Taylor 2 , pickled cumber , never though of that just goggled how to make it , will suggest to O/H
made black current cordial for the first time and it was great , especially mixed with Cava , cheers
glad everybody is well
just got back from pub , have been organising the watering of allottment as away from Sunday , next door will water garden and greenhouse , in fact have filled water butts up from stream this afternoon at home and Saturday will fill water cubes at allottment
Thanks Runnybeak. Aches subsiding, though not surprising since I've been lounging around for 2 days. Our weather man keeps rabbiting on about the effects of our current El Nino event - depressing if you let it get to you. It is interesting though - explains about sea temps, wind direction, rain events, etc etc. all very scientific.
My main interest is having the temperature up enough to plant veg seeds into my unheated greenhouse, so I've been browsing through my packets of saved seeds. Do any of you get a black tomato called Kumato. I originally bought the tomatoes in Wooworths, enjoyed them so much that I seed saved- about three years ago now. They have bred true and are nicer than the Black Russian - sweeter, firmer and a good size to eat the whole tomato at a sitting rather than having to store half a tomato in the fridge.
I'd better let you all get to sleep, now.
Good morning all
Calm, mild and dry here at the moment, but rain is forecast - we certainly need some!
Hope everyone with aches and pains gets a better day today.
Pat, it's good to hear about your garden in Oz - I have family in Tasmania - they're virtually self-sufficient in fruit and veg - or they were before the fires a couple of years ago - now they're re-building etc.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Morning all
Up early today so i can get a good sleep tonight, because of my long shifts at the weekend
It's damp this morning but as Verdun says, the ground is so dry, I can't say Kent has had a single week, weekend or even day of real proper rain. Half a day at most, once this summer
My soil is builder's rubble, light sand and bone dry and I am always amazed how plants still manage to live in it
I tend to plant new things in deepish holes with piles of compost added to improve things, obviously I choose appropriate plants, most of the time, I have three astilbes that struggle through my gallons of watering to keep them going. I didn't know their requirements when i bought them, will probably take them to my parents (in my car) because they have a naturally moist area in their garden that I don't have
Today is garden designing. Trying to refine my choices and get that blend of planting just right.
More coffee first
Dove, yes the bushfires are a real hazard. Hubby is a volunteer bushfire fighter with our local brigade - I posted a couple of his photos earlier today of fire running up a Eucalypt and an after shot. I think I put it on the garden photos thread - can't remember now. I saw the news casts of those fires in Tassie - terrible devastation. I dread the season starting each year, but we have to accept these things if we want to live in this sort of environment.
Pat, the bushfire fighters are very brave! My cousin and his wife are the couple that took their grandchildren into the water under a jetty to keep them safe - their grandpa took a photo on his phone to send to their mum who was away at a funeral to show her they were all safe. It was even on the news here in the UK. Terrifying.
The robin is back for his mealworms today - he didn't turn up at all yesterday and I thought I'd bought a new load of mealworms for nothing - but he's busily taking beak-full after beak-full off to the hedgerow where they nested before, so it looks like they'll get eaten up
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Dove, yes the speed the fires can move at is unbelievable. The fires actually create their own velocity once they get going. Getting under the jetty was lucky.
i bought a bird feeder which has an inner section which I thought would give the finches and other small birds a chance before the bullies (rosellas) got to the seed. some chance - the rosellas hang on to the outer rails and stretch their necks until they can reach the inner tube. I tried to get photos of the, but they aren't clear enough to demonstrate what I'm trying to show.
Here'a photo of our little "owl faced finches" feeding on the ground. they sound like little children yelling in the distance (like they do when running along a beach).
I can see how they got their name
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.