Have a good train journey MrsG, hope your thumb is better. I like looking in peoples gardens too. A trip on top of a double decker bus comes in handy!!
Kef did you mean me or Lizy
Fairy
Off to sisters this morning have a good day everyone. TTFN x
I've made the parmigiana thingy whatsit and its yum. But on Tues (I think) This Morning prog Gino made a pasta bake with it, he just chopped the aubergines instead of slices.
hi all, lily and kef i often make a yummy pasta aubergine dish from a jamie recipe called 'pasta alla norma' it's yum even the 3 year old eats it happily, v excited as my 3 new roses coming today, got my mum and dad coming so i can plant them manure and funghi at the ready! the lady at david austin suggested i put my rambler rose in a pot til it's a few feet tall as it's going in a sunny corner but one that gets a lot of shade come mid july from fig leaves, i aim to really keep the leaves cut back and the rose will climb up a wall, does anyone think this is a good idea t6o pot it til it gets a bit bigget and gets more light higher uo? the last rose i put in this spot grew ok but never flowered, that's the 1 i just moved-generous gardener ' sorry if i've asked for advice in wrong thread and am not being clear my excuse today is 3 year old svreaming house down as i won't give here ice cream and baby wriggling enthusiastically on my knee
Sat here feeling terribly sorry for myself because I had really hoped the garden would be a little further along by now. The herb garden doesn't exist, the pond isn't finished, the vegetable plot.... well that's a huge mound of earth right now that will have to wait until the green houses are done and they'll not be done until my partner is bored of playing in his shed.
So instead I thought I would list all the vegetables I have gotten growing so far. Think on the positive side type of thing.
"Basil bush" pot in the kitchen (no idea how it differs to normal basil but it is almost big enough to start harvesting)
Garlic (under the washing line)
Onion (along the path - the only bit of land free at the time! Next year I'll plant something there that can withstand size 13 feet a little better)
4 x cherry bomb chillis
3 x purple riots (tiny little plants that seem to show no interest in growing now they've four leafs each)
1 x bullhorn
2 x unknown chilli that had their labels plucked and dropped by unknown forces
1 x scotch bonnet
3 x pepperoncini
6 x chilly willy (surprisingly the only chillies that I've not struggled to germinate - wonder what that says about me!)
2 x jalapeno (growing the best of all the chillis so far and are already on their third pot up)
2 x Dave Tomatoes (planting some more this weekend now the world is warming up)
5 x Roma Tomatoes
My salad trays are full of delicato, rocket and lollo rossa, Well not exactly full but life is happening!
In a corner of the greenhouse I've pots full of oregano, thyme, lemon corriandar, and sage seeds that I'm hoping will germinate to grow ready for when we make a start on the herb garden. Outside I've rosemary (never seen it flower before!) and mint (safely in a tub though its current size does make you wonder how it spreads so wildly), and the rhubarb I found which is having a rest year ready to move this autumn.
I've the apple tree, crab apple tree, and pear tree now shedding blossom across the grass...
Awwwwww, cheer up Clari and sending ((hugs)). I lived in an unfinished house for 4 years, dust everywhere as we had to tip old ceilings down and everything, all walls re plastered etc etc, so whilst it's not the garden. I can understand your frustrayion. It will come together all of a sudden and you will wonder why you ever worried....promise
As for the chillies, I'm glad you made that comment on the Purple Riots, I wondered if it was just mine, I am repotting them at weekend so will see if it makes a difference. Maybe they are a smaller variety, we must remember to ask Stacey when she is about again. Also like the comment on the 'rude' ones, I don't know you neatly well enough to make any further comment on that
Keep smiling
Rose....what sort of mummy are you not giving into ice cream begging screams
repotted all my chillies up on Monday as they didn't seem to be doing much in terms of growth so I wasn't sure if they needed a bit more space or whether they weren't getting enough sunlight (so I've moved them to the greenhouse rather than in the spare bedroom - they get put in a plastic greenhouse within the glass greenhouse at night to keep them warm. If we get a cold patch I'll bring them back in the house).
I can't embed instagram images (I'm at work so its the easiest platform for me to pull pictures off my phone) alas so here's some links:
(As for the house... well we've the plaster from the bedroom, hallways, lounge, dining area, kitchen to rip off, the kitchen to rip out completely, a trench to dig through the house from front to back, a gas fire to rip out and replace with a log burner, the attic to clad out so we can use it properly, some minor rewiring to do, carpets to pull up...
... and then decorate!
I'm reckoning that we'll be living in a state of undress for about five years!)
I can definitely empathise with that Clari, but it will be worth it. We love our wood burner and I didn't think I'd be able to have one but we took out an old chimney breast and found that it hadn't been blocked off properly so could utilise the chimney
I'll try and have a look at the chillies now. All my boys are going to Wigan on Saturday so I have a day doing nothing but gardening....just me, my hounds and the birds
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Morning all
Happy birthday OLs LO and happy non-birthday OL
Have a good train journey MrsG, hope your thumb is better. I like looking in peoples gardens too. A trip on top of a double decker bus comes in handy!!
Kef did you mean me or Lizy
Fairy
Off to sisters this morning have a good day everyone. TTFN x
Morning all.
Mrs G i read that you were on a bikini course- did wonder what that was about
Lily, I meant you, thanks
Not seen Lizy for a few days.
Right I'm off into garden to do instead of pondering
about it.
Have a great day all.
Kef,
I've made the parmigiana thingy whatsit and its yum. But on Tues (I think) This Morning prog Gino made a pasta bake with it, he just chopped the aubergines instead of slices.
Hope OH fully recovered this morning
Hope Dove enjoyed her sleepover
hi all, lily and kef i often make a yummy pasta aubergine dish from a jamie recipe called 'pasta alla norma' it's yum even the 3 year old eats it happily, v excited as my 3 new roses coming today, got my mum and dad coming so i can plant them manure and funghi at the ready! the lady at david austin suggested i put my rambler rose in a pot til it's a few feet tall as it's going in a sunny corner but one that gets a lot of shade come mid july from fig leaves, i aim to really keep the leaves cut back and the rose will climb up a wall, does anyone think this is a good idea t6o pot it til it gets a bit bigget and gets more light higher uo? the last rose i put in this spot grew ok but never flowered, that's the 1 i just moved-generous gardener ' sorry if i've asked for advice in wrong thread and am not being clear my excuse today is 3 year old svreaming house down as i won't give here ice cream and baby wriggling enthusiastically on my knee
Sat here feeling terribly sorry for myself because I had really hoped the garden would be a little further along by now. The herb garden doesn't exist, the pond isn't finished, the vegetable plot.... well that's a huge mound of earth right now that will have to wait until the green houses are done and they'll not be done until my partner is bored of playing in his shed.
So instead I thought I would list all the vegetables I have gotten growing so far. Think on the positive side type of thing.
"Basil bush" pot in the kitchen (no idea how it differs to normal basil but it is almost big enough to start harvesting)
Garlic (under the washing line)
Onion (along the path - the only bit of land free at the time! Next year I'll plant something there that can withstand size 13 feet a little better)
4 x cherry bomb chillis
3 x purple riots (tiny little plants that seem to show no interest in growing now they've four leafs each)
1 x bullhorn
2 x unknown chilli that had their labels plucked and dropped by unknown forces
1 x scotch bonnet
3 x pepperoncini
6 x chilly willy (surprisingly the only chillies that I've not struggled to germinate - wonder what that says about me!)
2 x jalapeno (growing the best of all the chillis so far and are already on their third pot up)
2 x Dave Tomatoes (planting some more this weekend now the world is warming up)
5 x Roma Tomatoes
My salad trays are full of delicato, rocket and lollo rossa, Well not exactly full but life is happening!
In a corner of the greenhouse I've pots full of oregano, thyme, lemon corriandar, and sage seeds that I'm hoping will germinate to grow ready for when we make a start on the herb garden. Outside I've rosemary (never seen it flower before!) and mint (safely in a tub though its current size does make you wonder how it spreads so wildly), and the rhubarb I found which is having a rest year ready to move this autumn.
I've the apple tree, crab apple tree, and pear tree now shedding blossom across the grass...
And an almighty to do list!
Awwwwww, cheer up Clari and sending ((hugs)). I lived in an unfinished house for 4 years, dust everywhere as we had to tip old ceilings down and everything, all walls re plastered etc etc, so whilst it's not the garden. I can understand your frustrayion. It will come together all of a sudden and you will wonder why you ever worried....promise
As for the chillies, I'm glad you made that comment on the Purple Riots, I wondered if it was just mine, I am repotting them at weekend so will see if it makes a difference. Maybe they are a smaller variety, we must remember to ask Stacey when she is about again. Also like the comment on the 'rude' ones, I don't know you neatly well enough to make any further comment on that
Keep smiling
Rose....what sort of mummy are you not giving into ice cream begging screams
repotted all my chillies up on Monday as they didn't seem to be doing much in terms of growth so I wasn't sure if they needed a bit more space or whether they weren't getting enough sunlight (so I've moved them to the greenhouse rather than in the spare bedroom - they get put in a plastic greenhouse within the glass greenhouse at night to keep them warm. If we get a cold patch I'll bring them back in the house).
I can't embed instagram images (I'm at work so its the easiest platform for me to pull pictures off my phone) alas so here's some links:
PURPLE RIOT: http://instagram.com/p/nKzaYeI0LT/
PEPPERONCINI: http://instagram.com/p/nKzft0I0LW/
All of them! http://instagram.com/p/nAuAVXI0NE/
(As for the house... well we've the plaster from the bedroom, hallways, lounge, dining area, kitchen to rip off, the kitchen to rip out completely, a trench to dig through the house from front to back, a gas fire to rip out and replace with a log burner, the attic to clad out so we can use it properly, some minor rewiring to do, carpets to pull up...
... and then decorate!
I'm reckoning that we'll be living in a state of undress for about five years!)
I can definitely empathise with that Clari, but it will be worth it. We love our wood burner and I didn't think I'd be able to have one but we took out an old chimney breast and found that it hadn't been blocked off properly so could utilise the chimney
I'll try and have a look at the chillies now. All my boys are going to Wigan on Saturday so I have a day doing nothing but gardening....just me, my hounds and the birds