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  • sotongeoffsotongeoff Posts: 9,802

    Can you just do one more check-that would be helpful

    I think the police and the portaloo thing is a bit of a red herring-ever few years they skip a year and then demand increases for the following year-a bit of a marketing strategy in my opinion

    A bean has popped though the soil more than 2 weeks after sowing-that shows how much the ground temperature has gone down- the first lot were through within a few days-we do need a long warm sunny spell-who do I write to?

  • kate1123kate1123 Posts: 2,815

    I am back, it is not us Geoffimage

     I have been to visit the nursery featured in last weeks GW, I found it quite quickly lots of signs for bedding/ hanging baskets on the road. Not what I was expecting, lots of bedding plants for sale. I bought 2 peppers as mine are only 2 inches high and a couple of cuphea plants. As I went to pay the sign behind the till said Leafy Oak nurseryimage So I drove around a bit until I saw a couple of ladies and they directed me to it, I drove past it twice(no signs) and it is a proper perennial nursery, there were some nice plants but I was not tempted, quite small I am surprised that they exhibit..

  • jo4eyesjo4eyes Posts: 2,058

    Nurse has been & gone. OH snoring in the chair- nothing new there then.

    What Kate, not buying plants?

    Am cold, this wet weather not fun. Wonder if any hope for my direct sown beans then? Shant bank on them appearing & surviving the slugs thogh. Have already made a note to start off some more, in pots in greenhouse, which has door open 24hrs now, & fish out my copper strips from the box in shed.

    BTW any way to get to the 'end' of this thread without all the palaver of jumpimg through all the messages? J.

  • LottiebeansLottiebeans Posts: 715

    Horribly windy here, I have a feeling that the party tent may have taken off and left the garden of its own accord - it has to go to the fete tomorrow so we didn't bother packing it all away.

    I might attempt to sow some carrots but I never seem to have much success with them. My beans are struggling to get up the poles, normally they shoot away.

    My friend on the IOW says its a disaster there and don't go under any circumstances - the festival fields are totally waterlogged. People are being told to leave their cars in Portsmouth - not sure where exactly!

    I think Glastonbury was cancelled this year because the Queen had organised a party and the dates clashed.....

  • kate1123kate1123 Posts: 2,815

    Jo I just hit the REPLY buttonimage  I thought 5 plants today was enough, if I had found her nursery first it would have been different.

  • jo4eyesjo4eyes Posts: 2,058

    Ahh, brilliant! That's what the little green arrow is for!  image Told you t'was thick on pcs! J.

  • sotongeoffsotongeoff Posts: 9,802

    Jo-click on first unread post at the top of the page-doesn't always work though-have scattered more slug pellets around my emerging beans-I hope they are hungry

    Runner beans slow as well Lottie

    Kate -was that Daisy Cottage?-they probably needed the publicity by the sound of it.

    The washing is on a yo-yo-wind and rain and sunshine

  • kate1123kate1123 Posts: 2,815

    The wind is mad here, so glad I pruned neighbours trellis. Lottie it may not me your lucky day.

    Does the Queen and Glastonbury crowd overlapimage 

    They only had room for 5 cars so not sure what there future plan was.

  • sotongeoffsotongeoff Posts: 9,802

    Have just watched local news-some people have been their cars for 24 hours-the site is ankle deep in mud- the tent pegs won't stay in and just to ice the the cake it is going to chuck it down on Saturday night.

    On a positive note mud is good for the complexion

    I think I will goimage

  • kate1123kate1123 Posts: 2,815

    Geoff get Mrs Geoff in the kitchen, you could make a fortune selling hot soup as they come off the ferryimage

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