I'm having a tea break. Have hacked pyracantha, unknown self-seeded bush and hazel. More mess now than when I began :- (
My gooseberry bush isn't as fruitful as last year but, with better protection, I'm hoping for more than the one I ended up with in 2011 when the whole lot (apart from the one) were nicked in a night!
Someone decided that it would be a good idea to open it up a bit as they half-saw the technique on GW last year sometime-when that someone is in the garden with secateurs nothing is safe.There should be demarcation zones and no-go areas
Flo-did you find anything under the gooseberry bush- isn't that where babies come from?-perhaps it was the babies that nicked last year's
I'm enjoying the last of the evening sunshine whilst my Australians are watching the football. They made me a lovely mushroom risotto this evening.
Ambrose Place had their yellow book open gardens today. You pay £5 at the start and get to see 14 different walled gardens along the road. They had a gloriously sunny afternoon and there were lots of visitors. I saw some depressingly healthy runner beans. In one garden they had a sign up saying that the dog had buried a bone and look what had come up - a row of bonio's! The dog came up and pulled one out whilst we were laughing at it.
Thats nice-am watching football on computer cos I cant be bovverd to go upstairs-Mrs Geoff is still on Walton's Mountain-it seems to be all Italy at the moment
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Kate -I am adopting the reverse psychology, low expectation bit, and also covering all the bases- washed down with a nice Chianti
Someone cut a lot of my fruiting redcurrant branches off last year
-so there is not so much fruit this time
I'm having a tea break. Have hacked pyracantha, unknown self-seeded bush and hazel. More mess now than when I began :- (
My gooseberry bush isn't as fruitful as last year but, with better protection, I'm hoping for more than the one I ended up with in 2011 when the whole lot (apart from the one) were nicked in a night!
Geoff who prunes in your garden? You may as well put your tenner on Italy then
Jo I cannot believe you are sitting down
Someone decided that it would be a good idea to open it up a bit as they half-saw the technique on GW last year sometime-when that someone is in the garden with secateurs nothing is safe.There should be demarcation zones and no-go areas
Flo-did you find anything under the gooseberry bush- isn't that where babies come from?-perhaps it was the babies that nicked last year's
Flo when you say nicked do you mean human or pest?
Geoff I cannot believe that you do not guard your garden better
They have been warned off and not allowed out without supervision-which is what I should have had- to see what was going on.
That sun and wind is now coming from a lovely warm direction
We are on Walton's Mountain at the moment
Have found this-just enter your post code and during the film the plane comes down your street !!
http://www.facebook.com/britishairways/app_388207294549278
Kate, it was some pest that came along in the night. Or in the morning before I got up, possibly. Do pigeons eat gooseberries?
That's fun Geoff!
I'm enjoying the last of the evening sunshine whilst my Australians are watching the football. They made me a lovely mushroom risotto this evening.
Ambrose Place had their yellow book open gardens today. You pay £5 at the start and get to see 14 different walled gardens along the road. They had a gloriously sunny afternoon and there were lots of visitors. I saw some depressingly healthy runner beans. In one garden they had a sign up saying that the dog had buried a bone and look what had come up - a row of bonio's! The dog came up and pulled one out whilst we were laughing at it.
Thats nice-am watching football on computer cos I cant be bovverd to go upstairs-Mrs Geoff is still on Walton's Mountain-it seems to be all Italy at the moment