I've never forgotten what OH did with my carrots! Shortly after we had bought our house in 1967 I had begun to get a veg garden under way. Nice neat rows of veg all growing merrily away. One day I decided it was time to thin the carrots out and gave the thinnings to OH to use in the kitchen (telling her these were the thinnings & they should taste nice and sweet). A couple of days later I noticed all the carrots had disappeared from the garden. "What's happened to all my carrots?" I asked with some concern "We ate them all for dinner" she said - "They're not very good, if that's home grown carrots I don't think much of them, shop ones are much bigger!" We both still laugh about it now but I wasn't impressed at the time. In fact every time I thin carrots (even though she probably knows a lot more about gardening than I do nowadays), I still say "Now these are just the thinnings - you must wait until they're big enough to harvest" & I always get the same response "Ha-Ha!" (but it's all good natured banter!)
I'm pretty happy with my Bosch Rotak40 lawn mower.
Only had to buy one replacement blade so far in about 3 years. That was only because I unwisely tried to mow in a bit of a dip in the lawn by tilting it (the mower, not the lawn!) and the blade caught on the edge of the hole and in a split second, before I could let go or switch off, the whole machine started to dig another channel tunnel by trying to bury itself in the garden.
As the whole machine twisted and wrenched out of my grasp it mangled the blade and nearly broke my wrist. Be warned - don't mow in holes!
I did a stupid thing the other day. Was cutting back young trailers of my butternuts and promptly cut the main branch of the biggest butternut! Doubt if the other smaller ones will ripen before frost. Should have known better, did the same to perfectly good branch of my climbing rose last year!
When I was weeding in amongst some much taller plants I found 2 lovely red lilies, about a foot high, that my wife must have planted a year or two ago.
I admired their colour and their persistence in surviving a cruel winter, overcrowding, not to mention my neglect and ignorance in my new gardening rôle. I promptly pulled the bloom right off one of them as I dutifully resumed weeding!
Quite upset me at the time but I suppose we either learn from such mistakes ... or we don't!
They'll survive Birdy! Maybe you could move them later when they've finished flowering so that you have them in a better place and can admire them more easily
PS mark them with a little stick or something so that know where they are!
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Thanks for the encouragement FG. Trouble is they've both disappeared now and actually it's the self seeded Delphs that are probably in the wrong place. A lot got neglected last year as I was reeling from other events.
I shall work on that patch for next year and seek out the remains of the lilies and mark them as you suggest.
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Aliesh, that's funny. Have a look at page one of this thread and see what Verdon did to his melons.
I've never forgotten what OH did with my carrots! Shortly after we had bought our house in 1967 I had begun to get a veg garden under way. Nice neat rows of veg all growing merrily away. One day I decided it was time to thin the carrots out and gave the thinnings to OH to use in the kitchen (telling her these were the thinnings & they should taste nice and sweet). A couple of days later I noticed all the carrots had disappeared from the garden. "What's happened to all my carrots?" I asked with some concern "We ate them all for dinner" she said - "They're not very good, if that's home grown carrots I don't think much of them, shop ones are much bigger!" We both still laugh about it now but I wasn't impressed at the time. In fact every time I thin carrots (even though she probably knows a lot more about gardening than I do nowadays), I still say "Now these are just the thinnings - you must wait until they're big enough to harvest" & I always get the same response "Ha-Ha!" (but it's all good natured banter!)
Reading another thread prompted me to resurrect this one of Kef's for any newbies who may have a funny story. Still laugh at Maud's contribution.
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I'm pretty happy with my Bosch Rotak40 lawn mower.
Only had to buy one replacement blade so far in about 3 years. That was only because I unwisely tried to mow in a bit of a dip in the lawn by tilting it (the mower, not the lawn!) and the blade caught on the edge of the hole and in a split second, before I could let go or switch off, the whole machine started to dig another channel tunnel by trying to bury itself in the garden.
As the whole machine twisted and wrenched out of my grasp it mangled the blade and nearly broke my wrist. Be warned - don't mow in holes!
I did a stupid thing the other day. Was cutting back young trailers of my butternuts and promptly cut the main branch of the biggest butternut!
Doubt if the other smaller ones will ripen before frost. Should have known better, did the same to perfectly good branch of my climbing rose last year!
Hello SwissSue
Reminds me of 4-6 weeks ago.
When I was weeding in amongst some much taller plants I found 2 lovely red lilies, about a foot high, that my wife must have planted a year or two ago.
I admired their colour and their persistence in surviving a cruel winter, overcrowding, not to mention my neglect and ignorance in my new gardening rôle. I promptly pulled the bloom right off one of them as I dutifully resumed weeding!
Quite upset me
at the time but I suppose we either learn from such mistakes ... or we don't!
They'll survive Birdy! Maybe you could move them later when they've finished flowering so that you have them in a better place and can admire them more easily
PS mark them with a little stick or something so that know where they are!
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Thanks for the encouragement FG. Trouble is they've both disappeared now and actually it's the self seeded Delphs that are probably in the wrong place. A lot got neglected last year as I was reeling from other events.
I shall work on that patch for next year and seek out the remains of the lilies and mark them as you suggest.