Can anyone tell me where the plant / seed swap thread is? I have these Tesco sea hollies (exact type unknown) that have far outgrown their pots and are now struggling but I've no where to put them. Wanted to offer them up to any passing gardener before I compost them.
Ooops - manners - should have said Good Morning first
Dry but rather breezy out there. Going to clear the peas and mange tout which have gone over and pick the last of the beetroot to make beetroot and apple chutney tomorrow. The bed they are in will be no more in a few weeks so I might as well clear most of the veg that's in there and save on watering - soooo boring day after day...
Not much else to report. Currently noodling on the internet trying to pinpoint the places I really want to visit on our holiday in a few weeks time.
Edit: Make that Good Afternoon - can't half waste some time on t'interweb
Last edited: 07 August 2016 12:34:54
Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
Here's another photo. I promise I won't send any more, but I thought this one demonstrated some of the terrain they have to negotiate. The trucks are very heavy when full of water and equipment.
You don't want t o slide back downhill with that Pat!
In for a bite of lunch - cheek really when I didn't have my breakfast till half nine or summat
Grass all cut and several other things done - only 2,999,976 items on the list now....
Black clouds were coming in on the wind, but they seem to have passed by. The washing will be dry anyway, and it's not been out for long! Grand day to get things done - sunny and windy, but not cold. Ideal, except when you're trying to screw a handle on a gate on the windiest side of the garden...
It's too easy to while away hours T'bird - I do it too much as well, mainly on here. Hope you find some good places to go though. Are you heading up this way at all?
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
We were caught in the ocean road fires of "82. Will stay with me forever. Full respect to your other half
I am not happy with our boy but didn't vet didn't want to see him. To call in the morning Starvation for 24 hours. He drinks on command so we have no problem there. He did not appreciate his warm bath but is now appreciative.
Clari I just feel so guilty he must have really panicked to force his was out the crate and his poor nose!
topbird it is really windy here always makes me nervous with all the trees in full leaf
Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.” A A Milne
Yesterday was a bitty sort of day running errands but OH and I did get all the pots of hostas, lillies, roses, clematis, agapanthus, window boxes, hanging baskets, assorted shrubs and acers plus perennial divisions herded up at the back of the house for automatic sprinkler watering while we're away next week - 8 days at the new house painting bedroom walls and strimming weeds respectively. Fun in the afternoons while paint dries.
This weekend is the local town's annual braderie - central streets closed to traffic, shops selling stock cheap along with restaurants and itinerant market people and pop up cafés and bars spilling stands and tables and chairs out all over, fairground rides and attractions in the main squares, pony rides and ambulant musicians, drummers and Gilles to entertain, car boot/vide grenier along one main street......
I have spent the last 12 braderies manning the dance club stand and before that there were years of twinning pop up restaurant and bar so it felt really odd just to go and have a wander and not have to set up a stand or "sell" stuff. On the down side, didn't find a single thing in the car boot. Was looking out for old galvanised laundry buckets and enamel kitchen pots and colanders and steamers for plants and maybe a chandelier but there was nothing of interest in over a mile of stands.
Hope DD did better.
Hosta - can you not put your photos on photobucket and just post a link to an album?
LP and other pet owners - they can be a trial when they have problems but also such a joy. When we first adopted Bonzo Dog he was a scavenger with separation anxiety and ate my best pair of shoes and a kitchen bin when left alone with just the other dog the first time. The bin was replaced and now lives in the garage and we learned to leave him in his cage with a sinew "bone" to chew. Like a kid with a dummy for security. He's a lot calmer now and doesn't need his cage but still "helps" with loading the dishwasher and cleaning the floor if I spill or drop anything.
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Can anyone tell me where the plant / seed swap thread is? I have these Tesco sea hollies (exact type unknown) that have far outgrown their pots and are now struggling but I've no where to put them. Wanted to offer them up to any passing gardener before I compost them.
Try this Clari
http://www.gardenersworld.com/forum/the-potting-shed/seed-and-plant-swap-2016/895135-14.html/
Ooops - manners - should have said Good Morning first
Dry but rather breezy out there. Going to clear the peas and mange tout which have gone over and pick the last of the beetroot to make beetroot and apple chutney tomorrow. The bed they are in will be no more in a few weeks so I might as well clear most of the veg that's in there and save on watering - soooo boring day after day...
Not much else to report. Currently noodling on the internet trying to pinpoint the places I really want to visit on our holiday in a few weeks time.
Edit: Make that Good Afternoon
- can't half waste some time on t'interweb
Last edited: 07 August 2016 12:34:54
Here's another photo. I promise I won't send any more, but I thought this one demonstrated some of the terrain they have to negotiate. The trucks are very heavy when full of water and equipment.
You don't want t o slide back downhill with that Pat!
In for a bite of lunch - cheek really when I didn't have my breakfast till half nine or summat
Grass all cut and several other things done - only 2,999,976 items on the list now....
Black clouds were coming in on the wind, but they seem to have passed by. The washing will be dry anyway, and it's not been out for long! Grand day to get things done - sunny and windy, but not cold. Ideal, except when you're trying to screw a handle on a gate on the windiest side of the garden...
It's too easy to while away hours T'bird - I do it too much as well, mainly on here. Hope you find some good places to go though. Are you heading up this way at all?
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Wow Pat
We were caught in the ocean road fires of "82. Will stay with me forever. Full respect to your other half
I am not happy with our boy but didn't vet didn't want to see him. To call in the morning Starvation for 24 hours. He drinks on command so we have no problem there. He did not appreciate his warm bath but is now appreciative.
Clari I just feel so guilty he must have really panicked to force his was out the crate and his poor nose!
topbird it is really windy here always makes me nervous with all the trees in full leaf
A A Milne
Sorry Fairy didn't see you there, rain passing thro here too
A A Milne
I'm keeping an eye on the washing LP as I have to go out soon
Glad the pooch is ok. Worse than having weans...
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Fairy, home by 5.45 for tennis
Far too windy here to do any gardening
Looks challenging Pat. Love that gate.
Yesterday was a bitty sort of day running errands but OH and I did get all the pots of hostas, lillies, roses, clematis, agapanthus, window boxes, hanging baskets, assorted shrubs and acers plus perennial divisions herded up at the back of the house for automatic sprinkler watering while we're away next week - 8 days at the new house painting bedroom walls and strimming weeds respectively. Fun in the afternoons while paint dries.
This weekend is the local town's annual braderie - central streets closed to traffic, shops selling stock cheap along with restaurants and itinerant market people and pop up cafés and bars spilling stands and tables and chairs out all over, fairground rides and attractions in the main squares, pony rides and ambulant musicians, drummers and Gilles to entertain, car boot/vide grenier along one main street......
I have spent the last 12 braderies manning the dance club stand and before that there were years of twinning pop up restaurant and bar so it felt really odd just to go and have a wander and not have to set up a stand or "sell" stuff. On the down side, didn't find a single thing in the car boot. Was looking out for old galvanised laundry buckets and enamel kitchen pots and colanders and steamers for plants and maybe a chandelier but there was nothing of interest in over a mile of stands.
Hope DD did better.
Hosta - can you not put your photos on photobucket and just post a link to an album?
LP and other pet owners - they can be a trial when they have problems but also such a joy. When we first adopted Bonzo Dog he was a scavenger with separation anxiety and ate my best pair of shoes and a kitchen bin when left alone with just the other dog the first time. The bin was replaced and now lives in the garage and we learned to leave him in his cage with a sinew "bone" to chew. Like a kid with a dummy for security. He's a lot calmer now and doesn't need his cage but still "helps" with loading the dishwasher and cleaning the floor if I spill or drop anything.