Rain just commencing again here, but did have respite from it yesterday with sunshine too :) had the morning sorting out stone troughs, taking out the summer stuff and putting in the bulbs, Change of compost with an addition of beech nut husks as the drainage layer...I put plenty in.. Then had the H...

I'm just enjoying a lovely Conference pear...the cordon tree at home here has done really well whilst those just up the road haven't faired so well...my dad set up his original cordon row of fruit with protection from the garage wall that is a 5ft to their north, ie; a 3ft slab path width and a 2ft ...

Sorry, Old H', the sun is up our way today. ;) This morning I had a bit of time in the big garden and was able to put in some Senshyu Yellow onions, haven't grown them for some years but my colleague had popped them on the order so in they went...forking ground for one row of planting at a time, wou...

1.5C on the car thermometer when travelling the bypass near the river on the way in to work earlier...6.5C on the way back in gorgeous sunshine. There's still water in the fields alongside the beck that feeds into the river, after the recent days rains. Weather forecast for the week seems to have ta...

I have a feeling that the home garden here was designed courtesy of Amateur Gardening....I'm maybe wrong and it was another title.? .but I believe it was by one of the long established garden journals that offered a free design service back then, mid 50s..front garden and back garden still more or l...

I remember seeing Scotsman out on the East Lincolnshire Line in 1969, seen passing Willoughby. The line closed in 1970. Next time was in the early 1970s when my brother went on the footplate at the Dinting Railway Centre, static then was Scots Guardsman and Leander in the brick engine shed... Then o...

...and a drop or two of rain tomorrow... I was summer pruning yesterday..the temperature felt right but it was a very late running job...but it's done. ...and today mixing up bulb compost, for a rainy day, again running late but not quite so late. This afternoon dug up some Kestrel that were still l...

...and another surprise..there's a low of 5C in the weekend forecast, I see...not really a surprise as I suppose in fact todays above 20C is the real surprise. Butterflies and bees and visitors loving it today..



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oldherbaceous wrote: ↑Thu Sep 28, 2023 6:37 pm Clive, did you get the PM I sent you, as it’s disappeared off my sent list?

That's a mystery, as the last message showing in my inbox is one from May 7th.?
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You may even get to see a photo of an Old Herbaceous style potting shed

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Hello Old H',

As it happens, by coincidence, I plan to be there tomorrow myself too

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Just back from a large extraction from my debit card....and minus a tooth too..!! Not an easy one, the top came off leaving the rest to be drilled around and levered out in bits.... ...and I didn't get it to put under my pillow for the tooth fairy...I could do with making a sixpence back on the deal...

Saw it….never fails to impress…..thank you, Clive. First job today upon getting back from a work visit was getting the washing in the machine and out on the line. Then I had a ride down to the aviation heritage centre at East Kirkby...so I was viewing a Lancaster, Mosquito and B25 in the hangar. Th...

There's that Lancaster heading on by again Old H' ....

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We've been on yew hedge cutting..and it's been mighty warm...got one section all finished....but that's just a warm up for all the front garden....

Did you see the Hurricane, Old H'...it looked to pass straight over you..

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