We've had a welcome 5.3mm - you might get more this evening.
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The 1.2 mm of rain we had this morning brought out some slugs and snails and there were frogs hopping about all round the garden, so many that I had to be careful where I walked.
I planted out the rest of the brassicas and got them covered with butterfly mesh and hope nothing has already laid eggs on them.
I planted out the rest of the brassicas and got them covered with butterfly mesh and hope nothing has already laid eggs on them.
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Added to my heat load today by preparing fresh ground cover material, after cutting the planting holes I ran round the cut edge, and the ends where it was cut from the roll, with a mini-blowtorch.
Hopefully the will prevent the unravelling I had with the existing bits.
Wrang my T-shirt out before putting it in the wash basket.
Hopefully the will prevent the unravelling I had with the existing bits.
Wrang my T-shirt out before putting it in the wash basket.
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Hope you didn't set anything else on fire using the blow torch Peter. I was quite tempted to get rid of some weeds with the flame gun but remembered the two occasions in the past when I used it in very dry weather and decided not to risk it. The first time the flames went off the path, through some aubretia and up a large conifer with spectacular results and the other time it went from the path, through the compost heap and took out ten feet of my privet hedge before I managed to put it out. It's very tempting though I like a good fire
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Glad I don't live next door to you Plumpudding.....only joking.
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Don't worry, I'm not anti social and choose times when the neighbours have their windows closed if I have a bonfire, but the two accidental infernos showed how quickly fire can spread. The conifer was reduced to charred stumps in about five minutes.
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I Think Bob Flowerdew did the same to a customer's conifer hedge, when he was a working gardener....
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There's nothing like a bonfire. Staying with my son in suburbia the other week I did a bit of pruning. Previous owners had left one of those dustbin incinerators so we thought why not? None of the neighbours complained, perhaps they thought it was a dodgy barbecue.
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It has got very anti bonfire here now.....down to a lot of new folk moving in....
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I think I am finally becoming Australian heat tolerant again! Got loads done on lottie without that sickey feeling from too much sun & even the dog has found her own spot & will let me go out of sight. Between us we scoffed 4 lts of water & shared the pint of chocolate milk! (Impulse buy, but it is liquid)!
Continuing the positive I even managed a harvest - carrots, beets, radish, spuds, loads of blackberries & my first summer cabbage - & obviously the courgettes! There were more raspberries but I've got raspberry overload! Won't bore you with the negatives, but Runner Beans better wake up at some point!
Continuing the positive I even managed a harvest - carrots, beets, radish, spuds, loads of blackberries & my first summer cabbage - & obviously the courgettes! There were more raspberries but I've got raspberry overload! Won't bore you with the negatives, but Runner Beans better wake up at some point!
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Sounds like you have achieved a lot, Westi, well done. I wilted this afternoon and kept in the shadows...
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