I'm still around , mainly only got time for lurking.
In the storms a couple of weeks ago water came into the house. So the cellar had to be pumped out and fortunately we have stone or tile floors and that has meant lots of mopping and scrubbing! Then the boiler sprung a leak so that had to be taken out and sent away for welding. So things have all been rather fraught just recently!
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WestHamRon
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I find everyone here to be so more advanced than me in growing matters that I tend to "lurk" rather than contribute.
Wait til next year !
Wait til next year !
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I'm around, but when the sun is shining, as it has been recently and rarely, I need to be outside soaking it up like a solar panel. Then in the winter I can connect myself to the mains and regenerate some heat to save on the gas bills ! No doubt there'll be more activity on here when it's cold and raining.
Like WestHamRon, i don't feel like i know enough to contribute. but i love reading about everyone else's plots.
in my little world: i picked a lot of not exactly ripe tomatoes wednesday, as i heard we were in for 4 days of solid rain. visions of Noah and subsisting on fried green tomatoes danced in my head... as it is, we've had four solid days of grey with the occasional rain, and the tomatoes are ripening in the kitchen quite nicely. tuesday, while son #2 had his morning nap, i snuck outside and put together my fancy schmancy compost bin... only to discover it didn't have a bottom... the plan to keep it on the landlady's driveway was scratched, and so on wednesday i put it in the big red wagon and dragged it to the plot. (the construction guys i passed were the only ones who were brave enough to ask me what the heck i was doing. everyone else just smiled nervously and got out of my way.)
i'm sad that i'm losing a large percentage of my ground to the "earthmaker"... but i'm hoping i can maybe grow the sunflowers on top of it or something... and hopefully it will make the ground i have left that much more productive. or at least assuage my guilt: anyone else feel guilty when they throw away perfectly compostable bits?
in my little world: i picked a lot of not exactly ripe tomatoes wednesday, as i heard we were in for 4 days of solid rain. visions of Noah and subsisting on fried green tomatoes danced in my head... as it is, we've had four solid days of grey with the occasional rain, and the tomatoes are ripening in the kitchen quite nicely. tuesday, while son #2 had his morning nap, i snuck outside and put together my fancy schmancy compost bin... only to discover it didn't have a bottom... the plan to keep it on the landlady's driveway was scratched, and so on wednesday i put it in the big red wagon and dragged it to the plot. (the construction guys i passed were the only ones who were brave enough to ask me what the heck i was doing. everyone else just smiled nervously and got out of my way.)
i'm sad that i'm losing a large percentage of my ground to the "earthmaker"... but i'm hoping i can maybe grow the sunflowers on top of it or something... and hopefully it will make the ground i have left that much more productive. or at least assuage my guilt: anyone else feel guilty when they throw away perfectly compostable bits?
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oldherbaceous
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Well it is nice to know you lot are still around, even if lurking. 
Dear Alia, i compost everything apart from diseased things, which i burn and use the ash from.
Nearly forgot to say Alia, we are having the most glorious sunshine over here in the dear old British Ilses.
Dear Alia, i compost everything apart from diseased things, which i burn and use the ash from.
Nearly forgot to say Alia, we are having the most glorious sunshine over here in the dear old British Ilses.
Kind Regards, Old Herbaceous.
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Good Morning OH I see you are still getting up early. We have glorious sunshine here in Lancashire today. 
How long it will last I don't know but I am going to make the most of it and do some digging in my beds at the plot. Enjoy your day.
How long it will last I don't know but I am going to make the most of it and do some digging in my beds at the plot. Enjoy your day.-
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Good morning Catherine, it is glorious here as well.
Off to Church later for the Harvest Festival Service, something that i have always loved since i was a boy.
Thats Church twice in one day, thats bound to make it rain or get dark.
Hope your digging goes well.
Off to Church later for the Harvest Festival Service, something that i have always loved since i was a boy.
Thats Church twice in one day, thats bound to make it rain or get dark.
Hope your digging goes well.
Kind Regards, Old Herbaceous.
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We are all hard at work removing and burning our blighted tomatoes, OH! Or marking.
Seriously, I've been very busy and we're between computers, as it were. We had to send the one i was going to have back to Dell because it was defective and we spent 3 hours last night trying to re-install an old spare. Wonderful things, machines, as long as you don't let them tell you what to do.
mike
Seriously, I've been very busy and we're between computers, as it were. We had to send the one i was going to have back to Dell because it was defective and we spent 3 hours last night trying to re-install an old spare. Wonderful things, machines, as long as you don't let them tell you what to do.
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oldherbaceous wrote:Off to Church later for the Harvest Festival Service, something that i have always loved since i was a boy.
Thats Church twice in one day,
Morning OH,
Think how cleansed your soul will be though
Cheers PJ.
I'm just off down the greenhouse. I won't be long...........
I'm just off down the greenhouse. I won't be long...........
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Dear OH,
Hope St. Peter has got your name at the top of his list for Head Gardener when you get up there.
Envry you your traditional Harvest Festival at church. When I went to ours last year - not a very regular attender I'm afaid, they had no fruit or flowers, a computer screen up relaying Happy Clappy messages, and kids playing banjos! No wonder some of the churches are empty these days. Some of us oldies still like the old traditions! I came home and held my own private Harvest Festival in the back garden with the birds singing, which somehow felt far more relevant.
Hope St. Peter has got your name at the top of his list for Head Gardener when you get up there.
Envry you your traditional Harvest Festival at church. When I went to ours last year - not a very regular attender I'm afaid, they had no fruit or flowers, a computer screen up relaying Happy Clappy messages, and kids playing banjos! No wonder some of the churches are empty these days. Some of us oldies still like the old traditions! I came home and held my own private Harvest Festival in the back garden with the birds singing, which somehow felt far more relevant.
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It was a very traditional and special service, actually i got a little choked up as they read a poem about the village that my Mum wrote some 15 years ago and my Nephew read at a service then.
And yes P.J, i do indeed feel cleansed, but for how long is another matter.
We plough the fields and......
And yes P.J, i do indeed feel cleansed, but for how long is another matter.
We plough the fields and......
Kind Regards, Old Herbaceous.
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Hi Everyone,
I'm usually on every day at some point, but as with others I don't know enough to answer most of the queries. The other thing is I often keep quiet, especially when you're all suffering blight, rain and other foul weather - it's a few weeks since we had rain.
Endless sunshine and heat does have its disadvantages though, like my runner beans this year - didn't get a one. And it usually takes me at least an hour a day keeping up with the watering. Tomatoes have been brilliant though - so much so I think we're changing colour
It's nice to be able to visit here though - like instant friends any time you like
CrackPot Chris
I'm usually on every day at some point, but as with others I don't know enough to answer most of the queries. The other thing is I often keep quiet, especially when you're all suffering blight, rain and other foul weather - it's a few weeks since we had rain.
Endless sunshine and heat does have its disadvantages though, like my runner beans this year - didn't get a one. And it usually takes me at least an hour a day keeping up with the watering. Tomatoes have been brilliant though - so much so I think we're changing colour
It's nice to be able to visit here though - like instant friends any time you like
CrackPot Chris
Beautiful greenhouse pics, Clive.
OH, I thought I had better update you about my cake making progress.
Only one so far, but another in the offing, I feel.
It was not a good cake, in fact it was fairly horrible, but on reflection I think I have got to the root of the problem...I must not adapt the recipe to suit the ingredients I already have
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The dreadful cake did get eaten, and we agreed that some bits tasted better than others, but that depended how hungry we were. If starving, it was edible; if just mildly hungry, it was grim.
So I will try harder next time.
OH, I thought I had better update you about my cake making progress.
Only one so far, but another in the offing, I feel.
It was not a good cake, in fact it was fairly horrible, but on reflection I think I have got to the root of the problem...I must not adapt the recipe to suit the ingredients I already have
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The dreadful cake did get eaten, and we agreed that some bits tasted better than others, but that depended how hungry we were. If starving, it was edible; if just mildly hungry, it was grim.
So I will try harder next time.
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oldherbaceous
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Dear Pongeroon, i'm sure with time and patience, you will turn out to be a first class maker of cakes.
Kind Regards, Old Herbaceous.
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I am here, too, OH! After my continental jaunt, I had a few days away looking after grandchildren whilst mum and dad had a break. And I missed all that lovely digging weather (with the forecast being for rain tomorrow)! Husband has been busy though getting the garden sorted after we took out several trees.