You reminded me Geoff..with ref to Potatoes... I forgot to type that "my" Premiere in 15L pots in the front conservatory greenhouse at work were just starting to show this morning...lifting compost visible in most with one actually through...
No sunshine here...bodywamer, wax jacket and very much woolly hat weather...and the shed stove having a bit of a temperamental go slow...
Clive.
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Our cats are very much alike aren't they. Blossom has been in her favourite plant pot again today.
The thermometer in the top greenhouse recorded -11C last night, the coldest this winter, but I was surprised that the bottom greenhouse was only -5C. I'm experimenting with five plastic dustbins full of water which warm up when it is sunny and then the latent heat is released into the greenhouse over night. I'm afraid that I would need quite a few more to keep it frost free, but at least the difference in temperature shows that the idea works. A six degree difference is very good, as the bottom greenhouse is usually the colder of the two. The bins are up the centre of the greenhouse and have boards covered in black plastic covering them so I can use them to stand pots and trays of seedlings etc. making more use of the stored heat. I put a layer of fleece over the top at night.
The thermometer in the top greenhouse recorded -11C last night, the coldest this winter, but I was surprised that the bottom greenhouse was only -5C. I'm experimenting with five plastic dustbins full of water which warm up when it is sunny and then the latent heat is released into the greenhouse over night. I'm afraid that I would need quite a few more to keep it frost free, but at least the difference in temperature shows that the idea works. A six degree difference is very good, as the bottom greenhouse is usually the colder of the two. The bins are up the centre of the greenhouse and have boards covered in black plastic covering them so I can use them to stand pots and trays of seedlings etc. making more use of the stored heat. I put a layer of fleece over the top at night.
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PLUMPUDDING wrote:Our cats are very much alike aren't they. Blossom has been in her favourite plant pot again today.
..and Committee has been up to some climbing fun.....if it needs climbing she is the one to do it....yesterday up the aluminium ladder that was set up for some wall Rose pruning..then step across to the fire escape ladder..an extremely vertical narrow rung device that is in place relative to the accommodation above the old stables.... This is a regular trick of hers if she reckons someone is in residence..and she can have a peer at them from ladder top..and get let in through the window... Anyway..I became the person in residence...briefly..to open the window let her in and then carry her down and outside once more...she can get down unaided but it is a bit scary to watch...
Then she noticed the decorators step ladder in the courtyard and sauntered to the top of that...could see plenty of the world from up there..and promptly sat at the top doing a bit of face washing...but not for long enough for me to get a camera focussed on her.!!
It has been known for her to scale builders ladders set up against scaffolding...and go up for an inspection...I suppose if the equipment is set up to make the patrol easier then as a climbing cat it would be silly not to take advantage of it......
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Feels as if Spring has nearly sprung. 
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oldherbaceous wrote:Feels as if Spring has nearly sprung.
Morning OH - that was my thought too. Last Monday was -6 and the newly-sown stuff in the heated propagators was well-nigh frozen solid. This morning just a touch of late ground frost and a sunny day in prospect, milder weather forecast, some rain to green the fields (pretty brown at the moment), and my first vase of daffodils opening in the kitchen (over a fortnight later than usual years).
The forecast said "mild and spring-like" for today. Well. you could have fooled me. No sun and the strong NW wind was quite vicious. But I still got out and cleared a large patch of dried vegetation (mainly hemp agrimony, purple loosestrife and red campion) from an area of Nature Reserve in front of our house so that the new growth can emerge (no sign of that yet, though!). I felt very warm and virtuous after that!
Tomorrow, it's the turn of the allotment: must re-dig the big bed with the aminopyralid-affected manure so that it can be dispersed before the brassicas are planted later on. We are just hoping that will do the trick. Our local farmer assures us that the lot he brings this year - for use next year - will not be affected.
Tomorrow, it's the turn of the allotment: must re-dig the big bed with the aminopyralid-affected manure so that it can be dispersed before the brassicas are planted later on. We are just hoping that will do the trick. Our local farmer assures us that the lot he brings this year - for use next year - will not be affected.
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It must be spring now, all the frogs are back in the pond. They sound like little motor bikes and there are so many of them the water looks as if it is boiling. I hope they leave the fish alone this year. Last year they kept capturing the fish in an amorous embrace and leaving them stranded in the shallow tubs at the edge of the pond.
I've got some lawn turf ordered for Monday, so I'm hoping the weather isn't too bad so I can finish levelling the area. Every time I get rid of a bump in one place another seems to appear somewhere else and I can't be bothered to use the marking it all out with pegs method.
I've got some lawn turf ordered for Monday, so I'm hoping the weather isn't too bad so I can finish levelling the area. Every time I get rid of a bump in one place another seems to appear somewhere else and I can't be bothered to use the marking it all out with pegs method.
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Spring Equinox tomorrow.Raining cats and dogs here in Cardiff,so I guess that's it,SPRING officially!Rain moving north so if you need it I hope you get it.
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Rain all night and forecast for all day - daffodils flowering (three weeks later than usual) - new green shoots of grass pushing through the brown -- Perfick!
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I don't think we have finished with the snow yet, although i suppose that statement is not applicable to Alan.
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Our mini daffodils are flowering but not their big brothers.
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Some very nice Purple Sprouting Broc' for lunch today. ...went nicely with Mountains Boston Lincolnshire Sausages..mashed Potato, gravy..and some lovely Apple sauce. ..
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...went nicely with Mountains Boston Lincolnshire Sausages..mashed Potato, gravy..and some lovely Apple sauce. .. Clive.
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Well it looks as if us in the East are in for another lovely day.
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Did you get the lovely East of England day Old H'...??.
I arrived home rather on the damp side...
To be fair it was fine and dry to start with and the pond side border got a seeing to...and the gravel path had a lift up and a rake down.. The lifted gravel was drying in the wind...and now it has been rained on...so just about perfect.
This afternoon we went to fetch some of the bags of horse doings that I regularly fetch for home here.....but in larger quantity as there was a huge pile of bags....our trip out coincided with the start of the rain...and plastic bags, wet rain, and lifting on and off trailer...makes for getting soaked....another of my bright ideas.
On the aeroplane front today...spotted a VC10 and also a Chinook thumping its way across the sky...
....Meanwhile, this morning there was a QRA launch (scramble) from the local air base...it might be 13 miles away but there was a fair thunderous rumbling to be heard here at 3-30am as the launch took place...hope the aeroplane driver was a little less bleary eyed than I was as I fumbled for my watch..
Later one returning Typhoon was espied at 5-33am on its way back to base....
Anyway, at least I ended up being up and about bright and extra early this morning...
Clive.
I arrived home rather on the damp side...
To be fair it was fine and dry to start with and the pond side border got a seeing to...and the gravel path had a lift up and a rake down.. The lifted gravel was drying in the wind...and now it has been rained on...so just about perfect.
This afternoon we went to fetch some of the bags of horse doings that I regularly fetch for home here.....but in larger quantity as there was a huge pile of bags....our trip out coincided with the start of the rain...and plastic bags, wet rain, and lifting on and off trailer...makes for getting soaked....another of my bright ideas.
On the aeroplane front today...spotted a VC10 and also a Chinook thumping its way across the sky...
....Meanwhile, this morning there was a QRA launch (scramble) from the local air base...it might be 13 miles away but there was a fair thunderous rumbling to be heard here at 3-30am as the launch took place...hope the aeroplane driver was a little less bleary eyed than I was as I fumbled for my watch..
Later one returning Typhoon was espied at 5-33am on its way back to base....
Anyway, at least I ended up being up and about bright and extra early this morning...
Clive.