Pray tell, what transpired?
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I'm assuming here its not the aftershave & deoderant but the fuel you're referring to here Clive.
Pray tell, what transpired?
Pray tell, what transpired?
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peter wrote:I'm assuming here its not the aftershave & deoderant but the fuel you're referring to here Clive.
Pray tell, what transpired?
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No....It was diesel fuel.
What transpired.... Everything that smells of diesel goes straight in the washing machine....
It's been a rough night...
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Another bit done, 6'x30', so including the 9'x6' from last week I've done 30'x12'. This weekends shows a bit darker in the photo with the left corner being last weekends stick-in-the-mud effort.
Also sowed my first seeds, banana shallots, var Piglet Willyensis, in the greenhouse.
Also sowed my first seeds, banana shallots, var Piglet Willyensis, in the greenhouse.
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Your plot is now marked, Peter. 
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Geoff, I don't think I have ever had problems with lighting a sulphur candle. Maybe it's because I always keep them in the warmish kitchen overnight before lighting them?
Peter, I am green with envy - what a lovely flat, pristine plot! No fencing and no guy ropes on the sheds, so that they don't get blown away!
When I think of our steep hillside with drystone walls on two sides (which have to be covered and topped with wire netting to keep out the rabbits and lambs)! Roe deer are also getting nearer and nearer every year, when they arrive, I think, I'll give up. Ou shed has two 6ft poles deep down into ground and screwed to the sides to keep it upright in the strong winds.
Peter, I am green with envy - what a lovely flat, pristine plot! No fencing and no guy ropes on the sheds, so that they don't get blown away!
When I think of our steep hillside with drystone walls on two sides (which have to be covered and topped with wire netting to keep out the rabbits and lambs)! Roe deer are also getting nearer and nearer every year, when they arrive, I think, I'll give up. Ou shed has two 6ft poles deep down into ground and screwed to the sides to keep it upright in the strong winds.
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Monika, its not as exposed as yours, but running east-west the wind whips through pretty fast as we adjoin a strip-park over a mile long, strong enough to tip sheds over and for compost bins to fly.
The boundary is six foot chainlink which the cats and foxes all laugh at.
There is a rising slope to the south from the northern low point my photo intercepts in the distance, the rise is about six foot, which isn't an issue, the mature tree belt after the footpath shades my plot from ten till four at the moment and it continues across the field of the primary school for a twenty foot rise to the buildings, so on damp weeks I can cut into the slope and watch water trickle out of the cut face.
Thěe gate is about a hundred feet from the gate in my back garden fence by the public footpath, so like every site pros and cons.
The boundary is six foot chainlink which the cats and foxes all laugh at.
There is a rising slope to the south from the northern low point my photo intercepts in the distance, the rise is about six foot, which isn't an issue, the mature tree belt after the footpath shades my plot from ten till four at the moment and it continues across the field of the primary school for a twenty foot rise to the buildings, so on damp weeks I can cut into the slope and watch water trickle out of the cut face.
Thěe gate is about a hundred feet from the gate in my back garden fence by the public footpath, so like every site pros and cons.
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Peter and Monika.Our allotment is the end one, with a field over the hedge. The prevailing wind blows all the bits and pieces off everyone elses plots into our hedgerow. We retrieve it all every so often and leave it to be claimed. Which it isn't always, we've had some good stuff by this method
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I've been very careful not to say the, "yes", word. Oh blow it, i've gone and said it now.
Well, you not what they say about, too many cooks......
Well, you not what they say about, too many cooks......
Kind Regards, Old Herbaceous.
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Re the "sweet peas", Geoff: I saw that and thought, maybe there are some sweet peas whose foliage looks like edible peas? But I suppose it's a library retrieval error.
That's why I like the KG magazine - the photos accompanying most articles seem to be taken specifically for that purpose and not just "imported" like in some gardening magazines.
That's why I like the KG magazine - the photos accompanying most articles seem to be taken specifically for that purpose and not just "imported" like in some gardening magazines.
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We have been working on herbaceous borders...those that we didn't get sorted last back end...much, much more to do yet.....
It was 4C this morning as I drove to work....but I did note it drop to 2.5C briefly through some low lying land.
Shirt sleeves later on and I reckon I can feel that the sun has caught my face a bit yesterday and today.
This afternoon though the breeze was from the East...and hence suddenly went rather chill...
Clive
It was 4C this morning as I drove to work....but I did note it drop to 2.5C briefly through some low lying land.
Shirt sleeves later on and I reckon I can feel that the sun has caught my face a bit yesterday and today.
This afternoon though the breeze was from the East...and hence suddenly went rather chill...
Clive