Kitchen Garden Forum

oldherbaceous wrote:Quite a country smell is now around the village.

But not around our OH, as he always comes up smelling of roses.

I can certainly understand the excitement at the manure delivery...

..but also during a quiet afternoon in the garden..I got fairly excited when "some old aeroplanes" appeared and orbited twice in the overhead

Cringe quality videos present BBMF Dakota, 3x Spitfire and 2x Hurricane..
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Clive.

Dear Clive, you would have been excited a couple of weeks ago, if here then. I don't know what type of planes they were, but a couple of oldish looking single engined aircraft appeared overhead, then appeared to do, what i can only describe as having a dog fight, before flying off eastwards.

Very impressed.

You just can't beat being in the right place at the right time..

Could the Duxford "Me109"Buchon and Spitfire MkXVI have been in your area for an event.??

What I failed to see today was the Vulcan....it stayed just out of sight to the West of here...before heading off towards Manchester way.

It had attended the Lincolnshire Lancaster Association day at RAF Coningsby...which was the reason that those I caught on video were about...
I suspect photo/videoing would be going on from the open door of the Dakota...so await finding those piccys...

.....I hope they appreciated the nice wave they got from my Mum....

Clive.

We have the occasional steam train chugs past the plot - which excites some people.

"Thomas the Tank Engine" regularly passes our plot, on its way to Bolton Abbey and this weekend, we had the "Harvest of Steam" days, much appreciated by the serious train watchers, so there are always lots of cameras trained across the fields! Sometimes, we do the real country yokel act and wave like mad, but quite often there is no response at all. Rude folk.

glallotments wrote:We have the occasional steam train chugs past the plot - which excites some people.

It would me.


Todays little trip out was to watch the air start of a twin Ruston diesel engine at the local preserved/standby pumping station...amazing things..induction draw is such that it flexes the pumping stations windows

..and this evening I have been giving my new Wilkinson Sword Power Fork a run....it has the diamond back tines of a Potato fork..and for a modern device is very usable. ..It has had a fair test...going was a bit firm...

Clive.

Ho Hum....

....Badgers

Dear Clive, do you mean you are having trouble with Badgers?

Yes,....

Over the weekend the Incredible Sweetcorn at work has been utterly trashed ...

Our bosses brother went down to collect some Corn for his supper and was met with a trail of trashed cobs along the middle path..and then the destroyed "plantation"
...many diggings all over the kitchen garden with Badger messages.

..and many diggings in the Tennis Court too...with evidence that Hawthorn berries go straight through a Badger....

We always knew that Badgers walk the gardens of a night...they constantly pull down the rabbit wire on the perimter fencing...but have stayed out of the kitchen garden until this weekend....hopefully it may be just the dry weather denying them of their regular lunch...but can't help thinking that they now know the location of some tasty stuff....although they'll not get anymore Sweetcorn for a bit.!!..unless they try the new Sainsburys in town

Clive.

Dear Clive, sorry to read about that, they do seem to like sweetcorn.

There has been a lot of Badger activity around the village in the last fortnight, resulting in two of them being knocked down just out of the village and a massive one being knocked down just along the road from me.

I should think they are findng it very difficult to find food in their normal places, so they are moving into peoples gardens.

It seems awfully dark out there this morning, and there's me chomping at the bit to get started.
Suppose i will have to get used to it until next Spring now.

Thought that might cheer a few of you up.

Chomp chomp!

Morning OH

It was very dark and it's not much better now it's "light".

Fear not; another three weeks and you'll be able to start an hour earlier and finish an hour earlier - after that it just gets darker

Wow, that's great Alan, now that's really depressing.

Meanwhile, Lincolnshire continues to be erroded away this morning...there has been some dust blowing about for weeks now....but this morning it is just wild.
We look out across the Fens to the Wash....and the dust storms can be seen for miles...

If you are looking for any topsoil...it's going North this time....

Clive.