Primrose, either sow late evening in the ground so they get 6 hours cool or sow in a seedtray, pop into a plastic bag after watering and put in the bottom of the fridge for a few hours! Once they've had the initial cool they should be OK.
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Well warm & beautiful day on lottie. I love it when it is hot enough to just hoe & leave instead of racking up the weeds for fear of them re-growing!
I had to work yesterday but in just one day away some of my lettuces, radishes and the last of my oriental veg have bolted. I'm sure my courgette & squashes have grown a 1/2 foot! Great harvest as well - it's a bit late but turning out OK!
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I had to work yesterday but in just one day away some of my lettuces, radishes and the last of my oriental veg have bolted. I'm sure my courgette & squashes have grown a 1/2 foot! Great harvest as well - it's a bit late but turning out OK!
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I'm aiming to get up the plot early in the morning as I have some soil prep to do and I'm trying out my new strimmer. So tidy edges tomorrow. And pick the first peas 
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Wateringcans at the ready..... 
We are in for some scorching weather!
We are in for some scorching weather!
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Toasted myself yesterday weeding, hoeing and preparing for planting out brassicas and leeks today.
Have to collect daughter from Chigwell at lunchtime, so a late start today. She's a young leader with a local Brownie pack and they're camping, well more like youth hosteling, tents aren't brick built last time I checked.
Have to collect daughter from Chigwell at lunchtime, so a late start today. She's a young leader with a local Brownie pack and they're camping, well more like youth hosteling, tents aren't brick built last time I checked.
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Glad I done the watering early this morning
Now where's the sun cream?
Now where's the sun cream?
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I have headed for shade, and a nice cool drink.
I don't know if anyone can remember me saying i was building a stable a couple of months ago, well there is good news, about two weeks after it was built a couple of swallows were flying in and out, and now there is a nest with five chicks in, everyone concerned are very happy.
I don't know if anyone can remember me saying i was building a stable a couple of months ago, well there is good news, about two weeks after it was built a couple of swallows were flying in and out, and now there is a nest with five chicks in, everyone concerned are very happy.
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Hit 30 degrees on lottie! Got down really early and gave everything a big drink before the hose queue started! But the greatest surprise was a little mouse in the bucket in the shed which I need you guys to tell me what it was. It was really tiny, much smaller than a house mouse, the body was only the size of my thumb nail, darkish in colour, a very long pointed nose. Wasn't distressed when I tipped it out of the bucket & seemed to dig around the grass a bit, in fact stayed there for ages at least ten minutes but it may have been disorientated!
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I'm thinking it was a shrew-let.
Full grown shrews can be as small as two inches.
Full grown shrews can be as small as two inches.
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I thought Shrew as well! Soo tiny though - living in my shed! I left the door open for ages hoping it would go back in - only time will tell!
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OH, a bit OTT to built a stable for swallows... any horses at all? We've got an open fronted barn where the other half keeps his mini-digger and every year it get looked at by swallows and then...nothing. We must have got something wrong on the des. res. for swallows front!
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Dear Motherwoman, the swallows are allowing one horse to share their new dwelling.
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That's very generous of them! Perhaps they don't like sharing with the chickens in our barn.
Just had to go on a chicken hunt as I was one down. Looking for piles of feathers drifting in the wind, but she turned up after ten minutes which probably means I've got to hunt for where she's laying later. I give them a nice laying box and even 2 large pots turned on their side in the barn for those of an independant nature but oh no it's not good enough for Hoppity hen...
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Just had to go on a chicken hunt as I was one down. Looking for piles of feathers drifting in the wind, but she turned up after ten minutes which probably means I've got to hunt for where she's laying later. I give them a nice laying box and even 2 large pots turned on their side in the barn for those of an independant nature but oh no it's not good enough for Hoppity hen...
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Not complaining. But have yet to see cabbage white butterflies on my cabbages.
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Afternoon Shallot Man, i said that to Old Codger yesterday, so you can guess what has appeared in clouds today, he is not amused.
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