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Last post 24-05-2013 12:06 PM by Valerian. 6921 replies.

• 30/05/2012 02:46 PM

  lillyrose Location: kent Joined on: 02 Mar 2010 Posts: 2,973

  Reply | Contact  Hi everyone, another very sunny hot day here, sorry Susiq. Can you and Sue do me a favour please Susiq, STOP TALKING ABOUT ICECREAM, thank you. The rhubarb crumble one made my mouth water. I am so glad Portia is on the mend. You have been mega busy Richard. Pics of your garden please, I planted out my runners this morning and the blue peas and this aft I have been weeding. Just come in for a cold drink and a cool down. Lol Richard, Cheryl is like me, I have got a triple wardrobe and a single wardrobe and OH has got one single. Must be a woman thing. Hope Cheryl's foot is ok today, did she get bitten

• 30/05/2012 02:57 PM	In reply to
  lillyrose Location: kent Joined on: 02 Mar 2010 Posts: 2,973	Reply | Contact   Looking for frogs that live amongst the plants and pots

• 30/05/2012 03:30 PM

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  Susiq Location: Northumberland Joined on: 16 Feb 2008 Posts: 3,125

  Reply | Contact Great shot Lillyrose Moo reminds me very much of Percy in the 'noseyness' stakes! However, if anything jumped out, Percy the woose would run a mile - whereas I'm sure Moo wouldn't be taken aback at all - Portia would sadly go in for the kill! Not with toads though, as she's clever enough to know they are poisonous. Glad you've still got the sunshine, its truly miserable up here, but I have managed to get tons of weeding done at last! The porous tubing has just arrived, so I need to get OH on the case of getting it all laid, so that finally, I can get my leeks and onions in situ

• 30/05/2012 05:46 PM

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  lillyrose Location: kent Joined on: 02 Mar 2010 Posts: 2,973

  Reply | Contact  It is still sunny and very warm here Susiq. I had to smile at poor Percy the woose, bless, unfortunately Moo often catches the frogs and brings them indoors for me. So far she has never hurt one, just hope it stays that way. Trouble is she seems to know where they hide and often roots around in the plants till one jumps out. Glad your tubing has arrived, at least your weather has cooled down so it won't be so uncomfortable getting it laid. Couple of questions, has anyone grown cucumbers outdoors, I usually grow them in the GH but the ones I have grown this year are suitable for outside too and I am wondering whether to give that a go. Also, do you think my leeks will grow ok if I plant them in the raised bed that I have just planted the runner beans in.......

• 30/05/2012 06:38 PM

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  Susiq Location: Northumberland Joined on: 16 Feb 2008 Posts: 3,125

  Reply | Contact I personally would never grow cu's outdoors Lillyrose, but that is ONLY because we are heaps much colder than you up here, so they probably wouldn't survive, but where you live, I'm sure they'll be fine - as long as there's no snow in July! Re the leeks, I'm sure they will be fantastic in your raised bed, as long as you give 'em enough space between your runners. Well my fish is shouting at mefrom the oven, catch you all laters...........................

• 30/05/2012 06:58 PM

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  sue1002 Location: Ipswich, Suffolk Joined on: 06 Sep 2005 Posts: 9,475

  Reply | Contact  Hi all, that's my working week half over, it was lovely driving home in the sunshine. Sorry lillyrose, didn't mean to make you salivate with the ice cream recipes, methinks you might be soon joining us in getting an ice cream maker  With my one that I got from Lidls (I don't know about the other makes), the bowl has to be frozen for 24 hours, and once the mixture has been in the fridge for 4 hours, it only takes about half an hour in the machine itself for a nice cold treat Lovely pic of Maisie looking for those frogs. I've never grown outdoor cucumbers before but I have tried with greenhouse ones and they didn't do very well.  I read that cucumbers like a moist atmosphere where tomatoes like it dry which is probably why mine didn't do any good.  Whether the outdoor ones like the moist air or not I don't know. Hope your OH can get on ok laying that tubing Susiq so you can get on with your planting I think the wardrobe thing must be common the whole country over  My wardrobe is one of those units with two double wardrobes with small drawers and an upper cupboard in the middle, and OH has a single wardrobe with a couple of drawers at the bottom and a chest of drawers. Right, better go and water the pots and baskets and build up my muscles carrying those cans sue1002

• 30/05/2012 07:32 PM	In reply to
  lillyrose Location: kent Joined on: 02 Mar 2010 Posts: 2,973	Reply | Contact  Grrrrrrrr don't talk to me about lugging watering cans

• 30/05/2012 07:43 PM	In reply to
  sue1002 Location: Ipswich, Suffolk Joined on: 06 Sep 2005 Posts: 9,475	Reply | Contact  It'll build up your muscles lillyrose Yay, I've been saved - I got half way through the watering before it came over all black with rumbles in the distance.  I decided to stop the watering and got indoors just in time for the heavens to open and now the whole back garden is getting a good watering as the storm is passing over sue1002

• 30/05/2012 07:58 PM	In reply to
  Susiq Location: Northumberland Joined on: 16 Feb 2008 Posts: 3,125	Reply | Contact At least I haven't had that problem - its been p'ing down most of the day

• 30/05/2012 08:43 PM

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  lillyrose Location: kent Joined on: 02 Mar 2010 Posts: 2,973

  Reply | Contact  Wish it would rain here lol. I have just finished the last of the watering and I'm flippin knackered.  Thanx girls re my questions, think I will chance it and grow the cues outside this year and I will plant half the leeks in with the beans and the other half in other beds, that way if they don't like being with the beans I will have a back up. While I was watering the veggie garden I noticed a couple of teeny toms on one of my plants in the ground and half a dozen or so flowers on the pea plants. Right, time for a cuppa I think, might sit outside and drink it too.  Come to think of it Sue, it feels very muggy here so maybe we will get a storm too

• 30/05/2012 09:21 PM	In reply to
  sue1002 Location: Ipswich, Suffolk Joined on: 06 Sep 2005 Posts: 9,475	Reply | Contact  I've told the rain to come down your way lillyrose  The storm only amounted to a few loud rumbles and it completely chucked it down for around 20 minutes.  The water butt went from being almost empty to two-thirds full in that time so that will give me something to water the blueberries with sue1002

• 31/05/2012 08:33 AM	In reply to
  sue1002 Location: Ipswich, Suffolk Joined on: 06 Sep 2005 Posts: 9,475	Reply | Contact  Morning all, it's nice and sunny and very fresh feeling out there today, the rain last night has perked the lawn up as it had started to look a bit dried out. Have a good day everyone and will catch up again after work. sue1002

• 31/05/2012 09:01 AM	In reply to
  lillyrose Location: kent Joined on: 02 Mar 2010 Posts: 2,973	Reply | Contact  Morning all. Didn't get any rain Sue. It is cloudy here at the moment but the sun is trying to break through. Have a good day all and don't put your back out today Susiq laying the hose

• 31/05/2012 10:39 AM	In reply to
  Susiq Location: Northumberland Joined on: 16 Feb 2008 Posts: 3,125	Reply | Contact Hi everyone, Well girls you are certainly welcome to what we've got - it's been torrential all night long and is still belting down Percy has got the floors black - AGAIN I've got one final rotivation of the soil to do before OH lays the piping down, then we are set to go!

• 31/05/2012 12:44 PM

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  richardpeeej Location: Leicestershire Joined on: 22 May 2009 Posts: 3,498

  Reply | Contact  Morning all...a bit cooler and cloudier here today. Lovely pic of Moo lillyrose she is into everything isn't she.. You would be proud of Nicola getting these bargains from Sainsbury's lillyrose .... she bought four packets of 6 crumpets for 9p a packet, three of them are in the freezer now.We had some for breakfast. I love a bit of crumpet   We had  some rain last night too Susiq mixed in with some thunder. It didn't last long though so I didn't get wet when I went  down the local. We are all going out tonight for a meal at the local college where the catering students wait on you hand and foot. We have been there a few times before  and you get a lovely meal for a reasonable price. Glad your water butt is filling up Sue so you can water your blueberries. I am making some chicken and vegetable soup  for lunch Sue  so at the moment I am making the chicken stock. I have already diced the vegetables. Hope you have a good day in work. Slacking on the sarnie report again I see ha ha ...tut tut -Richard