Idle chat
Last post 21-11-2009 11:19 PM by richardpeeej. 4419 replies.
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01/07/2009 10:51 AM
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- miranda
- Oxfordshire
- 17 Nov 2004
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I like the new avatar, digger  It's already very hot here. Last night all the vegetables at dinner were home grown, for the first time this year, and we really enjoyed it. I did courgettes and broadbeans with smoked bacon in a tomato sauce (with our own onions and garlic - the tomato was the last jar left from last year), flavoured with bay, thyme and oregano. We had it with Anya potatoes. It was wonderful. There is a very special anticipation that goes with the first meal of the season that you have with all home grown vegetables.
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01/07/2009 12:09 PM
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- sue1002
- Ipswich, Suffolk
- 06 Sep 2005
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That sounds gorgeous Miranda and so satisfying knowing all the veggies were home grown. It's got pretty hot here too but we have a nice gentle breeze with it. After all the rain we had a couple of weeks back and the heat, the garden has really sprung into life, these are the pics I took this morning and there's quite a few(!!) of them http://s34.photobucket.com/albums/d134/Sue1002/Garden%20July%202009/
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01/07/2009 03:50 PM
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- Susiq
- Northumberland
- 16 Feb 2008
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Digger - your new ativar makes Sally look scary, and I'm sure she is a princess really! Hope you had a nice time out today.
Fantastic pics Sue1002, I'm SO pleased that Peter's Honey has new shoots growing for you I'm still not convinced about fig trees here yet - I've had mine for 7 years now, had loads of fruit but its never been edible, so don't worry if the fruit has shrivelled! The way the weather has been going for you guys down south, I'm sure you will get fruit in abundance sometime soon! Your lemon grass is way ahead of mine - BUT I have to show off here - loads of your dahlias are now in flower!!! Pics to follow - again we are in severe doldrums weather-wise - mega thunderstorm this afternoon - just as I was about to go out to weed etc., My daughter did have a good journey back thanx! Took Percy to puppy socialisation class last night - for once he was not the bolchy (sorry miss-spelling) one - in fact I think he felt quite intimidated!
Don't think we suffer with grass snakes here Miranda - hope I'm not tempting fate! - but all our little toadlets are on the rampage after escaping into adulthood from the pond - its like the ground and grass are actually moving with loads of spiders - but they are all perfectly formed little toads!
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01/07/2009 04:24 PM
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- miranda
- Oxfordshire
- 17 Nov 2004
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Your plants look really good, Sue. Interesting to see the ones where you've had seed from me - looks like your chillies, Oca and the Bidens are about the same as mine, though your Achimenes has more flowers than mine and your sweet corn is further on - ours hasn't put any flowers up yet. I noticed that a tomato has just perceptibly started to change colour here so hopefully we'll be having some soon. I've been growing lemon grass from rooted stems and they're doing well.
We don't suffer with grass snakes, Susiq, we delight in them They're amazing creatures. I'm hoping they'll keep the rodent population down and, fortunately, I think there are enough frogs and toads about that we won't run out of them.Baby toads are beautiful, so tiny and perfect. Their legs are so thin they're like bits of thread. I bet little Percy got a surprise when he met all those other dogs. Hopefully, it'll do him good to realise that there are plenty more out there and it isn't all between him and Portia.
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01/07/2009 05:08 PM
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- Digger
- Northern UK
- 18 Jul 2005
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Yes you've loads and loads of stuff on the grow sue1002, many much more than i'm gowing. although a lot of my veg is times for august some is for eating, but you've got tons of flowers that are really pretty, my gardens looking a little bare in places at the moment.
digger 
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01/07/2009 06:25 PM
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- Phot's-Moll
- The sunny South coast.
- 06 Jan 2007
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Digger, I thought the picture was of a bear! Now you've explained I can see I was wrong. Lovely pictures, Sue. You've got some great plants. All my stuff is doing well, I've got tomatoes, french beans, mangetout peas and courgettes all temptingly close to being ready. Great time of year, isn't it?
Whether you think you can do a thing, or think you cannot, you are right.
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01/07/2009 06:43 PM
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- sue1002
- Ipswich, Suffolk
- 06 Sep 2005
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Thanks everyone for the kind comments. I'd love to see the pics of the Dahlias once your weather improves enough for you to get out and take them Susiq. It's also good to hear that your daughter got back home safely. I bet it won't take long for Percy to make some good friends. That's good news on your tomatoes about to change colour Miranda, our first ones are usually ready for picking towards the end of July. I'm pretty sure the sweetcorn that you sent me hadn't got any sign of the flower spikes yesterday when I looked but then I wasn't with it much then. Sally sounds so soft digger, I couldn't imagine her showing her teeth even if she wanted to. I've got a few bare patches in the garden (deliberately omitted from the photos). The parts mainly affected are where the 'Doubloon' marigolds and Cleomes were planted, only one of the marigolds has survived being eaten by slugs/snails the the beggars have eaten every one of the Cleomes including the ones I put in pots. I agree with you Phot's, this time of year there are so many things either ready for picking or very close to it that it's going to be hard deciding which ones to eat first, especially when there's lots ready at the same time.
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01/07/2009 07:43 PM
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Hi everyone - I saw in a magazine what I thought was a good idea for anyone, like myself with a smallish garden.
I had some rainwater troughing spare, attached it to the side of my shed and planted marigolds in it. I suppose any smallish plants could be used.
The marigolds have not flowered yet but are looking OK here is a photograph if anyone is interested:-
http://s713.photobucket.com/albums/ww132/richardpeeej/garden/?action=view¤t=trough.jpg
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01/07/2009 08:01 PM
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- Anemone
- County Down, Northern Ireland
- 08 Feb 2008
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Hi folks. Hasn't everyone been busy! I've not been on in a bit - been busy in the evenings and work have now banned all forums so I can't post from there at all. I'll read back in a bit but wanted to say hello for now. We're eating potatoes, broad beans, mangetout, turnips, lettuce, courgette and the first tomatoes are ripe today. Peter Pepper is very impressive with lots of chillis but none of them seem to be the distinctive shape I was expecting! I'll take a few pics and post them when I'm next on. I have an infestation of greenfly - especially on the chillis and sweet peppers - so ordered some ladybird larvae from Amazon which should be here very soon. Hopefully be back soon. Take care!
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01/07/2009 08:24 PM
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- sue1002
- Ipswich, Suffolk
- 06 Sep 2005
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That's very good use of the troughing Richard, it's amazing how many things laying about/left over can be used around the garden. It's good to see you back Anemone, has work banned people from using forums because they're spending too much time on them instead of working? My largest PP had one flower which dropped off last week but there is another one about to open, none of the other chillies look like they're anywhere near flowering yet.
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01/07/2009 09:59 PM
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- Digger
- Northern UK
- 18 Jul 2005
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Hi all, Yes this time of year is fantastic for eating fresh vegetables, I've been back to the stables with OH and this time I walked all the way!!!!!! I feel the pain though but at least i did it and without Sally. Anemone that's a blow about your employers being so mean and nasty, your place must be run by a really grumpy old so and so! Yes that's a good idea from Richard with the troughing indeed. OH's van is in for a repair something called a driveshaft needs a new one, mahmood the mechanic rang us today because the van was making a knocking sound, he told me it was an old worn out shaft so it will be fixed for tomorrow. Our young cheeky son is going to big high school college tomorrow for a day to see what it's like, then in the evening the parents go to see, it's a new big college and they have loads of facilities for the children with special needs, like sensory rooms and plenty of teachers for them.
digger
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01/07/2009 10:43 PM
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- sue1002
- Ipswich, Suffolk
- 06 Sep 2005
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Well done digger for walking all the way to the stables, how far is it? The van should be ok once it's been fixed. I'm now on the lookout for another car as we sold mine last weekend, we thought it best to get shot of it before anything else went wrong with it. I hope your son likes his day at the high school tomorrow, it doesn't seem long since my son started high school and he's almost finished his first year there.
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01/07/2009 10:57 PM
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- Digger
- Northern UK
- 18 Jul 2005
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Hi sue1002, I'm not sure how far it is to the stables OH said it's less than quarter of a mile it took us about forty minutes to get there and a bit longer to get back because it's uphill. I hope you find a good car there are a lot around to choose from at the moment. I'm not sure how our son will take to big school we'll just have to see how he likes it.
digger
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02/07/2009 01:17 AM
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Phew!Just switched the fan on, its 1.15am and I can't sleep as it is far too hot, so came downstairs and having a scan through the forums(or is it fora!). I see that Digger was the last to post here, Hi Digger, and everyone else. Talking about school, I remember my school days back in the 1960's, in south wales, we used to have a 'tuck shop' and me and a few pals used to scive off up the mountain some afternoons with cake and pop.
One day the teacher came up with a group of pupils on a field trip and saw us! we had to explain ourselves in school the following day and we all had the cane - we didn't do that again. Apart from that I enjoyed my schooldays and looking back they flashed by, -- but not at the time. Anyway that's enough of my idle chat for now about the good old days, I expect I'll be tired tomorrow morning with no energy to chase after the blackfly and greenfly in my garden. Goodnight all.
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