Weeding's Outbox

yeeharr. : ) x

could it be foxes? that's a very distinctive smell... is the area overgrown, or perhaps a neighbour's garden overgrown just beyond it?

Hi Hywel, we have one just like this. I've never owned one before and am a little nervous about killing it (speshully as it's really my son's not mine). Are there any absolute don'ts, do you think?
On a different matter entirely, who knitted your excellent waistcoat? I like it.

oh dear, still struggling.
I pressed purple button thing, but it still wants me to do a massive search within AZ (?!) and the only centre listed under letter O is Old English Sheepdogs. Help! Why so complicated?!

Not giving up now though, red rag to a bull this is.....

i did that but still seem to have a choice of over 20 different things to vote for including turtles or whatever. Did i miss something?

Hello Pamazon, friend of feathers,

I've found the site, I think, but there is a list of centres - am I right in thinking it's the erm, 22nd on the list of AZ options?

yes, interesting this - there was exactly this q on Gardeners Question Time on t'radio this week. Clear answer was just try both!

Hm, I don't want to discourage you, but as you say it is very late in the year. Maybe you can keep it in a sunny spot indoors to care for it and pamper it a bit? I don't really think it will fully ripen though. The problem by this time of the year is the rapid decline in light hours per day. Plants probably know aswell when the game's up!
Try starting some a bit earlier next year?

Hello LG,
Did you want this plant identified? If so, please can you post a sharper photo, or more of a close-up of the berries. Not sure what your exact question is, but perhaps I've missed something.

well, i never knew my ma was that posh, Bamboo.

I can only apologise playmates - don't know if it's me or me 'puter causing the hiccup, but the 84 ricketty children in the cellar clamouring for gruel aren't helping the matter.

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all very interestin - like the new (to me only you may well say MG) word stuchie, does it sort of mean hoo-hah/argy-barge?
I'm off now to garden a little before the inevitable downpour. Lot of chopping down or back to do, so I'd better get started, just need to put an extra layer on and maybe down a lettuce-and-sugar sarnie first. Now let's see, where did I put those lovely luminous fibreglass socks?

chocolate? what was that? we had nobbut bread n drippin and that was on a good day....

Brilliant job Ian, Carol and co!
Well done on your hard work and a good helpful blog - it'll all pay off I'm sure. Now I must stop browsing and messing around on here and go and play in my real garden, tee hee. Looking like rain outside though (sigh).
Your hebe cuttings are still alive I think. I've resisted the urge so far to dig in the earth and see if any roots are developing...

Belated wishes to Henry. How old is he now? looking very much like a spring chicken!

Hee hee, i was lucky i was, born in the sixties. Obviously i should be counting my blessings - actually we were living in a cardboard box on the M1 (bad joke and Monty Python quote, forgive me).
Every generation has its trials, so I don't think any of us can claim more than our share.
Daylight saving shenanigans - yes, a pure waste of time, but it gives us something to blog about, retired or not!
I think the only real answer for anyone hating the dark is to move a little further south. Maybe the beautiful scenery way up in the greater-contrast-of-daylength north makes up for some of the winter gloom?
Personally i struggled just as much with overlong summer days when i lived in Aberdeen/Kiel (Schleswig-Holstein) There comes a time of the evening when it just OUGHT to be dark. And the same thing with mornings that arrive too early. Ugh.

We've not even opened the can of worms which is remembering to put the dratted clocks back or forward. Don't get me started on that one. lol

erm, yes I'm sure it's much wiser not to drag the Pope, Dalai Lama or anyone else into this, Heron! They'd be the first to share their packed lunch with the hungry.
Also as far as we know the Pope has had what you call " a responsible number of children "! Can't speak for the Dalai Lama - lol.

great photo Bill

I agree with the general gist of anti-GM further development, ie the first bunch of comments on this thread. I think it's completely immoral to patent developed seeds and "own" them - which means poorer farmers cannot afford them, or harvest seed for following years.
Yes, we do have stringless beans etc, and yes to some extent the genie was out of the bottle long ago and there's no stopping it. However, not all synthetically developed crops taste better. For example, normal thorny blackberries from the hedge still taste way better.
It IS definitely down to human greed in the end. I believe there is actually enough food out there for us all, but we are doing a rubbish job of sharing it, so we are also too greedy! Arable farming per person takes up less room than livestock for instance. I don't have to become a vegetarian, but if I eat less meat it benefits everyone.
What's a tangelo then? That one must have passed me by. Is it related to a pedalo?

r u moving abroad?

argh! ok, only 5 to go then, but I'm not sure i'll make it thru...
pls someone PM me nearer the time, er, that will be last week in November.

thanks for your help and advice : )

yummerama.

i would say this is a penstemon. It's a beautiful red.

ooh i like this one clarice. x

very pretty these two-toned ones.

I think it probably is, Sue. I tend to avoid non-hardy ones as I'm not yet retired! Hywel (Blodyn) might know more about the particular variety though. He's a fuchsia fanatic.

look brilliant, love the crinkly edge, nice touch.

well that's interesting. it isn't the photo i was expecting at all, tho it is a crocosmia i believe. watch this space then...

very interesting, fool, that you can make a confident guess at the type of the wood from this photo - wow!