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Re: Gardening
« Reply #225 on: December 07, 2017, 12:39:33 PM »
First snowdrop ....  :D

Spring is around the corner  ...  hopefully      :cartwheel:

Don't look like the ones you showed me Jo.  :headscratch:  Foliage is quite different. I reckon father has made off with them ...  :lolb:

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« Reply #226 on: December 07, 2017, 07:11:07 PM »
I sure hope that spring is just around the corner, because, Monday it was 73F and today it’s 39F with nighttime lows in the teens. Did I ever tell y’all how much that I hate winter  :lolb:

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« Reply #227 on: December 07, 2017, 09:13:04 PM »
I sure hope that spring is just around the corner, because, Monday it was 73F and today it’s 39F with nighttime lows in the teens. Did I ever tell y’all how much that I hate winter  :lolb:

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« Reply #228 on: December 08, 2017, 06:00:35 AM »
R is just about to start pulling her hair out, water restrictions hit this week, had a wet year until November. Temperatures not that hi....25 26 err C but the humidity is up there, problem is we get wInd with the sun. The garden is looking good, the lawn well it still mostly green, just! Hopefully we can keep the garden growing.

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« Reply #229 on: December 08, 2017, 07:33:47 AM »
But the popcorn, Kerrin, what about the popcorn?

 :popcorn: :popcorn:

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« Reply #230 on: December 08, 2017, 08:24:12 AM »
Hi Pete,
 Seems to be thriving! I’ll keep a close eye on it!

Cheers Kerrin
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« Reply #231 on: December 08, 2017, 05:05:07 PM »
Don't look like the ones you showed me Jo.  :headscratch:  Foliage is quite different. I reckon father has made off with them ...  :lolb:

 8) I found more of those big-uns around the garden. I will have to stop strimming the grass as there are lots of bulbs in there  ::) You are right he might have pinched the older snowdrops  :ShakeHead:

Thanks for the Xmas card Dave  :)

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« Reply #232 on: December 26, 2017, 01:02:41 PM »
First Snowdrops, now Crocus in bloom in December :headscratch:

This global warming is getting very odd... I even saw a couple of daffs thinking about coming out  ::)

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« Reply #233 on: December 26, 2017, 01:07:48 PM »
First Snowdrops, now Crocus in bloom in December :headscratch:

This global warming is getting very odd... I even saw a couple of daffs thinking about coming out  ::)

Jo
Can you send some of that warming over this way? It's 7 (F) this morning, going to be even colder the rest of the week. About 6" of snow too...  :(

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« Reply #234 on: December 27, 2017, 08:03:08 AM »
Can you send some of that warming over this way? It's 7 (F) this morning, going to be even colder the rest of the week. About 6" of snow too...  :(

I gave it a go... actually I might have got it wrong as we seem to have some of your snow over here  :facepalm:

Hopefully it will stop soon  :paranoia:

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Re: Gardening
« Reply #235 on: December 27, 2017, 08:19:23 AM »
Aaaaaaaargh ....  !!!!!                 'Orrible wet snow .....     :rant:

Just rain here.   Temp. is 2.2oC

Radiator fondling day I think.

Got a bit of glossing to finish off in the shop but it can wait. Won't dry anyway   :headscratch:

Dave

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« Reply #236 on: December 27, 2017, 08:32:11 AM »
Talked to youngest son on his Christmas day......taking wind chill in Calgary & here..... 55 degrees C difference !! :insane:

Had to have a  :DrinkPint: when I got home from W..K to help get over that!

Wife is currently doing battle with an Aussie import who has decided to visit the lettuce patch, he seems to like trimming the them with square tops!! The guy across the road dropped over a trap, if the grand monsters hadn't been here for an early Xmas the little blighter would be buried already!! So made do with netting which is keeping him a bay for the time being!!

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Re: Gardening
« Reply #237 on: February 22, 2018, 07:19:29 PM »
Nippy here ..  :(  Already down to 2.3oC in the greenhouse.

Rescued my onion seedlings  :ThumbsUp:  The big variety is on the left.  Still germinating slowly, most up now though.

Dave


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« Reply #238 on: April 22, 2018, 02:25:22 PM »
Huions are all in, potatoes are appearing all over and we have beetroot sign  :cartwheel:


Greenhouse has those first four toms in (Thank you Dave  :-*  ). The other Toms are a long way behind but at least I have managed to acquire the necessary grow bags for them. And there are lots of  seedlings busy growing for when they are big and strong enough to come out :whoohoo:


The courgettes are coming along and have taken over the conservatory  :naughty: And Surus is looking after that lovely bunch of flowers I was given  :-X

Don't you love this time of year in the garden 8)

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« Reply #239 on: April 22, 2018, 06:35:55 PM »
Err  .. Are those tomatoes under the staging ????  :headscratch:

What happens when they start growing??

Doing well there Jo. Nothing much going on here. All happens in about 2 weeks. Hopefully ...  :thinking:

Been doing the part of the garden where the Roosters were last year. Tiller fetched up two huge spuds ... dunno how I missed them ...  :old:
Chopped up by the cultivator otherwise I could have scoffed them.  :facepalm2:

Did have some Alpine Pinks delivered from Whetmans. Nice healthy little rooted cuttings.
At my first house I had a lot. Always liked them ...  :D

Dave

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