Gardening diaries - friendly discussions (part 2)

Yesterday made some cucumber and chilli pickle, with some of my cucumbers and chillies.

You can have the recipe if you want.

 

@Logan Well done! I do hope to teach my son how to cook following a recipe and after that someone ELSE will cook for me.. What a sly plan I have. Need to buy a chopping board. I used to hate chopping board and sold one in a boot sale as I can't forget the horrible grime stuck in the wood grains, especially along the edges.. I would scrape the edges like mad so when I came here, I never used a chopping board - always a plate.. But having been the cookery lessons, I am warming to having a chopping board. Chopping board, wood or plastic? For or again?

 

@alp that's a great plan. He should learn to cook anyway. I have plastic chopping boards. 1 each for veg and fruit. Only because if i use chillies, even after washing can't get the chilli out. Got a wooden one for bread.
I've got 2 frying pans, again chillies won't come out after washing. I made some pancakes in the same pan and for the first 2 pancakes, could taist chilli.

 

I only have one blueberry plant (so only get a few ripe ones a day), last year (1st year of fruit) the blackbirds did there bit to eat them quicker than I could so i put a net round them...hurrah, I won!......only to be out smarted by Mrs Mouse!! So this year I have moved plant close to the house and netted it...so far pesky blackbirds have been thwarted, as for Mrs Mouse....no sign yet and blueberries are yummy

 

For sure, some big ones there
Good morning everybody
Went to the beach a couple of hours ago.....thick mist and v humid
No gardening today....busy elsewhere....but I have picked a lot of tasty garden goodies for my nephew. Peas are sooooo delicious right now
Decided not to post that childish smilie, viz., :rasp:

 

Good morning everyone, how are you this morning?

Lovely and sunny start to the day here, lots of deadheading to do at some point later.

First I have a dental checkup ......fingers crossed nothing to have done.......but you never know what dentists can hunt out when they are on a mission!!
:surprise:
Not too sure about that above smilie..........but it's a toothless one

Have a Toothy Thursday all

 

Morning all dry here fingers crossed lawns need cutting. Shiney
my Thalictrum Rochebrunianum is over 8 ft this year must be with this constant rain

 

Soon we need to have another kitchen just for chopping boards, another one for washing machine, according to Kirsty Allsop ..and another one for cooking in .. Don't you just want to be born into aristocracy or simply money! The claptrap we have to endure from these people who live in a parallel universe..

@shiney Amazing thalicrums. The boys here are getting a bit "naughty"! They think they are in the pub early in the morning.. talking double dutch and blowing r... already ..

@Loopylupin Your message is so funny .. the critters we have to deal with in gardening.. rabbits, squirrels, mouse, birds, mosquitoes (last year, I had several itches which lasted for more than half a year. In the end, I had to scrape off some of the death skin or wart?) But HURRAH, you've won this time. One to @Loopylupin and Nil to birds and rodents.

@Upsydaisy My son laughed when he saw your emoji. I don't want to go to the dentist as he didn't even provide liquid for me to rinse my mouth and I've started to worry that the place is dirty .. Hope everything is OK with you!

 

Oh, good morning, @zenj Er, please don't laugh ..What is that flower in your avatar.. please?

Another boy boasting about being BIG!

Thalicrum Rochebrunianum is so pretty ..

 

Hi alp
Schizostylis coccinea Mrs Hegarty [Heperantha

 

@Loopylupin it's better to have 2 blueberry plants to cross pollinate.

 

This morning had a appointment at the orthopedic clinic. My knee has been signed off.
It feels a bit stiff, but he said it won't be like the other one and i might get arthritis. But who knows,it won't stop me from doing things.
Tomorrow it's the phisio, so hopefully it will be the same.

 

Great that your doc signed you off. You must have missed walking your dog, @Logan !

@zenj Thank you for the name. I think someone offered to swap hers with my purple helleborus.. The name makes me laugh - sounds very pathological.., but what a beauty .. Must look out for them when I visit gardens to see how tall and what colours they have..