Jemma's stupid question thread!

The local tip sounds good!!!

(ps; I'm allergic to bee stings.The worst result of the anaphylactic shock is a heart rate that goes through the roof)

 

Me too, and my in-laws planted their Cotoneaster right next to their garden path, so it grew over it and it got smothered with bees making it impassable .

 

Depends if we're talking past tense or present.

"He spellt it incorrectly in the test last week"

"It is spelled with a silent 'U','G' and 'H' at the end because the English language has lots of brilliant redundancies in it".

Personally I almost always use 'spelled' rather than 'spellt', as the latter seems almost archaic.

 

I'm afraid ''it is spelt cotonester'' is just the passive verb using the correct participle form; nothing at all to do with the past tense.

Certainly did: it's spelt, not spellt!

Archaic? Strange as ''spelt'' co-incides with how English people pronounce it and is the conventional standard past participle in British written English, although the American version has made in-roads. ''Spelled'' is often used in British paperpacks to save re-editing for the larger American market.

 

The error is because I'm rubbish at spelling without the aid of a spell checker. Perhaps this is another reason why spellllt is becoming archaic, but at least I know what the exclamation mark is for

 

See what I mean, it has now developed into a thread on spelling and grammar.

 

Question for today:
Clover in lawn to rid or not to rid that is the question?

 

Some years ago we decided to follow the advice on R4's Gardeners' Question Time to leave clover in the lawn as it added nitrogen to the soil so was a good thing. The effect seemed to be that the clover out-competed the grass so a couple of years ago we started raking out the clover so that the grass could recover. Our lawn is relatively small so not a big deal. If we had a bigger one I suspect we would have just left the clover.

 

Do you want a manicured bowling green style lawn, or a nice semi natural lawn?

There is no room for clover in the former. My personal preference, and it is a personal preference, is that a lawn should have daisies and clover in it. Better still if you have the right soil for birdsfoot trefoil to grow in it too but I've had no success with getting that to grow in mine.

 

I did read early that it is good for the grass! my lawn is massive and the kids play on it so have no intention of spending hours pulling clover!

Thank you !