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  1. shiney

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    Good morning woo, Kandy and everyone,

    woo,
    I hope you enjoyed your walk with your friends. :gnthb:

    Kandy,
    Welcome back :thumb:.
    I hope you feel very relaxed after your break. Our garden is also desparately in need of rain. I have been using the sprinkler on the flower beds as well as the veggies - something that I try never to do. We can't afford to lose the hundreds of new plants that we have put in over the last couple of years. The time and effort that has gone in to propagating them has been tremendous.

    Our beans are now cropping heavily but have the worst infestation of blackfly that I have ever seen - a lot of the stems are completely black with them and the leaves are curling :mad:. I have even resorted to using a pyrethrum spray which seems to have done nothing to get rid of them.

    On the up side - Mrs shiney hosted the summer buffet of one of the groups she belongs to and it went very well :thmb:. The good weather meant that they could use the garden for it. I've been doing pretty well with my bridge games and matches lately so I'm feeling rather smug at the moment :hehe:.

    Oscar is still sleeping 90% of the day and being Mrs shiney's shadow the rest of the time. k-l

    Have a great day :D
     
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    :gnthb: Good Morning everyone, sounds like we are all well, but busy in one way or another..!! Yes Kandy we really could do with some more rain although I hate to say it now as it is school holidays & my grand kids don't want rain..!!!! :D We shall see.... Even the ponds around here in the fields & our 2 big ones up at the farm have suddenly got very low water levels so that just shows how dry it is I think around here now... Not been that low in actual fact for a couple of years now...!!!! s00k

    Ho hum... Have a great day everyone whatever you are doing..! :yho:
     
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    Good morning all my friends,(1.54am)its the night Owl here I:hehe: couldn't sleep ,what with the Temperature being very warm,and the Foxes Barking outside my window,plus feel a bit excited about a new day just beginning,just going out to the garden with ,Gypsy,Tiny, Penny,anyway everyone have a great Friday and please stay safe:)
     
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    Good morning everyone,

    woo, I hope you and your four legged friends enjoyed the morning walk. :thumb:

    Our village have had one of the driest Junes on record with most of that month's rain falling on the first of June. I think July may also be close to breaking the record.

    For the last week we have been cutting down the aquilegias. This is a long job as there are thousands of them. So far we have filled four wheelie bins, eight x 75 litre compost bags (all packed down as hard as we can and to be recycled by the council) and the bonfire heap is 5ft high with them. It's a bit tough on the back but I'm taking it steadily. I reckon another four barrow loads will do it. I have to wear a hat when doing it because the seeds fly everywhere and are extremely difficult to wash out of your hair.

    I have a number of meetings today that will keep me busy but I hope to finish most of the aquilegias. :thmb:

    Have a great day :D
     
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    Kandy Will be glad to see the sun again soon.....

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    Morning Woo Shiney and everyone,

    Woo,I was fast asleep when you were typing your email,but hope you enjoyed your time out in the garden although for me it would have been too creepy with those foxes barking:DEnjoy your day:luv:

    Shiney,I am glad you have put up the info about the aqueiligas {sp}as I am trying to sort mine out but can't remember if you have to pull up the whole lot or just get rid of the seed heads.Any info would be a great help,thanks:thmb:

    Does anyone know how much it costs to send a text message to France as our friends have gone away and despite telling them to write down instructions they have decided to text me the info so now i am having to text back and hope it isn't costing me an arm and a leg as I am on pay as you go and not contract.:(

    Mr Kandy had his Visa statement through yesterday and someone has cloned{we think}our card and we keep getting billed for items ordered from an American toy store so he has to go through the rigmarole of ringing the card company up for the second time this year to complain so will have to fill out dispute forms again:mad:Hope you all carefully check your statements as it was me that spotted it this time and not Mr Kandy:p

    Oh by hte way Shiney,what size are your blight resisitent tomatoes as ours are huge and we are just waitng for them to ripen.I have taken photos so will have to put them up on here to show you all:)

    Marley,people keep telling us that it usually rains when the kids are off school but we do desperatly need the rain because even the large sycamore trees have brown blotches on them over near our allotments and some of the hedgerow trees have brown crisp leaves which isn't a good sign.

    Anyway,I am off to use up some of my water butt water as it is starting to look like the leaning tower of Pisa{sp}and I don't want it crashing onto my garden plants.:p

    Enjoy the sun everyone,and Shiney I won't comment on the seed growing out of your head:hehe:
     
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    Kandy,

    Our blight resistant toms are cherry ones. Aquilegia flowering stems can be cut right down close to ground level. You can leave them higher if you want but the stems get very hard and woody and you can accidentally hurt yourself on them. They will die back anyway and need to be removed in the autumn/winter. If left till then they will be very easy to just snap off. You can keep the leaves on the plant until they die back if you don't want to see clear soil underneath. Very occasionally you might be lucky enough to get a few, short stemmed, new flowers on the plant if you don't cut the leaves back.
     
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    Hi Shiney,

    Thanks for that info about the plants.I couldn't remember if you have to pull up the whole plant as they have already seeded all over the place,my memory is getting quiet rubbish at times:pOur toms are Ferline and Legend but I don't know which is which as some kind person mixed them up:hehe: but one of them looks like it might be a beefsteak type.I am just hoping and praying that we don't lose them this year but I think we should be ok as there isn't much moisture in the air,or there wasn't until the house walls of the new builds next door were dry before they started washing them with one of those powers washer thingys and that is with a drought{sp} on:(
     
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    Good morning everyone,

    Its going to be a beautiful day here, sunny and around 83*.
     
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    Good morning all my friends hope that you are all OK and full of the zest ,Its Saturday the last day of July,tomorrow it will be August,hasn't it gone quickly.
    Its been a great month weather and everything else wise,enjoy your weekend and please stay safe:)
     
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    Good morning everyone,

    We actually had 10 minutes of drizzle this morning :thumb:. Our village had .76 inches of rain in June and the day that they had three quarters of that amount the rain missed us completely. Whilst I'm typing this it has started to rain lightly, but steadily, and the birds are dancing on the lawn :yho:

    It's another students weekend so I have got to start planning the food :). I think that today I shall do a veggie curry with rice and popadoms.

    Kandy, the aquilegia are perennials so you don't pull them up :thmb:. You can transplant them to another place in the autumn if you wish as they take very easily to being moved.

    The rhubarb has been getting watered, when I put the sprinkler on the runner beans and courgettes, and it is growing like mad. The crop is as good as it was in the spring :gnthb: - so more sales for our charity :).

    Have a great day :D
     
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    Good morning Woo Shiney and everyone,

    Shiney I reckon you don't get much rain down your end because you get some of that heat that comes off of the buildings in London and the heatwave produced flows out to your home and garden:flag::hehe:

    I have so many Aquilegias that pulling a few of them up won't go amiss and I already see seedlings coming up so will just pull up the plants I don't want and compost them:D

    When we were away last week I spotted a ground covering plant outside the toilet block of the site we stayed on and the fruits looks just like raspberries.Well by the end of the time there I found two of the fruits that had fallen onto the soil and decided to give them a new home as we had no idea what they actually were.Anyway,last night on Gardeners World Alice was planting up some plants and called them Nepalise{sp} Raspberries {Rubus nepalensis} so now I know what they are I am going to see if I can grow them from seed for the garden and the birds,but on Google it says the fruit tastes sour so probably won't eat them:p

    Shiney,we have let our rhubarb have a rest now ready for when we start splitting it hopefully soon.I dug up our first Pink Fir Apple spuds in the week and also some International Kidney,and Charlotte.I do so love this time of the year:D

    Enjoy your students.We have it wet here after all the rain we had last night so hoping that the blackfly has been washed off of my runner beans,fingers crossed.:p

    Hope you all have a great day:)
     
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    Good morning all my friends its Sunday the 1rst of August,and I hope that you are all OK and well,:)

    Flower,s in a bunch for the first day of the month:hehe:
    Just thought I would make a new one up :) anyway have a lovely Sunday and please stay safe:)

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    Good morning woo, Kandy and everyone,

    woo, that's a nice cheerful picture to start the month with :gnthb: :)

    It's overcast but quite mild out this morning.

    Yesterday I managed to get a couple more barrow loads of aquilegias done. They look a lot more in the barrow than in the garden. I can't put them on the compost because they are too woody to be left as they are and there are much too many to cut into pieces. So they end up on the bonfire and get recycled as ash on the flower beds.

    Enjoy your Sunday :)

    Have a great day :D
     
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    :thumb: Morning everyone..!! Still Pinch Punch 1st of the month here... :hehe: Have a great day to start your new month everyone..!!!:gnthb:
     
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    Good morning everyone,

    Another new day dawns and along with it the sun is shining so I am well pleased.:DNot looking forward to the winter months apart from when we have some snow that is:pI might start doing the Lottery again so that when I win those millions I can then go and live somewhere warmer in the winter and here in good old blighty in the summer:hehe:

    Anyway,we were over the allotment quiet early yesterday and while Mr K did a load of weeding I dug up some more spuds and picked a few more beans:pHave lots of Ladybirds feeding on the blackfly on the fat hen weeds but they just will not eat the blackfly on the bean plants:(

    I think we might get some more rain this week so I had better get a move on and get things done while the sun still shines.:)

    Have a good day everyone:)
     
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