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dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 45460
Location: yes

Posted: Sat Jul 02, 16 6:40 pm Post subject:
my jolly for today can be seen in pets and livestock

frewen

Joined: 08 Sep 2005
Posts: 11405

Posted: Sat Jul 02, 16 9:04 pm Post subject:
I took several yards of weaving from the loom - promptly fulled it down to the size of a postage stamp Once a feltmaker - always a feltmaker

sean
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 42207
Location: North Devon

Posted: Sat Jul 02, 16 9:12 pm Post subject:
It's like microfiche for fibres.

wellington womble

Joined: 08 Nov 2004
Posts: 15051
Location: East Midlands

Posted: Sat Jul 02, 16 9:38 pm Post subject:

We have just planted the potatoes. Yes, I know, I know. But we might get a harvest if they're in the ground. We certainly won't in the spare room. Tomorrow, I shall plant out the squash and beans, and sow more broccoli, cabbage, sprouts, kale, beans, carrots and peas. And pot on the very sad tomatoes.

I know they should all have been sown months ago. Many of them were. But the truckload of compost and completion of the tractor have only just been sorted, due to one thing an another. So I was only able to start yesterday. The rotavator on the compact is awesome, half an hour to fit it, three passes with the rotavator (took about ten minutes!) and an hours trenching and backfilling with some lovely compost, and a 10x5 of potatoes are almost magically in the ground. Pity it wasn't possible in April when I ordered the thing. We'd be eating them by now!

Wonder what else I can sow now?!

gythagirl

Joined: 18 Feb 2010
Posts: 1467
Location: Somerset

Posted: Sat Jul 02, 16 9:53 pm Post subject:
Eldest and middle sons are both back at the family home ready for their youngest brother's wedding on Thursday

Mistress Rose

Joined: 21 Jul 2011
Posts: 15575

Posted: Sun Jul 03, 16 6:49 am Post subject:
Spent some time yesterday doing a flora survey in the wood. Found a rather nice common spotted orchid, which we get now and again, and spent a lot of time trying to sort our 2 different types of speedwell (pretty sure they are heath and thyme leaved) and several different St. Johns Wort, but failed on that although we think one is H. pulchram

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 45460
Location: yes

Posted: Mon Jul 04, 16 10:07 am Post subject:
my biggest big boy has reached 1300mm from the planter base to the top and one of the random tomato seedlings has reached 400mm in a few weeks. the big hounds leg is healing nicely from when he cut it on a glass shard while running and smaller hound seems to have got over having two teeth out.

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 45460
Location: yes

Posted: Mon Jul 04, 16 2:08 pm Post subject:
my sim card is not dead which is nice as i have had it since 1998.the phone from 2006 is dead but i can get a brand new better one for £25 . i really dont see the need for a phone to do webbystuff badly so the tech is very good value for making a phone call or sending a text (or getting a dogogram if one gets spooked and takes off into the distance,she knows who i mean)

gardening-girl

Joined: 25 Feb 2009
Posts: 6024
Location: Somerset.

Posted: Mon Jul 04, 16 4:32 pm Post subject:
I have been to visit Chez and co, I have bought fabric for a new top, and I have bought LOTS of seeds. half price in the local garden centre.

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 45460
Location: yes

Posted: Tue Jul 05, 16 8:03 pm Post subject:

my phone works and the bigboys are still getting bigger and more flowery and starting to gestate baby tomatoes so i recon they must be bigladyboys or they were very misnamed decades ago

this linky leads to an account of their origin

so far i can see why this hybrid has been popular since 1949

one of my randoms is showing some promise ,at least compared to the others which are tiny and show no signs of probable improvement .

Nature'sgrafter

Joined: 22 Feb 2012
Posts: 527
Location: Sanday , Orkney

Posted: Tue Jul 05, 16 8:35 pm Post subject:
I love the bigboy tomms grew them for the first time last year one grew large enough to use one slice for each sandwich and the taste great.

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 45460
Location: yes

Posted: Tue Jul 05, 16 8:55 pm Post subject:
that is the sort of thing i like to read,at the mo im just amazed at how they do vegetative growth. i have grown a few things with hybrid vigour and some are rather special but these are amazing compared to any other toms i have grown in the yard. in full sun i recon they would be very triffid like.

Mistress Rose

Joined: 21 Jul 2011
Posts: 15575

Posted: Wed Jul 06, 16 6:35 am Post subject:
Perhaps I ought to try them next year; not a variety I have ever grown. Managed to sit outside for a while yesterday afternoon and card some alpace fleece. It is very dusty, so has to be carded outside.

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 45460
Location: yes

Posted: Wed Jul 06, 16 2:39 pm Post subject:
they certainly grow like topsy ,80mm overnight,i looking forward to trying one if it stops growing and starts ripening fruits or i can use it instead of scaff for repointing the roof ridge.

sean
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 42207
Location: North Devon

Posted: Wed Jul 06, 16 5:14 pm Post subject:
Boy Wonder did his guitar exam today. That's him properly finished for the summer now. It's his birthday and prom on Friday. Jamanda's got her sixth formers' ball this evening so I get to play coachman.

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