The Gardening Bed

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Mowed me a lawn today. Nipped home at dinnertime to do it too.

[bobo the clown]

Had a burning evening .... dunno what it is but setting fire to things is a great delight.

............... or is it just me ???

no Bobo - burning stuff is ace! I think I said so on the happy thread a few weeks ago!!

When someone's having a garden fire I slow down to drive through the smoke. Takes a minute or so for the smell of the smoke to work its way through the car's system, but my word, it's so worth it when it does.

Then get your ass driving past mine this evening. Round 2 will commence around 7.30pm.

Yet more on Friday me-thinks also.

[Bruce Rioja]

Then get your ass driving past mine this evening. Round 2 will commence around 7.30pm.

Yet more on Friday me-thinks also.

Wait until your neighbours have hung their Eisteddfod bedgowns on the line to dry first.

[bobo the clown]

Well, you missed your chance Bruce .... double burning tonight.

The pyre was so large I had small children turn up with Guys and the neighbours brought parkin. It was the witches people sent which were most worrying.

That's it for the Spring I think. Good though.

[thebish]

http://www.wngd.org/

this saturday...

just saying, like...

[Worthy4England]

http://www.wngd.org/

this saturday...

just saying, like...

Some bushes there need trimmimg more than my lawn...

[Bruce Rioja]

Breakthrough. Green shoots are now poking through from the onion seeds and the potato seedlings that I planted. Nowt doing on the mushroom front though, so fecking booooooo to them.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Breakthrough. Green shoots are now poking through from the onion seeds and the potato seedlings that I planted. Nowt doing on the mushroom front though, so fecking booooooo to them.

You've planted mushrooms?
Even if you get a crop, they aren't like plants - they explode in one go, not steady progress, all the growing goes on underground in the mycelium.

[bobo the clown]

Well .... today, Malcolm, I scarified my front lawn. Well, about 2/3rds of it.

Oh ... my ... as the kids say ... God.

I cannot begin to explain how much it turned over.

There reason I've only done that amount is that we only have one green bin per fortnight ... & the bugger's full. I can put it to mulch, I know, but b-hell (& the back lawn is about 5 times larger than the front too !!).

[thebish]

have you hired a machine?

[Bruce Rioja]

Mushroom update - feck all still.

[bobo the clown]

have you hired a machine?

Bought one at the end of last autumn ... was £75 ... got it for £35. So today (& future days) had to happen.

That said, it's the sort of 'once a year' ... maybe twice thing which warrants hiring. Doubt I'd ever get round to it though if it wasn't mine.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Mushroom update - feck all still.

These mushrooms... did you buy a kit? Have you planted them in the dark? Or outside? Did you freeze them before planting? Have you watered where they live? Explanations!

[Bruce Rioja]

Yiss, bought a kit. Mixed the stuff as instructed. Have sprayed water onto the top every couple of days also as instructed. They're in the garage in their box with it's lid fitted loosely. We have had a couple of frosty nights in the intervening time.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Yiss, bought a kit. Mixed the stuff as instructed. Have sprayed water onto the top every couple of days also as instructed. They're in the garage in their box with it's lid fitted loosely. We have had a couple of frosty nights in the intervening time.

Patience then. I've done mushrooms before and they've always taken longer than I thought they should. I've had one failure out of five goes when absolutely nothing grew... It does happen, but usually one day they all shoot up.

[Bruce Rioja]

but usually one day they all shoot up.

There's a gag here to do with mushrooms and shooting up, but I lack the wit.

[General Mannerheim]

I built a big planter with some left over decking the other week, filled it with a collection of herb plants for cooking with but also put some tomato ad strawberry plants in too... Anyway some scruffy creature of the night has dug it all out and eaten it all. Bastard

[Bruce Rioja]

These have turned up in my font garden. If they've popped up before then I haven't noticed them. They're between six and nine inches high. Anyone know what they are?

[Montreal Wanderer]

These have turned up in my font garden. If they've popped up before then I haven't noticed them. They're between six and nine inches high. Anyone know what they are?

Look like lupins to me (although I can't see the petals too well).

[Worthy4England]

I got to Lupins too, but I thought they were a bit small.