3: Gardening Diaries ...

[alp]

We chop our big ones right back each year..

Weird and awful...too true Can't get the image out of my head

I need to have a look at the video. I saw the pics, but not the video. Will watch it tomorrow. Don't have nightmare. It's a RAT!

Yes, 2 years from a seed from a wildseed packet or bottle and it'd become so big that I was worried. I have about 20 plants in 2 square feet area. Even I feel sorry for my plants. My aster has had no flower whilst aquilegia which I think is more or less a weed is taking up so much room. ! I don't even know why I keep thinking I have no room for any more plants! I have a big lawn, but can't really expand it because of the washing lines. I will watch the video of the poor rat tomorrow morning. Don't want to have nightmare. Factory has been active the whole 2 days. Last week the house was quiet and as soon as they were back on Friday, all hell broke loose.

 

[Upsy Daisy]

Ah ha!!! Watch the video then you will see what I mean....definitely nightmare material... the images are embedded into my brain now

 

[Upsy Daisy]

I am trying desperately to get rid of the common Aquilegia and am trying to replace them with named stock...pretty but promiscuous little rascals!

 

[alp]

Yes, with the aquilegia, the most horrible thing is that they will always come out the same boring ones and I am not sure it will flower this year. My aster is being huddled into a tight ball next to it, with one flower whilst the aquilegia is flowering with nothing but leaves and e x p a n d i n g! Very annoying. It's like killing a rat!

 

[alp]

The rat must be dying! What a horrible experience. You can only it can hardly move. Hopefully, it gets better.

Good morning to all. Got up late as couldn't sleep very well last night because ..

A cooler start to the day, but the sun is shining.

 

[alp]

So fishing is feeding on water contained with drugs flushed down the toilet by human beings and I have seen children smoking and reading this article shows me what we have done to the environment is just plain wrong.

The above seems to be a photoshopped job though - 3 hands on a can!

 

[Logan]

Spatchcock à la Leeski and à la Natasha's Kitchen and with a bit of improvisations from us

A lime and plenty of rosemary, dried thyme and oregano

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Incredible flavours! Thank you, son! Thank you, @Leeski !

I think the bits he liked most was sending the buttered spices into every part (nearly) of the bird. Quite an experience for him.

The burnt bit was caused by the fire (I should have bought a fan assisted oven)

Looks good.

 

[Logan]

Morning all.

 

[Upsy Daisy]

Morning !

It is awful that we are the sole cause of such destruction on both land and sea. Plastic now seems to be in everything we buy and use, even in things we would have before never suspected. Awareness is the the key to change, and it is everyones duty to make themselves aware. We are only here borrowing this world and we should pass it on undamaged to our children and grandchildren .

Everyone must take their head out of the sand and think before they buy or open the lid of their recycling bin....... Today!!!

 

[Upsy Daisy]

@alp think the little monkey is also using his back leg to explore our rubbish

 

[alp]

It's naughty that the monkey is behaving like a smoker and a drinker! People foul the air, not realising we are breathing it in and they flush drugs into the sea .. All these impacts take time to study and to be researched upon. We really should be more responsible for the environment.

Looks good.

You could try it. After the video and it's quite flavour-some.

 

[Upsy Daisy]

So very true @alp

 

[alp]

I'm breathing it in now. I didn't fall asleep until after an hour in bed. Let's not go there.

Been out thinking whether to water the plants or not. No need to be mean as it is already August. Need to research on how to prune Wisteria as I have about 2 which need taking care of. Then I will take cuttings of the lovely Helenium. I mustn't keep buying and killiing. I have propagated quite a few hydrangeas. Wonder if I could go industrial scale, like @Leeski !

 

[Leeski]

I'm breathing it in now. I didn't fall asleep until after an hour in bed. Let's not go there.

Been out thinking whether to water the plants or not. No need to be mean as it is already August. Need to research on how to prune Wisteria as I have about 2 which need taking care of. Then I will take cuttings of the lovely Helenium. I mustn't keep buying and killiing. I have propagated quite a few hydrangeas. Wonder if I could go industrial scale, like @Leeski !

Not Sure about an industrial scale but wish it would stop raining now as have got loads that need to go in the ground running out of space

 

[Upsy Daisy]

That's the trouble, often when it starts it doesn't know when to stop.