22 Feb 2020, 10:41 am
and my rhubarb is growing off again after his first division with a big knife
Excellent! I am so happy for you!
I spent the entire morning working in the garden. We are just getting the scent of orange blossoms on the breeze. I harvested my first ever sunflower seeds. The seeds are plumper and sweeter than the ones I have had from the store. I am growing the sunflowers mostly for the birds.
I do miss rhubarb. It is too warm here for it to grow.
Yeah, it is fussy about location: and soil type!
‘Luckily’ our garden is on a former factory site: so we had no choice but to choose our soil and make it ourselves
Still a bit gritty for my taste, but we’re two years past the point were everything we plant out dies for want of water & nutrients
Haven’t managed to get sunflowers to work here yet: they flower ok, if a touch late, but then the autumn damp does for the seeds before they’ve properly dried.
Orange blossom is lovely scent: looking forward to ours when the season comes round.
I have big soil problems too. Sand mostly. Had it tested and there are zero nutrients in it. Zero. So I have been trying to improve the soil, but its been more difficult than I anticipated.
What I read about sunflowers is when the back of the head turns yellow, cut it off about 6 inches below the head and hang it upside down inside to dry. I'm not doing that because I want the birds to eat them, but no takers so far.
Yeah, it has been difficult here too: many autumn evenings spent soaking an aching back in the tub!
Cow manure & wormery compost dug in in combination was what sealed the deal here: although the additional weeds from the wormery was a teething problem.
I’ve also dug in all the spent compost from dahlias and such to improve water retention.
One morning two(?) years back I did a little dance of joy when I found the first slug since we’d moved in!
Think I’ll have to try that with the sunflower: my wife’s keen on all foods seedy.
Rather than hijack this thread further, I have bumped up an old thread on gardening. I have some questions there for you, Kazamarov.
viewtopic.php?f=24&t=94278&p=8458687#p8458687
Meanwhile, in spite of everything else happening right now, my garden continues to delight. I had my first ripe tomatoes, my oyster mushrooms are blooming again, several orchids in bloom.
22 Feb 2020, 12:48 pm
Spent the day with my grandmother: who is doing remarkably well for a recently bereaved woman in her 90s, still full of plans and so forth.
That was pleasing.
22 Feb 2020, 1:39 pm
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23 Feb 2020, 5:01 am
I thought to apologise to my wife before she boiled over with rage at my apparent thoughtless obliviousness.
I’ll count that as a win.
23 Feb 2020, 7:11 pm
Watching my kitty chase snow flakes 
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Today’s customer wants me to start going weekly now so we can get ahead of ourselves before the season proper and sort out design problems this year. Excellent: more satisfaction, more exercise, more money!
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