Post by Moonlight on Jul 8, 2013 9:23:01 GMT
Unfortunately my 1st Downham Royal wants to look up at the moon.
I've read before that some dahlia varieties don't photo well. The purple is a lot deeper in real life. Here he is today via my mobile (hence lower photo quality)
. Planted up in a 100% proof well rooted manure. I would have battled the stinging nettles that have been fighting back 
in the next round of weed wars but I jumped out of my skin when a greeny browny from jumped out. So now I don't want to disturb the slow worm territory on one side of the garden and I worry about getting any more of the manure sacks out in case I disturb (or worse stand on)another frog. So the weeds have brought in allies and then there are the mayflies that have come in the greenhouse which make me feel bad for trying to get rid of the tiny insects that they eat. 
Mid post and without any warning my computer just shut down and then rebooted itself. Don't have time to re type it.
Gotta go got more weeding to do. Sunflowers for the girls to pot up and tomatoes to plant. 
not because I wanted to give the manure a guided tour of our lounge.) dragging them down the garden path. Got a large potato growing sack and I have already put 3 sacks of manure in this one sack. I am going to plant all 3 Golden Sunrise plant that I have left in them. They deserve to escape the greenhouse poor things with their little baby tomatoes growing. I am going to do the same thing with another sack but it will be a mixture of varieties. Plants don't look fab but I think that they will take off once they are planted. (& I won't feel like such an evil Wicked Witch of the West anymore, well at least not with the tomatoes. 
Everything else, well yes. Unfortunately. 
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To which we told him, yes they did but then after 11.15 2 more children arrived with their potatoes and so our girls went from 1st and 3rd to 3rd and no card. Then the discussions began in earnest. "What? but the deadline was 11!" we were joined by the other man who runs the shop and the more he heard, the more unimpressed he became. "I'll bring this up at the committee..." Also mentioned about the different varieties and yes, we were right they were supposed to be the same variety. I had actually brought my camera with me which would have had my show photos on it, if I hadn't left the blasted memory card at home in my computer! Humphf big time.
I will print it off and give it to him, probably won't see him until next show now. I won't give it to him then because it could spoil the fun of that show but I have explained that what had happened with the potatoes, spoilt the show for our family. So hopefully next year, all the children will grow the same variety of seed potato and there will be no late entries. I bet will be us running late though, well if we do well tough luck. Besides there is always next year........
thought I'll grab the moment and take another photo. Took 2 lovely true colours and then the memory flashed up 'Memory Card full up' 
