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Post by roofgardener on Sept 27, 2015 19:48:14 GMT
Perimeter Alert.... Perimeter Alert.... Perimeter Alert... Daitheplant... we can see you.... drop the wire-cutters, and move AWAY from the Polytunnel ...  |
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Post by dianthus on Sept 27, 2015 19:55:36 GMT
You're implying that I'm an antique ? I daren't..... you are probably half my age, Roofy!  |
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Post by roofgardener on Sept 28, 2015 15:21:01 GMT
You're implying that I'm an antique ? I daren't..... you are probably half my age, Roofy! Not unless you've recently received a telegram from the Queen, dianthus |
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Post by dianthus on Sept 28, 2015 18:55:36 GMT
Not yet, but mum and dad got one ten yrs ago, for their 60th anniversary, as they were in the post war wedding season!
Are you really 50, Roofy?  |
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Post by daitheplant on Sept 28, 2015 19:09:07 GMT
He`s just a boy, Di. |
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Post by roofgardener on Sept 28, 2015 20:28:49 GMT
Not yet, but mum and dad got one ten yrs ago, for their 60th anniversary, as they were in the post war wedding season!
Are you really 50, Roofy? Wow... thats really nice. Well done to them both. As for 50.. no .. not in reality. I'm actualy slightly older  Although, as Daitheplant points out, a mere seedling when it comes to gardening ! |
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Post by dianthus on Sept 28, 2015 21:28:17 GMT
If you had been born into a small village community, like I had, you'd have been gardening from the age of about five. I'm sure I'd grown radishes and beetroot before I'd started school.
I still means I get it wrong some years, like no tomatoes and bolting beetroot, but we all have to work with the variations in the weather.
Now Roofy, what is this onion beer you've been drinking..... fermented onion juice sounds more like 'rear end rocket fuel!  |
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Post by roofgardener on Oct 5, 2015 13:36:17 GMT
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It Begins !
The Polytunnel has been reorganised and tidied.
The gadgets are all wired up and tested.
Finally... it's time to actually GARDEN .
Or at least... to plant some seeds.
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I was up with the birds on Sunday morning at the crack of 07:00. (they where NOT happy about it  ),
As mentioned in the RoofBlog , I dragged out the Heliothermic Plantopticon, extended it with a second container, and planted my first seeds.
Specifically, about one hundred "F1 Toughballs", as recommended by markb a little earlier on in this blog.
My target is to use a couple of my big green gravel trays, and plant around 50-60 more thisevening.
I believe Laozi once said.. "a journey of a thousand onions begins with a single seed".
Actually, he would have said "千里之行，始於足下", but you get the idea
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Post by dianthus on Oct 5, 2015 15:28:51 GMT
You still have said any more about drinking onion beer, Roofy!! |
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Post by roofgardener on Oct 5, 2015 15:36:10 GMT
Durnit... I was hoping that if I didn't mention it, people would forget.  |
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Post by daitheplant on Oct 5, 2015 18:56:08 GMT
Come on Roofus, put Di out of her misery.  |
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Post by roofgardener on Oct 5, 2015 20:23:35 GMT
I have not now, nor have I ever, imbibed distillations, nor fermentations, of the class Alliums . Nevertheless....  |
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Post by roofgardener on Oct 12, 2015 13:05:49 GMT
 World Domination NewsOK... one of the last pieces of the jigsaw has fallen into place. My packet of Kelsae giant onion seeds arrived on Friday. Many of the large seed outlets dont' HAVE any of these seeds this year. Their entire crop comes from one farm in Italy, and THEIR crop was wiped out by a hailstorm. This includes our friends at Thomson and Morgan, along with Robinsons, Johnsons, Fothergills, D.T.Browns, Marshalls... the list goes on. So, with supplies limited to smaller and more obscure stockists, my chances in the 2016 Gedling Show have just gone up ! Bwa haaar haaaaaaaar....toady the Gedling Show.. tomorrow The World ! Assuming, of course, that the packet I have received really IS Kelsae seed, and not... I dunno... cress or something. They LOOK like onion seeds, but they don't look particularly large. Hmmmm...... Funnily enough, ONE small independent seed outlet still has them... and they're based in your country daitheplant , in LlanfairpwllgwyngyllgogeryachtungchernobylvonbismarkantidisestablishmentarianismdonaudampfschiffahrtsgesellschaftskapitänchwyrndrobwllllantysiliohblastI'mrunningoutofinkiogogogoch. (Llanfair PG for short) to be precise. |
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Post by daitheplant on Oct 12, 2015 18:10:56 GMT
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Post by roofgardener on Oct 12, 2015 19:03:23 GMT
I would not DREAM of mocking the beautiful town of Llanfairpwllgwyngylloneringtorulethemallalloneringtofindthemoneringtobringthemallandintheshadowsbindtheminthelandofmordorwheretheshadowslieogogogoch. I hold the town in the highest regard, and have a fond memory of it.
I'll tell you the story.
I was on an outside broadcast at PortMeireon, but billeted in a pub at Llanfair PG. (or at least, I think it was Llanfair ... it had a station for that miniature railway, as well as a British Railway station.)
So, I awoke on the Sunday morning, slightly hungover, to hear some bleating and clattering noises. Looking out of my 2nd floor window, I saw a flock of sheep coming down the road towards me. No sheepdog. No shepard. Just the sheep.
There was no-one else around, and it was too early for rush-hour traffic (it was barely February). The flock just went past the hotel (briskly, with purpose, but also quite calmly), through an open gate into a field, across the field, over the narrow-gauge railway track, and dissapeared... presumably into another field on the other side of the tracks.
I had to pinch myself to make sure I wasn't dreaming.
Only in Wales !
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