Got my cucumbers and nasturtium sowed! I had an extra spot so I threw some lettuce mix seeds in it for fun.
I used some cheap wire mesh plant protectors to gaurd against hail and blown debris, and they seemed to have worked pretty well. Might need to get some cheap wire trash cans if the weather keeps up like this.
(And I'm finding new ways to deal with earwigs this season, so those holes in the swiss chard will hopefully be the last!)
Hi folks: having had a rejection of the initial plans for a community garden here in #Jersey, we have the warm go ahead to apply for a change of use for a different - and probably more appropriate field for the project. To help do this I need photos of community gardens to go into the application.
If anyone has any that they a) own and b) would be happy for me to use I'd be very grateful. Please DM me for an email address. Thank you!
17 Apr 1646: Prince Charles (II) & the Privy Council leave the Isles of #Scilly#otd & head for #Jersey despite Henrietta Maria's entreaties that they come to #France (National Trust Images)
@glynmoody I'm an amateur angler with a scruffy 19 foot Orkney - fishing out of #Jersey. Speed limits where there are cetacean populations are just obvious common sense.
Had a ride in a friend's RIB last year to the Ecrehous reef. A journey that would take me 90 minutes under sail, maybe 40 minutes under engine in the Orkney, took him 8 minutes doing 55 knots. No animal could possibly get out of the way.
Speed limits are absolutely required - or more dolphins will be killed in our waters
1/ For the #gardeners here: I have been discussing with a small group of environmentalists, a Horticultural Therapist and my local Connetable (elected, Parish level, with real power) the possibility of creating a wetland educational project and an adjoining community garden on land near my house.
That conversation has been going on for 2 or 3 years now - and I've got tired of the daft local issues preventing progress.
The biggest of these is the question of land ownership.
Being able to support my friends who do fun stuff is good. ECS continues to run Pub League, a simple barely competitive set of two soccer leagues full of joy that embraces everyone. Once upon a time I sponsored them while I managed Sounder at Heart. Then I stopped because I didn’t manage Sounder at Heart. A year ago they had an empty slot that needed a sponsor. I was able to and that was when my team was a group of pirates. Last fall it was vampires.
Now it’s the Almost Full 90 FC, inspired by the era when I was a teen with Trapper Keepers and Peechees playing D&D hiding my inner nerd behind pastels (including my jeans).
Coaches: Bop it Throw it Pass it, That’s Brisk Baby, and Eat My Shorts
Players: WHAT’S THE 411, COOPER, FRESH PRINCE OF DEFENSE, SPORTY SPICE, FOOTBALL HEAD, THAT’S BRISK BABY, I DID NOT INHALE, EAT MY SHORTS, ON A BREAK, BOP IT THROW IT PASS IT, DOCTOR, BEANIE BABE, REPTAR ON TURF, TRUNCHBULL, D’OH!’, MIDAS, YOU’VE GOT MAIL, STREET SOCCER, TOO YOUNG FOR THIS, UGH, AS IF!, NEVERMIND, NON BLONDES.
I’m telling you, they’re going to win the ‘ship.
There’s a couple other cool bits. The Captain’s armband is inspired by iconic frogs from the era and unlike most soccer jerseys these days, the back is similar to the front — with a unicorn.
@thechattygardener I overwinter my purple sprouting each year now and it gives a great crop in the spring. Ours had snow on recently (very unusual for #Jersey) but is carrying on again fine now. I think it can be pretty hardy
In the years after the failure of the 1848 revolutions, thousands of disappointed revolutionary, radical, republican, nationalist and socialist exiles from across Europe sought asylum in Britain.
Aside from its physical proximity to the continent, the country had no significant immigration restrictions and the Aliens Act of 1848, which granted ministers power to expel individual foreigners, lapsed in 1850 without having been used.
This made Britain an attractive destination, as did its vaunted liberties of the press, of speech and of assembly.
As reaction swept the continent, other, smaller potential refuges such as Belgium and Switzerland were pressured by neighbouring states into censoring or expelling resident refugees.
In 1852 John Sanders, the Metropolitan Police officer often tasked with investigating exile affairs, noted of Britain's growing refugee population:
“They cannot reside in any other country. […] They prefer coming to England.” The vast majority of these refugees went to London but a significant minority settled in Jersey.
Jersey was an appealing asylum for several reasons.
Most prosaically, it was comparatively cheap, and several destitute refugees relocated there from London for the lower cost of living.
For those determined to remain politically active, its location twenty-two kilometres west of the Cotentin Peninsula and its commercial connections to towns like Granville and St Malo made it an ideal location for smuggling propaganda, people and money in and out of Europe generally and France in particular.
For the French, the island, which had come to the English crown in 1066 as part of the Duchy of Normandy, was also more culturally amenable than London.
Official business, many newspapers and most place names were in French and Jersey's related local language, Jèrriais, was still widely spoken.
Coinage in French denominations still circulated widely enough for L'Homme to be sold in francs and sous.
For Hugo, the Channel Islands were “des morceaux de France tombés dans la mer et ramassés par l'Angleterre”.
Jersey also had a long history of asylum, most famously sheltering Huguenots during the French religious wars of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and royalist and clerical émigrés, including the author François-René de Chateaubriand, during the French Revolution.
The early nineteenth century saw the arrival of exiles from further afield, including hundreds of veterans of the failed liberal and nationalist uprisings in the 1820s and 1830s in Spain, Italy and Poland.
A small contingent of Polish exiles led by Swiętosławski were thus already on the island when the revolutions of 1848 broke out.
For several exiles in the 1850s, the romantic appeal of following in the footsteps of these previous exiles was great, particularly for Hugo who read about Chateaubriand's sojourn in Jersey before he arrived.
After doing our potting morning, we went to the laneway behind our place to try to tackle the awful morning glory weed. It is getting into our place from our neighbour's place. You can see the morning glory on top of the fence with pretty flowers. #Melbourne people - do NOT grow this in your place and remove it as soon as you find it. It is very invasive.
This photo shows us part-way through cleaning up the masses of morning glory in the laneway. The morning glory was also growing over rubbish on the ground. There was so much morning glory that it was creating dirt beneath and there were some very healthy worms.
The skip was already half-full when we started. We had to stop shortly after this photo was taken because we had already filled the skip with rubbish and morning glory. We will have to finish the job next weekend. #gardeningAU
@perkinsy im in #Jersey where it does grow well but I really love it. It’s annual for us though so doesn’t get the chance to go bonkers mad in the way I’ve seen it in W Africa (or what looks like a relative). Suspect that’s the key. Ours just doesn’t tolerate once it’s under something like 10 degrees.
"Every year the world subsidizes fossil energy adds 12 trillion dollars to the global economy. Take that away and you are in a fine pickle. You had better find something else to spend it on, and quick.
@TraRay
Very interested - we have pretty sandy soil - live in #Jersey (original not New): can you explain more about what is bio-char? I spend a lot of time trying to get some nutrient into our soil. It gets water logged in winter and bone dry in summer. And is nutrient poor. So all tips gratefully received.
La Sergenté passage grave on #jersey. dates from approx 4500 BC and is the only corbelled passage grave known from the Channel Islands, and possibly the earliest dolmen on the island. The main chamber is about 12 feet across, it was excavated in 1923. Photo by our member Karolus, more on our page: https://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=14829#archaeology#ChannelIslands
Les Monts Grantez, taken on a recent holiday in #Jersey.
A #Neolithic passage grave built around 6,000 years age consisting of a passage leading into an asymmetrical chamber with a single side chamber.
🇬🇧 ⬇️ Salut les piailloux et autres mastodontes, besoin de manches longues et confortables ?
J'ai.
Les commandes sur mesure sont ouvertes, les modèles prêt-à-porter (et dispo !) présentés ci-dessous sont en 38-42 mais toutes les tailles sont bienvenues, la preuve avec une cliente ravie.
J'ai supprimé mes posts sur la commande de tissus, j'aurais pas dû, les frais de port sont vraiment trop élevés.
Donc on recommence. Qui veut que je lui fasse un vêtement ou un accessoire dans une de ces beautés ?
(ou d'autres !!) Coton majoritaire, certifié oeko tex
Tous des jerseys (tissus stretch) sauf les noirs et blancs et les girafes qui sont des popelines (tissu souple mais pas stretch)
Today's mood photo was taken today when we walked along the coast from La Pulete to the lighthouse at Corbier on the western coast of Jersey. The lighthouse is accessible only at low tide via a causeway, submerged at high tide.
As the devastating conflict in Sudan continues, Jersey Overseas Aid, the island’s official publicly-funded relief and development agency, has committed
19 June 1660: Henry Smith regicide hands himself in #otd At his trial he claimed not to remember signing the death warrant. He was imprisoned in Gore’s Castle #Jersey till death. (Museum of London)
My clematis in full bloom. Bought it last year as a scrawny rescue plant and it has thrived in a large pot against a north-facing wall (the seaweed feed might have helped!). I don't know its name but it's a group 3 for pruning. #Clematis#FloweringFriday#Gardening
@junesim63 So compost is a real issue for me: I live in #Jersey and the commercial options are limited. It's more expensive than on the mainland, and what we get varies in quality enormously.
However, I'm next to a beach so have an unlimited supply of seaweed. My preference is to find a time though when there has been a storm leaving a big bank of weed at the top of the beach, then smaller tides over the next 10 days say, & lots of rain to wash salt out. Which is a bit specific!
A reconstructed Neolithic longhouse at La Hougue Bie, with wooden posts, wattle and daub walls and a thatched roof. Our stone age ancestors lived in high specification buildings - they weren't club-wielding cave-dwellers chasing dinosaurs! #Jersey#ChannelIslands
Jersey (Channel island) pledges £150,000 to support those impacted by conflict in Sudan (channeleye.media)
As the devastating conflict in Sudan continues, Jersey Overseas Aid, the island’s official publicly-funded relief and development agency, has committed