1/n a bit of Sunday night #bloomscrolling as I sadly head off for another week working away. Actually - not moaning: I have a job. That will do. But 3 unexpected weeks at home (Covid) were fabulous once I felt better and isolating is not so hard with a garden.
2/n the poppies will be fantastic again this year. What a plant! And the Borage is going mad already. I have to weeds its progeny daily when I’m at home.
When did I buy white ranunculus? I mean: they are absolutely stunning. But…??? And lastly, the tomatoes are coming on well: in the greenhouse they are unsurprisingly ahead. Despite full blight thru potatoes 3 weeks ago, nothing on the toms yet. Just a matter of time as usual.
2/n the poppies will be fantastic again this year. What a plant! And the Borage is going mad already. I have to weeds its progeny daily when I’m at home.
When did I buy white ranunculus? I mean: they are absolutely stunning. But…??? And lastly, the tomatoes are coming on well: in the greenhouse they are unsurprisingly ahead. Despite full blight thru potatoes 3 weeks ago, nothing on the toms yet. Just a matter of time as usual.
Tragic to see #Germany descend into #fascism again, from their robust defence of the #Genocide to their totalitarian criminalisation of peaceful environmental protestors.
Don’t know why I bother buying or collecting seed from previous years. I should just put my home compost in pots and water it: I’d get a nice crop of tomatoes and squashes with a lot less effort… this is from potting on 2 weeks ago
@JimmyB Made this bed using my homemade compost a couple of weeks ago. You can just about see a straight row of beetroot where I used the bottom of a bag of shop compost. I'm rebranding it as a seedbed. Full of squash, tomatoes and perhaps PSB.
Which is good because almost none of my purpose sown seeds have germinated!
I’ve got a recurrence again this year of what looks like a fungal disease on my purple sprouting broccoli: anyone know what it is? And can I compost it?
@PostcardsFromParadise If I touch them, a fine white powder clouds off them... I've seen it previously and it comes when the brocolli is pretty much done anyway so not the end of the world in a sense. But I don't want to be building up a bad fungus by being slow to deal, if I ought to...
Well - here we go: is it too early? Doesn’t feel like it now with the sun shining but no doubt these toms will let me know…
I am absolutely rubbish at garden design so flowers and veg get a bit mixed when I run out of space - inevitable as I start emptying the greenhouse at this time of year…
@levampyre@SpeechTherapist the missus planted salad on 31/12 - and we started eating in early April. I think that with planning you can eat salad all year round with an unheated greenhouse. I have since put in a small under bench tube heater and a couple of heating mats. That helps germination a lot,.. #Gardening
@JimmyB Sure, there are also some hardy winter greens. Lamb's lettuce and winter purslane, for example. And some mustard greens and special lettuce varieties are hardy, too. @SpeechTherapist
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!
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.
The Parish has taken on responsibility for looking after the fields in question - in the absence of anyone else - and has recently let them to a tenant farmer to graze cattle when he feels like it, in exchange for him doing the brancage. This is a legal requirement concerning limiting the length of road-overgrowing branches. Land owners MUST cut back twice a year. It is measured and you get fined for failure.
"Trusting" #Starmer is the ultimate in stupidity. Obviously the last thing he is, is trustworthy. So either you have to be truly stupid to trust him or you have to be into his level of moral depravation: a genocidal Zionist, Murdoch supporting, totalitarian/anti-democracy, trickle down and privatisaiton enthusiast, anti-union and apathetic at best about poverty.
@JimmyB TBH the grauniad have a very poor grasp of numbers and statistics - there is no link go the survey data so I wouldn't necessarily assume its correct
Even if it is true, so what?
Labour members get no say in policy - see what happens to FPTP and BDS resolutions and their numbers are falling
If you are not a "true believer" in project #starmer then you are probably not a member any more
The #guardian is constantly promoting #starmer while doing a bit of hand-wringing
Looking forward to the police locking up the farmers and the senior politicans blocking roads in #Wales, and ensuring that all possible legal defences are removed.
I mean, to have one set of rules for your political supporters and another - with penal consequences and all that goes with it - for others would be #fascism, right?
Does #DavidLammy and the rest of the #Labour leadership think this belated shouting about #Israel atrocity mean we have forgotten their recent enthusiasm for #genocide and policy-driven, racist abandonment of solidarity with #Palestine?
Do the authors here, or Morning Joe moral high-ground fuckers really think that there is any equivocation about atrocities committed on Israeli women? I am sure there is none.
But maybe they could take their heads out of their arses and see that gotcha-ing folks who are screaming about imbalance and the ignoring of atrocity against Palestinians might be the point being made?
Tonight Dad is in a hospital in the UK having fallen on Friday. At the suggestion of his GP, mum called 999 - about 8am - who said the ambulance would be with him in an hour. It came after 11: he was in serious pain.
He was then put in a chair in A&E to wait. By 10pm he had not been seen, had been given a cup of water only.
He was moved to an "assessment ward". Now Sunday night, he has not been assessed.
If you have ever voted #Tory I blame you. This is your fault. Be deeply ashamed