On Wed, 11 Jul 2012 14:44:44 +0100, "Pete"
wrote:

Whilst I have every sympathy for Baz and others who have been affected by
recent weather/floods etc., isn't it about time this newsgroup got back to
what is supposed to be about -i.e. GARDENING!!!

What's this gardening thing? All many of us can do at the moment is
look wistfully out of rain battered windows at flattened and washed
out plants, rotting vegetables and pools of water where the lawn used
to be. In the odd dry interlude, all I can do is nip out to dig up the
stuff that's rotting in the wet. My clay soil really needs a few dry
days to drain a bit before I can step on it without sinking up to my
knees in the mud. There are only so many times I can say I've picked
a nice bowl of strawberries or raspberries, which is all I'm getting
from the garden at the moment.

It seems that the majority of threads this month alone have been
non-gardening - and the same was true in June

I left Giganews some time ago because I noticed a high rate of message
loss (resolved by switching to NIN). The vast majority of threads I am
seeing for June and July are about gardening. That it is the
non-gardening threads which are attracting the most input is merely
because the more active regulars in the group want it that way at the
moment as talking about gardening would be depressing.

Come on all you gardeners - let-s have your thoughts/questions on gardening
please please please

I'm thinking I'll get some done when the weather stops being so
abysmally wet.

Cheers, Jake
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Urgling from the East End of Swansea Bay where sometimes
it's raining and sometimes it's not.