We have had a week of temperatures up to 24C, it is cooler today with
overcast and drizzle but not really cold.

Most of the deciduous plants are budding, I had to hurry and finish pruning
the roses before the rain. Now all I need is a nice frost in the last week
of August to knock off the buds.

Tell me why is it that people who like roses want you to grow them but never
volunteer to prune them? I consented to planting six (not a lot I know) a
couple of years ago. According to the vendor information they were nice
restrained cultivars that grow to 1.5m. Lies, all lies! The bloody things
grow 3m high or more and the trimmings from each one fill a small
wheelbarrow. I do so hate getting caught up and impaled by rose thorns.

I still have tangelos, lemons and cumquats on the trees. The broad beans
are flowering well and covered in bees but no fruit set yet. I am trying a
spring planting of peas this year to try to avoid the
too-cold-to-flower-and-fruit blues.

I will be sowing my seed trays for all the transplantable summer crops this
week. We went to the local nursery to pick up a couple of packets of seeds
that I was missing and found they had no okra. Bless his little cotton
socks the owner dipped into his personal stash of saved seeds and gave me
some. Who said the days of customer service were over.

For those who care there are quite a few new shots of the garden, floods,
frosts and animals in our imitation winter.

http://s1086.photobucket.com/albums/j444/HareScott/

David

"David Hare-Scott" wrote in message
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We have had a week of temperatures up to 24C, it is cooler today with
overcast and drizzle but not really cold.

Most of the deciduous plants are budding, I had to hurry and finish
pruning the roses before the rain. Now all I need is a nice frost in the
last week of August to knock off the buds.

Tell me why is it that people who like roses want you to grow them but
never volunteer to prune them? I consented to planting six (not a lot I
know) a couple of years ago. According to the vendor information they
were nice restrained cultivars that grow to 1.5m. Lies, all lies! The
bloody things grow 3m high or more and the trimmings from each one fill a
small wheelbarrow. I do so hate getting caught up and impaled by rose
thorns.

I still have tangelos, lemons and cumquats on the trees. The broad beans
are flowering well and covered in bees but no fruit set yet. I am trying
a spring planting of peas this year to try to avoid the
too-cold-to-flower-and-fruit blues.

I will be sowing my seed trays for all the transplantable summer crops
this week. We went to the local nursery to pick up a couple of packets of
seeds that I was missing and found they had no okra. Bless his little
cotton socks the owner dipped into his personal stash of saved seeds and
gave me some. Who said the days of customer service were over.

For those who care there are quite a few new shots of the garden, floods,
frosts and animals in our imitation winter.

Thanks for the link David - your garden and surrounds look good. I think
you might be right about that early spring. And we're at the beginning of
rose pruing ATM - only at least 112 roses to go.

"FarmI" ask@itshall be given wrote in message
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"David Hare-Scott" wrote in message
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We have had a week of temperatures up to 24C, it is cooler today with
overcast and drizzle but not really cold.

Most of the deciduous plants are budding, I had to hurry and finish
pruning the roses before the rain. Now all I need is a nice frost in the
last week of August to knock off the buds.

Tell me why is it that people who like roses want you to grow them but
never volunteer to prune them? I consented to planting six (not a lot I
know) a couple of years ago. According to the vendor information they
were nice restrained cultivars that grow to 1.5m. Lies, all lies! The
bloody things grow 3m high or more and the trimmings from each one fill a
small wheelbarrow. I do so hate getting caught up and impaled by rose
thorns.

I still have tangelos, lemons and cumquats on the trees. The broad beans
are flowering well and covered in bees but no fruit set yet. I am
trying a spring planting of peas this year to try to avoid the
too-cold-to-flower-and-fruit blues.

I will be sowing my seed trays for all the transplantable summer crops
this week. We went to the local nursery to pick up a couple of packets
of seeds that I was missing and found they had no okra. Bless his little
cotton socks the owner dipped into his personal stash of saved seeds and
gave me some. Who said the days of customer service were over.

For those who care there are quite a few new shots of the garden, floods,
frosts and animals in our imitation winter.

Thanks for the link David - your garden and surrounds look good. I think
you might be right about that early spring. And we're at the beginning of
rose pruing ATM - only at least 112 roses to go.

Now I know why I don't grow roses.