Re raised bed Jenny Le Puce & Mike
Thanks for your thoughts on my little query Although veg would be a good idea they would not look all that pretty from our living room window and I do fancy the scented geraniams Thanks its geven me food for thought. Prof
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Re raised bed Jenny Le Puce & Mike
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from prof contains these words: Thanks for your thoughts on my little query Although veg would be a good idea they would not look all that pretty from our living room window and I do fancy the scented geraniams Thanks its geven me food for thought. Prof Then think of tomatoes, various cabbage and lettuce types, Cape gooseberries, runner beans, chillies, etc. Some years ago I erected a cage of bamboos over my front path (at a different house) and grew runners, trailing marrows, a pink-flowered radish which makes edible pods, and cucumbers up it, with tomatoes, cape gooseberries and nasturtiums underneath. It really looked quite decorative. Now, my front garden is graced by a stand of extremely well-nourished rhubarb, and a Jerusalem artichoke has appeared and taken up residence nearby. I think that will disappear, as I've enough of those in the back, and this year some of them grew over ten feet. (And had silly little sunflowers on top, which I have never seen before.) -- Rusty Direct reply to: horrid dot squeak snailything zetnet point co period uk Separator in search of a sig |
Re raised bed Jenny Le Puce & Mike
"prof" wrote in message ... Thanks for your thoughts on my little query Although veg would be a good idea they would not look all that pretty from our living room window and I do fancy the scented geraniams Thanks its geven me food for thought. Prof OK :~)) Actually runner beans up a wigwam of poles look rather attractive.......They'd give height to the bed..........nice red flowers ..........and you get to eat the produce:~) Jenny |
Re raised bed Jenny Le Puce & Mike
Runner Beans up wigwams?
Been there, done that, they look and taste super than you :-)) Mike -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- Happy New Year www.rnshipmates.co.uk "JennyC" wrote in message ... "prof" wrote in message ... Thanks for your thoughts on my little query Although veg would be a good idea they would not look all that pretty from our living room window and I do fancy the scented geraniams Thanks its geven me food for thought. Prof OK :~)) Actually runner beans up a wigwam of poles look rather attractive.......They'd give height to the bed..........nice red flowers ..........and you get to eat the produce:~) Jenny |
Re raised bed Jenny Le Puce & Mike
Been there, done that, they look and taste super than you :-)) thank you ;-(( |
Re raised bed Jenny Le Puce & Mike
JennyC wrote: OK :~)) Actually runner beans up a wigwam of poles look rather attractive.......They'd give height to the bed..........nice red flowers ..........and you get to eat the produce:~) That's indeed the beauty of vegetables. As for the flowers, I instinctively always go for the wild ones, for the seed heads, the colours, the insects and the changing scene we get with them year after year and the endless things one can do with them. This year all my ice cubes had a borrage flower in them. It looked so beautiful in a pilcher of lemonade. I have a few geraniums too - not for their flowers but for their leaves. I can't stop myself pinching the mint one on my way to work. Just spent sometimes buying some seeds from the italian seeds co. Lots and lots and lots of seeds for 12 quids and it's all I need beside the potatoes I'll go and choose in February. Which one should I try this year? deep sigh Roll on spring :o) |
Re raised bed Jenny Le Puce & Mike
"La Puce" wrote in message oups.com... This year all my ice cubes had a borrage flower in them. It looked so beautiful in a pilcher of lemonade. Oye!!! Buddleia ,buddliea, buddleja?-the burrafly bush thingy. Pilcher? Pilchard? Pitcher? What happened to your spiel chocker |
Re raised bed Jenny Le Puce & Mike
On Mon, 2 Jan 2006 16:01:11 GMT, Rusty Hinge 2 wrote:
and a Jerusalem artichoke has appeared and taken up residence nearby. I think that will disappear, as I've enough of those in the back, and this year some of them grew over ten feet. (And had silly little sunflowers on top, which I have never seen before.) Here in N.Somerset all three of my varieties of j.a flower each year (for the past 25y at least !) Some say that an alternative name, "girasol" (Italian or Portuguese derivation ?) got corrupted to give us the "jerusalem" bit of the name. Others say that this is not true. I guess the true story is blowing in the wind |
Re raised bed Jenny Le Puce & Mike
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Re raised bed Jenny Le Puce & Mike
Rusty Hinge 2 wrote: Hmmmm. You should try my recipe for soup - well-hung venison, Jerusalem fartichokes, lentils, pea flour, finely-sliced Savoy cabbage, swede, carrots, onions and a little garlic, all rendered in the water Brussels sprouts were cooked in. Approach from upwind... Have you tried to spray your weeds with that?! Poor Mrs Rusty ... |
Re raised bed Jenny Le Puce & Mike
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from "La Puce" contains these words: Rusty Hinge 2 wrote: Hmmmm. You should try my recipe for soup - well-hung venison, Jerusalem fartichokes, lentils, pea flour, finely-sliced Savoy cabbage, swede, carrots, onions and a little garlic, all rendered in the water Brussels sprouts were cooked in. Approach from upwind... Have you tried to spray your weeds with that?! Poor Mrs Rusty ... If there had been a Mrs. Rusty, she might not have been happy aboout being called a weed... -- Rusty Direct reply to: horrid dot squeak snailything zetnet point co period uk Separator in search of a sig |
Re raised bed Jenny Le Puce & Mike
"Rusty Hinge 2" wrote in message k... The message from prof contains these words: Thanks for your thoughts on my little query Although veg would be a good idea they would not look all that pretty from our living room window and I do fancy the scented geraniams Thanks its geven me food for thought. Prof It really looked quite decorative. Now, my front garden is graced by a stand of extremely well-nourished rhubarb, and a Jerusalem artichoke has appeared and taken up residence nearby. I think that will disappear, as I've enough of those in the back, and this year some of them grew over ten feet. (And had silly little sunflowers on top, which I have never seen before.) Mine did that this year, I'd never noticed it happen before. Alan -- Rusty Direct reply to: horrid dot squeak snailything zetnet point co period uk Separator in search of a sig |
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