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Wild Winds!
Little Weed writes
Mary Fisher wrote: "Little Weed" wrote in message ups.com... High winds have hit Cumbria - as a first time allotmenteer, I've been there today anxiously checking over newly planted fruit trees. luckily I have good friends who will stake them for me, if the weather worsens over the weekend when I am away! I almost feel like a new parent again ) Sadly I have also emailed pictures of my cabbage plants to friends abroad - does it get better as time goes on? No - but you become more confident :-) You learn that something will go wrong every year - it may be winds, late frosts, early frosts, germination failure, you completely forget to water three whole trays of seedlings,,, But because you know this will happen, you expect it and don't worry about it, and you find there are all sorts of unexpected successes to celebrate Thanks Mary - I may need the confidence - as my friend's eyes glaze over when I attempt a conversation with the words..."you know, my allot.." and I am rapidly losing friends I had tried to grow some Sarah Raven salad leaves in the back garden, in (funnily enough) wooden wine boxes, and the protective cloches were ripped away from them last night in the storm and they have been effectively flattened. Ah well - learning curves and all that - even more boringly, I have listed all of the seeds thus far bought, in my notebook. Worth doing that, and listing what happened to all of them. I keep meaning to do that ;-) Remember "I never give up on a plant until I have well and truly killed it three times" (Dave Poole) Drums fingers when is spring in the north? June ;-) -- Kay |
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