Thanks for your replies, sorry about the post title but I'm 83 and new to this game!! Will try harder next time.

In article ,
Billit wrote:

Thanks for your replies, sorry about the post title but I'm 83 and new
to this game!! Will try harder next time.

No problem. Even those of us who have been using this sort of
thing for 40 years still get it wrong some of the time.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

wrote:
In article ,
Billit wrote:
Thanks for your replies, sorry about the post title but I'm 83 and new
to this game!! Will try harder next time.

No problem. Even those of us who have been using this sort of
thing for 40 years still get it wrong some of the time.


I'm only seventy, and - er - what was the question?

Half-past-three.

--
Rusty

Billit wrote:
Thanks for your replies, sorry about the post title but I'm 83 and new
to this game!! Will try harder next time.

Hi Billit I am new too)) Welcome!

"Martin" wrote in message
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On Tue, 4 Aug 2009 21:29:11 +0100, "Ophelia"
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Billit wrote:
Thanks for your replies, sorry about the post title but I'm 83 and new
to this game!! Will try harder next time.

Hi Billit I am new too)) Welcome!


WTF is the Ophelia who has been posting here all this year?

?? I haven't been here all year! Just a few months I think. You are
mixing up with another group Anyway, from my skills level, I am very much
a newby Anyway, I wanted to welcome Billit. I think it is great that he
is learning to post here. I bet he has loads of experience to share too!

Ophelia wrote:
"Martin" wrote in message
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On Tue, 4 Aug 2009 21:29:11 +0100, "Ophelia"
wrote:

Billit wrote:
Thanks for your replies, sorry about the post title but I'm 83 and new
to this game!! Will try harder next time.
Hi Billit I am new too)) Welcome!

WTF is the Ophelia who has been posting here all this year?

?? I haven't been here all year! Just a few months I think. You are
mixing up with another group Anyway, from my skills level, I am very much
a newby Anyway, I wanted to welcome Billit. I think it is great that he
is learning to post here. I bet he has loads of experience to share too!




You've been here for agesandagesandages...

Since well before Zetnet went itst-up and I drooped out of Unsent.

Innit.

--
Rusty

"Martin" wrote in message
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Just checking there weren't two of you. )

Heh! You should be so lucky!

Ophelia wrote:
"Martin" wrote in message
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Just checking there weren't two of you. )

Heh! You should be so lucky!



Some say...

(D&RFC)

--
Rusty

On 2009-08-04 15:41:54 +0100, Billit said:


Thanks for your replies, sorry about the post title but I'm 83 and new
to this game!! Will try harder next time.

You keep going and good for you, too! My mother is 91 and I wish I
could get her to use email because she's very deaf. Not a hope, I'm
afraid but you're on the right road.
--
Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.com
Shrubs & perennials. Tender & exotics.
South Devon

On 4 Aug, 23:02, Sacha wrote:

Thanks for your replies, sorry about the post title but I'm 83 and new
to this game!! Will try harder next time.

You keep going and good for you, too! *My mother is 91 and I wish I
could get her to use email because she's very deaf. *Not a hope, I'm
afraid but you're on the right road.

Well, quite. I doubt she can hear you. Try writing her a letter
about it.

Oh, and good show Billit.

The apple? There is a good chance that the the soil will have been
depleted a bit, but work it over with lots of compost and it should do
fine. To be honest, you won't be able to add enough to feed it for
life, but it will give it a good start as it gets established. Don't
forget to stake it for the first few years, either. Or to water
heavily for at least the first two years.

It's been a lot dryer in the last few years, so it might be a good
idea to install a bit of pipe near the stake - going down at least 3
foot, more if you can manage it. . The idea is to water by sticking a
hose down that, so that roots are encouraged to grow downwards rather
than along the surface. There is special perforated flexible pipe
available if you want to be posh about it. Or you can top-and-tail a
few lemonade bottles and telescope them together, and put some large
bits of stone/rubble inside to stop it collapsing as you firm the soil
against it. I've also seen people tape two bits of old guttering
together with gaffer tape and use that. Run the hose quite slowly but
for about half an hour at a time.

bobharvey writes
It's been a lot dryer in the last few years,

!!!!!!

It's been a lot wetter here. Streams which were trickles are now running
all year, celandines are taking over everywhere.
--
Kay

K wrote:
bobharvey writes
It's been a lot dryer in the last few years,

!!!!!!

It's been a lot wetter here. Streams which were trickles are now running
all year, celandines are taking over everywhere.

I'm expecting to see watercress waving at the window here in Sunny East
Anglia.

--
Rusty

bobharvey wrote:
On 4 Aug, 23:02, Sacha wrote:

Thanks for your replies, sorry about the post title but I'm 83 and new
to this game!! Will try harder next time.
You keep going and good for you, too! My mother is 91 and I wish I
could get her to use email because she's very deaf. Not a hope, I'm
afraid but you're on the right road.

Well, quite. I doubt she can hear you. Try writing her a letter
about it.

Oh, and good show Billit.

The apple? There is a good chance that the the soil will have been
depleted a bit, but work it over with lots of compost and it should do
fine. To be honest, you won't be able to add enough to feed it for
life, but it will give it a good start as it gets established. Don't
forget to stake it for the first few years, either. Or to water
heavily for at least the first two years.

It's been a lot dryer in the last few years, so it might be a good
idea to install a bit of pipe near the stake - going down at least 3
foot, more if you can manage it. . The idea is to water by sticking a
hose down that, so that roots are encouraged to grow downwards rather
than along the surface. There is special perforated flexible pipe
available if you want to be posh about it. Or you can top-and-tail a
few lemonade bottles and telescope them together, and put some large
bits of stone/rubble inside to stop it collapsing as you firm the soil
against it. I've also seen people tape two bits of old guttering
together with gaffer tape and use that. Run the hose quite slowly but
for about half an hour at a time.

Give it a lot of bones, leather (shes, handbags, etc), wool, &c in the
ottom of the hole, then mix the soil you've excavated with Bob's
compost/well-rotted manure, etc - etc might include bonemeal.

Bones, leather, wool &c release nutriens into the soil over many years -
the bigger the bones, the longer they will provide food.

I've just planted a quince, under which lies the remains of a roe deer
which was too badly damaged by some vehicle to provide any edible offcuts.

--
Rusty