Weird discoveries today. The sort that my head tells me just cannot
be. In no particular order ...

My first mystery is why the max/min thermometer in a greenhouse is
saying that sometime after 2.00 pm yesterday, when I reset it to
record the overnight min, the temp shot up to 35C. I've checked it
against another one today and it's currently showing the correct temp.

My second mystery is why all of my tomato plants have keeled over
overnight. They look like something has flattened the stem about an
inch above compost level and they have flopped over at that point. The
stems aren't chewed, just flattened. They were fine yesterday (FWIW
they were in the conservatory not the greenhouse so didn't get
"baked")

My third mystery was when letting the cat out early this morning.
There in the porch was the neatly severed head of a mouse staring up
at me. It wasn't there when the cat came in. So has some other cat in
the vicinity been watching "The Godfather"? And is that cat able to
achieve a "clean" decapitation? It really looked like the head had
been cut off with a knife. The cat just hissed at it, turned around,
walked through the house and went out through the back door! I think
he knows something! By the time I'd got dressed and went out to remove
the head it had gone.

And finally, I applied some granular weed and feed to the back lawn a
week or so ago. Looking at it today there are two "tramlines" in the
lawn looking like missed strips. But why are they at right angles to
the direction I walked in when spreading the granular stuff?

I have asked the local hospital to send a couple of white coated chaps
along in an unmarked van! You may not hear from me for a while!

Cheers, Jake
=======================================
Urgling from the sunny and refreshingly green
east end of Swansea Bay.

Jake wrote in
:

Weird discoveries today. The sort that my head tells me just cannot
be. In no particular order ...

My first mystery is why the max/min thermometer in a greenhouse is
saying that sometime after 2.00 pm yesterday, when I reset it to
record the overnight min, the temp shot up to 35C. I've checked it
against another one today and it's currently showing the correct temp.

My second mystery is why all of my tomato plants have keeled over
overnight. They look like something has flattened the stem about an
inch above compost level and they have flopped over at that point. The
stems aren't chewed, just flattened. They were fine yesterday (FWIW
they were in the conservatory not the greenhouse so didn't get
"baked")

My third mystery was when letting the cat out early this morning.
There in the porch was the neatly severed head of a mouse staring up
at me. It wasn't there when the cat came in. So has some other cat in
the vicinity been watching "The Godfather"? And is that cat able to
achieve a "clean" decapitation? It really looked like the head had
been cut off with a knife. The cat just hissed at it, turned around,
walked through the house and went out through the back door! I think
he knows something! By the time I'd got dressed and went out to remove
the head it had gone.

And finally, I applied some granular weed and feed to the back lawn a
week or so ago. Looking at it today there are two "tramlines" in the
lawn looking like missed strips. But why are they at right angles to
the direction I walked in when spreading the granular stuff?

I have asked the local hospital to send a couple of white coated chaps
along in an unmarked van! You may not hear from me for a while!

Cheers, Jake
=======================================
Urgling from the sunny and refreshingly green
east end of Swansea Bay.


Fatwa?
Or maybe the Maffia could not afford a horses head?
It could of coure be Shergar who has been hijacked and returned by the
Baka tribe?
Your cat might have p****d on your tomato plants.

Baz

On Sun, 15 Apr 2012 14:04:15 GMT, Baz wrote:


Fatwa?
Or maybe the Maffia could not afford a horses head?
It could of coure be Shergar who has been hijacked and returned by the
Baka tribe?
Your cat might have p****d on your tomato plants.

Baz

Who knows - just weird stuff all round!

I can at least rule out cat as source of tomato probs - he's not
allowed in the conservatory when plants are growing in it because he
loves to curl up on the trays.

I'm thinking it's probably too late to sow new seeds now so will
probably buy established plants from a local nursery. I'd just love to
know why they all keeled over like they did last night.

I've got two standard roses on which the tops are nice and green but
have no sign of buds, let alone bursting buds. But they've decided to
sprout all up the stems this year. My pear tree has produced a clump
of leaves at the very top of the topmost branch but otherwise seems
lifeless - lower branches snap off easily and are totally dead. My
4-year-old morello cherry tree has separated at the graft so that's
this year's Black Forest Gateaux plans down the pan! I just don't know
what the world's coming to! Even the Tulameens are behaving badly - 5
foot canes with a pair of leaves at the very top and nowt else below -
they have been reliable for years. I'm playing safe and have a new
batch of primo-canes on order so at least I'll have fruit this year.

I've sowed a pack of T&M potentilla seeds which have come up looking
very much like tanacetum (I can say that because I sowed a pack of
tanacetum a couple of months ago and they're growing on in the
greenhouse) and a pack of rudbeckia which look remarkably like
amaranthus to me. The laugh is that I love amaranthus but have never
before been able to grow them successfully. So if they grow from a
mislabeled pack that'll be a double first for me!

On the plus side, I've got some little strawberries developing - can't
remember seeing flowers though.

Cheers, Jake
=======================================
Urgling from the asylum formerly known as the
dry end of Swansea Bay.