Topic: Sayings T'wixt gardeners.

[kenkew]

Anyone got local 'sayings' that make some sort of sense? How about rhymes to remember planting times or seed keeping tips or harvesting tips in ways that can be remembered?
One oldie from my father-in-Law was, ..."I'll help thee, an' thee helps me, then we help him, an' that mak's three".

[Tenuse]

I'm sure Gavin's got one about sitting bare-arsed on the soil if you look back a few threads...

Ten x

[Doris_Pinks]

14th May, runner bean day!

[gavin]

Thank you, Tenuse!

The "Yorkshire bare-arse" test;  'If you can bare your bum and sit on the soil, it's warm enough to sow.'

On weed roots - "If it's white, get the ***** out"

And Hugh's (I like this one -) - "The early brid catches the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese!"

All best - Gavin

[Colin_Bellamy-Wood]

My Boss, a Yorkshire man, used to say :

Nobody's perfect, except thee and me, and I've heard a thing or two said about thee...

[Hugh_Jones]

An old agricultural maxim - "The best fertilizer is the toe of the farmer`s boot".

And dear old Marsh Marigold trotted out some rather out-of-the-way ones in the Shed last autumn

[Ceri]

There's a time for everything and its normally last week

[gavin]

And another "The best weedkiller - the gardener's shadow".

All best - Gavin

[The gardener]

Gavin?........ how do you go on if you are a Chernoble refugee. Do you take the high, low or average reading?  ;D

[gilgamesh]

"Parsley only grows where the woman wears the trousers".

Plant Parsley on Good Friday.

"Parsley only grows where the man wears horns".

"The bigger the boot, the better the gardner".

[Multiveg]

Boxing day - traditional day for sowing onions (probably more for show, and those big ones such as The Kelsae)

[Ricky]

Ok I'm a newbie  ;D but one saying is "One for the rook, one for the crow, one to rot and one to grow" old farmer saying I'm told. 8)

[Lavender]

Just spotted this thread - reminded me of something I read.  Italian vegetable growers (don't know if they call them allotmenteers) have a saying which translates roughly to ...  'the earth is low'.  When you're bent double planting leeks ... you can say that again mate  ;D

[Bionic Wellies]

One from Hampshire ...

Oak before Ash - prepare for a spalsh (little rain)
Ash before Oak - prepare for a soak (loadsa rain)

[eileen]

"Never cast a cloot 'till May is oot." Old Scottish saying. Hardly appropriate though considering the blistering heat we had here in May!!!

[Tenuse]

Yes but by "May" they don't mean the month of May, they mean "When the hawthorn is in flower" (May is another name for Hawthorn).

I have never worked out what a clout is though, does it mean don't take your coat off, or don't start digging????

Ten x

[busy_lizzie]

Ten, Think it means the layers of clothing you wore during the winter.  In the days when we didn't have central heating and used to wear half a dozen woolies in the winter to keep warm.  

I remember when I was a little girl and you had to wear loads of layers including "liberty bodices", anyone remember them?  It was so cold in our house we had to get our clothes on under the bedclothes and same at night when we were taking them off.  Jack Frost hardened on the inside of the window panes.  The settee pushed up as far as it would go to the coal fire (our only form of heating.) If you needed to go into the kitchen it was like a trip to the North Pole.  

Curtains up at the doors for the draft and home made draft excluders at the bottom.  Some posh people in our Street even had winter curtains and summer curtains.  You also had to throw a couple of extra coats on the bed to keep the chill off at night. Thats when it was the "Grim North".   ::) busy_lizzie

[kenkew]

.........and don't forget the outside loo with pieces of damp newspaper hung on a nail at the back of the door!

[Mrs Ava]

Ooo I shall tell my nan she is posh - she has summer and winter curtains, and me being a good old fashioned girl,   ::) we still have a curtain at the door to keep the drafts out....or is it to keep the giraffes out?

Oh dear, it has been a long week   :-\

[Wicker]

Liberty bodices, Liberty bodices with the rubber buttons!! And the scarf crossed in front and pinned at the back, pixies and navy gym knickers with a pocket. :o

Wandered off the thread again, sorry.  Please return to normal service and make allowances for the elderly ::)