Hi all, that's right I have not croaked..just can't get the dratted pooter server right.. thought I had it but the system was dreadful,just switched to a new one so fingers crossed it will be OK from now on!!!
All is well over here in Canada.
We have a lottie(actually 2) lined up for the spring,,oh what a lark though, they are 10 feet by 20 feet.. ha ha I hear you all saying, but owt is better than nowt. My 6 foot by 9 foot third floor apartment patio has some boxes on too but I doubt I will be sowing 85 varieties of squash this next year. Meanwhile I have some baby tom plants under lights just as a trial!!
I trust everyone is well and I promise I have not been ignoring you, if this server works I WILL be around putting my nose in as usual.
I have just found old PMs which I will answer in the next few days.
More news to follow.
Love to you all
XX Jeannine
Lovely to hear from you again... hope the computer doesn't play up... :)
Its good to hear all is well on the other side of the pond and that you have plans..... :D
welcome back, Jeannine. We've missed you!
Nice to see you back Jeannine. We needed you the other day to answer some squash questions ;D
Hi Jeannine
I was eyeing up my baby pumpkins the other day and thinking of you, wondering how you were getting on across the pond.
Shame about your tiny space, how are you going to manage to get all your squash in there - perhaps you will have to invent a climbing frame for them :) But on the bright side you will prob not go down to find it under 3 feet of water :P
hope you are up and running soon, we need you for your squash expertise!
xx
nice to hear things are going well, how many plots are there on the site,small but bet you get loads in there, though ;D
Good to hear from you, Jeannine - I have been wondering how things have been going :)
Nice to know ya doing well,I'm sure more plots will follow. :) but in the meantime add the two you've got to gether and you've got a 20 ft by 40 ft plot. ;D
nice to hear from you, and that all is well (apart from restricted growing area)
the cucumbers have done really well, thanks again!
do you want some russian beefsteak tom seed? ;)
Hi Jeannine, lovely to see you back online! How does the climate there compare with Hull?
Nice to hear from you girl, you keep in touch now. ;D ;D ;D
Good to hear from you, Jeannine, and that you're well, hope you'r back online soon - we've missed you :) :) :) :)
Hurray, you are back!
Was thinking of you the other day as I was picking my supersweet corn!
Hope you are settled and all's well over there
X X
Jeannine, your post was the first thing that greeted me this morning at 5.11!!! Needless to say, in your honour I've had a lazy day and read the seed catalogues instead of weeding the beds. Great to have you back! xxxxx Anne
So glad you have some growing space lined up, I can't imagine you without thinking of your 80 odd varieties of squash, some of which i have now tried on your past recommendations.
Lovely to hear from you again Jeannine. I've been wanting to thank you for the Honey Select sweetcorn seeds. I've had the best sweetcorn harvest ever this year - and I have enough seeds for next year too, so I'm well pleased.
Tricia
Glad to hear you're up and running. :)
Jeannine, Great to hear, ya! We hope you ended up with a South facing patio.
You'll probably have the best weeded plots during your deprivation.
On the other hand, it may be a good way to meet your apt. dwellers by offering them squash seeds to grow up their patio trellises.
Have you started tacking "eh" on to every sentence yet?
Hi Jeannine, nice to hear from you and that you're doing well (cept your internet!)
Am I right in remembering you are back in BC? My OH and I are flying to BC for 18 days travelling next June, perhaps afternoon tea and an A4A chit chat? ;D
Hi you all, thank you for your lovely welcome back as usual. I think I have the e mial going now so all should be well.
Manics.. there are not many plots on the site. It was originally a large farm area that was used by the local mental hospital, the long stay disabled patients went there every day. When the hospital closed down a few years ago the land was made into a park/rec area, the lotties are newish. It is set in lovely surroundings very wide grassy roads between which are maintained by the parks folk.. very pretty,there are fruit trees set all among the lawns surrounding it, the downside is that it is all open to the public. The lotties are individually fenced but only 3 foot tall picket type fencing so very easy to reach over. There is talk of opening up more of the area to lotties and making some much bigger. Odd thing is.. they only get allocated in February so even if one becomes free it sits idle till then.We are allowed up to 6, but only 1 for the first year.. however I was lucky and the organiser thought he was OK to give me 2 as he said I sounded like a gardener and it wasn't a whim which they get a lot of. There are hose pipes to every site which is great. It is on the net.. Colony Farm.
GrannieAnnie..drats no, my patio sadly faces north, I have a superb view of mountains but not a lot of light. I did manage Tumbler toms in hanging baskets though. No, I am not adding eh yet.. cheeky monkey!! Most of the other redidents here are white haired with little hope of growing anything.. and there is a smashing flat roof in full sun. I have tried to get permission to use it but no one voted with me, they thought the roof would leak!!
Caroline.. the climate on the whole is much warmer than Hull, it has cooled now but the temps were pushing 88F for a few weeks. I still have all the windows and patio door open even now.
SamLouise.. yes I am back in BC, just outside Vancouver on the coast.. place called Coquitlam. and yes, tea would be great, let me know when you are coming and your itinery and we will work something out.
Tony bloke,, thank you for the offer of seeds, very tempting but I think I should pass, I have so many and very little chance of using most of them. I had them all out the other day.. we had packed them around evry thing you can imagine, inside shoes, teapots, handbags etc.. it was really funny when we unpacked, but they are together agin now and well organised.Just before I left the UK I got some seeds from Australia which travelled in my bra!!! They were Galapogos toms..from the island of the same name and grow in salty areas..neat eh!!
I am surrounded by all kinds of growers and get can get a lot of things direct. We drove to an orchard farm the other day and actually got Bramley apples.. unheard of here.. also some smashing crab apples that were brillian red right through to the core.. now turned into apple jelly. I have managed to do most of my usual preserves except green tom chutney but I have found a source for the toms for next week. It was exciting picking brambles as we did it on the edge of a forest close by, the bears come out of there to our garbage bins so I found myself looking over my shoulder a lot! Sad thing is they have built a lot of millionare homes across the road up the mountain and sadly many of the bears have lost there habitat so they come into the bins and fruit trees in gardens. There was a picture in the local paper last week taken about half a mile away of a Mummy bear with two cubs in a garden eating the apples.
We are glad to be back, it is much easier for us to live here than the UK. I am not knocking Britain but we fit in here better.
We have thw apartment more or less how we want it so I guess I will be looking for volunteer work soon or I will go stir crazy!!
Highlight of my week... I got a huge live Alaskan King crab from the Oriental supermarket, cooked it myself.. it was so good,ah too good, cost a fortune but it was a real treat.
Well I think that is all for now.. lovely io be back online
XX Jeannine
Really glad everything has worked out for you both, I'm sure you'll find an ingenious way for making your balcony work for you... good to see you posting again.
Corinne X
Glad everything is going well for you Jeannine. I have been wondering how you and John were settling in.
Good to hear you have two lotties, even if they are small. Once you have them organised I am sure you will be given some more plots.
Welcome back. :D
About roof gardening- just wondering if all the pots were placed on some type of trough that could lead the water into a downspout over the roof edge. I mean, really, what does the flat roof do when it rains?
;D ;D ;D Hiya hunny ;D ;D ;D
Lovely to hear from you and your adventure so far........ooh bears, eating apples in gardens :o!! Tis all a bit scary, no wonder you keep looking over your shoulder. I do that here, but its to try and catch a glimpse of the mole 8)
Im so pleased you have settled in your new home, lets hope the winter is not too cold out there. Just a tad chillier than here I expect :D :D xx
He hey! Well I've been a stranger for a while too (studies) so really good to see you posting on one of my first forays back!
Bestest luck, bonne chance and all that!
CL xx