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What do you mean Carol.....watch out for Eileen. :o

I'm not mad - totally and utterly sane I am. I only bay at the moon when it's full.  ;) ;)

Eileen.

Hi all

Eileen - if you only howl at the full moon, that's OK. Now if you howled at the new moon too, then I'd be worried  :)

C'Lass, I'm growing all sorts up here though not much veg at the moment. I'm trying potatoes in pots this year as well as beetroot and courgettes. I've got strawberries in one of those strange pots with the holes cut out all around the sides and a rather mean crop of morello cherries which, if previous years are anything to go by, will go down the birds' gullets before getting anywhere near ours!  Apart from that, it's all decorative stuff. I'm at that strange time where the early summer stuff is going over and the next lot aren't quite out yet! Thanks heaven for cosmos, cerinthe & sweet peas which are providing most of the colour at the moment.

All best, Iain

Hi Iain welcome aboard a4a. This may we had the most wonderful holiday in Scotland. Weshall be going back for sure.got the photos
home last week and i really miss the wonderful scenery. We were at Loch Tay so of course we visited Loch Lomand and many other places,but sadly i became quite poorly so had to come home a week early,but how i enjoyed that week we were there. :)

As for Eileen if she keeps on telling peeps she is the only sane one among us perhaps it will happen.HA HA !!!! Hi Eileen, did they let you out for the day again, you must be such a good girl. LOL!!!!!!!
cheers Rosebud. ;D

Aye aye Iain, fit like? As a NE Scotland quine masel' I ken fine fit ye've tae pit up wi' weatherwise! Wis ye drooned this past week in Buckie? Mines me on a joke fin I wis a quine at the squeal: FAR DIV HENS GING ON THEIR HOLIDAYS? BUCK BUCK BUCKIE!! (Squawk!)
Regards, Spurdie
PS This is me when I am sober!

Y'know, a large portion of the membership won't have a clue what your message was about Spurdie! To answer your question though - aye, we wiz drookit an' there's nothin worse than ha'en weet sheen! (Now there's a word, along with 'squeal' that I'd never heard of until I moved up here).

Cheers, Iain

PS: to translate - squeal=school, sheen=shoes, drookit or drooned=soaked.

Man oh man, ids fine til ken fit fowk are takkin aboot, all ye chiels and lassgies fae ae North are cheerin me up no end.  Jist another twa or three gollachs and ah'd be a happy wuman!

Bit Ah'm getting a wee bit "complex" aboot being thoct strange....

I am Rosebud, really, really good. I didn't bite nobody this week - well  - just the milkman but I buried him so no-one'll know will they?  :P

Iain - you're right I don't bay at the new moon 'cause that's when me fangs are growing!!! How come you've got sweetpeas in flower already, mine are still only about 18" high. What the heck are you feeding yours on?  ::)

Wicker - Why've you got a complex? I can understand everything you lot are saying so dinna fache yersel.  :D

Eileen.

Hi Eileen, I started the sweet peas off last autumn for the first time and I think it's worked cos they're looking healthier than any I've grown before and flowering lots. It's probably also helped that I've grown them in tubs this time. Last year I put them straight into the soil and they were awful!

All best

Iain

Picked my first bunch of Sweet Peas yesterday.....Bliss!!! Next year I think I'll go with Iain and plant autumn though.

Morello cherries Iain? How when what why TELL?! Love them to bits but never thght of growing...Info?

Love CLx
PS I LOVE Scotland...was in Stirling earlier this year with OH who spent four years there, also love Edinburgh, and up north west out of Inverness to bonar Bridge and away to the West coast.

Hi Iain,
Welcome!
Another Scot here,I live near Eileen in West Lothian,and seem to be the only Weedgie here,among all youse East Coasters!

Anyone else frum Glasgow or the West?

Toots ;D

Hi C'Lass

My cherry is planted against a west facing wall and I've had a go at training it espalier style (with, admittedly mixed success). It's three years old now and last year we had a really good crop - however we kept putting off picking them till they got 'just a little bit riper'. Obviously the birds were thinking just the same thing and on the day before we were finally going to harvest I came home to find not a single cherry left - just a lot of little red splashes all over the white wall! It was actually very funny but I think I'll be netting the tree all the same this year!  I feed it with MiracleGro and mulch it each spring with compost and it seems quite happy.

Cheers, Iain

Hi Iain and welcome from another Newbie and another Scot, although I've been living in Yorkshire for longer than I care to say. Proud to say still got original accent though  ;)

And Toots - Can't claim to be Glaswegian but did work with a lot of Glasgow folk for years - best crack ever! I'm originally from west central (between Falkirk and Kirkintilloch) so does that qualify for 'West'?

Can someone tell me please why everyone's defecting from Beeb?  Has it died or something?

Cheers
Lavender
mae the moose ne'er leave yer girnal wi a teardrap in it's e'e

Iain, I could do that! That size was it when you got it? Actually where did you get it? Want one! Love CL  :D

Hi Toots & Lavender, the Beeb are removing a messageboard which was popular with several of us - a general garden chat one as opposed to a specific topic.

CL, my cherry was about four feet high when I got it from a garden centre between Dundee and Perth. I think though you could probably find one without too much trouble at any half decent garden centre. If not, some of the specialist mail order fruit nurseries would definitely have it. I tried it because they're supposed to be quite tough. Further south it might even be OK on a north wall. It has really pretty white flowers in the spring too (I've since painted my white wall pale blue so you can see the flowers better)

Cheers, Iain

C'Lass, I have a dwarf Stella sweet cherry which I am supposed to be training as a fan/espalier.  got it just year before last when it was about 3' and put it against a sunny wall/wires.  didn't prune it properly so it budded on the trunk!  Still we got quite a lot of lovely big sweet cherries and now I know how to prune it propeerly next year they will grow where they are supposed to!  they were delicious.  Doesn't seem difficult.