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ok folks hold onto your hats I' m off to the lottie to plant out sweetcorns, courgettes, pumpkins and maybe a couple of tomatoes.  Please keep all your bits crossed that we have no more frosts!

No, we can't have any more frosts............can we!?!

Currently 22 degrees and sun...sun.. sunny in Worcester but who knows eh?

Going to be humid in Essex tomoz, then damp over the weekend.  I really need the rain on the plot - it is like a dust bowl!  Happy planting.  I will be plonking out another 10 toms and 22 squashes tomorrow, on an already overcrowed plot!

foto yer plot ej!show us-youre an inspiration girl! ;)

Justy - I hope you managed to get them all in !  ::) ;D

So you are from Worcester? We travel down that way on a mad greengage mission!!! We are mad for them!!!

they are in!  We had loads of rain last weekend and yet the top of my 'soil' is like a layer of concrete!  But carrots are coming through nicely, peas are forming flowers and strawberries are starting to develop fruit so pretty chuffed now!

Gunnerbee - are greengages renowed this way then?  Can honestly say never had one and don't know if I would know one if it bit me on the bum.  ;D

Watch the temperature on Sunday night it looks it could be cold :o

Rosemary

You have carrots.............how did ya do that??? so envious! D..the carrot non grower..P!!   Well done Justy

I am desperate to get things in the lottie all  have been hardening off a week plus the runners are taken over outside conservoty window son says its a jungle.
Its not just the frost it the wind which is burning plants.  I am on the edge of lottment so whips across will be a couple of years before blackcurrents make a good wind break.

dunno about that Kitty, but will take my camera and bore you all rigid with some snaps tomoz.

You have all spurred me on, so today took the plunge and we have planted some courgettes and our sweet corn.  Next week it will be my squashes peas and dwarf french beans.  My greenhouse is full to the brim with plants just waiting to go in.

My husband's carrots  are coming up - he is so jammy, he planted his in an old plastic bucket, don't know how he does it.  Have yet to sow mine, but the pressure is on now that he has managed it.  Some greenery showing in my parsnip bed but I don't know yet if it is weeds or parsnips.  Fabulous day today, hot and sunny. Could this be the start of summer?  Please don't mention the word "frost" Rosemary.

Hope you get your rain EJ, I know you haven't got a secure supply of water so must be tricky sometimes.  Looking forward to your pics, though you always make me green with envy at your lush plot,  it  always seem months ahead of ours up in the chilly North.  :) busy_lizzie

is it a good sign the council put out all its bedding on roundabouts etc. ? 8)

Your council puts bedding on roundabouts!  Where do you live?  Where I live they leave it to volunteers to do the work and pay for everything, including metallurgy surveys of their lamp posts.  Our main roundabout was just awful - just a mess of weeds and chevron signs so we landscaped it and planted it with all year round heathers and we have folks queueing up to sponsor it.  The county council came back at us saying that the heathers had no relationship with the surrounding landscape.  In reply we just blew them a raspberry  ;D

good for you wardy!
our county council are absolutely bonkers about trimming and pruning things to within an inch of their lives-very regimental..... :(

I left my hanging baskets out for the first time last night :o
I was so worried about them....lol

Still got my sweetcorn waiting to go out, as a first timer for sweet corn, i dont want to lose them.

As for bedding on roundabouts, our local roundabout wins prizes for its bedding plants and landscape efforts, and very nice if looks too  ;

Although about five years ago, they did this fancy display with rocks, i liked it, it looked quite nice, but someone decided to have a laugh and they moved in :o
He camped amongst the landscape, and put a large sign up saying "BEDROCK"
It was hysterical, it went on for weeks until he was evicted  ;D  ;D  ;D

well, we go to the fruit growers around that way Evesham, worcester all the roadside markets, my mum and dad used to take us there as kids, and we now take our kids there!!!! Greengages are beautiful, never seem to be able to get them from shops anymore they are aug/sept time.

Honeybee  ;D ;D  Someone drove over ours and took the chevrons, plants, mulch, black plastic, the lot  ;D ;D  Cost us a fortune to put right!  No compo as no-one caught.  Ah well it looks ok again now. 

Quote from: kitty on May 27, 2005, 08:33:17
good for you wardy!
our county council are absolutely bonkers about trimming and pruning things to within an inch of their lives-very regimental..... :(

Aye - but they have produced nice roundabouts in the past using bedding plants.  However, they do have the view that roundabouts are obsolete and have spent the past few years digging them up and installing traffic lights and tidal flow systems.  Still a few to go though - I think the next one will be South Park - near the Lincoln City Football Ground  :)
Yes another excuse for UP THE IMPS - We're on our way to Cardiff.....!!! ;D