Hello ladies and welcome to this thread, anyone who wishes to join in.
You are all sounding very positive about your gardening experiences, be it vegetables or flowers so hopefully we can get tips from each other.
Td you have an abundance of things growing, I think you and I were going through chemo together last year?
Rosie that is a good tip about the seeds and extending the cropping period. I know its late but I am going to do another row of parsnip seeds next week, I think the frost (and we get plenty of that here in the Dordogne) improves the flavour.
Judy your baby birds sound amazing - we get lots of birds here, even falcons and eagles, sometimes the magpies pinch the chicken eggs if I don’t get them first! Watching wildlife is wonderful, we get a lot of deer, squirrels and of course, the dreaded moles right in between the veg rows!
You are quite right Salopets, I also think wisteria is difficult to grow from a cutting, so as soon as our house is ready to move into Mr P will have to put up some type of arch/trellis for so we can buy one. We had a beautiful one in our other house, but had to leave it behind and yes, the taste of freshly picked veg is delicious - i am so looking forward to the sweetcorn.
Josie I can’t quite see the attraction that men find with fishing, but that’s just me, I think using our arms for normal activities is meant to be good for avoiding the dreaded L.
Not much news from my garden experiences this week, other than I’ve been picking up to 5 cucumbers a day. Nothing seems to be showing yet of the melons, although they have flowers. Anyone know if brushing with the cucumber pollen would do any good?
All I need to know now is how can I keep all the weeds away but still keep the veg - now that would be an invention wouldn’t it?
Take care all, hope the chemo ladies don’t suffer too much and happy gardening everyone.
P xx