Busy-Lizzie

One very happy Birthday Girl:))))

Happy birthday. I'm lucky too, parcel arrived the other day and it was the RHS encyclopedia of plants - a non- birthday present surprise from OH! I put this on another post so sorry for repeating myself.

How tidy is your garden?

Verdun, I saw the photos of your beautiful garden, which was very tidy. But, do you have to do the housework and cooking and go out to work? I don't do the last, retired.

So long as the veg garden grows food, I don't mind and I put weed supressant fabric over as much as possible, which helps keep moisture in as well in our hot summers. I prefer the flower garden to be tidy, but there just aren't enough hours in the day if I want to do other things too.

March in your Garden

I've used various sorts of weedkiller over the years on a patch of ivy that I didn't plant and don't want and it hasn't worked.

MOB rants

I don't think it's so much the length of the T-shirt - it's the width once it gets to tummy and bottom, doesn't allow for the gentle curves of the female derriere!

repairing lawn with seed

Centuri, we had enough for several snowmen!

Fork Handles

Morning all. I've been wanting to sow my broad beans, but huge wind 2 days ago, rain yesterday, sunny and warm today, but drop in temp forecast for next week with light snow on Monday. Should I sow them or not? Plants are hardy (but not hardy enough for winters here) but will the seeds rot if they get cold? The later you leave it the worse the blackfly.

Will be out this evening , helping organise charity quiz, with meal for cancer support and homeless. France may be a socialist state with bigger benefits than the UK. but if your paperwork isn't in order and you don't have an address you get nothing. Beggers in Périgueux.

MOB rants

O bother, when next in England (April) Iwas hoping to get some sensible length T-shirts in M&S. In France they've gone long and thin which outlines my tummy and, having had 4 children, I would rather they didn't. I have to get jeans in M&S as the French ones are all hipsters which slide off when I walk.

Flowers we don't like?

Did someone call me plastic? I think I like all flowers except ones with artificial colouring in them. There were some very bright blue orchids in the GC which looked plastic. I'm sure they weren't meant to be that colour.

finding my threads

You can send messages to another person using their nick name on this forum so that only they will get it, not everyone else.

It Is Not Spring Yet !!!

We have snow forecast for next week, starting Monday.

Gardens we have visited 2013

no emails as well as small text

Cleaning greenhouses

Rose pruning and frost

reviews

Why did you all start gardening?

uploading photos