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Gardening Grandma wrote (see)

I'm not that old, Frank! Didn't I tell you I was 27?

About the age I feel this morning G/G with a couple of "0" on the end, better go back to bed and get out the otherside.

Frank.

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G/G "fire breathing dragon"???? Then I met you in Bridgend, where you Nesta's mother?

Frank.

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G/G, that is OK I was the child dad, my Daughter said she remembered the coronation, George V "hm" "err" I think? Saying that I have had a full and free life up to meeting Joan so may well have sown seed in Scotland then of course eaten it as Porridge, I am having some now with prunes.
Rant, it said on the tin "pitted prunes, may contain stones"??? how mad is this world getting.

Frank

What's the weather like in your area?

Stockton sunny although the wind is biting. Both lawns had first cut and trim so they will be feeling it.
Shopping for compost and seed today time to start, better late than lose everything by being too early.

Frank.

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The plant that put a smile on my face all winter was the Primula Vulgaris or Primrose as we know it, an outdoor border plant that started as one plant given to me years ago and divided every year set along a border I can see from the bedroom when I open the curtains. Even in the coldest weather they were smiling their acid yellow smiles at me and it lifts your spirits no end. As soon as the flowers die down I will sort clean divide and replant them, wonderful and all from a single gift.
My Nursery is a couple of miles up the back lane and from two greenhouses there are now fields of them. They grow all the usual sell quick plants although they do have specialised plants as well.
Along the same lane some of the farms have also started to sell plants, usually the Farmers sons or daughters trying to make a living, several of them are doing well and like Nine Acres they are making progress as Fairygirl says an affluent area.
Saying that I did read it as Effluent thinking I will not visit her then.

Frank.

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Fairygirl?Daughter, of course I do not shout at the TV that would be daft, there is no thought behind some of those vapid programmes so what is the point. Spell check someone has worked on it thinking we are all idiots, I like to prove them wrong then give myself a cheer, odd? what is odd about that?
When you have sat in a conference for a plant shut down listening to the Graduate Engineers come up with weird and wonderful solutions experience tells you will not work, you do enjoy coming up with the easy solution and watching their faces.

Frank.

What's the weather like in your area?

Stockton sunny and bright, still that nip in the air from the easterly wind though.

Frank.

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G/G, I hope you did not flood them when you got them home, damping the soil or fibre with tepid water and letting the bulb slowly recover is the way to go says he who rescues Daughters bulbs on a weekly basis.
I saw people in the S/Market yesterday buying well over the top plants though some one had watered them, I was thinking I hope you are buying them for next year and not to throw out when the flower drops in a couple of days.
We have very good garden centres around us and a couple of first class nurseries just up the lane why buy in supermarkets I ask?

Frank.

itchy fingers

Darren if it were me I would drop them into a nursery bed clearly marked and let them grow some root then in Autumn lift them and plant them in the position you want them to be.
If you do not have a nursery bed then deep pots will do and then the same come Autumn.
Some may leaf up and even flower but do not expect much for a year.

Frank.

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Fairygirl/Daughter, the one and only reason I use spell check is because it gives me a sense of beaten the b@#@#@# when the box comes up saying "there are no spelling mistakes in your post". The neighbours although detached and out at work this time of day probably hear my yell of "got you you s@~@" as you get older pleasures get simpler. Well that is my excuse!!!

Frank.

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