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I think spring really has sprung today. In the last hour in the garden I’ve seen 4 cabbage white butterflies, a family of long-tailed tits, Mr & Mrs Blackbird are building a nest in the Kilmarnock Willow, the robins are cheeping merrily away inthe ditch, the woods are alive with birdsong, and to really make me smile, a pair of wrens are tending a nest in the honeysuckle… The daffodils are in flower and it’s 13deg!_________________

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I think spring really has sprung today. In the last hour in the garden I’ve seen 4 cabbage white butterflies, a family of long-tailed tits, Mr & Mrs Blackbird are building a nest in the Kilmarnock Willow, the robins are cheeping merrily away inthe ditch, the woods are alive with birdsong, and to really make me smile, a pair of wrens are tending a nest in the honeysuckle… The daffodils are in flower and it’s 13deg!_________________

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I think spring really has sprung today. In the last hour in the garden I’ve seen 4 cabbage white butterflies, a family of long-tailed tits, Mr & Mrs Blackbird are building a nest in the Kilmarnock Willow, the robins are cheeping merrily away inthe ditch, the woods are alive with birdsong, and to really make me smile, a pair of wrens are tending a nest in the honeysuckle… The daffodils are in flower and it’s 13deg!_________________

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We have a climbing rose (Which I shall find out the name of when S-W-K-E returns from cutting firewood) which usually manages to save at least one flower for Christmas day. The bulbs which stay in year on year will find their own level as some multiply by producing a new bulb on top of the old one, and others by producing smaller bulbs around the base of the old one. As for the gardener bloke, I can only assume he takes out a whole section of bed to the required depth, puts in his first layer, covers them over and adds the next layer.

Too much like hard work for me, but this guy is serious. (He has several national collections of plants.)

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We have a climbing rose (Which I shall find out the name of when S-W-K-E returns from cutting firewood) which usually manages to save at least one flower for Christmas day. The bulbs which stay in year on year will find their own level as some multiply by producing a new bulb on top of the old one, and others by producing smaller bulbs around the base of the old one. As for the gardener bloke, I can only assume he takes out a whole section of bed to the required depth, puts in his first layer, covers them over and adds the next layer.

Too much like hard work for me, but this guy is serious. (He has several national collections of plants.)

Time Team Forum Friends :: View topic – Bulbs

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We have a climbing rose (Which I shall find out the name of when S-W-K-E returns from cutting firewood) which usually manages to save at least one flower for Christmas day. The bulbs which stay in year on year will find their own level as some multiply by producing a new bulb on top of the old one, and others by producing smaller bulbs around the base of the old one. As for the gardener bloke, I can only assume he takes out a whole section of bed to the required depth, puts in his first layer, covers them over and adds the next layer.

Too much like hard work for me, but this guy is serious. (He has several national collections of plants.)

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Prasutagus

Joined: 10 Jun 2005Posts: 139

Location: Buckinghamshire

Posted: Mon Dec 26, 2005 7:29 pm    Post subject:

humus wrote:
ps. how long do you cook sprouts as i’m doing some for myself later in the week?
(changing from micrwave meals to real carrotts,sprouts, etc)

Boil for 20 mins for nicely cooked and firm, 25-30 if you like them on the softer side._________________

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Posted: Thu Dec 29, 2005 7:41 am    Post subject:

One of the first things I enjoyed most about cooking my own first Christmas dinner – NO SPROUTS!

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Posted: Thu Dec 29, 2005 3:02 pm    Post subject:

Jenni wrote:
One of the first things I enjoyed most about cooking my own first Christmas dinner – NO SPROUTS!

Kwiky Micro Turkey & chicken joints 9 mins, WITH GRAVEY bit big for one but hack it in half and sling in the freezer, jobs a good un

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Sue H

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Location: Warrington

Posted: Thu Dec 29, 2005 9:52 pm    Post subject:

I had something like that yesterday – got a pack of two fillet chicken wrapped around sausages with bacon. Couldn’t seem to prise the two apart so cooked both and ate them both – felt a right pig but it was worth it

Jenni

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Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2006 7:45 am    Post subject:

I’m afraid I’m still pretty hopeless at judging vegetable quantities for one . I seem to end up with a great pile of veggies and not much room left for the meat! Still, at least my dog’s happy with the leftovers! It’s been several days now since he’s had to eat dog food.

durotrigian

Joined: 11 Jun 2005Posts: 450

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Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2006 12:23 pm    Post subject:

I overdo it to but like a great pile of veggies and scoff the lot! They are nutritous anyway and all brassicas have goodie goodie chemicals in them too.

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I’m afraid I’m still pretty hopeless at judging vegetable quantities for one . I seem to end up with a great pile of veggies and not much room left for the meat! Still, at least my dog’s happy with the leftovers! It’s been several days now since he’s had to eat dog food.

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Prasutagus

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Posted: Mon Dec 26, 2005 7:29 pm    Post subject:

humus wrote:
ps. how long do you cook sprouts as i’m doing some for myself later in the week?
(changing from micrwave meals to real carrotts,sprouts, etc)

Boil for 20 mins for nicely cooked and firm, 25-30 if you like them on the softer side._________________

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humus

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Jenni

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Posted: Thu Dec 29, 2005 7:41 am    Post subject:

One of the first things I enjoyed most about cooking my own first Christmas dinner – NO SPROUTS!

humus

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Posted: Thu Dec 29, 2005 3:02 pm    Post subject:

Jenni wrote:
One of the first things I enjoyed most about cooking my own first Christmas dinner – NO SPROUTS!

Kwiky Micro Turkey & chicken joints 9 mins, WITH GRAVEY bit big for one but hack it in half and sling in the freezer, jobs a good un

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Sue H

Joined: 17 Jun 2005Posts: 237

Location: Warrington

Posted: Thu Dec 29, 2005 9:52 pm    Post subject:

I had something like that yesterday – got a pack of two fillet chicken wrapped around sausages with bacon. Couldn’t seem to prise the two apart so cooked both and ate them both – felt a right pig but it was worth it

Jenni

Joined: 10 Jun 2005Posts: 116

Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2006 7:45 am    Post subject:

I’m afraid I’m still pretty hopeless at judging vegetable quantities for one . I seem to end up with a great pile of veggies and not much room left for the meat! Still, at least my dog’s happy with the leftovers! It’s been several days now since he’s had to eat dog food.

durotrigian

Joined: 11 Jun 2005Posts: 450

Location: Tollandune, near Gislandune

Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2006 12:23 pm    Post subject:

I overdo it to but like a great pile of veggies and scoff the lot! They are nutritous anyway and all brassicas have goodie goodie chemicals in them too.

Jenni wrote:
I’m afraid I’m still pretty hopeless at judging vegetable quantities for one . I seem to end up with a great pile of veggies and not much room left for the meat! Still, at least my dog’s happy with the leftovers! It’s been several days now since he’s had to eat dog food.

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Prasutagus

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Posted: Mon Dec 26, 2005 7:29 pm    Post subject:

humus wrote:
ps. how long do you cook sprouts as i’m doing some for myself later in the week?
(changing from micrwave meals to real carrotts,sprouts, etc)

Boil for 20 mins for nicely cooked and firm, 25-30 if you like them on the softer side._________________

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humus

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Jenni

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Posted: Thu Dec 29, 2005 7:41 am    Post subject:

One of the first things I enjoyed most about cooking my own first Christmas dinner – NO SPROUTS!

humus

Joined: 12 Jun 2005Posts: 606

Posted: Thu Dec 29, 2005 3:02 pm    Post subject:

Jenni wrote:
One of the first things I enjoyed most about cooking my own first Christmas dinner – NO SPROUTS!

Kwiky Micro Turkey & chicken joints 9 mins, WITH GRAVEY bit big for one but hack it in half and sling in the freezer, jobs a good un

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Sue H

Joined: 17 Jun 2005Posts: 237

Location: Warrington

Posted: Thu Dec 29, 2005 9:52 pm    Post subject:

I had something like that yesterday – got a pack of two fillet chicken wrapped around sausages with bacon. Couldn’t seem to prise the two apart so cooked both and ate them both – felt a right pig but it was worth it

Jenni

Joined: 10 Jun 2005Posts: 116

Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2006 7:45 am    Post subject:

I’m afraid I’m still pretty hopeless at judging vegetable quantities for one . I seem to end up with a great pile of veggies and not much room left for the meat! Still, at least my dog’s happy with the leftovers! It’s been several days now since he’s had to eat dog food.

durotrigian

Joined: 11 Jun 2005Posts: 450

Location: Tollandune, near Gislandune

Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2006 12:23 pm    Post subject:

I overdo it to but like a great pile of veggies and scoff the lot! They are nutritous anyway and all brassicas have goodie goodie chemicals in them too.

Jenni wrote:
I’m afraid I’m still pretty hopeless at judging vegetable quantities for one . I seem to end up with a great pile of veggies and not much room left for the meat! Still, at least my dog’s happy with the leftovers! It’s been several days now since he’s had to eat dog food.

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Prasutagus

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Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2005 5:30 pm    Post subject:

Strewth – I get dozens of them and have done for years! Never thought they were anything special._________________

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Nish

Joined: 16 Jun 2005Posts: 332

Location: Near Maldon, Essex

Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2005 7:11 pm    Post subject:

Likewise, but only in the last couple of years. They are pretty though. And we now get hummingbird moths regularly too – arrivals about two years ago. Amazing to watch_________________

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Sue H

Joined: 17 Jun 2005Posts: 237

Location: Warrington

Posted: Thu Dec 29, 2005 10:11 pm    Post subject:

Can anybody identify what grew in the plantpot that I had taken the summer annuals out of? I know it is a weed but it is very pretty .

PS it is not the fungi at the bottom

Valerie

Joined: 09 Jun 2005Posts: 364

Location: Paisley, Scotland

Posted: Thu Dec 29, 2005 10:15 pm    Post subject:

Looks suspiciously like a lobelia to me, Sue!

Sue H

Joined: 17 Jun 2005Posts: 237

Location: Warrington

Posted: Thu Dec 29, 2005 10:21 pm    Post subject:

Thanks Valerie. I had been flicking through my book of weeds for hours without success but then I am quite impatient with it

Valerie

Joined: 09 Jun 2005Posts: 364

Location: Paisley, Scotland

Posted: Thu Dec 29, 2005 10:57 pm    Post subject:

Not a weed though – people pay good money to the likes of fish to buy these bedding plants each year

humus

Joined: 12 Jun 2005Posts: 606

durotrigian

Joined: 11 Jun 2005Posts: 450

Location: Tollandune, near Gislandune

Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2005 10:36 pm    Post subject:

I didn’t clear out a couple of planters and window boxes last year and poked unconvincingly at a few “weeds” in the summer months – just the same as you they turned out to be lobelias too; the little critters must self sow from the previous years plants._________________

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Tetricus

Joined: 09 Jun 2005Posts: 526

Location: South-East Essex

Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2005 10:41 pm    Post subject:

There is also a trailing variety, for your hanging basket.

ooban

Joined: 30 Jul 2005Posts: 281

Location: North Wales

Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2005 11:00 pm    Post subject:

Yes, I had a trailing one with pale mauve flowers in one of my window boxes this year – it must have sowed itself from last year’s hanging basket nearby. The seeds are so tiny that they could easily be wind-blown.

melter

Joined: 10 Jun 2005Posts: 573

Location: Sheffield

Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2005 12:00 am    Post subject:

FLIPPIN’ WIBBLE!!!!_________________

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humus

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Sue H

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Location: Warrington

Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2006 9:45 pm    Post subject:

They must be wind blown seeds then because I certainly didn’t plant them unless they came with the job lot of plants from the Scouts but I am sure I would have remembered something that pretty.

humus

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Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2006 12:33 pm    Post subject:

i have a specimin that was in a hanging basket but is now in several other places including the edge of the drain from the sink. the thing is it can dry out and when watered it springs back to life so im keeping it._________________

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melter

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Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2006 7:54 pm    Post subject:

humus wrote:
Sommit wrong Darling?

I was trying to hit the 7000 post mark, prior to midnight, and couldn’t think of anything else to post! There was only me on the forum at the time, so intelligent conversation was out of the question!!

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