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Can I please take this opportunity to remind those people making-up hanging baskets. Please,please, do not forget to add water retaining crystals and feeding granuals to your compost. We expect these to last throughout the summer to Sept/Oct. and they need a helping hand to survive.
Many thanks, and happy gardening. May your baskets live long.
Julia in Derbyshire

is it too early to do them Julia I am itching to do mine

i have 13 do gonna be busy in the next few weeks

Hayley do you have a frost free place to keep them overnight?

I HAVE TOMATOES IN ONE AND STRAWBERRYS
IN OTHER

Hayley, I have been doing mine over the week-end, which prompted me to make the reminder. I leave mine in the greenhouse now, until about the end of May, to make root, and get established. There is no heat over-night in the greenhouse.
Julia in Derbyshire

no not really I dont have a porch or green house

lol sorry Julia, but every time I hear the words Hanging Baskets I think of a very funny risque thread someone called Ben Nevis had going some years back....it was so funny...*falls off runner beans at the memory.....XXBC

OOOW - BC, can't you bring up that thread. I am sure we could all do with something to makes us laugh on a Monday afternoon LOLOL
Julia in Derbyshire

PS And watch them bloomin' runner beans!!!!!

Have looked for it, Julia, but he must have deleted. He was cheeky but very funny.....pmsl.....

Julia all my baskets are well established now as we have to take a chance and move them out this weekend. We did it last year and they were fine but I wouldn't risk it if I lived further north. Our neighbour looks after them but they don't take them in at all as there are too many.

water retaining crystals ??
feeding granules ??

*looks out at her sad thirsty plants* I did water them this morning but they are dry again

BC, perhaps a good thing you can't find it ,if it is risque. Wouldn't want you getting a holiday in garden season LOLOL
Julia in Derbyshire

Ann, it is always, at this time of year, a question of 'shall I, or shan't I' when it comes to putting the baskets out. Here in Derbyshire, it can still be abit risky.
I wouldn't want my neighbour looking after mine, not when I look in her garden and see nothing but a healthy crop of Dandilions. Idle madam
LOLOL
Julia in Derbyshire

Our neighbours are great Julia except they do occasionally over water them a bit. But when you think how often we are away and they never mind. We do look after theirs when they are away but that is only a couple of weeks a year.

Is that a dare regarding the ben nevis thread?....( I have some of it c&p'd.......)

LOL
Might be able to pm it......LOL
Bob

Original Added by Ben Nevis on 18/07/2005 23:03:45
hanging baskets
how are yours getting on anybody got really lovely ones my wife looks after ours there begining to fall down about 12inches now and the flowers are looking great

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Added by Buttercup Fields on 18/07/2005 23:05:13 ...mine are wilting tonight, Ben.......XX BC

Added by Nana Anna on 18/07/2005 23:07:43 I keep feeding them up and now they are overflowing the balcony!

Anna

Added by Dizzy, still looking! , Yes Still! on 18/07/2005 23:10:32 I have been watering mine 4 times a day and they are absolutely beautiful, everyone in street commenting, all looks great but boy are the weeds growing fast this year !!!!!

Added by Buttercup Fields on 18/07/2005 23:11:57 ...think I need a sprinkler on mine :) BC

Added by Ben Nevis on 18/07/2005 23:12:15 i like you dizzy lol

Added by Ben Nevis on 18/07/2005 23:13:02 bc behave now

Added by Anne from Scotland on 18/07/2005 23:17:36 Ben
my two storey house is now a bungalow!!!! lol

so many flowers blooming at the one time!!!!

Annexx

Added by Joan of Arc (hives) on 18/07/2005 23:21:12 Someone mention Hanging Baskets?!! Lol!!!

;0)

Joan (who has superb ones!)

Added by Buttercup Fields on 18/07/2005 23:23:21 ahhhhhh....all the regular hanging baskets, big, small and quite neat and petite, coming out tonight..... what blossoms, what a handful of flowers, what....what......lol BC

Added by Dizzy, still looking! , Yes Still! on 18/07/2005 23:23:48 Why thank you Ben!!! I also have troughs, now you cant resist me can you?!!!!!!!

Added by Ben Nevis on 18/07/2005 23:25:57 dizzy do you fill your troughs reguarly or just every spring?

Added by Dizzy, still looking! , Yes Still! on 18/07/2005 23:30:08 These are the ones that fix on the wall that sheep eat out of if that makes sense, and this is the first year i have had them, i have stuff in them that i will have to renew but mainly because until this year my garden was the pits!!!! Now i have to confess both hubby and i have become addicts and if im honest i think i am becoming my mother, she used to take photos of her baskets!!!!!!!!! Oh dear whats next bingo?????

Added by Stellybabe . Xx on 18/07/2005 23:34:29 My MIL has beautiful ones...........

mine, however, erm....are wilting now!

Green fingers do not live here!

Stel.x

and her advice is taken.........just not remembered very well by me!!!

Added by Ben Nevis on 18/07/2005 23:34:52 dizzy can you send me photo of your trough is it an old one?

Added by Joan of Arc (hives) on 18/07/2005 23:35:17 That's an interesting idea; perhaps we should put photos of our hanging baskets on the photos page & Ben could guess which is who's ?!! lol

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Joan

Added by Buttercup Fields on 18/07/2005 23:37:14 ...PMSL Joan....have gone to the photocopier....lol BC

Added by Ben Nevis on 18/07/2005 23:40:17 wheres dizzy ? i cant stop lol my wife asking what im lol at i told her it was a joke i had read oh dear gr is good tonight again.

Added by Joan of Arc (hives) on 18/07/2005 23:40:39 BC
You mean yours will fit on the photocopier?!!! pmsl!!!

;0)
Joan

Added by Dizzy, still looking! , Yes Still! on 18/07/2005 23:44:10 Oh crikey Ben i am useless on the computer but will get my daughter Kate to take the picture after work tomorrow after work and she will send it to you. I bought 3 of them from the farm up the road when it was having a clear out sale. Hubby says they are years old but what does he know!!!!! I saw some replicas on our local market for £8 each but not very nice. I paid £30 for the 3 and a man offered me twice that as we were putting them in the car!!!!!!!

Added by Joan of Arc (hives) on 18/07/2005 23:45:51 PMSL!!!!!!!

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Joan

Added by Ben Nevis on 18/07/2005 23:47:08 what a great story dizzy i must have a look for them at the car boot sale tomorrow by the way did you sell them to that man?

Added by Buttercup Fields on 18/07/2005 23:47:54 PMSL Dizzy...... !!!!!! lollolololol

Added by Joan of Arc (hives) on 18/07/2005 23:49:13 BC
Have you managed to photocopy yours yet?
Don't forget to polish the glass after!!! pmsl!!!

;0)
Joan

Added by Ben Nevis on 18/07/2005 23:49:56 cant wait to see my emails tomorrow oh boy lollollollollollollollol

Added by Buttercup Fields on 18/07/2005 23:51:07 Joan...I keep sliding off.....lol BC

Added by Dizzy, still looking! , Yes Still! on 18/07/2005 23:51:26 Umm no Ben or i couldnt send you a photo of them could i?? This will make you and Joan laugh even more, as i said until this year our garden was yuk, just flat dried out grass, but now looks like something from the Chelsea flower show! Someone who had been abroad for 9 months drove to visit us, saw the garden, was so shocked they had to ring us to check we hadnt moved before they knocked the door!!!!!

Added by Joan of Arc (hives) on 18/07/2005 23:51:38 Ben
Whatever are you going to do when we have to put our baskets away in the winter?! Lol!!!

;0)
Joan

Added by Buttercup Fields on 18/07/2005 23:53:36 ...he will be quite lost Joan....we shall have to think of some way to amuse him :) lol

Added by Ben Nevis on 18/07/2005 23:54:15 i will think of something joan any ideas no its getting late and i am sure i will have nightmares tonight

Added by Buttercup Fields on 18/07/2005 23:55:52 BIG HANGING BASKETS COMING TO GET YOU BEN.!!!!!!....BOOOOOO lol BC Night Night XXXXXX

Added by Dizzy, still looking! , Yes Still! on 18/07/2005 23:58:17 Oh and on mums advice i feed mine Tomorite, yes i know its for tomatoes but believe me if you want a remake of revenge of the triffids, thats your stuff!!!!!

Added by Ben Nevis on 18/07/2005 23:59:35 it was not the hanging baskets that was going to give me nightmares it was the trough!!!!

Added by Davo From East Kent on 19/07/2005 00:01:22 Mine are looking reasonably good, however nothing like some flower arrangements we saw near Calais France last monday.

We took my distant Australian cousins, whom I met through GR, to Calais for the day. After lunch and shopping, we went for a ride through the country. We drove down to Ardres, turned left and went through Auduricq, and turned towards Gravelines, we came to a house with the small garden filled with flowers, with the centre of the main display a dog in flowers. Butterflies in flowers on the walls. In front of the field next to the house were five full size displays of horses, etc. pulling farm carts, and one display a yoke of oxen pulling a cart, all of these in various flowers. He even had hanging boxes on the fence by the river on the oposite side of the road. While we were looking and taking photos, the owner came out and we asked how many hours it took him. He said 'Hundreds'.

Well worth a visit.

David

Added by Joan of Arc (hives) on 19/07/2005 00:01:56 Oh Dear!!!

I think i've wet myself laughing !!! Lololololol!!!!!!!

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Joan

Added by Ben Nevis on 19/07/2005 00:05:43 me to joan wheres bc and the rest its getting to much for me my sides are sore its the best laugh i have had in years.

Added by Ben Nevis on 19/07/2005 00:05:43 me to joan wheres bc and the rest its getting to much for me my sides are sore its the best laugh i have had in years.

Added by Dizzy, still looking! , Yes Still! on 19/07/2005 00:06:44 I decided to sit and watch!!!!!

Added by Stellybabe . Xx on 19/07/2005 00:08:36 AAAAAHHHHHHHAAAAAA

Don't stop!!!

Stel.xx

Added by Ben Nevis on 19/07/2005 00:09:13 oh dear stop please no more additions to this thread i cant take anymore

Added by Joan of Arc (hives) on 19/07/2005 00:10:09 Stelly!!
How do you know your Mother in Law has beautiful ones, does she show them to you?!! Lol!!!

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Joan

Added by Dizzy, still looking! , Yes Still! on 19/07/2005 00:10:23 We dont want to join in, only observe!!!!!

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Added by Stellybabe . Xx on 19/07/2005 00:13:01 All the time Joan.........

Very chuffed with them............


It's hurting laughing now!!!!!!!!!!!!


Stel.xx

Added by Joan of Arc (hives) on 19/07/2005 00:17:35 Dizzy
I must be doing something wrong as everybody in the street don't comment on mine!!!! Lol!!!!!
Yours must be pretty magnificent!!!!

;0)
Joan

Added by Ben Nevis on 19/07/2005 00:19:44 now now joan.

Added by Joan of Arc (hives) on 19/07/2005 00:21:59 I'm off now. I'm very jealous Dizzy's got better ones than me, & I do work so hard at keeping them nice; my other half has no complaints!! lol!!

Night all,
;0)
Joan

Added by Dizzy, still looking! , Yes Still! on 19/07/2005 00:25:00 But thats just it Joan, the neighbours say mine are lovely, hubby however makes no such comment!!!!!!! maybe tomorrow we can talk about our water features! What do you reckon Ben???????

Added by Ben Nevis on 19/07/2005 00:26:12 now your talking dizzy lol

Added by Joan of Arc (hives) on 19/07/2005 00:26:12 Dizzy
PMSL !!!!

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Joan

Added by Ben Nevis on 19/07/2005 00:28:18 joan i am so dizzy what does pmsl mean?

Added by Dizzy, still looking! , Yes Still! on 19/07/2005 00:28:29 Oh and my hedges are well manicured as well!!!!! Shall we leave it there Joan????????? I shant rush for the camera a Ben?

Added by Joan of Arc (hives) on 19/07/2005 00:29:51 It means there's another puddle on my floor!!!! lol!!!!!

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Joan

Added by Ben Nevis on 19/07/2005 00:31:32 hi dizzy now your talking my sides are sore i think i will have a wee dram

Added by Stellybabe . Xx on 19/07/2005 00:31:56 peeing myself laughing Ben!!!!!

Me too!!

Stel.xx

Added by Ben Nevis on 19/07/2005 00:33:57 oh dear i have just p---ed myself laughing sorry pmsl

Added by Stellybabe . Xx on 19/07/2005 00:34:54 We all need cloths and bleach 'ere!!!!!!!

HELP!!!


Added by Dizzy, still looking! , Yes Still! on 19/07/2005 00:35:35 Ben, Joan and all, i have to go now but was wondering if maybe Ok would consider doing the photos for us, my hedges and wonderful old troughs, Bens baskets nearly a foot long and Joans superb offerings, what do you think?????

Added by Stellybabe . Xx on 19/07/2005 00:36:51 Joan,

Watch what you say now............

Stel.xx

Added by Ben Nevis on 19/07/2005 00:38:27 steady joan think before you answer that one

Added by Ben Nevis on 19/07/2005 00:39:57 goodnight dizzy hope to hear from you soonx

Added by Lady Godiva on 19/07/2005 11:25:14 mine are doing quite well this year, put in fushcias and they look lovely, cant be bothered most of the time so to see them looking good is a reward in it self

Added by Joanne Reeder on 19/07/2005 11:56:14 What are you lot like!!!!! I missed out last night but I have read all your messages this morning.
Ignorance is bliss - so they say (thats the bits that made me laugh the most).

I have trimmed my hanging baskets this morning as I found a few stray bits around the edges, a little pluck here and there and bobs your uncle, back to beauty. pmsl. As for troughs well, I have not filled mine for a while now, in fact I think if I check I may find a few cobwebs, best get the duster out. lol

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Added by Joan of Arc (hives) on 19/07/2005 12:40:09 Ah yes Joanne
But have you got a water feature? That's what Ben is looking for later!!! lol!!!!!
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Joan

Added by Lisa From Sunny Southsea on 19/07/2005 12:49:43 ben have to water mine everyday as they are getting dehydrated.using my watering can saving on waterxxxxxxx(:

Added by Joanne Reeder on 19/07/2005 14:42:22 Joan, I wouldn't call it a feature!!!!. That Ben is sooooo naughty. lol

Added by Joan of Arc (hives) on 19/07/2005 14:44:36 He he !!!

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Joan

Added by Ben Nevis on 19/07/2005 15:13:43 i have a duster for joanne and do you keep your hedges in trim like dizzy mmm water feature any sugestions i have a lovely spout and its working beutifully this summer, my neighbour has a water feature its like a bucket of water being empted ahh well no doubt you wil have your own ideas of water features i thought this thread would be gone by now but it seems we all like gardening

Added by Joanne Reeder on 19/07/2005 15:17:31 Oh Ben - you are funny, I dont trim my hedge as I believe its a mans job!!!!! Not going to be here for a week, so I will miss your threads. BC said she would keep you in line!!! lol (see my just to let you know thread).
xx

Added by Buttercup Fields on 19/07/2005 15:17:35 ...my water feature can be turned on by the flick of a button :) BC

Added by Joanne Reeder on 19/07/2005 15:18:39 My water feature is a tad rusty!!!!

Added by Nana Anna on 19/07/2005 15:49:24 So Ben, how big is your water feature and do you have problems with it scaling up?

Anna

Added by Ben Nevis on 19/07/2005 15:57:37 nana anna well according to my neighbour its the biggest one she has seen but i am sure she is just being nice, if i turn up the pressure it goes over in to her garden thats when we fall out its not good for her husband to see i once reached her hanging baskets with it boy was she a happy bunny

Added by Nana Anna on 19/07/2005 16:06:20 ...and what do you do with it in the winter to stop it freezing up (I wouldn't like the pump to break!)? It's difficult to get all the water out, often have to help hubby give it a good shake!!

LOL!
Anna

Added by Ben Nevis on 19/07/2005 16:12:55 extra cladding nana anna its never frozen yet, a hot water bottle round it when it dose freeze up, my neighbour is very helpfull and sometimes holds it for me while i get it warmed up.

Added by Sally Has Senior Moments on 19/07/2005 16:12:56 I have no problems turning mine on - it's the turning off that is a little tricky.
Sally

Added by Buttercup Fields on 19/07/2005 16:14:17 Sally!!!!! You are getting as naughty as the others!!!!! LOL BC

Added by Nana Anna on 19/07/2005 16:16:07 ..and how old is your pump? Just wondering how long they last!

Anna

Added by Ben Nevis on 19/07/2005 16:16:26 i know what you mean sally i say i know what you mean sally it can sometime take a good few hours to get it turned of

Added by Ben Nevis on 19/07/2005 16:19:34 i dont know nana but i find if you keep it working and in good order it will last for ever, sometimes a little lubrication helps

Added by Nana Anna on 19/07/2005 16:23:14 What do you suggest - WD40?

Thanks Bob, that brought tears of laughter back....soooo smutty but so funny. Wonder whatever happened to Ben? :D :D

Having got my garden into good order re cutting down fir trees, revived the Roses, they are in fantastic bloom now, the fruit trees all showing sings of good crops, I am now thinking about vegetables.

I cannot do anything for the next wek or two, as we will be away, but woul like to do more than grow potatoes,
Any help etc will be welcome. There are only two of us, we enjoy most veg, and live by the sea, we also live in Spain half way between Barca and Valencia. Also we have very strict rules here about organic food, the professionals for example are not allowed to use anything which could damage the organic food reputation. The organic food is excellent re taste but only lasts a day or two.

Now I am not going to be here for about 8 days so please do not think that I am not needing your help

Thanks

Bridget

We do have a very good watering system. :-)