Comments on: Hope 1, Experience 0, after extra time

By: disgruntled

disgruntled — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 16:36:24 +0000

John – yes, exactly like a 7-year-old… (he did stop in time)
WOL – oh, I must have missed that page in the catalogue, too distracted by cabbage varieties
Dom – ah I remember the days when garden centres sold gardening supplies *lapses into reminiscence…*
Emma – hooray! Try monster parsnips, they can’t be beaten

By: emma c

emma c — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 11:50:14 +0000

Oh yes, I quite agree about hope triumphing over experience.. but every year I think I’ll do better next year. You have inspired me to do more VEG next year. Yes, definitely.

By: emma c

emma c — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 10:31:06 +0000

Oh yes, that is exactly what I do too, go via the botanical name! My friends all marvel at how I seem to know the ‘serious’ name for plants.. it was all an accident, guv..

By: Dom

Dom — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 08:44:41 +0000

I thought all garden centres doubled as retail parks (and theme parks almost), even our little local one. The do seem to sell vast amounts of stuff, but never quite what you want… except for Russian Giants. They’re always on the 1 rack of seeds when I want them

By: WOL

WOL — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 05:51:55 +0000

I’ve ordered a tall, athletic, nubile 30-something of the male persuasion, of docile and cheerful temperment, who enjoys gardening, DIY, and extracurricular activities. Apparently, they are on back order and have been for some time. . .

By: John Gibson

John Gibson — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 22:59:30 +0000

A fine bright blowy day after rain … a puddle ahead … and suddenly you’re seven years old again.

what do you mean again?

your other half looks like he is comming to a juction without much chance of stopping, good job your in the countryside.
John

By: Flighty

Flighty — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 21:52:40 +0000

That’s a sure sign that you’re a seedoholic…just like every gardener! xx

By: disgruntled

disgruntled — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 21:18:06 +0000

yes, I really must sort through the seeds I’ve got and see what’s still in date before I order too many more. But there’s always a variety in the catalogue that looks like it will be some how better than the ones you’ve got

By: Flighty

Flighty — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 21:11:02 +0000

I know that it’s November just by the various seedy posts I’ve been reading over the past week!
I’ve got mine,
http://flightplot.wordpress.com/2010/11/21/a-seedy-sunday/
but will undoubtably get more, especially once I start browsing through the Chiltern Seeds catalogue when it arrives. xx

By: disgruntled

disgruntled — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 20:03:25 +0000

uhdd – our village shop (or rather Papershop village shop – oh how I dream of having a local village shop) is very tardis-like but hasn’t found room for seeds.
Andy – I used to work at Kew where Latin was anything but a dead language. We once got an email from a russian in Latin on the grounds that there was more like to be someone who could read latin there than russian. He was right.
Dom – the nice thing about the organic gardening catalogue is the heritage varieties. Our nearest garden centre is one of those things that’s practically turned itself into a retail park, but still only manages to have one rack of seeds