General Chat

I suppose you normally walk Linda, but can you get near the allotment in the car with water?

Lol , I hadn't noticed you had missed out a letter , I think my brain just filled it in :-S

I stopped growing lillies but I only spotted two or three of the beetles on my Fritillaries this year and I squiched them superfast !

Well , I had better be saying Goodnight . OH is off fishing tomorrow .

Night night Tec and Linda

If we run out, we will have to take water from home which will be a pain. Hopefully we will have a thunderstorm at the end of next week

Who is Amada? :-D :-D

Didn't the Spanish have one of them? :-D

Thank you for looking that up Amada - I will certainly watch out for the signs, and the beetles. I also have tree lily's now in their second year - they are huge this year and covered in enormous buds.

http://www.rhs.org.uk/science/plant-pests/lily-beetle

Here is the link Tec , hope it helps ( if it is indeed them causeing the bother ) .

Tec , I've just looked on the RHS website ( I googled Lily beetle ) and according to them the beetle is spreading in Wales , Scotland and has reached Ireland :-( look out for black blobs on the stems of the lillies , the grub ( larva ) of the beetle leaves them behind .... ugh ! If you do happen to see the bright red buggers be careful as when you go to touch them they fall on the ground , on their backs , so you lose sight of them . They are crafty insects :-|

Should have made the farmer pay to have the water restored :-0

There is no mains water on the allotments, there used to be until a farmer ploughed through the pipes. We actually have the meter on our plot. It was going to cost a lot to repair, so they never had it done. We have to collect water in barrels from the greenhouse roof

Interesting little creatures hedgehogs - glad you have water for them Linda - I should put water down for them too - my birds water is too high up.

We have taps on our allotments but a lot of people also have water butts , I think most of those are empty now though .

Will you have to fetch water from home Linda , if it carries on being so dry ?

Linda , even I've resorted to wearing a hat . I found one of my dear old Dads " beany " hats , I used to love seeing him in that hat , looking all bright and summery (sp?) , I'm glad I kept it because now it is keeping my head cooler and it makes him feel close for a little while :-)

I don't think we have the lily beetle Amanda, but will watch for them.

Linda is your allotment water from a water butt - don't you have a tap there?

Last night we were watching a hedgehog in the dark, it was drinking from the bird bowl on the patio

We used to a hedgehog in the garden but I haven't seen him this year. Ianto always found him, but never harmed him, just looked :-)

I think the hedgehog kept the slugs down

Are you sure it isn't the dread LIly beetle that is causeing the damage Tec ? Keep a close eye out for a bright red , rather attractive beetle and if you spot it kill the begger :-| :-| :-|

We have ants and green / black fly here but very few ladybirds :-(

I will remember my hat tomorrow I promise, I have loads of Blackcurrants to pick as well
We have hardly any water left on the allotment, only enough to water the greenhouse

Slugs are not too bad here at the moment with it being so dry - if it rains it will be like the whacky races out there :-D

Just that the few we have are hellbent on eating my lily's.

We still have no ants, or green/black fly - very odd.

Amanda the flies don't argue with me and my vacuum :-D

I wish the slugs in my garden would burst :-| I have quite a healthy population of small frogs and they must be making an impact , so I haven't seen the amount of slugs as where about last year ... thank God . I think the long cold winter was at least good for killing those fat blighters off :-P

I hope you can save your lilys Tec .

Oddly we don't have many slugs here