General Chat

Linda if I don't get my driving license back I will get an electric wheelchair to cause chaos in the village :-)

Actually, I won't, I'll get a good scooter that you can take on the road. They have to be a certain power to be legal if going on the road, lights etc.

If it gets really hot this summer Tec , I expect we will leave the tunnel open . It does have window vent flap thingies as well :-)

Tec , I can't imagine you would ever get stuck in a rut for long :-)

Good morning Sue , your dahlia sounds pretty . The ones here can flower into late autumn , is it the same in your part of the world ? I have a row on the allotment , I left them in the ground all winter , so am not sure if they have all survived :-S I bought a couplee of new ones ( just in case ) , they are sold as dry tubers ( these where so poor and shriveled that I felt sad for them ) , I potted them up , back in Feburary and bunged them under a shelf in the green house , I have two healthy looking shoots showing on them now :-D

Good morning Sue

You will have to get an electric wheelchair if you can't mange the ramps Tec

Amanda I think you have to open the tunnel early in the morning in the summer before the heat rises.

Good Morning Sue,

That's a lovely surprise with the dahlia - I hope the buds manage to open :-)

That's right Tec , I remember Shaun sent me a photo of his big polytunnel , it got wrecked in a storm didn't it , a year or two ago ? So the tunnel isn't a sure way of holding off blight then ? I didn't think it would be , to be honest , blight is something to do with humidity and that tunnl is SO hot already :-0

Amanda - Stuck in a rut? :-D

Hello everyone :-D

I didn't realise it was a gardening club meeting - I would have got up earlier :-D

Would you believe that I have a beautiful dahlia bloom - a purple one. I planted the tuber late because I forgot about it and it has grown very well. There are flower buds all over it.

I hope so because I have to have the strength to get back up the ramps when I get them :-)
Hauling yourself up a slope in a wheelchair is harder than it looks. Fortunately I don't weigh much these days

Linda , OHs theory is that the blight spores splash up , underneath the plants when it rains , and that theey will be protected from that in the tunnel , I hope he is correct :-S
Tec , if you keep forgetting things , the grooves in the hall will get so deep that you'll be stuck in them :-S lol

You are going to have biceps like Popeye :-D

Shaun on the Welsh thread had tomatoe blight last year.


He also has quite a big polytunnel

The idea of a bag on the side of the wheelchair is excellent. One lesson you quickly learn in a wheelchair is to think what you want as you move from room to room. I've already made grooves in the hall where I keep having to go back for things :-D

It is a good idea to take the cover off Amanda. We take the net off the top of the fruit cage in the winter, so the snow can't settle on it, we can leave the sides though

Tomato blight is a nuisance, the spores hang around in the soil for ages

Different men for different jobs Linda :-)

Tec , the garden idea of a garden wheel chair is very good , you could put bags on the side of it that contain your essential gardening tools etc , nothing worse than getting settled to a job to find you've forgotton something , if all you could possiably need was already in the said bag , it may make life a little easier .
My OH thought long and hard about the polytunnel before he bought it , several had gone over in the high winds on other folks plots but he says we shall pack away the cover at the end of the year and just leave the frame in place .
We lost our tomato crop , two years running because of the blight , so are hoping if they are under cover this year , we shall be able to get them to harvest :-S

Your man is going to have a huge list of jobs to do :-D

Sometimes people have wheelchairs stored in the garage that they have no further use for. I might be lucky :-)

There were hundreds of trees brought down here in the storm in February, and lots of people lost their garden fences.
I just have a slate missing off the roof, and will get a man up there in the summer.

I missed the storm as I was in Shrewsbury, but people here tell me it was horrendous. The tide was the highest anyone remembers, and washed away the railway track.