tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1533372025110910037.post1692872001890594090..comments2023-11-05T09:33:34.696+00:00Comments on The 'Spill: GARDENING ANYONE?Blimpyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03062521891682719767noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1533372025110910037.post-62235180044834065752008-01-31T08:02:00.000+00:002008-01-31T08:02:00.000+00:00Speaking as both a beekeeper and a vegetable growe...Speaking as both a beekeeper and a vegetable grower - and a pedant - it would actually be more appropriate to say that flowers are the pushers and bees the junkies - and oil seed rape is the nectar equivalent of crack. Not sure how to work into this analogy the fact that the climate is completely verrueckt these days, and this mild January (snowdrops and daffodils already), on top of last year's craziness, is liable to wipe out most of my colonies. Maybe climate change is the heavy-handed government drugs policy...Abahachihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06007129278000634520noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1533372025110910037.post-80216571621722191122008-01-30T23:50:00.000+00:002008-01-30T23:50:00.000+00:00You filthy old bugger!You filthy old bugger!goneforeignhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05903220453599675348noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1533372025110910037.post-35841736428031594672008-01-30T23:11:00.000+00:002008-01-30T23:11:00.000+00:00Flowers are essentially tarts. Prostitutes for the...Flowers are essentially tarts. <BR/><BR/>Prostitutes for the bees. <BR/><BR/>There is, you'll agree, a certain je ne ses quoi oh so very special about a firm young carrot.Blimpyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03062521891682719767noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1533372025110910037.post-29814590112768338472008-01-30T16:37:00.000+00:002008-01-30T16:37:00.000+00:00Steenbeck; Unfortunately not, though there are sev...Steenbeck; Unfortunately not, though there are several varieties of irises called re-bloomers which flowered for the second time in early Dec. <BR/>That was was from last summer. We're also looking a bit Flanders fieldish, it's rained 10" in 2 weeks.goneforeignhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05903220453599675348noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1533372025110910037.post-66365968854966686262008-01-30T15:13:00.000+00:002008-01-30T15:13:00.000+00:00Is that blooming in your garden right now, gonefor...Is that blooming in your garden right now, goneforeign? I'd post a picture of my garden but it's a muddy rain-drenched affair at the moment. Nothing blooming there.steenbeckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14870117999742670522noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1533372025110910037.post-46841501814525126592008-01-30T12:37:00.000+00:002008-01-30T12:37:00.000+00:00I'm not nuch of a gardener, more the "let it grow,...I'm not nuch of a gardener, more the "let it grow, let it blossom, let it flow" type, but as I am living in a 50 year old house on the edge of the woods, with a very large, just as old garden, the garden has become a haven for lots of birds, rabbits, squirrels, and even the occasional deer or fox turn up, will post some pictures laterTonNLhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06737734222364570646noreply@blogger.com