Its a year since G&G was born and I'm finding it interesting to look back at what I was doing/sowing/picking last June. Definitely late this year in all sorts of ways.
This gave me another Nutty idea and a lot of you will mock - but I don't care.

Keeping a daily record/diary of what I've done isn't a success. I start in January with good intentions but by March I've lost interest - the thrill of starting a new diary wears off rapidly. Even my 5 year diary has nothing after February.  
Here's my plan - 12 diaries/journals/notebooks/whatever, one for each month. At the end of the month, they're put away and a new book starts on the 1st. So I'll start one on July 1st.
Next year, July 2022, I retrieve the 2021 book and write in it for a month and put it away again at the end of July. 12 books being permanently revisited.

I'm going to use A5, spiral bound notebooks as I have a couple now and they're only £1 or so. 

PS Please don't suggest using spreadsheets as I hate them with a vengeance.

I picked up this unusual looking table from the local buy & sell group. To be honest if it hadn’t of been a friend selling it, I would of walked away from it. The before photos really don’t show the poor connection it was in.

               

A week and a half later . It looks like this.

               

I’m very pleased with it.

When taking the dog for a walk this morning I was walking past an area where there are a lot of hawthorn, gorse, clover and various other wild flowers and with the sun was shining and the wind dropped the air was perfued by all the fragrances that were given off by the different plants, though nothing individually giving of a strong smell that you could identify the mix from them all, drawn out by the heat of the sun was really nice to smell, has anyone experienced similar

I’m having a go at growing a mango from seed. I’ve been watching more YouTube videos.

Remove most of the flesh from your seed.

   

You find a easy access point along the fat side. With a blunt knife or spoon prize it open not damaging the seed inside or yourself   .

   

Peel the skin off the seed. Then it’s the old cocktail stick trick over a jar of water. With just the growing tip in the water.

   

I’ll keep you up dated on success’s or failures. 

I really must try this with a fruit I actually like eating one day   .

These pictures have been posted on my local 'nextdoor' site for identification,  any ideas?

             

One thought is Jerusalem artichokes  another is himalayam balsam

Yesterday I saw a large flying  thing.  No camera no picture. 

It was about two and a half inches top to tail, had double wings like a dragonfly again 2 1/2 " span and body the colour of a wasp's and slightly stripy but it didn't appear to have a waist like wasps do.
It flew around hunting like a dragonfly does but wasn't aggressive at all.  My measurements may be slightly exaggerated in hindsight.

I have recently seen  couple of bits about the EDC (every day carry) sub culture, be careful if you google it, you can quickly end up in websites based on "preppers" especially from USA. 
Basically it's what you have in your pockets every day and trying to rationalise why you carry what you do. 

It got me thinking about what would be useful to always have to hand when in the garden. I tend to carry a knife which I find very helpful, but other than that I tend to have to go to the shed and pick up the tools I want if I see something that needs doing. 

I'm interested to know, is there anything that when heading to the garden is there anything that you always pick up and stick in your pocket (or already have there) that you find invaluable when in the garden.

(07-06-2021, 01:05 PM)PyreneesPlot Wrote:

(07-06-2021, 12:53 PM)Veggie Wrote: I have a ripe tomato and a nearly red strawberry..............not picked either. I need them to talk to the rest of their mates and tell them to get ripening.

Shouldn't this post be in the Plants That Need a Strong Talking To thread?

I seem to have left one of last year’s onions in the ground. It was an onion set that got smothered by a sage plant. It doesn’t seem to have swelled up at all . But it’s throwing up some lovely healthy leaves.  What’s the chances of the seeds being viable if it produces a flower spike?

OH, Paul, keeps the verge alongside our road cut for the mums and kiddies walking to school (plus he's slightly OCD about order ). 
 The adjoining  hedge is full of prickly things too. He scrabbles about under the hawthorn and other hedges keeping the couch grass and other weeds at bay.  He is also on anticoagulation.  So when he is scrabbling anywhere he inevitability gets stabbed by thorns and spikes which draw profuse blood andcause bruises.

He's bought himself a kevlar forearm protector.  It looks daft but might keep the blood at bay

https://www.thesafetysupplycompany.co.uk...-kksl.html