Saturday

Well people, ita another hot day here in the fens, the weeks sunshine and warm temps has brought the plants on well, my greenhouse is full of seedlingthat have thrippled there size this week, new flower stems have appeard too, my Rheum Palmatum ( ornimental rhubarb) has sent up a flower stalk about four feet tall, and has started to open this morning, going to be red flowers, nice red to, well people, time to press on and work up a sweat, see you later.

Hi Alan - looks as though everything's coming up roses for you. It's about time the good weather came your way. I was on the phone nearly an hour with my daughter in Germany. She is a complete novice about gardening but is now so keen to start learning. She will have her own, very first, garden in August near Lake Constance and I have almost managed to persuade her to join this great site and get on the chat with her queries and keep my phone bill down...lol! She doesn't want to spend hours at the keyboard but would rather read books on gardening, especially whilst the sun is shining and who can blame her. She needs to find good research sites that will point her in the right direction as to the types of plants etc that she can grow in her region. I will send her my old books about veggie gardening - you know what I mean - Percy Thrower and co! Gosh, that's going back some! I will also introduce her to Bert and Gwist who, no doubt, will give her lots of tips. I hope you all have a wonderful day and to all the American mums out there - "HAPPY MOTHERS DAY"!!!

louisa i have percy throwers biography lol
yes alan its gorgeous here too
yum i love the heat

Hi cat - I have an old vegetable book of his. I think it belonged to my father. I like the old books, you can almost smell all that manure....lol!

lovely here but, to hot to do any work so went swimming instead.
then got thing ready for tomorrows barbie,
suppose it will rain now ive said that.
have a nice day whats left of it.

Hope the weather holds out for your barbie Tink!!! Enjoy :-)

It has been hot here today, to hot to do much hard stuff in the garden, but tomorrow hot or not i have to mow the lawns and tidy my garden, need to impress a guest, sort of, so it go tomorrow, see you all later.