Andyjevs

[FP]

Will you come and live with me and be my permanent garden adviser please!!

I have started on my bulbs and groundcover project.  It is going to cost a fortune!!!  I have an abudance of wild strawberries - will they grow OK in the semi-shade of my woodland garden if I divide them up and replant them?

[Robinia]

I don't know - graemer's not been gone long & you're already setting up home with another you hussy FP!

If it helps my book says they'll grow in partial shade.

Not seen much of you lately but I suspect you probably feel the same as me lately....?

[Robinia]

oops too many latelys!

[FP]

He he - Hi Robinia.  I suppose I shouldn't chat on this section, but there is nowhere else for us to meet now.  Still Ed says that he and the heavies are going to have a sort out on CB.  Where has Graemer gone?  He didn't even tell me he was leaving us!! 

Thanks for the information.  Come to think of it, I have seen wild strawberries growing in the woods.  I have bought some lovely ferns, bugle, sweet woodruff and wild daffs and English Bluebells and have arranged them where I want to plant them.  Trouble is they cost a fortune and won't fill a great deal of the plot, so I am having to transplant other things in as well. 

How are you feeling?

[Robinia]

Your plants sound lovely FP but I know what you mean about them not filling up the space - I've done the same thing in my front garden.  I thought a handful of plants would be enough. They will spread & fill up eventually but it's not like on tv is it when they can afford to plant lots of everything.

I feel the same as you obviously - nowhere for a 'quiet chat'. We need a garden shed with a secret key number!  I'm all for a bit of fun but any interesting Q's on cb disappear in a sea of booze & very old jokes. 
I think graemer said he was going to be working away & would try to get on here at weekends but I haven't seen him.

[andyjevs]

Shucks FP....thanks for the compliment......i'm just happy to help out. Your strawbs will be fine in partial shade. I'd wait for dividing until it was a bit wetter and colder....november or march would be fine. Have you thought about buying seed and germinating them on the window sill. Chilterns do some excellent mixtures of wild flowers etc. I think their website is www.chilternseeds.co.uk Good luck Andy

[FP]

Hi Andy,

Thanks for the advice.  Just been looking through that website you gave.  I could get very carried away!!!  Somewhere at the back of our little orchard I have a greenhouse, long since used.  I might be inclined to start growing things from scratch if I can get Mr FP to put the greenhouse closer to the house, so I can nip out there without having to brave the elements and the animals that might be roaming around in the jungle!

[VINNY100_2]

And if you've got any probs with them wild animals, ive still got some unsold lionpoo!!(:)mind you it wasnt a roaring success the first time around FP.(:)Nice to hear from you, to hear from you nice!!

[shaneystar]

Hi folks
Nice to see you are still around.My elderly neighbour gave me a tray of plug plants earlier in the year and said to me they were tomato plants.I grew them on and did think to myself that they had a funny shaped leaf for toms.However I thought they might have been a new variety.So...I had them lined up in pots along the wall and said to my brother that my tomato plants were coming along nicely.He said he had never seen hairy tomatoes before .He said "they are strawberries you fool".Well we did laugh. They have grown into huge plants and as we have been so lucky with the weather lately the strawberries have ripened nicely.I am now at a loss as to what to do with them.Will they overwinter outside?Do I have to cut them back?
I hope ABED is going to give us a corner girls
.I miss our little chats.
Is that Lions Poo still kicking around Vinny.It must be humming by now.
Sparrows are happy again Robinia as I have stocked up on their rations.
Had a nice spat with you know who over on News the other day sis.Have had Shane to the vets as we found a lump in the top of his hindquarter.Luckily it is only a benign fatty lump which does not need to be removed unless it gets any bigger.Huge sigh of relief.Anyway girls and Vinny hope you are all well .Goodnight for now X

[FP]

Suggestion for New Category:

'Old Timers' Corner'

I am just adding it to suggestions.  Wait for the aftershock!!

Love to you all. 

[Robinia]

Oh I feel like I've come home....aaaah

Hey Vinny someone was asking about Lion Poo last week & I was keeping my eye open for you!! (& a peg on my nose ;-)  )

Not sure about strawbs Shaneystar - I'll get back to you!

FP - I'm ambling my way to suggestions right now......

[FP]

Sis, Just seen the threads on News!!   Kingsbury Norfolk???  Wherever did Jane Groves get that from.  I looked it up on the internet and there is a Kingsbury Pond in Norfolk, Mass. USA!!!  The woman must spend all day googling - poor old soul!

[shaneystar]

P.I.T.A. I know I can get het up about news issues.In fact I see red whenever I read a newspaper or watch the news..but that was ridiculous!! Thank goodness some of them agreed with me!! Her needle is definitely stuck in the same groove or should I say grove!

[Robinia]

The woman's possessed shaneystar!  Oh no just thought - if we get the 'seniors' thread she won't find her way........Ok who's got a Rottweiler to leave at the door?

[mullein2]

i will be the rottweiller if she gets in the gardening door..glad you are all well..i grow most of my things from seed fp...its cheaper and i only have a plastic greenhouse..unheated..my good one blew away in the wind..i have grown lavender and echinacea and cardoons..and passion flowers in it..suffolk herbs is really good for different seeds..especially for wild life gardens..i agree over whet you said about cb i am old i cant understand what they are talking about..

[shaneystar]

I think she is a he actually.I looked up that place they mentioned they were in in 1945 and it's an oil terminal in Iraq.
No wonder she /he is so obsessed with old Dubya.Probably worried about her pension!! Don't worry girls if she starts commenting on my hairy tomatoes I shall have a smart remark ready!!
I've got one of those plastic greenhouses mullien .It's great.
I grow sempervarium and echyvaria in it. I have tried plants from seed in it but don't have a lot of luck. I did have cress this year and grew some pots of mixed salad leaves which were quite successful.

[mullein2]

i have allways thought she a he also..its the way ..it..writes without compassion..as though ..it..is having a laugh..i wouldnt be surprised if ..it..isnt allready someone on this site that is very arrogant and assertive..i have my suspicions..

[FP]

Bless our lovely Ed.  All Jane Grove's postings have now been removed from my Blood Pressure threads and from the two news threads.  Thanks so much.

[FP]

Shaneystar, I now feel sure I know who JG is/was.  Definitely an old enemy.

[mullein2]

fp...so your blood pressure has returned to normal then..you wont be keeling over..that person is just having a wind up laugh at everyone...unfortunately their are some like that on here..

[shaneystar]

Yes I just had a look but at my old threads and I see ED has removed the posts.What amused me was when they said "You can be traced".Well I could just imagine him /her turning up on my doorstep waving their medical dictionary !!
I can't think who they can be as to want to give you all that grief. I have only been on AB since April this year ..I think..it seems longer!!