Re: Gardening Thread.

**lily** Thu Aug 09, 2012 9:06 am

Nice one, Sabot.

Maybe you should stash a trunk with your photos etc in the attic somewhere well hidden for posterity? Kind of like those things they send into outer space..... biggrin

**Sabot** Thu Aug 09, 2012 10:13 am

lily wrote:Nice one, Sabot.

Maybe you should stash a trunk with your photos etc in the attic somewhere well hidden for posterity? Kind of like those things they send into outer space.....

My whole house is an Attic, Lily. They will have a terrible job finding anything. But I've told them that I hid my jewelry somewhere, and now can't find it, so not to throw anything away.

**lily** Thu Aug 09, 2012 10:17 am

Then they can play Treasure Hunt without a map?

**Sabot** Thu Aug 09, 2012 12:39 pm

No good asking St. Jude, Lily. I asked him several times, and he doesn't know what I've done with it.

But, back to Gardening.

One of my Sunflowers is now six feet tall and has a Major Bud. It also has several baby buds. Not sure what to do with those. But they have all started to turn their heads to The Sun. Mind you, this could be something to do with the recent advent of The Sun. There wasn't a Sun to turn to before this week.

**Sabot** Thu Aug 09, 2012 12:41 pm

PS. This is SO exciting.

**bb1** Thu Aug 09, 2012 12:43 pm

Oh, excellent, Sabot! Mine are in a woeful state. Several appear to have been eaten by the pigeons, others have been battered down by torrential rain and gales...

I have two or three sad survivors which are only about three feet tall so far; they're usually more like yours by this time of year. Crying or Very sad

**lily** Thu Aug 09, 2012 12:43 pm

Well done, Sabot.

Er... St. Jude is not the one? I understand it is St. Anthony? (I asked......) biggrin

http://www.catholicdoors.com/prayers/english/p00557.htm

**lily** Thu Aug 09, 2012 12:45 pm

bb1 wrote:Oh, excellent, Sabot! Mine are in a woeful state. Several appear to have been eaten by the pigeons, others have been battered down by torrential rain and gales...

I have two or three sad survivors which are only about three feet tall so far; they're usually more like yours by this time of year.

Oh no.

Maybe they will be late bloomers?

**Sabot** Thu Aug 09, 2012 12:47 pm

lily wrote:Well done, Sabot.

Er... St. Jude is not the one? I understand it is St. Anthony? (I asked......)

http://www.catholicdoors.com/prayers/english/p00557.htm

St Jude is the saint of lost causes, Lily. St Anthony wasn't any good. I asked him years ago.

**lily** Thu Aug 09, 2012 12:54 pm

Sorry, Sabot. hug

**Sabot** Thu Aug 09, 2012 12:55 pm

bb1 wrote:Oh, excellent, Sabot! Mine are in a woeful state. Several appear to have been eaten by the pigeons, others have been battered down by torrential rain and gales...

I have two or three sad survivors which are only about three feet tall so far; they're usually more like yours by this time of year.

From the same packet I have various sizes, only two actually looking like Giants. I have anchored them all to the garden fence.

I did plant some ordinary ones from bird seed but I think it was Mice who ate those. I had them on a table where mice couldn't get at them, and then I moved them to where I know Mice feed on the bird seed. That's when some of them got eaten, so I moved them back again. All doing well at the moment.

Incidentally, I planted the Giants in pots first, and then planted them out, although even one of those vanished.

I have since heard about Mamouth Sunflowers. Not sure if I could handle those.

**Sabot** Thu Aug 09, 2012 12:57 pm

lily wrote:Sorry, Sabot.

It's bloody annoying, Lily. It's quite valuable stuff which I wouldn't mind wearing now and again.

**lily** Thu Aug 09, 2012 1:19 pm

I can sympathize with you. Quite an amount of mine went a few years back - all antique and valuable. Still, I have to remember it hasn't all gone.

You might find that one day when you are back there, you look into something and voila.

**Sabot** Thu Aug 09, 2012 2:25 pm

lily wrote:I can sympathize with you. Quite an amount of mine went a few years back - all antique and valuable. Still, I have to remember it hasn't all gone.

You might find that one day when you are back there, you look into something and voila.

I know it wasn't stolen, you see, because I can remember hiding it and then moving it to a better place a couple of times. I just can't remember where. Some of it was antique, and some of it old modern which I had made in Singapore, fairly hefty 18 carat. But I expect it will turn up one day.

**lily** Thu Aug 09, 2012 2:56 pm

You will find it, Sabot. It can't have gone far no matter how well you hid it.

**bb1** Thu Aug 09, 2012 3:00 pm

You've probably got a poltergeist, Sabot - they're b*ggers for hiding things in odd places. Rolling Eyes

**lily** Thu Aug 09, 2012 3:18 pm

I had one, or two, or three or four, myself.

**Sabot** Thu Aug 09, 2012 3:18 pm

bb1 wrote:You've probably got a poltergeist, Sabot - they're b*ggers for hiding things in odd places.

Don't laugh, Bonny. One of a group of four pictures vanished from my fireplace wall. I much later found it in a place to which it cannot have fallen. And the picture cord wasn't broken.

**bb1** Thu Aug 09, 2012 3:30 pm

Oh, I'm not laughing, I've had them do similar to me, Sabot. Taking objects and hiding them in places they cannot possibly be is a favourite.

**Sabot** Thu Aug 09, 2012 3:36 pm

Right. I must start thinking of places where I would not have put it.

**bb1** Sat Aug 18, 2012 4:04 pm

It's rather hot today...is this what they call 'summer'?

**Lamplighter** Sat Aug 18, 2012 4:14 pm

bb1 wrote:It's rather hot today...is this what they call 'summer'?

We have 37C outside, yep, this is summer. LL rofl

**bb1** Sat Aug 18, 2012 4:47 pm

It's been very muggy here, LL, even overnight, the rain was torrential. So everything you don't want to grow grows like the clappers...

**Lamplighter** Sat Aug 18, 2012 4:50 pm

No rain here for at least the past two weeks, and that was only a short sharp shower late in the evening. It's dry as a bone here. No rain forecast or even expected for a long time yet. LL

**Sabot** Sat Aug 18, 2012 5:37 pm

Have you ever noticed that even after a Torrent, the earth is still dry below about half an inch?
But then that's the eco system. The Clouds can't suck up water if it is all too far below ground.
We, Planet Earth, only have the same amount of water that we have always had, and only ever will have. This is the beauty of it all. Planet Earth is an amazing Water Recycling Plant. We drink, we pee, we sweat, but it all goes around.
Some of us get a bit more of it than others, but even Deserts have their purpose.
Water is the one thing that is needed to sustain life, so people must go where it is. But then some people know better how to sustain it. What we have is all that we are going to get. This is a fact.

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