NPR

tabascoboy wrote: Thu May 27, 2021 8:36 am

Rinkals wrote: Thu May 27, 2021 8:00 am

lemonhead wrote: Wed May 26, 2021 10:03 pm

Fingers crossed. You can't stop a cat taking a shit on the lawn without a sniper rifle but ours is mostly beds and borders with a lot of exposed soil and a T junction for every little scrote going.

As a quarry town the one thing in abundance is cheap stone and thankfully the little feckers can't touch anything without losing their claws. Happy for once to put one over, just need to stop them ripping pollinators to pieces.

Eh?

Are you sure it's cats shitting on your lawn and not dogs?

I don't know about your English cats, but most cats I know bury their shit and lawn (assuming it's lawn and not patchy bare earth) is not conducive to burying.

Male cats do leave shit unburied as a territorial marker, but it could be foxes.

Something takes a crap on my heather. Always the same spot, its been going on for a decade. Last 2 years I had none but noticed today that the crapper is back.

As to todays sunshine, lovely .
Except I discovered some of my wooden garden chairs need repairs. It was kind of funny, sit on one ... crack .. feel a slat at the back go . Inspect the damage, sit down again and one of the slats underneath starts to go
Move to another chair, crack ... one of the back slats goes. Later on I started work on the damege and a third chair now needs repairs
The chairs all over wintered in the shed and seemed fine when I got them out in early April.

The price of garden furniture

Bees love the heather bed in early spring. Have a lot of Borage and they love that

This thing about meadow flowers in lawns. The way it works on a farm is the flowers and grasses grow and look lovely. Then they’re either mown or grazed but what do people do with their lawns? The growth will be too much for a domestic mower (surely?) and if it’s left untouched it’ll end up as scrubland. Does everybody get a scythe?

21C today - had almost forgotten what it's like to feel warm sunshine without a force 7 northerly steaming in or dodging downpours of hail...

Improvement timed very nicely for the upcoming BH weekend for a change too.

tabascoboy wrote: Thu May 27, 2021 8:36 am

Rinkals wrote: Thu May 27, 2021 8:00 am

lemonhead wrote: Wed May 26, 2021 10:03 pm

Fingers crossed. You can't stop a cat taking a shit on the lawn without a sniper rifle but ours is mostly beds and borders with a lot of exposed soil and a T junction for every little scrote going.

As a quarry town the one thing in abundance is cheap stone and thankfully the little feckers can't touch anything without losing their claws. Happy for once to put one over, just need to stop them ripping pollinators to pieces.

Eh?

Are you sure it's cats shitting on your lawn and not dogs?

I don't know about your English cats, but most cats I know bury their shit and lawn (assuming it's lawn and not patchy bare earth) is not conducive to burying.

Male cats do leave shit unburied as a territorial marker, but it could be foxes.

I've got two ginger toms (although neutered) and they bury all their pooh. And before you suggest that they leave the premises to do it, we have half an acre and they are very leery about the electric fences. If they do go outside (which one of them does from time to time), they can't get back in. I suspect that your English cats just have no manners.

tc27 wrote: Thu May 27, 2021 10:20 am

Openside wrote: Wed May 26, 2021 2:22 pm

tc27 wrote: Wed May 26, 2021 10:55 am I have deliberately seeded a wildflower meadow mix around some borders and trees which i only intend to mow once a year.

But the main part of the lawn just turns into dandelions and moss without intervention - its also main outdoor space for two young kids.

Thats what we were intending to do but assumed you planted bulbs in the autumn??

No just mow in late Autumn and let it do its thing.

However as they don't flower until about now some spring flowing bulbs would be a decent thing to add in to provide more interest early in the year.

Cheers

Rare combination of a fine, warm day and a Saturday so I'm going to cut the grass

That’ll do, sun. That’ll do.

Enjoy the summer.

Tomorrow looks like a return to spring again here in Devon.

Should have stayed in Surrey by the looks.

It isn’t spring, it’s Q2. Mustn’t be Northocentric.

Spotted a new visitor to the garden today or at least the first time I've noticed it. An orange tailed mining bee. Very exciting.

I need to go see people I don't live with or something...

sockwithaticket wrote: Fri Jun 11, 2021 3:34 pm Spotted a new visitor to the garden today or at least the first time I've noticed it. An orange tailed mining bee. Very exciting.

I need to go see people I don't live with or something...

sockwithaticket wrote: Fri Jun 11, 2021 3:34 pm Spotted a new visitor to the garden today or at least the first time I've noticed it. An orange tailed mining bee. Very exciting.

I need to go see people I don't live with or something...

Most exciting news I've heard today, to be fair

Glaston wrote: Mon May 24, 2021 5:03 pm

Sandstorm wrote: Mon May 24, 2021 11:48 am I have no use for this product, please feel free to take it and use it if the weather is any better where you live this spring.

Softcock



Next Bank Holiday , putting down a prediction to say its going to be nice


I have used sun block this year.

Should add as an edit,

First week of May a couple of local farmers did Silage making and I laughed that they were doing it so early.
Here we are now and no one else has got onto their fields.
My grapevine has one tiny shoot and a few sad looking buds.
Very weird spring

Winter has just started here. I am wearing shorts and a tee shirt some days - and the daffodils are flowering already.

Meanwhile Aussie is shivering under a foot of snow.