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With all the rain yesterday I managed to fill both ponds (wildlife & fishpond) & my water butt!
Here's my wildlife/lilypad pond
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Its not very clear but 4 wasps were having a feast on one of my fallen eating apples, nature's clean up operation is a marvellous thing :nod:
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GPTV said:
With all the rain yesterday I managed to fill both ponds (wildlife & fishpond) & my water butt!
Here's my wildlife/lilypad pond
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Its not very clear but 4 wasps were having a feast on one of my fallen eating apples, nature's clean up operation is a marvellous thing :nod:
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That's lovely to see but if I was holding that apple I'd be shrieking like an idiot lol. I'm so scared of wasps.
 
Well it was raining first thing, but it's cleared up enough to trim the hedges, the round forsythia was doing my head in looking all straggly at the top!
So some before & after pics
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After... Including my 4legged friend :wub:
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Some mighty fine camouflage in the Heather..
Can you tell what it is?
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The cricket close up 🦗
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a little ladybird 🐞 making the most of the Heather too :D
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My little puppers a bit cheesed that I might need to move her over to mow the lawn! Aww :love:
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GPTV said:
Well it was raining first thing, but it's cleared up enough to trim the hedges, the round forsythia was doing my head in looking all straggly at the top!
So some before & after pics
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After... Including my 4legged friend :wub:
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Some mighty fine camouflage in the Heather..
Can you tell what it is?
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The cricket close up 🦗
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a little ladybird 🐞 making the most of the Heather too :D
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My little puppers a bit cheesed that I might need to move her over to mow the lawn! Aww :love:
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Amazing shots! Love the cricket and doggie. My neighbour found a Stick insect in his jasmine the other week, it was quite long. Apparently they are quite widespread round Cornwall, the mild weather saves them.
Here are my peppers, I grew them from seed from a red M&S pepper in the spring, didn’t know it would work! Ginger and Posh will eat them, Ted hates peppers!
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@Bill & Ted , have you got any of your peppers to go red? I had one really big pepper on my plant, along with some small ones, it just seemed to keep growing rather than going red, so in the end I picked it. I'd rather have red peppers though!
 
Qualcast&Flymo said:
@Bill & Ted , have you got any of your peppers to go red? I had one really big pepper on my plant, along with some small ones, it just seemed to keep growing rather than going red, so in the end I picked it. I'd rather have red peppers though!
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I’m playing a waiting game atm, I have some the size of my fist and the plants are still flowering so I don’t really know if they’ll ripen. Never grown them before, I’m with Ted I hate them, give me awful indigestiom. The plants are in my conservatory so well protected, I will let you know how we go on, all new to me 😀
 
I grew peppers from seed from one of the ones I bought in M&S this year as well @Bill&Ted they are only just getting little peppers on them though so I think it's going to be too late to get them big enough to pick this year. Peppers need lots of warmth to do anything, fingers crossed summer comes back! Your peppers have done really well. My chillies have done well in the greenhouse this year and are going red quickly now, I froze 3 yesterday for future use.
 
piggieminder said:
I grew peppers from seed from one of the ones I bought in M&S this year as well @Bill&Ted they are only just getting little peppers on them though so I think it's going to be too late to get them big enough to pick this year. Peppers need lots of warmth to do anything, fingers crossed summer comes back! Your peppers have done really well. My chillies have done well in the greenhouse this year and are going red quickly now, I froze 3 yesterday for future use.
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We didn’t do chilliest this year, we had a bumper crop last year and froze loads. We still have a quite a lot left, but we will need to sow some next year as they do loose their heat after a couple of years in the freezer. I hope yours do well, it will all depend on an Indian summer x
 
Bill & Ted said:
I’m playing a waiting game atm, I have some the size of my fist and the plants are still flowering so I don’t really know if they’ll ripen. Never grown them before, I’m with Ted I hate them, give me awful indigestiom. The plants are in my conservatory so well protected, I will let you know how we go on, all new to me 😀
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If you roast green peppers with an onion and some mushrooms they don't give you indigestion (well they don't me anyway) and they don't make you burp either!
 
My chillies I froze last year are just coming to an end now. I grew little ones last year, this year I somehow managed to buy seed for the big ones but I'm sure they work just the same when cooked!
 
I picked about 10lb of Victoria plums this afternoon - felt like Winnie the Pooh, up the ladder with wasps buzzing around me. Pestiferous things keep attacking the ripe fruit before I can pick it - I don't know why when there's so much fallen fruit they could have.
I've frozen about 2lbs this evening, will do some more tomorrow and maybe have a go at jam. And then pick some more! 😛
 
Betsy said:
Love homemade plum jam. Send some down here!
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Me too, has anybody got greengages? I remember a huge Greengage plum tree on my walk to school, it was chopped down to make way for housing. You don’t see them around now
 
When I moved in to the house in the village with Mum & Dad when I was 19, there was a huge Greengage tree in the garden. Sadly after a couple of years it died and had to be taken down. I LOVE Greengages!
 
Betsy said:
Love homemade plum jam. Send some down here!
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When there's a Brum meet, if you come, I'll bring you a jar 😋
Bill & Ted said:
Me too, has anybody got greengages? I remember a huge Greengage plum tree on my walk to school, it was chopped down to make way for housing. You don’t see them around now
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We have inherited 2 greengage trees at our new house. I've picked some fruit but not enough in one go for jam. I believe you're right, I don't think I've seen them in supermarkets, even plums don't get much shelf space compared with strawberries nectarines etc.
 
I'll be there at the next Brum meet as long as someone can put up with me overnight cos 6 hours on the train in one day is a bit much!
 
Qualcast&Flymo said:
When there's a Brum meet, if you come, I'll bring you a jar 😋

We have inherited 2 greengage trees at our new house. I've picked some fruit but not enough in one go for jam. I believe you're right, I don't think I've seen them in supermarkets, even plums don't get much shelf space compared with strawberries nectarines etc.
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wow, lucky you, if you can get enough of them they do make great jam 😋 Yes, plums get very little space in supermarkets and they are usually unripe and tasteless in my experience, such a shame
 
Qualcast&Flymo said:
@Bill & Ted , have you got any of your peppers to go red? I had one really big pepper on my plant, along with some small ones, it just seemed to keep growing rather than going red, so in the end I picked it. I'd rather have red peppers though!
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Do you remember those green pep I grew from a M&S red pepper? Well ones turned red! Noticed it this morning. Ginger and Posh will be pleased,I’ve been feeding them the odd green one as there are so many that the plants are almost toppling over
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Bill & Ted said:
Do you remember those green pep I grew from a M&S red pepper? Well ones turned red! Noticed it this morning. Ginger and Posh will be pleased,I’ve been feeding them the odd green one as there are so many that the plants are almost toppling over
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Did you grow it from an actual bought pepper ... as in grown from the vegetable?
 
I didn't think of drying the seeds. I just planted them and got 10 plants, not sure the peppers are going to get big enough to pick before it gets too cold for them. Will plant them earlier next year!
 
My wildlife camera took a really good picture of one of my nocturnal garden visitors yesterday morning ...

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Bottoms up! 🥂

Not quite the picture I was hoping for! :xd: I put some food down just where it is in the pic, the idea was that it would come through the fence the other way and I'd get a nice view of its snout and of it scoffing the food, not of its posterior after it had finished eating. But heyho, at least I know it was the hedgehog eating the food and not rats or something else.
 
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