[coatesi]

When I joined this forum I was asked to point out the differences of gardening on the 'other' side of the world so here goes.
   At the moment I have Russian Red tomatos in tubs with two or more trusses on and will be just right for Christmas.I also have my 'no name' plum tomatos coming on for later in the summer. I have ripped out the broad beans into the compost ( no protest from HID, she's in London ) to give the Scarlet Runners some room and sun. The leeks have gone as well, they were last autumn plantings and whats left has bolted to seed in the spring. The parsnips are through and showing good growth, the shallots are about to get booted into orbit as they have been sitting and doing nothing. I found out that we import shallots from CHINA and are sprayed to stop them shooting in transit. I don't care about carbon footprint as long as I can use the product as seed. For some reason shallots are seen as trendy food here and cost a fortune. I am into my Cliffs Kidney early spuds and they are gorgeous ( I know I promised to wait until you got home darling, BUT we don't want them TOO big ,do we). Caulis and broccolli doing well, so that is about it. The spring is dry and has been quite windy up to now , so watering is order of the day. That's it so far this season and I will kep you informed as it progresses
coatesi

[Calou]

You've got it all going on there haven't you, am I jealous, yessssssss

[frazzy]

i,m green with envy coatesi
   :mrgreen:  .our spring seemed so long ago . keep up the good work.

[WG.]

Lovely to hear it all coatesi, thanks.  Keep us updated since I'll know to plant onion sets when you are asking for green tomato chutney recipes!  

[gobs]

Yes, please, it's lovely to dream... of a

[brucesgirl]

I wish it was spring here - still only 16 more weeks till the clocks go forward, and only 10 weeks till I leave work in daylight.

Not that I am counting you understand!

[mkhenry]

I wish it was spring here - still only 16 more weeks till the clocks go forward, and only 10 weeks till I leave work in daylight.

Not that I am counting you understand!

When you explain like that it makes everything seem so close I had better get on with all those jobs that I thought I had ages to do. :?

[noshed]

Absolutely freezing up the plot today. Ice on the water butts.
Turned over a compost heap and dug a bed but I was still cold.
Had to go up the pub.

[sweet nasturtium]

Coatesi - can we have some pics to cheer us up?

[coatesi]

sweet nasturtium
                         If I had a digi camera you would be welcome to pics but alas I had a Canon camera and it packed up. So did two other canon camera's at work. same symptoms. 'Sorry but it is not covered by warranty' it is at least 3 years old. Then the colour printer stopped'Sorry it is two years old and you did buy at the cheap end of the range' You guessed it, canon again. Had to buy a new printer but the camera will have to wait. No it wasn't canon and never will be again. Hewlett Packard.
coatesi

[mushroom]

I've had great results with Nikon (touch wood). i have the D50 digital SLR. had it 3 years now. Even with the better cameras, if the main circutry/body goes, it is uneconomic to get them fixed - for that you still need a standard manual SLR, like my olympus OM-2 which is more than 30 years old.

The D50 uses SD cards that you can get everywhere, real cheap. A 1GB card  holds about 900 pictures in normal JPG format at 1600x1200, and about 120 i think in non-compressed TIFF.

[Scribbler]

Sony Cybershot 7.2 - werks for me. Real convert to digital now.

[muntjac]

ERMMMMMMM WOT NO PICCIES    

[Scribbler]