Dear Readers, we wish a good day to you all.
It is a 'fair' day here in London town, old sun has his torch just on at half strength but it is warm. Now yesterday was a 'mighty' strange day weather wise, it was warm but not a direct ray from Sun's torch hit her all day long.
But listen, don't feel sorry for her, for she received an email from MaryLou in Illinois saying the lake near to her house is still frozen.. gulp!
She was pleased to see that the two rows of 'Kelvedon Wonder' peas, that she planted on Saturday, have not been munched by mr.slug and the bed of dwarf broad beans is still intact also.
This makes a change, for usually all she has to do is plant some fresh little green thing and old slug comes slithering along and devours it overnight.
Grass was cut, edges were neatly trimmed by the new trimmer that she took with her, the areas under the Gang of Six was weeded. They will be watered, yeah, the water has been turned on, and then mulched later this week.
The Gang of Six are a group of six fruit trees on Plot # 41. The gang consists of three 'Stella' Cherry trees, one 'Morello' Cherry, who is a bit of a delinquent, one 'Victoria' Plum and last, but not least, a 'Transparent' Gage, also a delinquent!
She calls these trees delinquent because the three sweet cherry trees and the Victoria plum settled down and started growing fruit just as all well-behaved fruit trees should do. Not these two, oh no, although they are in same soil, they didn't want to grow any fruit.
Last year, for the first time, they both produced a few blossoms, so she said "I have had enough of your bad behaviour, you are both having a hard summer prune". So snip-snip went those cutters.
In fact, all the Stone fruit trees got a snip! The Yellow Gage, at the front, got the biggest snip of all, that Gage is part of the Gang of Four, they grow in a straight line just back from the front fence on Plot # 39. They consist of two Stella Cherry trees, the Yellow Gage and a sweet little Concorde Pear.
Yellow Gage thinks the word 'tall' should apply to her, for despite the fact she is grafted on to miniature root stock, she has been growing ever upwards since the day she was planted in 2006.
Why can't all trees be like that sweet little Pear, who was only planted in 2010 but ever since 2012 has has produced some beautiful fruit and is still only under six foot tall!
Sigh..
Truly there must be an invisible sign somewhere in the garden which says "All new Cherry trees can behave badly here", for there are a pair of very delinquent Cherry trees in another bed.
They came from Phoebe in Catford, an excellent garden and plant centre, Rachel is the woman you want to speak to about outdoor plants and trees, she knows her stuff, does Rachel!
Anyway, these two trees were planted on 24 April 09. They were pruned and trained into an Espalier shape.
Huh and ever since the day these two were planted, they have been hell-bent on escaping any form of structural guidance!
And let us not discuss the sanity of those two 'White' Cherry trees at the back of Plot # 41!
Mentally deranged is the only phrase that properly describes this pair, despite the fact that they came from a well-respected Nursery Garden called Reads, who are in Bungay, Norfolk, they are very, very norty!
They were both staked properly.. but huh.. one of them has refused to stand up straight from the day she was planted and pulled the stake with her!
Yes, she does know how to stake a tree!
But all the Stone Fruit trees, except the two Miss Pluots and one little Seneca Plum, are in for a very nasty shock in June, nope, we are not saying what is going to happen, you might tell them!
But today is not a Gardening Day, for my Blog has to be written, several chores have to done and I am playing with her feet.
She sits up on her bed to write my Blog, you don't wear shoes whilst lying on a bed, heehee, those
cute toes are just lying there unprotected, if I sneak up on them, Beaky gives them old Nip.
But I swear she has eyes in the side of her head as well, for she twitches them out of reach just as Nip is about to happen.
Papaya broke our fast which was truly delicious, it was scrummydumptious, in fact. She is buying Bavette Steak for supper which we will eat with some home grown Greens.
But there has to be movement, for Bavette Steak is still on Butcher's slab, so "Goodbye" from us both.
We will later today post about Roy, an African Grey Parrot, who was locked in a dog crate and left in a garage for three years. Grrr.. Ugh.
Also this post will be about an extraordinary woman who lives in Stockport, England. We defy you to read this woman's poetry and not be moved.
That's it folks, I'm off to sit on pole by front door and she is off to the market. I hope that a Papaya or two will come home in Wicker. Yum.
GeeGee Parrot.
March 31st, 2014.
It is a 'fair' day here in London town, old sun has his torch just on at half strength but it is warm. Now yesterday was a 'mighty' strange day weather wise, it was warm but not a direct ray from Sun's torch hit her all day long.
But listen, don't feel sorry for her, for she received an email from MaryLou in Illinois saying the lake near to her house is still frozen.. gulp!
She was pleased to see that the two rows of 'Kelvedon Wonder' peas, that she planted on Saturday, have not been munched by mr.slug and the bed of dwarf broad beans is still intact also.
This makes a change, for usually all she has to do is plant some fresh little green thing and old slug comes slithering along and devours it overnight.
Grass was cut, edges were neatly trimmed by the new trimmer that she took with her, the areas under the Gang of Six was weeded. They will be watered, yeah, the water has been turned on, and then mulched later this week.
The Gang of Six are a group of six fruit trees on Plot # 41. The gang consists of three 'Stella' Cherry trees, one 'Morello' Cherry, who is a bit of a delinquent, one 'Victoria' Plum and last, but not least, a 'Transparent' Gage, also a delinquent!
She calls these trees delinquent because the three sweet cherry trees and the Victoria plum settled down and started growing fruit just as all well-behaved fruit trees should do. Not these two, oh no, although they are in same soil, they didn't want to grow any fruit.
Last year, for the first time, they both produced a few blossoms, so she said "I have had enough of your bad behaviour, you are both having a hard summer prune". So snip-snip went those cutters.
In fact, all the Stone fruit trees got a snip! The Yellow Gage, at the front, got the biggest snip of all, that Gage is part of the Gang of Four, they grow in a straight line just back from the front fence on Plot # 39. They consist of two Stella Cherry trees, the Yellow Gage and a sweet little Concorde Pear.
Yellow Gage thinks the word 'tall' should apply to her, for despite the fact she is grafted on to miniature root stock, she has been growing ever upwards since the day she was planted in 2006.
Why can't all trees be like that sweet little Pear, who was only planted in 2010 but ever since 2012 has has produced some beautiful fruit and is still only under six foot tall!
Sigh..
Truly there must be an invisible sign somewhere in the garden which says "All new Cherry trees can behave badly here", for there are a pair of very delinquent Cherry trees in another bed.
They came from Phoebe in Catford, an excellent garden and plant centre, Rachel is the woman you want to speak to about outdoor plants and trees, she knows her stuff, does Rachel!
Anyway, these two trees were planted on 24 April 09. They were pruned and trained into an Espalier shape.
Huh and ever since the day these two were planted, they have been hell-bent on escaping any form of structural guidance!
And let us not discuss the sanity of those two 'White' Cherry trees at the back of Plot # 41!
Mentally deranged is the only phrase that properly describes this pair, despite the fact that they came from a well-respected Nursery Garden called Reads, who are in Bungay, Norfolk, they are very, very norty!
They were both staked properly.. but huh.. one of them has refused to stand up straight from the day she was planted and pulled the stake with her!
Yes, she does know how to stake a tree!
But all the Stone Fruit trees, except the two Miss Pluots and one little Seneca Plum, are in for a very nasty shock in June, nope, we are not saying what is going to happen, you might tell them!
But today is not a Gardening Day, for my Blog has to be written, several chores have to done and I am playing with her feet.
She sits up on her bed to write my Blog, you don't wear shoes whilst lying on a bed, heehee, those
cute toes are just lying there unprotected, if I sneak up on them, Beaky gives them old Nip.
But I swear she has eyes in the side of her head as well, for she twitches them out of reach just as Nip is about to happen.
Papaya broke our fast which was truly delicious, it was scrummydumptious, in fact. She is buying Bavette Steak for supper which we will eat with some home grown Greens.
But there has to be movement, for Bavette Steak is still on Butcher's slab, so "Goodbye" from us both.
We will later today post about Roy, an African Grey Parrot, who was locked in a dog crate and left in a garage for three years. Grrr.. Ugh.
Also this post will be about an extraordinary woman who lives in Stockport, England. We defy you to read this woman's poetry and not be moved.
That's it folks, I'm off to sit on pole by front door and she is off to the market. I hope that a Papaya or two will come home in Wicker. Yum.
GeeGee Parrot.
March 31st, 2014.
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