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 My seeds (planted
on 9 April) are coming on great, as these photos taken
today show.
The photo above is of the marrows. The pic on the right is of the Basil seedlings.
They're just appearing.
Best of all are the nasturtiums (below). On Thursday the tallest was one inch
high. Twenty-four hours later it had grown by a staggering two inches! It's probably
something to do with me moving them to a sunny position next to the radiator!
I have an electric propagator but haven't used it this year. The central heating
and sunny weather has been enough. The seeds were covered with polythene and a
sheet of newspaper until they germinated.
My 'item' that I ordered from Clone Zone arrived on Thursday. It was packaged
as discretely as possible, but imagine the scene... The postman (whom I have known
for many years) knocks on the door to give me the brown packet, which is marked
'private and confidential' with a return address on it but no company name. You
can feel that it has something rubbery and squidgy inside. I'm glad it wasn't
penis-shaped! Maybe it's just my guilty conscience? Quite a laugh...
My neighbour who owns the house next door went off to work down south two years
ago. Since then he has rented the house out to people at holiday times.
I didn't think much of it at first. Most of the people have been great and I try
to make them feel welcome if I see them, by saying 'hi'. Often I hardly see anything
of them.
But then last year we had one man who just ignored me when I said 'hello'. That
isn't a nice thing to have, right on your doorstep.
Then we had a family with a kid, who battered down many of the plants in next-door's
garden with his cricket bat. Then another family arrived with a dog. One of the
first things they did was walk into my garden and remove a roll of wire fencing
which they used to make an enclosure for their hound. When they left, they didn't
bother putting the fencing back and it was left to me to dismantle their doggie
enclosure so I could retrieve my property. I don't know what you think, but I
was pretty mad about that.
We've had a few people with dogs and I think it's only a matter of time before
someone lets their pooch use my garden as a toilet. If that happens, it's something
that will really make me blow my top. I like to be able to walk in and out of
the house and into the garden without worrying about stepping in dog shit.
As the gardens are fairly open-plan, it would have been good to have had a no-dogs
policy in the first place. But as we don't, I'm thinking of putting up a sign.
I've toned it down from the original 'keep your f**king dirty mutt out of my garden'.
Opting instead for ''private garden: no entry/no dogs'. That way hopefully we
can avoid any ugly scenes in the future.
So I've been hunting down some doggie silhouettes that I can put a inside a nice
red 'no entry' sign.
NEXT-door is starting to look a bit run down. The gutters are full of weeds, paint
is peeling, the roofing felt has blown off their garden shed and the glass in
the shed window has fallen in. I'm starting to wonder whether they are planning
to just get as much money from the place as possible, while doing very little
to it.
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