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vtsnowedin · Post by **vtsnowedin** » 14 Apr 2013, 12:25

biffvernon wrote:It's never too late to be planting stuff.

Depends on where you are a bit. I can expect the first killing frost of the fall just about the fifteenth of September so have to work backwards from there. It would be a waste of time to plant something that takes a hundred days to mature after the first of June.
It's snowing a bit here this morning with it right on freezing and I got two inches of sleet last Friday. Enough already!!

Tarrel · Post by **Tarrel** » 14 Apr 2013, 13:09

vtsnowedin wrote:
biffvernon wrote:It's never too late to be planting stuff.
Depends on where you are a bit. I can expect the first killing frost of the fall just about the fifteenth of September so have to work backwards from there. It would be a waste of time to plant something that takes a hundred days to mature after the first of June.
It's snowing a bit here this morning with it right on freezing and I got two inches of sleet last Friday. Enough already!!

Is that unusual for you at this time of year VTS? We seem to have skipped Spring and gone directly to Summer this weekend! Snowing last weekend.

vtsnowedin · Post by **vtsnowedin** » 14 Apr 2013, 20:10

Tarrel wrote:
vtsnowedin wrote:
biffvernon wrote:It's never too late to be planting stuff.
Depends on where you are a bit. I can expect the first killing frost of the fall just about the fifteenth of September so have to work backwards from there. It would be a waste of time to plant something that takes a hundred days to mature after the first of June.
It's snowing a bit here this morning with it right on freezing and I got two inches of sleet last Friday. Enough already!!
Is that unusual for you at this time of year VTS? We seem to have skipped Spring and gone directly to Summer this weekend! Snowing last weekend.

It is about two weeks behind the average snow free ground date but well within the normal year to year variations I have seen. One good rain and a couple of windy sunny days and it could be back on track for peas planting in the first week of May and transplanting tomatoes and such May 30th as usual.

RenewableCandy · Post by **RenewableCandy** » 14 Apr 2013, 22:02

There are drawers full of saved seeds here at Chateau Renewable and I shall never be able to plant them all. So if anybody wants PSB, french or broad beans, sorrel, or the odd sunflower, drop us a PM.

Mean Mr Mustard · Post by **Mean Mr Mustard** » 14 Apr 2013, 22:05

RenewableCandy wrote:There are drawers full of saved seeds here at Chateau Renewable and I shall never be able to plant them all. So if anybody wants PSB, french or broad beans, sorrel, or the odd sunflower, drop us a PM.

What does an Odd Sunflower look like?

Little John · Post by **Little John** » 14 Apr 2013, 22:11

Mean Mr Mustard wrote:
RenewableCandy wrote:There are drawers full of saved seeds here at Chateau Renewable and I shall never be able to plant them all. So if anybody wants PSB, french or broad beans, sorrel, or the odd sunflower, drop us a PM.
What does an Odd Sunflower look like?

RenewableCandy · Post by **RenewableCandy** » 14 Apr 2013, 22:11

Depends what you've been smoking

I've got some called "Russian Giant". That's enough of that _ed.

the_lyniezian · Post by **the_lyniezian** » 15 Apr 2013, 01:01

Tarrel wrote: We seem to have skipped Spring and gone directly to Summer this weekend!

Us Sassenachs must have missed this...

EDIT: ...though I seem to understand you were once one of us...

Tarrel · Post by **Tarrel** » 15 Apr 2013, 09:29

the_lyniezian wrote:
Tarrel wrote: We seem to have skipped Spring and gone directly to Summer this weekend!
Us Sassenachs must have missed this...

EDIT: ...though I seem to understand you were once one of us...

Depends on your expectations of summer. We don't often get much above 18 degrees here, so 13 over the weekend with plenty of sun definitely passed muster as a summer day!

Yes, sadly I'm not really of these parts (or even these shores), being half Polish and half English (although even the English side has dubious origins apparently!) I'm very happy for Scotland to be my adopted home however.

vtsnowedin · Post by **vtsnowedin** » 15 Apr 2013, 11:08

the_lyniezian wrote:
Tarrel wrote: We seem to have skipped Spring and gone directly to Summer this weekend!
Us Sassenachs must have missed this...

EDIT: ...though I seem to understand you were once one of us...

I had to Google that to see who it was directed at. What do you call American tourist while they attempt to drive on the correct side of the road roaming the countryside looking for the long lost estate and title?

Tarrel · Post by **Tarrel** » 15 Apr 2013, 11:11

vtsnowedin wrote:
the_lyniezian wrote:
Tarrel wrote: We seem to have skipped Spring and gone directly to Summer this weekend!
Us Sassenachs must have missed this...

EDIT: ...though I seem to understand you were once one of us...
I had to Google that to see who it was directed at. What do you call American tourist while they attempt to drive on the correct side of the road roaming the countryside looking for the long lost estate and title?

Donald Trump?

vtsnowedin · Post by **vtsnowedin** » 15 Apr 2013, 12:47

Tarrel wrote: Donald Trump?

I've been called worse. Couldn't do the haircut though.

RenewableCandy · Post by **RenewableCandy** » 15 Apr 2013, 15:37

Isn't it interesting how many of us here have an Eastern European connection... I wonder which is cause and which is effect (I was a doomer of sorts l-o-n-g before meeting Marvellous Other 1/2).

Tarrel · Post by **Tarrel** » 15 Apr 2013, 15:48

RenewableCandy wrote:Isn't it interesting how many of us here have an Eastern European connection... I wonder which is cause and which is effect (I was a doomer of sorts l-o-n-g before meeting Marvellous Other 1/2).

Maybe we have a deep, historical connection to Dimitri Orlov!

Many people from Eastern Europe have experienced massive social, economic and political upheaval over the past few generations. (Poland for example was a "non-state" for many years before the first World war). I don't know how long it takes for such experiences to translate into cultural beliefs, attitudes, value-systems and behaviours. Maybe people from that background are more naturally tuned in to signs of change as a result, more likely to accept things for what they are, and less likely to be in denial.

The old "nature vs nurture" debate I suppose. Perhaps we have been nurtured to be resilient, and to be alert to the prospect of coming hardship, over those generations.

"Mouse kebabs anyone?"

featherstick · Post by **featherstick** » 15 Apr 2013, 15:56

RenewableCandy wrote:Isn't it interesting how many of us here have an Eastern European connection... I wonder which is cause and which is effect (I was a doomer of sorts l-o-n-g before meeting Marvellous Other 1/2).

Curious - me too - first aid kits and survival rations at age 12. Proper little worrier, I was. DW initially didn't want to think about having to survive another collapse, her memories of the first one were far too fresh. But she's come around, thankfully. Bought me a survival kit last Christmas, with a rabbit snare and fishing line and everything!