The General Chat Thread (2024)

[Lullabelle]

Me neither. No car, and I'm knackered from the dinner service last night!

Rain yesterday, rain and strong winds today, really yuck outside today.

 

[Lullabelle]

minus 2 this morning and crisp underfoot.

 

[Barriehie]

Ugh, my doors start freezing shut... 60°F here and cloudy.

 

[msmofet]

Raining here

 

[TastyReuben]

Raining here

Same here - welcome from sunny? North Carolina!

 

[Barriehie]

Clearing up nicely now.

 

[Lullabelle]

Gregg Wallace presenter of Masterchef has stepped aside due to an ongoing investigation into wrong doing...another BBC creep who was protected. Who is next?

 

[JAS_OH1]

Raining here

And here. Been home 3 weeks and its been cloudy, cold and rainy mostly. I'm ready to leave town again!

 

[medtran49]

It's nice here, sunny, clear skies, and high is supposed to be mid to low 80sF.

 

[Barriehie]

It's nice here, sunny, clear skies, and high is supposed to be mid to low 80sF.

You're in the land of constant tomatoes!

 

[JAS_OH1]

You're in the land of constant tomatoes!

Honestly it gets too hot in summer! Even when I lived in the Florida panhandle I could never grow good tomatoes. Herbs yes, tomatoes, no...

 

[medtran49]

You're in the land of constant tomatoes!

Nope, gets too hot in summer for outside, even if you constantly water for any non native. You can grow the tiny wild Everglades tomatoes though, as long as they get adequate water.

In fact, you can't grow any vegetable unless they are native in the summer outside.

 

[JAS_OH1]

Nope, gets too hot in summer for outside, even if you constantly water for any non native. You can grow the tiny wild Everglades tomatoes though, as long as they get adequate water.

In fact, you can't grow any vegetable unless they are native in the summer outside.

Yeah up in NW Florida we also had horrible soil. Too sandy if you lived close to the beach (like I did) and hard clay if you lived further inland (like other friends and family). I would have to dig a trench and fill it with "good" dirt to grow anything other than cactus, and summer was a wash for most stuff, sadly.

 

[badjak]

More or less the same here, although yard long beans, egg plant & butternut just about survive.
My plan is to put up a shade house

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

More or less the same here, although yard long beans, egg plant & butternut just about survive.
My plan is to put up a shade house

I did something with rural water polypipe, star pickets and shade cloth. The plants have been so much better for it.