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🗣️ General Discussion 🗣️ The Weather Thread

Shinji Ikari said:
Out in the garden working on my first sunburn of the year
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Nice bit of mature garden space you've got to work with there. Plus no other houses visible at the back!

I've got a terraced back yard, thats mostly concrete but has soil borders around the edges, and a shed.

The good news is that it is south facing, so gets lots of full sun for most of the day, and many of the things I've grown have matured nicely by now, and turning it into a mini green oasis. Unfortuately I've lost, or had to move, many of favourite plansts along the way as they've either died or needed to be moved from their ideal positions.

Been having a lot of trouble with garden pests though; slugs, aphids, and as I've recently discovered, a severe spider mite infestation. Which is feasting on all my ferns and turning them brown when they are still in their prime.

Going to try to turn the tide using spider mite predators to do something about the spider mite infestation.

If that doesnt work I may have to use a strong spider mite insecticide, which will probably kill my ferns . And then have to start all over again.
 
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So sunny and warm today, I was able to take off my clothes while working out on my balcony at sunset! It’s about time I got some sun. It’s particularly healthy at sunrise and sunset when there’s the most red and infrared light.
 
Shinji Ikari said:
Last night we sat in the conservatory during a thunderstorm and tried to do a cross word. We ended up getting stuck on 9 across because we couldn't hear eachother speak.

Warm again today. Spring has sprung.
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Yeah from now to early summer is my favourite time of year. All the plants, trees, and flowers start coming into bloom or life, and it's nicely warm, without being too hot.
 
Bleaney said:
If that doesnt work I may have to use a strong spider mite insecticide, which will probably kill my ferns . And then have to start all over again
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One of our rose bushes had mites last year. I think I just ignored them. I try to avoid insecticides and do all the weeding by hand but fungus gnats in the potted plants are doing my head in so I think I'm going to have to do something about that. I planted a load of ferns last year too I think they all made it through the winter just about although one of them is looking quite ropey. I was thinking about giving it a little baby bio.
 
I accidentally ignored my spider mites for years, becauuse I didnt know I had them and that they were the problem, and the cause of turning my ferns brown very prematurely.

Now I have identified the problem I may have better luck solving it.

But they have become an incredibly massive infestation, there must be billions of them, and the webs they spin are massive and gross and everywhere. I may be too late to turn the tide.

Maybe I should just torch the lot and start again!

All outdoor ferns that I know of have all their leaves die off and turn brown over winter. A very rare few will stay green throughout. But the frosts and ice tends to make the leaves loose their graceful upright curves for any leaves that manage to stay green.

I just pruned off all the old dead growth last week, down to the curled up balls of fronds, just waiting to push forth and unravel. Some are already starting, which is much earlier than usual.

But march to may is when they start pushing out their new fronds generally. Only they get every bigger and bigger every year. I'd love to do a timelapse of the fern leaves unravelling and opening up over a few weeks if only I could be arsed.

The leaves are a lovely shade of fresh and tender green at first, and then they gradually darken.

Its so annoying all these pests, all the ferns just growing in the wild without anyone looking after them dont seem to have any problems! :unsure:
 
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Perfect. ^^^ I was just going to say. I love your posts.

It was a really nice winter and now it is really hot again. 🌻

Not too weird but I got some chem trails with a phone. The sky is blue today. ☀️
 
Anyone else lucky enough to have a sycamore tree overlooking their garden? They seed themselves EVERYWHERE. If you don't spot them early the roots get really deep really fast and you have to dig them up.


Bleaney said:
Its so annoying all these pests, all the ferns just growing in the wild without anyone looking after them dont seem to have any problems
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This is what I'm always thinking they seem impossible to kill in the wild!

Should rename this the gardening thread.
 
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Wasnt it the year of the covid lockdown that was the last period of prolonged dry and sunny weather that we had in the UK?

I think that one lasted 3-4 months with a long and sunny spring to early summer. IIRC.

I was lucky enough to be on furlough for most of it!
 
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I genuinely can't remember the last time we had a bad day. It's been nice for weeks this is insane.
Bleaney said:
Wasnt it the year of the covid lockdown that was the last period of prolonged dry and sunny weather that we had in the UK?
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Yeah you're right that was a scorcher. I'm lucky I was living near a really big park/nature reserve at the time. Also I was doing a degree so that stopped me from getting too bored.
 
Got a caravan holiday in Wales booked this week so am fully expecting it to piss it down with rain for the next 5 days.

I can't remember which day it was I've got blossom tree's in front of my house and last week we had a really windy one and it all started coming down and it literally looked like it was snowing.

Also went to the woods last week and the bluebells are starting to come out. By the end of the month I expect the entire forest floor will be blanketed in them.
 
F.U.B.A.R. said:
This weather (UK) is the fuckin tits.

Vodka, Karpackie, weed, fags and sunshine.

A combo that takes some beating... 😃
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Nice! I spent most of last weekend down the pub sinking ciders and chain smoking. Absolutely glorious.

It's been almost two months of days like this. In England! Unprecedented.

Even my April Wales holiday was dry as a bone, except for all the wine...

Keep enjoying the sunshine folks!
 
Hotter than Hell here today, was on The Avanti Northern Line earlier today & we got a message a train had broken down & we were all kicked off the train 13-15 miles OUTSIDE Birmingham City, I had to jump on a bus that took 40 mins to get into the city & it was packed, I nearly died in the heat.

Finally got the train out of Snowhill Station back to town & the guy by me smelt so BAD, it was OLD SWEAT but not that days worth or 24 hours, he was beyond Ripe & must have avoided Soap for a good week, you could TASTE the body Odour it was that bad, even a dog moved away from him which says it all.

SO glad I wasn't dope sick as when I am ill the level of smell I have becomes extra sharp & some smells set me right off puking, that guy would have reduced me to a lump on the floor curled up in the Fetus position spraying stomach acid out like a high powered jet washer.
 
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