ian Stanbury
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Lovely Toms
Ah what a great sight ..... I have not seen such since 1988 when my father-in -law passed away. He had three greenhouses in his garden and an abundance of tomatoes beans and pears ... those were the days! Sadly a seafront balcony does not quite 'fit-the-bill', in the same way.
A pity that SE21 is too far for me to travel at present, or I would be up there in a flash. I can taste them now, grilled and on toast with PLENTY of salt and pepper. I can but dream. Hope they don't go to waste.
Ah what a great sight ..... I have not seen such since 1988 when my father-in -law passed away. He had three greenhouses in his garden and an abundance of tomatoes beans and pears ... those were the days! Sadly a seafront balcony does not quite 'fit-the-bill', in the same way.
A pity that SE21 is too far for me to travel at present, or I would be up there in a flash. I can taste them now, grilled and on toast with PLENTY of salt and pepper. I can but dream. Hope they don't go to waste.
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Shame there isn't an excess of cucumbers too, as we need some to go with the Pimms on Saturday night ;-)
Those tomatoes do look yummy, Like Ian above I too have fond memories, my mother was a voracious grower of her own produce and wandering round her garden this time of year pinching georgeous fresh tomatoes straight off the vine is a fantastic memory.
Its a real shame as at the moment we are reducing the garden to a more manageable plan and are removing the three green houses that my mother had, its a shame but they took out equity release so the loan company are now going to get us to sell the house. It had a fantastic garden all totally organic and I always knew that to get my mother into a good mood, all I had to do was to get her to show me around and get her to tell me what she was upto at that time of year.
I do remember being at a meeting of our playing field assciation recently and we were discussing the planting of trees (Ian S' favourite subject) I got told rather snobbily that I didn't know anything about growing things. So I did have to point out that my mother and father had been presidents of the Shropshire Horticultural Society and that I grew up virtually living at Percy Throwers house. Although I don't do much at the moment with my gardens I learnt an awful lot through Osmosis in all those years!
Anyway we ended up organising a tree planting session, every child in the village came up and planted their own trees. It was a great day and in twenty years time the bare boring looking park should look great now it has over 70 tree planted in it.
Those tomatoes do look yummy, Like Ian above I too have fond memories, my mother was a voracious grower of her own produce and wandering round her garden this time of year pinching georgeous fresh tomatoes straight off the vine is a fantastic memory.
Its a real shame as at the moment we are reducing the garden to a more manageable plan and are removing the three green houses that my mother had, its a shame but they took out equity release so the loan company are now going to get us to sell the house. It had a fantastic garden all totally organic and I always knew that to get my mother into a good mood, all I had to do was to get her to show me around and get her to tell me what she was upto at that time of year.
I do remember being at a meeting of our playing field assciation recently and we were discussing the planting of trees (Ian S' favourite subject) I got told rather snobbily that I didn't know anything about growing things. So I did have to point out that my mother and father had been presidents of the Shropshire Horticultural Society and that I grew up virtually living at Percy Throwers house. Although I don't do much at the moment with my gardens I learnt an awful lot through Osmosis in all those years!
Anyway we ended up organising a tree planting session, every child in the village came up and planted their own trees. It was a great day and in twenty years time the bare boring looking park should look great now it has over 70 tree planted in it.