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    #11
    And don't get me started on mint, fecking invasive stuff that it is
    Darn right. I remember the missus planting some once and it started spreading over the lawn.

    Maybe Milly Beans is right, we should start preparing for the coming apocolypse.
    bloggoth

    If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'
    John Wayne (My guru, not to be confused with my beloved prophet Jeremy Clarkson)

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      #12
      Oh are what are your tips for dealing with squirrels?
      "You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JR

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        #13
        Originally posted by SueEllen View Post
        Oh are what are your tips for dealing with squirrels?
        0.177 air rifle.
        …Maybe we ain’t that young anymore

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          #14
          We grow courgettes.

          Lots and lots of courgettes…
          "I can put any old tat in my sig, put quotes around it and attribute to someone of whom I've heard, to make it sound true."
          - Voltaire/Benjamin Franklin/Anne Frank...

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            #15
            Originally posted by DoctorStrangelove View Post
            Not any more: the parents' garden, dug & planted for 95 years is now grass, and I've just chopped down the apple & pear trees since no one wanted the fruit and I was fed up with picking up windfalls.

            The jackdaws are very upset.

            The apple tree looked lovely in flower.
            I bet the bees and wasps ain't too pleased either! Apples, Pears, copper piping and some engineering skills...
            Old Greg - In search of acceptance since Mar 2007. Hoping each leap will be his last.

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              #16
              Originally posted by DoctorStrangelove View Post
              Not any more: the parents' garden, dug & planted for 95 years is now grass, and I've just chopped down the apple & pear trees since no one wanted the fruit and I was fed up with picking up windfalls.

              The jackdaws are very upset.

              The apple tree looked lovely in flower.
              We’ve got a cider maker in the next town that gets ours. We get a few free bottles in return.
              "I can put any old tat in my sig, put quotes around it and attribute to someone of whom I've heard, to make it sound true."
              - Voltaire/Benjamin Franklin/Anne Frank...

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                #17
                Originally posted by cojak View Post
                We grow courgettes.

                Lots and lots of courgettes…
                https://talesfromswallowfarm.blogspo...o-be-then.html
                Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

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                  #18
                  Originally posted by Zigenare View Post

                  I bet the bees and wasps ain't too pleased either!
                  It's ok, they haven't woken up yet.

                  Courgettes.

                  Miss one & it turns into a marrow.

                  I spent some of last year demolishing the courgette part of next door's garden, it was Termination With Extreme Prejudice.

                  Plus I was fed up with cutting back the brambles twice a year.

                  The lawn extension I intended for that area never happened so I'll have to dig it over again this spring & move some of the gooseberry bushes & do the job properly this time.
                  When the fun stops, STOP.

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                    #19
                    Originally posted by DoctorStrangelove View Post
                    And don't get me started on mint, fecking invasive stuff that it is.
                    I am so green fingered that when I tried to grow mint I managed to kill it
                    Growing old is mandatory
                    Growing up is optional

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                      #20
                      Originally posted by Halo Jones View Post

                      I am so green fingered that when I tried to grow mint I managed to kill it
                      You need to advertise your skills!
                      "You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JR

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