Our first Peach this morning.

[difflock]

Well one does have aspirations  .  .  ., for the next but one, but not yet gestated,  generation.

Fingers crossed.

[difflock]

P.S.

Mostly the product of a manic-depressive nature, my positives magnified by, and my negatives stoically lived with, by the 17 girl I met, wooed* and married and the woman she matured into.

Unfortunately,

I have not as yet matured commensurate  with my advanced growth rings.

Marcus.

P.S.

*wooed as in I chased her until she caught me.

[Rough Hewn]

Difflock, if you're into growing peaches.
Have a look on google images for the peach walls of Paris.
It's mental.
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[kevinjohnsonmbe]

4 hours ago, Rough Hewn said:

Difflock, if you're into growing peaches.
Have a look on google images for the peach walls of Paris.
It's mental.

I’m kinda hoping that will provide the ‘intended’ search return and maybe also some pleasant distractions.... ?

[Rough Hewn]

I worked on a boat in Paris when a lot younger.
To find it on my first day, I walked into the nearest tourist office and asked
"Ou est les sein?"
Got a funny look from the lady behind the counter.
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[Rough Hewn]

(The river in Paris is called the seine, breasts in French are sein. Similar pronunciation)
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[difflock]

14 hours ago, Rough Hewn said:

Difflock, if you're into growing peaches.
Have a look on google images for the peach walls of Paris.
It's mental.

We watched  was some sort of documentary on the BBC, which featured the walled market garden suburb of Paris, quite fasinating and mindboggling in its scale.

For KJ's benefit;

I once found out at work why our PSNI was not abbreviated from the more obvious Northern Ireland Police Service title, when I searched for their forgotten non-urgent contact Ph No.

And was rewarded with images I did not expect, Honest Guv!

Edited February 27, 2019 by difflock

[difflock]

Well, I took a nice pic am today, 15 reasonable, reasonably ripe peaches(cos I ate a doncy one that fell off when I installed the support strings last week)

And my home grown thumb sized unripe Peach, was as sweet and tasty as the muck on offer in our supermarkets(or fruiters), which is to say not very, but still  .  .  .

And on the near dead "freebie" Peach tree planted the back end of 2016!

I will need to prune it and train it against the wall/into the corner this winter.

 

Edited June 13, 2019 by difflock

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

4 minutes ago, difflock said:

Well, I took a nice pic am today, 15 reasonable, reasonably ripe peaches(cos I ate a doncy one that fell off when I installed the support strings last week)

And my home grown thumb sized unripe Peach, was as sweet and tasty as the muck on offer in our supermarkets(or fruiters), which is to say not very, but still  .  .  .

And on the near dead "freebie" Peach tree planted the back end of 2016!

I will need to prune it and train it against the wall/into the corner this winter.

 

Mheh! I’m undeniably jealous....

 

Nothing growing of any note here - still feels like Winter ?

[difflock]

Kevin, all down to serendipity, mind you with the space easily reaching 25-30 odd Degrees, at 750mm from floor level! (I then opened the upstairs windows to dump the heat into the landing) , and still rarely below 15-20 first thing in the morning, from probably early April, little wonder.

I feared it could get too hot and perhaps scorch the plants, but fingers crossed, not so far.

Annoyed that I did not sow and bring on Tomatoes(in particular), but next year  .  .  .

The three surrounding cavity walls and insulated floor screed, obviously hold some considerable heat right through the night.

And what really really works is the low Winter/early Spring  Sun, striking in through the vertical glass, it can actually be hotter earlier in the year when the Sun is low and the sky is clear.

A beautiful place to sit, especially early am when the stored heat from the previous day(s) is clearly palpable.

Life is Good.

Marcus

P.S.

I really need to get an inside/outside set of thermometers, with data logging, to record the temperature differentials.

 

Edited June 13, 2019 by difflock