Grow Your Own Magazine

wellie · #1 (**permalink**) 16-07-2007, 09:16 PM

I hope Trousers has posted this photo up on the correct thread?
Please tell me that this is the 'Pests & Diseases' section of The Grapevine....!

No, honestly, my cat isn't A Pest. I just wanted to share this with you?

Hope you like it.

Flummery · #2 (**permalink**) 16-07-2007, 09:23 PM

Yum - I've had the most enormous tea - but I could still tuck into that. It looks gorgeous!

Mrs Dobby · #3 (**permalink**) 16-07-2007, 09:47 PM

Wow! Very impressed Wellie, some lovely veg n fruit there, I'm jealous!

wellie · #4 (**permalink**) 16-07-2007, 10:15 PM

Thank you both, Trousers takes a good photo.... I'm thinking Cucumber Lettuce & Lovage Soup. I've frozen the berries, apart from those I'm using in a smoothie for brekkie in the morning, and Trousers thankfully 'knee-deep' in Tommy Salad for his lunch every day...!

Alice · #5 (**permalink**) 16-07-2007, 11:03 PM

Fabulous smug trug Wellie. Enjoy it all. What's your cat's name ?

wellie · #6 (**permalink**) 16-07-2007, 11:21 PM

Thank you Alice. And think of the vitamins in that little lot!

Our cat was rather unimaginatively named by some neighbours of ours, who have 'indoor cats' (which I've never been able to fathom 'the point of'? and honestly, each to their own and all of that) but she was semi-feral, and they used to feed her the scraps of catfood that their own cats didn't eat, and she was known as BC, which stood for Black Cat.

When she decided to take up permanent residence with us, as they do.... we never even considered another name for her, because she loves that one. I can 'call her' to come home from any part of the woods, or other neighbours gardens, but generally don't even have to. As soon as I drive up to the gate, there she is, waiting for me in the very spot that I want to park my car in. See Wellie get out of truck and open gate. Pick cat up and plonk her ontop of green wheelie-bin. I think she loves the routine....

pigletwillie · #7 (**permalink**) 17-07-2007, 08:17 AM

I call her BG, cos she is!!!

moggssue · #8 (**permalink**) 17-07-2007, 09:34 AM

She's a lovely cat Wellie - and that's how I got mine as well, she was a stray who decided she was moving in and that was that! Love the smug trug as well, gives me hope for 'one day' .....

Headfry · #9 (**permalink**) 26-07-2007, 02:41 PM

Wellie, where did you get the 'cat seed' from
I want to grow some of those!

HF
x

wellie · #10 (**permalink**) 26-07-2007, 10:27 PM

Headfry,

It's a very rare F1 (Feral One). It hardens itself off in the greenhouse, but does need feeding twice a day, and requires watering similar to my Blueberry bushes in tubs; with rainwater.... It's foliage is very soft to the touch, but there are hidden thorns to be wary of. Much like a Venus Fly Trap, it also seems to attract prey into its mouth?!

Hazel at the Hill · #11 (**permalink**) 26-07-2007, 10:33 PM

I managed to get hold of the F1 a couple of years ago - Wellie's right, they are quite gross feeders, and hate being waterlogged. You'd think that they'd need frost protection in Winter, but they are actually quite hardy.

wellie · #12 (**permalink**) 06-08-2007, 10:39 PM

Haze.
Are you sure that's Dom? I'll just go check if BC's about still....
(I should never have bought her driving lessons for her birthday!)

Hazel at the Hill · #13 (**permalink**) 07-08-2007, 12:20 AM

That's Oli in the pot, you clot!

Dom's the big fat b*gger in my avatar!

I think that Oli and BC do 'weekend swapsies' every now and again just to fool us both.....?

wellie · #14 (**permalink**) 08-08-2007, 10:36 PM

And, of course, if you mistakenly identify them on first sighting, you can of course, consult an expert, who will, with all professional dignity, put you straight, in order to correctly identify that particular strain next time around.....

moggssue · #15 (**permalink**) 09-08-2007, 02:00 PM

Wellie and Hazel, you're giving me a right giggle during a(nother) boring day in the office!!! Do you have any suggestions for good companion plants for your F1s?

Flummery · #16 (**permalink**) 09-08-2007, 08:39 PM

Mouse -ear chick weed?
Anything with catkins? (E.g. pussywillow)

wellie · #17 (**permalink**) 10-08-2007, 07:13 PM

I'm a great believer in 'knowng your onions', and Trousers most definitely does....
On the rare mornings that BC doesn't actually 'plant herself' next to her Companion, Trousers does it for her, and this morning was one of those occasions.

The F1 had wanted to be companion-planted with a baby Jenny Wren at 5.45am this morning, but luckily, the Wren had other ideas and flew up the stairwell, landing on one of Wellie's Hats, and Trousers was able to safely despatch it out of our bedroom window (no, not the cat...)

The F1 was initially very disappointed, but soon forgot about it in the arms of her very favourite Companion......

muckdiva · #18 (**permalink**) 10-08-2007, 10:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by wellie

requires watering similar to my Blueberry bushes in tubs; with rainwater....

That's interesting about the rainwater Wellie, my cat always drinks out of the water buckets left to collect it from the shed roof too.

What a fabulous lot of garden loot; so impressed. What 'brand' is the black/dark tomato?

wellie · #19 (**permalink**) 10-08-2007, 11:22 PM

Hi there Muckdiva,

Whilst BC drinks regularly from the various sources of rainwater, I do also 'make good' any IFFY-looking drinking ressie for her, so that everything is kept reasonably healthy, but cats will always find their own drinking source, no matter what you do to help.

The dark Tommies are 'Black Russian', and I was kindly given the seed. Trousers thought they were lovely-tasting..... I didn't?! They were OK, but I won't be 'bothering again' personally.
If you want a gorgeous tomato that actually tastes of tomato when it's at its ripest, you honestly cannot do better than Ferline (in my humble opinion)

Hazel at the Hill · #20 (**permalink**) 11-08-2007, 01:17 AM

Well. How unfair is that? She even looks bloody good when she's asleep.

If that had been me, I would 'crease marks' all over my skin, hair like nest, mouth open with gormless expression (and dribble, no doubt).

Actually, my F1 is happy to choose his companion too, in a very similar position - must be a trait of the variety?

wellie · #21 (**permalink**) 14-08-2007, 12:05 AM

Hazel,
Don't forget the fact that these F1s are Right Royal Smug Whatsits....
F1 BC Cat had already wiped the sleep away from her eyes?
She had 'de-creased' her fur, brushed her nest, shut her mouth to 'cutie-mode' and wiped her dribble all over my hair before she lay down looking that gorgeous.
No wonder my neighbour's cat thinks she's 'Drop Dead Gorgeous'!!

Hazel at the Hill · #22 (**permalink**) 14-08-2007, 06:13 PM

An' you know I didn't mean BC, Wellie sweetie, so stop fishing for compliments!