tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21602861.post6794598750626077972..comments2023-10-17T12:05:26.540+01:00Comments on Razor-blade of Life: The substitutes' bench, home of much talentZhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00822383355869390919noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21602861.post-16188003368128176662006-11-22T13:12:00.000+00:002006-11-22T13:12:00.000+00:00Wendz, spades are called bloody shovels in this ho...Wendz, spades are called bloody shovels in this house and words are not minced. Unless they are tasty enough to be mixed with onions.<br /><br />Five foot two and a half. Unless I have reached the sad age of diminishing in height, which I hope I haven't. I've been told that I sound taller though....<br /><br />Murph, I am Alice. Or at least, I was all through my winsome blonde childhood (except when my school did the play, when I was, of course, the Walrus) so i am vastly suited to the Moremadmarket.<br /><br />Dear Boy, I will not intercede between a m-i-l and a gardener and neither, I suspect, will you. In any case, you can't go far wrong as long as you know (as I am sure they both do and probably you too) that blackcurrant bears fruit on young wood, so needs most of the branches that have fruited cut down to near ground level each year - there is no need to cut back the young growth; whereas redcurrants fruit on mature shoots so you only need to prune to keep a good shape and to take out weak, damaged, diseased or dead wood. <br /><br />Mind you, my soft fruit garden is currently (haha) a wilderness as I don't have time to look after it. No gardener, he's too old and I didn't trust him with pruning anyway. He never did know when to stop and I used to find myself left with a stump that took two or three years to recover.Zhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00822383355869390919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21602861.post-47721690248239956972006-11-22T12:39:00.000+00:002006-11-22T12:39:00.000+00:00Pruning! If you can get me directions on the best...Pruning! If you can get me directions on the best way to prune red and black currents I'd be most grateful. I have the m-i-l and the gardener disagreeing and last year they both had a go. Curiously we had a bumper crop this year.The Boyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06052411992134880131noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21602861.post-8850282309657058852006-11-22T10:45:00.000+00:002006-11-22T10:45:00.000+00:00...and if it was Mad@er Market did you notice Alic......and if it was Mad@er Market did you notice Alice in Wonderland?Roghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09430706557035189147noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21602861.post-55120101698051509702006-11-21T22:47:00.000+00:002006-11-21T22:47:00.000+00:00Geez Z - what a busy cultural bee you are this wee...Geez Z - what a busy cultural bee you are this week. <br /><br />So how tall are you? Dumpily short is rather vague, you see. And I wouls have said cozily petite anyway. <br /><br />Don't sell youself short.<br /><br />ha ha.y.Wendy.yhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10630727119097764058noreply@blogger.com