We went to friends for coffee this morning. They had the most yummy, soft, jammy doughnuts I have ever had, from Sainsbury's.
Also went to Morrisons for supplies for the Weekend as OH's family are coming, but I will buy the Sunday joint in the local butchers tomorrow, along with the butcher's home made sausages, he makes about 6 different flavours.
A heron ate all the goldfish in my parents' pond (when they, parents, were still alive). Think I prefer robins and blue tits.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Hi everyone. Do a bit of pot-planning and planting today and found some orange Erysiums in the local nursery, which will be ideal for my orange and lime corner. Also did the annual ritual of planting a geranium in my ‘down-under’ pot - I will wait 4-6 weeks for the roots to develop, then it is inverted and hung upside-down so the flowers will turn upwards and make a pretty display. I had better read back to see what I have missed... hope all is well.
Excursion to Nantes for a patchwork and crafty show went well. Some complaints about too much patch and not enough embroidery but no complaints from me. Ended up with overloaded senses and some new fabrics and bits and pieces.
Cleverly arranged to meet the others in a garden centre car park so, when we got back, nipped in and bought some more tunnel cloches for my toms. Got home to find 2 Ukrainians and a Pole still working on our bits. All done and dusted now and all hot water and most of the rooms to be heated by PV panels and heat exchangers which means we get cooling in summer if needed. We'll see how it goes for a while before I start ripping out and selling off cast iron radiators......
Hosta - peonies are depth sensitive. Bury the flower bud point of the crown and they just produce leaves. Plant too shallow and it gets exposed to frost and heat and you get no flowers either. Must admit, I move loads of peonies in our Harrow garden with no bovver - beginner's luck and total ignorance.
Fish arrived as eggs on the feet of birds - I assume - in our unlined Belgian drainage pond. The first hot summer that it evaporated completely we found cooked fishlets. Not good.
Chappies have finished too late for us to get to dancing so I' cooking us a healthy and tasty salmon dinner instead of the usual spag bol with bol from the freezer. Big clean tomorrow after all the works and then gardening. It'll be cooler but sunny so good for potting on babies in the polyT. I now have a few more squashes coming thru but no chilies yet. 21 sweetcorn to pot on too and an unidentified baby tree I sowed for stratifying last autumn. Helpfully labelled "3 x ?". Only one has popped.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
Well, I wasn't expecting that when I saw Waitrose were on the phone! Do I want to change my ( hated ) Tuesday 12-8 shift ( sometimes tills, sometimes driving, sometimes a bit of both ) to Thursday 7.30 - 2.30 , guaranteed driving shift? Yes please. I'll be home around 3 and that's plenty of time to do something, unlike starting at 12noon which is a waste of a morning. That's quite made my day.
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Melianthus is sprouting in the cold greenhouse.
twice yay!
Colocasia are sprouting indoors. I divided the clump, when I replanted in March, so now have 2 clumps.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
Herons are my absolutely most favouritest birds.
Now to find out what's been going on here ...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
A A Milne
Also went to Morrisons for supplies for the Weekend as OH's family are coming, but I will buy the Sunday joint in the local butchers tomorrow, along with the butcher's home made sausages, he makes about 6 different flavours.
A heron ate all the goldfish in my parents' pond (when they, parents, were still alive). Think I prefer robins and blue tits.
I had better read back to see what I have missed... hope all is well.
Cleverly arranged to meet the others in a garden centre car park so, when we got back, nipped in and bought some more tunnel cloches for my toms. Got home to find 2 Ukrainians and a Pole still working on our bits. All done and dusted now and all hot water and most of the rooms to be heated by PV panels and heat exchangers which means we get cooling in summer if needed. We'll see how it goes for a while before I start ripping out and selling off cast iron radiators......
Hosta - peonies are depth sensitive. Bury the flower bud point of the crown and they just produce leaves. Plant too shallow and it gets exposed to frost and heat and you get no flowers either. Must admit, I move loads of peonies in our Harrow garden with no bovver - beginner's luck and total ignorance.
Fish arrived as eggs on the feet of birds - I assume - in our unlined Belgian drainage pond. The first hot summer that it evaporated completely we found cooked fishlets. Not good.
Chappies have finished too late for us to get to dancing so I' cooking us a healthy and tasty salmon dinner instead of the usual spag bol with bol from the freezer. Big clean tomorrow after all the works and then gardening. It'll be cooler but sunny so good for potting on babies in the polyT. I now have a few more squashes coming thru but no chilies yet. 21 sweetcorn to pot on too and an unidentified baby tree I sowed for stratifying last autumn. Helpfully labelled "3 x ?". Only one has popped.
Do I want to change my ( hated ) Tuesday 12-8 shift ( sometimes tills, sometimes driving, sometimes a bit of both ) to Thursday 7.30 - 2.30 , guaranteed driving shift?
Yes please. I'll be home around 3 and that's plenty of time to do something, unlike starting at 12noon which is a waste of a morning.
That's quite made my day.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.