In from a long stint in the garden - top border now looks much tidier and cosmos seedlings all in their own little pots. It was mizzly drizzly but I didn’t notice - feeling achey but very pleased with myself now. Do it all again tomorrow I hope 🤞🏻
That rule should work for good things too. Only fair.
Good to have that satisfied feeling Chicky. Plastic tablecloth on the dining table Joyce?
Nice haul at the organic potager place - more tomatoes, some aniseed basil, Vietnamese basil which is actually a form of persicaria, a cucamelon, a cucumber, red and yellow peppers, artichokes, an utchi kuri and a galia melon, 6 wee repeat strawberries and several more tomatoes. All now stashed in the polyT to be grown on cos I've run out of planting space and cloches outside.
Even if I had the new beds ready they'd have to stay in cos, whilst the May blossom is already out, it's definitely too cool to be casting clouts or putting unprotected tender stuff outside.
Went to a patchwork friend's house for coffee afterwards for coffee. She's just learning about gardening after having to give up work cos of her health. Gave her all sorts of tips and ideas, especially about where to locate her new greenhouse. The two OHs talked golf. She keeps hens and we passed a farm near her with hundreds of lovely guinea fowl running around. I love guinea fowl. Might end up with some poultry after all one of these days.
Getting very grey and heavy feeling now. Not humid but as tho some serious weather is coming. Heavy rain expected tomorrow so a lovely warming dinner is called for tonight - Nigella's lamb ribs. Keep thinking we should be having salads and BBQ but have to wait a bit longer.
Just been flashed by an email from an American crafty site about sewing things for my cats! They have a sheepskin to sleep on, food and cuddles on demand, toys plus a whole garden to play in. What more can they possibly need?
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)."
We used to walk to a local farm when I was a wee boy and the guinea fowl used to scare the bejeezus out of me. I'm still slightly wary of them now. No idea why.
We’ve got your weather today. Overcast, cold and generally miserable. Aircon heater on and the wood heater is getting prepared with small bits of wood ready to light. Looks like a knitting day for me.
Hi Hosta. Are you having one of THOSE nights again?
Unfortunately, almost every night seems to be one of those nights. We watched GW last night and I loved the building in Milan . Not so the planting of alpines in a trough, yet again. yawn.
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Good to have that satisfied feeling Chicky. Plastic tablecloth on the dining table Joyce?
Nice haul at the organic potager place - more tomatoes, some aniseed basil, Vietnamese basil which is actually a form of persicaria, a cucamelon, a cucumber, red and yellow peppers, artichokes, an utchi kuri and a galia melon, 6 wee repeat strawberries and several more tomatoes. All now stashed in the polyT to be grown on cos I've run out of planting space and cloches outside.
Even if I had the new beds ready they'd have to stay in cos, whilst the May blossom is already out, it's definitely too cool to be casting clouts or putting unprotected tender stuff outside.
Went to a patchwork friend's house for coffee afterwards for coffee. She's just learning about gardening after having to give up work cos of her health. Gave her all sorts of tips and ideas, especially about where to locate her new greenhouse. The two OHs talked golf. She keeps hens and we passed a farm near her with hundreds of lovely guinea fowl running around. I love guinea fowl. Might end up with some poultry after all one of these days.
Getting very grey and heavy feeling now. Not humid but as tho some serious weather is coming. Heavy rain expected tomorrow so a lovely warming dinner is called for tonight - Nigella's lamb ribs. Keep thinking we should be having salads and BBQ but have to wait a bit longer.
Just been flashed by an email from an American crafty site about sewing things for my cats! They have a sheepskin to sleep on, food and cuddles on demand, toys plus a whole garden to play in. What more can they possibly need?
Looks like a knitting day for me.
"Overcast, cold and generally miserable"
Yup, that's pretty much what we've got .
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
We watched GW last night and I loved the building in Milan .
Not so the planting of alpines in a trough, yet again. yawn.