@Lizzie27 , I built a huge 5 star bug mansion in a quiet corner, with logs and pallets and straw bales - because I had them to hand. Designed for hedgehogs, if they fancied it, or newts or solitary bees. It's been up four years and don't think it's ever been used by anything but spiders. Much as I love spiders, I think the space could be much better used in my small garden and am thinking of taking it down... A shame though.
I'm cream crackered!! Built a second rock garden today with some lovely big Welsh stones,it took ages to get a nice tilt back,whilst showing a good side.Very pleased with the result,now looking forward to choosing the planting,and going to bed!!!!!😁
The whole truth is an instrument that can only be played by an expert.
Spent the last 2 days sorting out my pots ready for planting in the next few weeks - if plan A works out. 30 roses, 15 clems, several trees, a dozen shrubs and countless perennials plus this season's sowings. All pruned/fed/re-potted and watered as necessary. Last of the tomatoes plus melon, cucumber and cucamelon planted in poly tunnel and last of the squashes and a courgette planted outside. Sowed some fillers - sunflowers and cornflowers.
Cream-crackered now and hands shredded cos 2 of the roses put up a fight. Traviata is just vicious - a present from SIL!
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)."
Gosh Obelixx, that's a huge number of pots to do - why so many?
Fire, I have several bug hotels around the garden and have never seen any insects in them apart, as you say spiders and woodlice. I think the insects prefer to choose their own nests and we've all been conned!
Wow Obelixx.. you've got some digging to do.. makes my back hurt just thinking about it. I planted eight tomatoes out today.. and that was enough digging for me (and I'm young-ish and spry-ish).
I spent all afternoon turning a trampoline frame into a cucumber arbor. Just need to plant some cucumber seeds. They were some how missed in seed sowing last month. Maybe a trip to the GC is in order?
We brought a whole removal van trailer full of pots when we moved here from Belgium. Then we had a 17 month drought so couldn't work the soil to make new beds to plant them and, of course, I bought some more not realising the drought would go on so long.
Now we've had a year's worth of rain in 3 months but it's taken some time to get OH to accept that laying a new terrace comes before preparing new beds and also that no roses or clems will be planted out before a cart load of manure has been added to the soil which, up by the house, is either solid clay or a band of sand..........
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)."
Funny day here (Glos), warm enough for t shirt but cloudy. OH has taken advantage of cloud to trim box hedging in front garden. He was only going to do the insides so that l could get cosmos planted but has ended up doing the lot! Planted cosmos "Dazzler" in back garden, dug out most of the bellis daises, and did a load of deadheading and general tidying. Had to stop to feed the blackbird suet pellets, he likes to have them thrown to him by a human mug (me), rather than go to the trouble of fetching them from a feeder.
Same weather here as AnniD. Sorted out the back of the shed so the hedge men can get access to that part. Thought of Health and Safety so then went round garden making sure they had good access and couldn't trip over anything. Potted on some rather tall nasturtiums (I haven't grown these before). Will they flower in a fortnight? Moved a plastic storage bin to where the logpile was and then decided to lay some paving underneath - talk about the law of unintended consequences, I do one job which leads to another. Now I've got to sort out where the storage bin was before and have realised I now have a gap in the dwarf box hedge, oh help!
Posts
Cream-crackered now and hands shredded cos 2 of the roses put up a fight. Traviata is just vicious - a present from SIL!
Fire, I have several bug hotels around the garden and have never seen any insects in them apart, as you say spiders and woodlice. I think the insects prefer to choose their own nests and we've all been conned!
I spent all afternoon turning a trampoline frame into a cucumber arbor. Just need to plant some cucumber seeds. They were some how missed in seed sowing last month. Maybe a trip to the GC is in order?
Now we've had a year's worth of rain in 3 months but it's taken some time to get OH to accept that laying a new terrace comes before preparing new beds and also that no roses or clems will be planted out before a cart load of manure has been added to the soil which, up by the house, is either solid clay or a band of sand..........