Done some general pottering today. Rearranged my patio pots and a couple of the annual geraniums had crispy bits and spent flower heads cut off, fed, and demoted to Intensive Care to see if they will pit on some new growth. I am hoping my African Daisies will give another flush too, after their dead-heading.
Had a constructive day's jardining, did more weeding, found Verbena Bona seedlings in the lawn which I picked out and potted up (all the plants died over winter). Harvested some foxglove seeds and sprinkled them along the sunny side of the garden as they won't grow in the shade😕
Dug up some plants I don't like anymore, some sort of geranium that doesn't have many flowers and a grass which I did like but has turned into a brown lump.
Mowed and edged a bit of the lawn (some bald bits where the grass doesn't extend to the edge) and offloaded a load of surplus plastic pots at B&Q. Will get rid of as many as possible before they decide it was a bad idea😉
Going to have a nice lot of pears this year and lots of sloes again, hornwort is preferring the larger pond. Only found 3 strands to chuck in from the previous pond but it is all spreading out nicely.
OH up at 6am watering, more out of necessity than anything, he'd rather do it in the evening. I have done some deadheading and watering in the back garden where it's shadier, checked over cuttings and foxglove seedlings. I want to take some hydrangea and salvia cuttings but not today!! Forecast for weekend is cooler and showers (not holding my breath !), so hopefully I can get more done.
Just scraped away the dried up crisps of plants from the soil. I planted a little alpine plant that almost died. Deadheaded a few day lilies and other stuff. I moved some pots where sunflowers had seeded themselves, with help from the birds, and put those pots on an empty part of a border. Very boring. The most I am doing is carefully watering a number of small pots of plants that are hiding from the sun. I am another one waiting for rain before I can get trowel into soil and do some proper gardening. The forecast for South Cheshire is not good. Other nearby towns in a 10mile radius have had rain but it seems to miss us. Feeling Grumpy.
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Had a constructive day's jardining, did more weeding, found Verbena Bona seedlings in the lawn which I picked out and potted up (all the plants died over winter). Harvested some foxglove seeds and sprinkled them along the sunny side of the garden as they won't grow in the shade😕
Dug up some plants I don't like anymore, some sort of geranium that doesn't have many flowers and a grass which I did like but has turned into a brown lump.
Mowed and edged a bit of the lawn (some bald bits where the grass doesn't extend to the edge) and offloaded a load of surplus plastic pots at B&Q. Will get rid of as many as possible before they decide it was a bad idea😉
Going to have a nice lot of pears this year and lots of sloes again, hornwort is preferring the larger pond. Only found 3 strands to chuck in from the previous pond but it is all spreading out nicely.
I moved some pots where sunflowers had seeded themselves, with help from the birds, and put those pots on an empty part of a border. Very boring.
The most I am doing is carefully watering a number of small pots of plants that are hiding from the sun.
I am another one waiting for rain before I can get trowel into soil and do some proper gardening.
The forecast for South Cheshire is not good. Other nearby towns in a 10mile radius have had rain but it seems to miss us.
Feeling Grumpy.
'You must have some bread with it me duck!'
My friend Al Paca is grumpy as well
'You must have some bread with it me duck!'