Not much breeze this morning so I've been out spraying at the back. One day it will become a dry garden but at the mo it's just a mess of lumpy broken rock pretending to be gravel and laid over a nasty fibrous blanket thing. We'll need a mini dozer to sort it out - one day.
Just taking a break for more coffee. Forecast has changed yet again. 50km winds and an inch of rain from 5am tomorrow. Better put my babies in shelter just in case.
Enjoy your floppy day Chicky. Hope aunty gets away OK.
FG - Love the snow capped tops. I don't understand fires in the open either. So dangerous, but I can almost understand the impulse to camp wild if you want to be outdoors. Organised camp sites are a nightmare. Me, I like a bed and a loo and a shower and a coffee pot and have the luxury of being able to sit or lie out as long as I like to listen to the nocturnal critters and see the stars.
BBC showing film of that chap who likes to glide down mountains in a "wing suit". Says he's off to do it form a mountain in the Netherlands next. Really? There aren't any! Bit of a roll around Maastricht and a lump of 300ish metres near Vaals but that's it isn't it?
Love your sparrowhawk Hosta. Haven't seen any here but we have smaller hawks and falcons I have yet to identify. Too fast for me.
Liri and Buttercup - are you getting all that smoke?
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)."
Early bird and all that. I've "shaved the armpits" on the tomatoes, tied them all up and fed them. I've planted my 2 melons, given to me by a friend. I've got the sprinkler on in the Hosta tunnel and now I'm having a cuppa then heading to the lake before it gets too hot. To be fair, I'll be in the water up to my waist and under the trees, so it'll be rather cool I think.
More wires put up on the little shed so that C. vit. Betty Corning has something to hold on to ... she's been throughly watered and she'll be planted later this morning. Container on front porch fed and watered along with C. vit. purpurea plena elegans as it's looking a bit dry out there ... I'll put the sprinkler on that bed later ... I think I might invest in a soaker hose for that front border.
Now for a then more watering.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
2 more sessions of spraying which makes 60 litres this morning - it's a large stoney patch but it's done now and so am I. Cooked.
Went to to check the courgettes and found some curling marrows. Oops. Lots of lovely butternuts and other goodies forming now but can't tell you what as labels hidden under OH's straw mulch. Disturbed mum and dad pheasant and their babies in there so beat a hasty retreat so they can all get back together.
Too hot to eat so off for a shower and some sewing till the sun is less fierce then some weeding and more faffing with my mystery clem. Cleared all the ginger mint in its bed last night and gave it half a bag of compost and a good feed and drink and then some tarragon which will be less greedy and invasive than the mint. Needs a trim today and a better support system.
I love Betty Corning Dove. Hope yours does well.
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)."
Tomatoes have been attended to, the Marmandes have got good first trusses on; the runner beans have flowers and the beet and chard are looking good ... we're going to be deluged with mange tout at this rate ...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I've had to come in - too hot for me out there now That pic was in late Feb 2016- much better walking weather Forgot to ask chicky where OH's aunt is from..... Hope those chicklets behave themselves.... I'm amazed at the amount of frazzled, dropped leaves too Joyce. Who'd have thought eh? Can you send us some of your rain Obelixx - maybe on Monday though. Lots of walkers wild camp, and are mostly very responsible, it's the 'other' folk who generally cause the issues. The problem with L. Lomond is that it's so popular, and during the season, it's very difficult to access the loch easily. Many areas are being damaged becasue of the amount of visitors. I know many people object to the ban - but it's understandable. There was footage of one of those wing suit chaps on one of those brilliant mountain programmes last year [the Rockies one I think ] It was stunning. Hope the clem does well Dove. I've been perusing the border along the boundary and thinking another clem would be good there, by my side gate... I'm laughing at Allottment Boy's photo in the deckchair - it took me a while to catch on. Must be the heat
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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Just taking a break for more coffee. Forecast has changed yet again. 50km winds and an inch of rain from 5am tomorrow. Better put my babies in shelter just in case.
Enjoy your floppy day Chicky. Hope aunty gets away OK.
FG - Love the snow capped tops. I don't understand fires in the open either. So dangerous, but I can almost understand the impulse to camp wild if you want to be outdoors. Organised camp sites are a nightmare. Me, I like a bed and a loo and a shower and a coffee pot and have the luxury of being able to sit or lie out as long as I like to listen to the nocturnal critters and see the stars.
BBC showing film of that chap who likes to glide down mountains in a "wing suit". Says he's off to do it form a mountain in the Netherlands next. Really? There aren't any! Bit of a roll around Maastricht and a lump of 300ish metres near Vaals but that's it isn't it?
Love your sparrowhawk Hosta. Haven't seen any here but we have smaller hawks and falcons I have yet to identify. Too fast for me.
Liri and Buttercup - are you getting all that smoke?
I've "shaved the armpits" on the tomatoes, tied them all up and fed them.
I've planted my 2 melons, given to me by a friend.
I've got the sprinkler on in the Hosta tunnel and now I'm having a cuppa then heading to the lake before it gets too hot. To be fair, I'll be in the water up to my waist and under the trees, so it'll be rather cool I think.
Now for a
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Didn't think I would be leaf clearing at this time of year.
Went to to check the courgettes and found some curling marrows. Oops. Lots of lovely butternuts and other goodies forming now but can't tell you what as labels hidden under OH's straw mulch. Disturbed mum and dad pheasant and their babies in there so beat a hasty retreat so they can all get back together.
Too hot to eat so off for a shower and some sewing till the sun is less fierce then some weeding and more faffing with my mystery clem. Cleared all the ginger mint in its bed last night and gave it half a bag of compost and a good feed and drink and then some tarragon which will be less greedy and invasive than the mint. Needs a trim today and a better support system.
I love Betty Corning Dove. Hope yours does well.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
That pic was in late Feb 2016- much better walking weather
Forgot to ask chicky where OH's aunt is from.....
Hope those chicklets behave themselves....
I'm amazed at the amount of frazzled, dropped leaves too Joyce. Who'd have thought eh?
Can you send us some of your rain Obelixx - maybe on Monday though. Lots of walkers wild camp, and are mostly very responsible, it's the 'other' folk who generally cause the issues. The problem with L. Lomond is that it's so popular, and during the season, it's very difficult to access the loch easily. Many areas are being damaged becasue of the amount of visitors. I know many people object to the ban - but it's understandable.
There was footage of one of those wing suit chaps on one of those brilliant mountain programmes last year [the Rockies one I think ] It was stunning.
Hope the clem does well Dove. I've been perusing the border along the boundary and thinking another clem would be good there, by my side gate...
I'm laughing at Allottment Boy's photo in the deckchair - it took me a while to catch on. Must be the heat
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...