Good evening , it has turned into a lovely sunny day , still sitting in garden after a day in Lincoln , need to think about watering garden Hope all’s well out there
Hi everyone. Was dull, cool and cloudy here today - even brought washing in at one point as thought it would rain. Did an hour or so in the ‘no-man’s land’ - nearly there! I can start work on the hedgehog home then. Digging around tree roots is no picnic @Dovefromabove - hope you can make it work.
Overcast and cooler here this afternoon, but that was probably a good thing ... prevented any overheating Think it's going to work ... roots have been chopped through ... having done that OH has thought of a way of cementing them in after all but as we're out with friends tomorrow that'll be a job for the weekend ... think the Under Gardener deserves a medal
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Not good on the great tit front, no sign of mummy great tit and no cheeps from the box when I went out early this morning.
I really don't want to open up the box and clean it out.....might leave it till three in the morning in case the neighbours see me cry! lol.
Next year I'll be getting a little tub for meal worms so they don't have to leave the garden and run a gauntlet of cats, sparrow hawks and windows for their food!
It was about 23° this afternoon, so a lot cooler than in Obelixx's neck of the woods, although here is further south. Sun and cloud, pleasant for gardening. Finished weeding the oval bed at last and planted some annuals, Cosmos Antiquity on the sunny side and Busy-Lizzies on the shady side. Last year the dahlias in that bed were lovely, this year they are very slug damaged.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
18C here now which is very comfy after dance class. Hilarious lesson as we were shown a new figure in cha-cha where, for once, the man does all the turning and arm twisting.
It's all the rain Busy. Hundreds of slugs an snails about this year. They have shredded my hostas and had a go at clematis and other treasures. Shameful.
Shame about the baby tits too Baldy. Good idea to have meal worms on standby next year but I find that if you have fat balls and peanuts and seeds for the adults they are better able to forage around my garden and the nearby hedgerows for juicy grubs to give their young and I don't need pesticides. Win-win.
Have fun tomorrow Dove.
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OH is going to outwit the tree roots ... somehow ...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Hope all’s well out there
A A Milne
Digging around tree roots is no picnic @Dovefromabove - hope you can make it work.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I really don't want to open up the box and clean it out.....might leave it till three in the morning in case the neighbours see me cry! lol.
Next year I'll be getting a little tub for meal worms so they don't have to leave the garden and run a gauntlet of cats, sparrow hawks and windows for their food!
It's all the rain Busy. Hundreds of slugs an snails about this year. They have shredded my hostas and had a go at clematis and other treasures. Shameful.
Shame about the baby tits too Baldy. Good idea to have meal worms on standby next year but I find that if you have fat balls and peanuts and seeds for the adults they are better able to forage around my garden and the nearby hedgerows for juicy grubs to give their young and I don't need pesticides. Win-win.
Have fun tomorrow Dove.