Going on holiday on Monday and was planning to cut the grass tomorrow. No idea why, but I decided to do it today. Within about 1/2 hour of finishing, the heavens opened and it absolutely chucked it down. Job out of the way and the plants watered - result.
I have a lawn meadow which was great the 1st year and less so in subsequent years although a packet of nigella seeds finally sprouted and gave a lovely blue carpet of flowers.
I am delighted that the Golden Rod - that I dug up several plants of from a wild space - have taken root in the lawn meadow and are now sprouting a strong stem and healthy leaves!
Also - for the first time in the 19 years that I have had this garden - the loquat tree is bearing fruit - clusters of them in fact! 👍 For the past 2 years there have been some attempts at flowering. I have to admit I have never done anything other than water the tree since it is so huge/tall and I don't want to encourage further growth! However, now I will use a suitable fertiliser to encourage fruit ripening - any suggestions for this? I tend to use potash fertiliser, e.g. for flowers and the fig tree - is this suitable and/or something better? (I am loathe to use bonemeal because of foxes).
A 'weed' is just a plant in the wrong place - subjective!
Just had some lung function tests done this afternoon and guess what - I'm normal!!! So that's heart and lungs both okay which is a huge relief. Now to lose more weight!
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Ill get them soaked and potted up or planted tomorrow 😊
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.