One tortoise wide awake and ready to go outside, the female is still in hibernation and is still in our loft. We also repotted some petunias that had over wintered nicely. Hoping for a repeat of last year's beautiful display.
Potted some pelargonium cuttings I took yesterday - OH was calling me in for dinner so I'd hurriedly stuck them in a pot of water. Also potted up some mystery plants I dug out of a border. They look like currants. I can forgive the birds taking some of my fruit if they repay me with free plants.
fitted some edging around a bean tree base, dug up and potted a whole bunch of foxgloves from the same area and then filled it all in with mulch to keep weeds at bay. I started to complete (my old English teacher wouldn't like my grammar there) the fence painting, 10mt of a 40mtish fence. Did some weeding. Planned out some raised beds, the wife thinks we are going to starve to death so has bought 3 packets of rocket, 1 radish and 1 cut and grow lettuce don't think that will save our souls
We did quite a lot of pruning & tidying today so I have filled the green bin with non compostable items as this week will be our last "free" collection. I refuse to pay £70 for "approximately" 26 collections a year, except of course they always stop for a month or more over Christmas. I will compost more on the Allotments & the things I really can't compost I will save up and take to the dump myself.
I planted a lot of seeds on Sunday, including single sowing sunflowers in pots. Today I found something has been digging in each pot. Tonight I have baited 5 mousetraps with flutterbutter, seeing as the birds don't seem keen. I took some hellebore seedlings to my mums for my sister to collect. She wanted me to split my double whites. Not a chance.
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Tidied up ivy cuttings
Deadheaded primrose
Tidied up patio
Sharpened axe, shears and pruners
Watered blueberries and ranunculus
Got 10 more to go in.
James McIntyre and Sons supplied them and after delivery they told me I must only plant them in NEW GROUND and 18 inches apart.
? How do they manage when they have used up ALL of their fields.