Catching up on garden after a week away. The watering system worked well , the hubby did good, but who would think a week would put on so much growth! It's a jungle in the greenhouse with lots of new to tie up on the toms. The potatoes had to be mounded up and the extra toms planted outside. The netting has had to come off the beets and carrots as they have grown big enough , hopefully, to not get attacked.
Had a busy week doing more work on the new veg plot- we have a level area!!! After 4 years of looking at a rubble pile!! One more level to finish! It wasn’t clear long as it’s now a home for the tomatoes and a holding pen for chillies, courgette and squash while I get them potted up lol! My daughter has been busy decorating the sleepers with chalk hand prints! She also decided to build a coffee table and is half way through a bench- the wood was supposed to be for my potting bench... guess I need more pallets!! 😂
Those alliums against the black are striking, lovely.
I did 2 hours of weeding. Weeding is getting difficult, fingers swollen with arthritis. There is clay in my garden in France which makes it harder and the garden is big. I made it when I was young but now I wish someone would buy the house which is for sale. It's all getting too much.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
The garden fairy has been again. It (me) has lightly pruned some clematis, potted up a Lupin, re-tied an umbrella plant, watered early on in the GH and will probably do so again this evening. Walked around the meadow removing some of the dock seed heads and pulled some bindweed, topped up the big pond and then collapsed in a chair with a nice drink & G.World magazine. Feel better for it though.
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As it rained most of the day, I didn't do much so OH and I had a cheap cream tea and bought 2 Nemesia's at the GC.
Those alliums against the black are striking, lovely.
I did 2 hours of weeding. Weeding is getting difficult, fingers swollen with arthritis. There is clay in my garden in France which makes it harder and the garden is big. I made it when I was young but now I wish someone would buy the house which is for sale. It's all getting too much.