Allotment this morning (shallots in ) Garden this afternoon ( pots needed watering ) loads of little jobs done , such nice weather Having a beer before dinner 🍺
Put a dozen foxgloves in. They have been sulking in 3" pots all winter. I grew 60 last year for sister in law, but as we haven't seen her in 15 months, I'll start with a fresh batch. She only wants white ones. The ones I planted in Autumn are doing well, except the ones that are on the deers path. This year may be the year of the foxglove.
Took three pots of Tete a Tetes that had been sitting on the garden table for weeks and planted them out in the flowerbed. They look very cheerful nodding in front of the fence.
Also took a baby crab apple tree out of its 2L delivery pot and planted it up in a nice big tub. Isn't it sweet? It barely comes up to my chest, and I am not a tall person. I love the deep, rich colour of the bark.
Gave the conifer hedge a much needed haircut. Swept the decking. Started rearranging the perennials in bed 1. Planted some Eryngium roots of bought from the supermarket (first wrongly, then rightly). Raked over one of the other beds, it's still pretty lumpy and clay-ey despite a load of manure dug in before the winter.
Did some admiring of the crocuses and snowdrops etc., then pressure-washed the rather grimy 'tomato' greenhouse, inside and out, fixed the potting shed roof, pulled or cut back a large amount of ivy growing where it wasn't wanted. Started to tidy the potting shed a bit. Prepping for that mad rush known as Spring, really!
A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
Another busy day. Filled up yesterday's new raised bed with homemade compost. Cleared about 20 pallets that I used to make a large work bench for building the greenhouse, they've gone down the bottom of the garden to be stored in the large empty compost bin. Built the last of the raised veg beds. Swept the pizzeria area, the brick floor is cracking up really badly after the cold snap. Seems my fingers 🖐️🖐️must be made of steel as they left the lawn mower blade in a terrible state😃😃, took it off and gave it a really good sharpen.
It doesn't look much but this morning this little area was an impenetrable jungle, one of those places where you keep saying you'll get around to..... I discovered two azalea and a hydrangea, whether or not they will do any good this year I'm not sure, but at least they have seen the light of day for the first time in a while. There's a buddleja davidii 'Black Knight' too, complete with label and a Viburnum wedding cake, which I did know about, but hopefully will now have the space to shine this year. I just hope a whole pile of weeds don't say "hurrah, new space to invade".
“Coffee. Garden. Coffee. Does a good morning need anything else?” —Betsy Cañas Garmon
@Lizzie27 I have been very lucky, they are nearly as good as new. The physio dept I worked with to get them going says it's the best result they've ever had with such an injury, apparently they fully expected me to have very limited movement and feeling. Now I have to make sure I don't have any more moments of stupidity 😉
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Garden this afternoon ( pots needed watering )
loads of little jobs done , such nice weather
Having a beer before dinner 🍺
Also took a baby crab apple tree out of its 2L delivery pot and planted it up in a nice big tub. Isn't it sweet? It barely comes up to my chest, and I am not a tall person. I love the deep, rich colour of the bark.
How are the fingers @Wilderbeast?