I really love Lupins but the war against aphids and slugs is too great for me. I have plenty of birds in the garden so I can’t understand why I have such bad luck with slugs and aphids.
Pruned 2 hydrangeas & tided up grasses just before hail storm Today going to cut some wood for fire 🔥 and dead head a bushes and finish off so more grasses , well that’s the plan Lawns could do with a cut , perhaps in the week
Been out and sowed some seeds: beetroot, spinach, sweetcorn, basil, butternut squash, echinacea and cosmos.
I really struggled with basil outdoor in a pot last year, might not have been a sunny enough position. Thinking I might try some in the conservatory this year.
Now I have the room, got the Alyssum, Schizanthus, and Black Ball Cornflower seeds sown. The lettuce, cucumber, and tomatoes are up, as are the sweetpeas. Still to sow outside as weather keeps getting in the way. Far too wet to mow grass yet.
@Latimer , Basil , last year because of lockdown couldn’t get any basil seed , so I bought a basil herb 🪴 pot from supermarket , cut into 4 and replanted into pots and it grew really well and supplied us until winter , will do the same again this year
Cleared the greenhouse out, repotted some of the smaller plants I've been over wintering and threw away the dead ones. Pleased to see that the Clematis Armandii is in bloom as is a clump of cowslips - earlier than usual?
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I really love Lupins but the war against aphids and slugs is too great for me. I have plenty of birds in the garden so I can’t understand why I have such bad luck with slugs and aphids.
Today going to cut some wood for fire 🔥 and dead head a bushes and finish off so more grasses , well that’s the plan
Lawns could do with a cut , perhaps in the week
I really struggled with basil outdoor in a pot last year, might not have been a sunny enough position. Thinking I might try some in the conservatory this year.