Hello all , fabulous day and looking at forecast , no more frosts , hopefully Morning at allotment preparing 2 beds for planting This afternoon filled 3 water butts at home and watered garden
I seem to have spent most of the day pricking out seedlings, gosh, I was astonished how long the roots of are the little Cosmos and Gaillarde seedlings. Supposedly no frost tonight, but I have voles to contend with, so they all have to be brought back under cover and protected. I'm not sure how much more patience I have with this merry dance every morning and evening.
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Well, I went out with my son filled with self-importance...planned to drill 15 holes in a wall so I could wire in my new Chaenomeles. Had to give up after 2 holes because the rawl plugs wouldn't fit into either and the brick was so solid it took nearly 10 minutes per hole. Time to call in a professional...
But I did plant two geums, pot on a Skimmia, pot up some begonia plugs of 'Glowing Embers', plant an Arisaema and a Roscoea, water everything, and make a long list of containers so I can work out where they go once the new deck is installed (one day).
@Cambridgerose12, do you have a hammer switch on your drill? Makes drilling into stone or bricks easier. It's also easier to drill into the mortar between the bricks for the purpose of putting wires in. You do need the correct size of rawl plugs as well. Been there and done that!
Check your drill bits aren't blunt. Get yourself a new drill bit and you'll probably manage it.
I used to live in a 1900 terraced house made with stone. Some walls have stones so hard it blunts a drill bit after just one hole to put a picture up. Some walls don't have pictures on because of this issue. Took us about 5 bits before we learnt which walls we could drill into.
@Cambridgerose12 - the celeriac was useless because it didn't make a proper root. Just crowns (and masses of foliage) and when dug up nothing but hundreds of wispy roots coming out of them. So disappointing as I was given some teeny tiny seedlings this time last year which I nurtured to planting size and then - nothing! @NorthernJoe - it sounds like an amazing adventure discovering what you have in your new garden. My advice would be to dig out as many of those bluebells as you can. Even so you will never be rid of them.
Split my Agapanthus, then realised the divisions were so big I needed a trip to the GC to buy another couple of pots. Starting to pot on the many Verbascum chaixii 'Album' and Lychnis c. 'Alba' seedlings I've been growing, and beginning the process of hardening off. I've got more than I know what to do with and they're filling 9cm pots now. Compulsive seed sowing
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Morning at allotment preparing 2 beds for planting
This afternoon filled 3 water butts at home and watered garden
Well, I went out with my son filled with self-importance...planned to drill 15 holes in a wall so I could wire in my new Chaenomeles. Had to give up after 2 holes because the rawl plugs wouldn't fit into either and the brick was so solid it took nearly 10 minutes per hole. Time to call in a professional...
But I did plant two geums, pot on a Skimmia, pot up some begonia plugs of 'Glowing Embers', plant an Arisaema and a Roscoea, water everything, and make a long list of containers so I can work out where they go once the new deck is installed (one day).
I used to live in a 1900 terraced house made with stone. Some walls have stones so hard it blunts a drill bit after just one hole to put a picture up. Some walls don't have pictures on because of this issue. Took us about 5 bits before we learnt which walls we could drill into.
@NorthernJoe - it sounds like an amazing adventure discovering what you have in your new garden. My advice would be to dig out as many of those bluebells as you can. Even so you will never be rid of them.