@BobTheGardener , enjoy the game , if I had to chose a winner I would go with Leicester 👍 This morning moved and tidied up pots and put leeks & sweet corn 🌽 in cold frame to harden off before gong got allotment
Tied up roses and clematis and twine around the asparagus ferns/bamboo supports. Weeded the slate path and then just sat and contemplated the garden, it was lovely late this afternoon - before it started raining again.
Up very early so in the garden by 5am. Turned 3 bins of nearly finished compost piling it up high so all goes into 2 bins, this frees me up a bin for turning my current hot bin (76°c this morning) into. Sowed borlotti beans, though I'm not sure if I'm too late with these 🙄. Pricked out a dozen basil plants. Potted on 15 plug plants (I don't have a name they are from father in law's seed scrumping collection and have red flowers apparently). Planted out some crazy daisy, little Leo doronicum, aquilegia miss huish and Mesa bright lights. Did a spot of weeding. 2 Rhubarb to plants later
@GWRS, I was hoping to! I planted these early last year (I think, might have been the year before) so it's early days yet. I thought we might get a couple of good spears this year just for a taste but only the very thin lanky stems (brue?) came up so I've left them. To be honest it's not the best bed for asparagus as it's clay underneath so I did add lashings of sand and manure. We'll have to wait and see.
Up early to put protective sleeves on some posts to use for a couple of climber supporting garden structures, and a section of new fence needed for a tenant.
It should make them 12-15 year posts rather than 6-7 year posts.
Got filthy nails,going out for a meal tonight,first time I haven't seen the girls apart from my neighbor,that I have been dog walking with for 18 months,yes because of the gardening.weather is amazing,planted second sowing of sweet peas,with the peas potted up some of the dahlias, free seeds,the lot have come up.weeded shingle paths round the veg plot
I have planted my new "anemones of questionable longevity", pulled out some weeds and turned my compost.
Stared at a range of tiny seedlings in the ground hoping for some revelation as to whether they are plants that I had wanted there or not. Nothing forthcoming.
As much as I love the forget-me-nots part of me is itching for them to go mildewy so that I can pull them out and properly weed beneath them. I must learn to be patient.
Up early (for me) to await BT engineer to come - anytime from 8am - to connect me to fibre broadband. Lovely and sunny but couldn't get stuck into anything until he arrived. He came about 20 mins ago (just before 1) and couldn't do anything as I need a cable from the pole (which doesn't have an inspection certificate) to my house, a hole drilled into my house wall and the router to be near a plug socket. So I have to wait for the pole to be inspected and then an engineer + cherry picker and hole drilling equipment to come. And now it's raining. So no, no gardening today.
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This morning moved and tidied up pots and put leeks & sweet corn 🌽 in cold frame to harden off before gong got allotment
Weeded the slate path and then just sat and contemplated the garden, it was lovely late this afternoon - before it started raining again.
Now my friend came to say he will deliver my tom plants tomorrow and he wants them.
"What goes around...."
It should make them 12-15 year posts rather than 6-7 year posts.
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Stared at a range of tiny seedlings in the ground hoping for some revelation as to whether they are plants that I had wanted there or not. Nothing forthcoming.
As much as I love the forget-me-nots part of me is itching for them to go mildewy so that I can pull them out and properly weed beneath them. I must learn to be patient.