Getting ready for winter so I finished planting my bulbs, cleared and dug over the summer flower bed and dug up some Dahlias that had stopped flowering.
Did some deadheading and trimming today - cut back the hosta leaves in the pots, took out some petunia plants that had finished, dead headed some dahlias. Not quite ready to cut the dahlias back properly ready for lifting the tubers and over wintering them because they are still flowering really well, but by the end of the month, that’s my plan.
Picked more tomatoes to finish ripening indoors. Cooked down and pureed about 3 kilos of ripe ones, now in boxes in the freezer. Cut down the cucumber vines and watered the kale in the greenhouse. Looked for 6 round pots for my cyclamen, then remembered I threw out all of my round pots as square ones fit into trays better than round ones. Will have to go to the GC recycling bin for some freebie round pots. Most of the GC's around here have bins where you can leave unwanted pots or help yourself if you want some. Great.
Yesterday I went to help plant daffodil bulbs on the local park. Despite it tipping it down here for the last week, the rain had penetrated an inch at most. It was very hard going. After two hours we stopped, still over 1000 bulbs left. We will go back when the ground is softer.
Still bringing last year's spring-flowering bulbs from pots in the garage - splitting, refreshing compost etc. A bit of deadheading, predominantly dahlias that have suddenly woken up and are looking lovely - especially creme de cassis . Some small-flowered cosmos set seed and the tiny seedlings have flowered too. Various spring bulbs are already pushing through, eg alliums, sparaxis, freesias, muscari and one eager narcissus! Broad beans are growing well but San Marzano tomatoes are virtually at an end. For those with rain, I hope it soon eases and you will be able to get back outside very soon.
Martina Franca, Puglia, southern Italy Love living in Italy but a Loiner at heart
No such luck @2000GTV, just about to start raining again. We've had astonishing levels of rainfall since Friday and I swear another foot or so overnight, judging on what's in the trugs I left out. This morning it looked like the lid of my waterbutt next to the porch had been forced out by the sheer volume cascading off the roof/porch so I've been round and lowered the level of some of the butts. I haven't wasted any water because I then topped up a big open butt.
Can anybody tell me please if my tiny carrots in a big raised bed are likely to keep growing or should I hook them out? It was 17c this morning.
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Love living in Italy but a Loiner at heart
Can anybody tell me please if my tiny carrots in a big raised bed are likely to keep growing or should I hook them out? It was 17c this morning.