Hello @Woo2 Congratulations on acquiring a pair of potential gardening assistants 👶 👶 Last summer was tricky in many ways for gardeners ... let’s keep our fingers crossed for a less testing growing season this year 🤞
Yesterday we started on the frost pocket that is our front garden ... the Greggii type salvias were cut back and the worst of the weeds were removed ... it’s amazing how well the couch grass did in the summer drought 🙄
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Sat in the sun and enjoyed the heady scent of hyacinths. Then mowed front and back.lawns. Moved some seedlings into little grow house with extra fleece and started cutting back all the stalks and stems I'd left for overwintering insects. Saw butterflies and Brimstone and a surprising Peacock .
Hampshire Hog, can I ask if the badgers have tried to get into your polytunnel. We have been thinking of putting the sweetcorn in ours but a bit worried that they would damage it trying to get at the corn. They manage to trample down any fence we put round them and they are such hefty creatures! Thanks Sue
Planted sedums, michaelmas daisies, Achillea. Cut back sarcococca, and relaid a couple of stepping stones. Rose "Hot Chocolate" sitting in a trug of water at the moment. Had to pick it up from the sorting office this morning as we were out yesterday. Looking at the label, l think it went back to the sender and then back to me, then to the sorting office. It looks a little bit sad at the moment but the lower shoots seem healthy enough. In the area where l plan to plant it there's a geum that needs dividing, so there's two jobs for this afternoon! Lunch break now !
I planted a couple of my new cottage pinks this morning, adding grit to the soil, I hope this is sufficient for them to thrive. I also planted a this way and that shrub - I can never remember it's name, it is greeny/grey small leaves, small blue flowers and the bees appear to like it too. Just found it inn my photo folder - Teucrium Alpine Fruticans, a lovely dense evergreen.
Thank you for the welcome back Dove and Logan 😀 Went to the garden centre this afternoon and bought a scented Jasmine to grow up our pergola, also veggie and salad seeds to sow this week. I loved the climbers that were discussed on GW last week so ordered some of those which arrived today too. I’m thinking of growing those in the centre of the veggie beds to add a bit of additional colour. Hopefully I will have a couple of hours tomorrow afternoon to get started.
Spent a good couple of hours cutting the bamboo down to soil level with secateurs, very laborious and tiring. It's a good job the canes were very thin ones, I'm hoping to be able to shed them (a huge pile!) for path mulch. Raked all the leaf debris out and got a big bag of that as well. Found ivy embedded in the container and the nearby wisteria is heading up into the birch on the verge outside.
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Last summer was tricky in many ways for gardeners ... let’s keep our fingers crossed for a less testing growing season this year 🤞
Yesterday we started on the frost pocket that is our front garden ... the Greggii type salvias were cut back and the worst of the weeds were removed ... it’s amazing how well the couch grass did in the summer drought 🙄
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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Thanks Sue
Went to the garden centre this afternoon and bought a scented Jasmine to grow up our pergola, also veggie and salad seeds to sow this week. I loved the climbers that were discussed on GW last week so ordered some of those which arrived today too. I’m thinking of growing those in the centre of the veggie beds to add a bit of additional colour.
Hopefully I will have a couple of hours tomorrow afternoon to get started.