Just topped up a few pots where the soil level had shrunk. Moved a few tender plants as the forecast "might" drop in the next few days. Gazanias are still flowering along with several other plants but no room for complacency. Moved lemon trees in pots too; they have flowers and small fruit on! OH has almost finished erecting the greenhouse .
Martina Franca, Puglia, southern Italy Love living in Italy but a Loiner at heart
Blue skies and sunshine today. Very tempted to do gardening but busy painting. I have just managed to sweep yet more leaves from the courtyard and side path on my way out to the dustbin!
In the polytunnel....harvested the last carrots (not a bad crop) and then pulled up the very very old "border". Put in some new ones and dosen't it look so better.
So now need to do the carrots for eating and in the freezer.
The ground is still too cold and wet to garden but I did furtle around the acer where my snowdrops are. At last! There are clumps of noses just through. My snowdrops are always late because they are in a very cold, damp, North facing corner under an acer but after several attempts to get them to grow in other places in my garden, I have found somewhere they like.
I won't be able to do much outside until April, but I did find some paperwhites on sale at a local place, so I'm forcing some bulbs. Also purchased a combo pack of tulips, daffodils, and allium that I potted and tucked into a cool basement corner. While digging through the discount bin I found one lonely bearded iris 'Ghost Train' that I couldn't leave behind. Poor thing is probably gone by - it's dry as a bone - but I have a soft spot for iris so I potted it up and put it under the grow light. We'll see.
I started some cutting lettuce in plastic clamshell containers and am testing some Virgin's Bower seeds I collected for viability. My overwintered herbs are looking pretty ragged, but they're still alive!
New England, USA
Metacomet soil with hints of Woodbridge and Pillsbury
A few hours birding in sun zero from pre dawn followed by some light gardening. Lost my temper with the neighbours array of overhanging eco disasters (budleija and cherry laurel) so took it all off from my boundary. Did the same with the only budleija I haven’t killed off in my own garden ( it’s in the middle of a hedge and too hard to get to) but cut it back hard. Tested out a new whiskey barbell for water tightness and otherwise just some gentle tidying up and critically full clean and disinfection of my bird feeders.
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Love living in Italy but a Loiner at heart
I have just managed to sweep yet more leaves from the courtyard and side path on my way out to the dustbin!
Did go to allotment again today , more pruning and managed to burn it