Just finished the first mow of the season - the earliest I've ever done it. But I was driven more by the desire to add some grass cuttings to the new compost heap which is currently at 31°C and should now start to heat up.
Clay soil - Cheshire/Derbyshire border. I play with plants and soil and sometimes it's successful
Hello , been in garden today giving the willow ( osha ) a major prune only half done , amazed at the amount of growth it put on last year , kept getting showers though Not sure when I’ll finish it as weather is turning nasty When dry I’ll burn on our house fire
I've just installed our new squirrel deterrent - hope it works. Does that count as gardening? Couldn't do any more as we've had several heavy rain showers.
Dry few days, but cold. Took the chance to dig over 1 of my 2 veg beds and added some manure to them ready for planting. Put the garlic I had over wintered in pots into the ground and dug out the old blackberry canes as they have not been producing well the last 2 years. Every year I say I won't grow onions as they are so cheap to buy and take up valuable space in the veg bed. Ever yearI grow some. So this year......I have sown some seeds today and put them in the cold frame.
I finally finished potting on my autumn sown onions which are looking very perky now. I took some unwanted clumps of lily bulbs and gave them to the community garden in Par, they were very pleased with them and I think might plant them in the garden rather than leave them for someone to help themselves to take home. I am just about recovered from my head cold thank goodness, still have a bit of a hacking cough. I went to the ENT dept. of our local hospital where I had my ears suction cleaned, syringing no longer done apparently. It was so painful!!!! Now I have to have a hearing test to see if I need an hearing aid. No other gardening done unfortunately, it has been glorious today but had to wait in for my computer nurd to return my computer, upgraded, so like a foreign language again. What with the hospital appointment, a committee meeting and cat sitting for my daughter not a lot of time for the garden.
Did a little bit of weeding in veg beds and OH emptied one of the compost bins, placing some on the beds. Been predominantly in greenhouse sowing seeds. Quite a few are through, eg caulis, cabbage, tomatoes, courgettes and rapa plus some melons. Still adjusting to growing things earlier living here (some seeds are English) so have bought an Italian veg growing book and can understand the relevant bits. Several spring flowers out, including tulips Cherry Brandy which have stood up very well to some recent heavy rain - lots more different bulbs showing great promise. I love spring.
Martina Franca, Puglia, southern Italy Love living in Italy but a Loiner at heart
I finished cutting back perennials and all my ferns. Thinned out a spirea and did some shredding for the compost heap. Potted on some sunflowers and ricinus in the greenhouse. Sowed some more cosmos and some nigella into annual pots (by annual pots I mean those which inexplicably have an inward-facing lip making it impossible to remove a rootball intact - hence I only use them for annuals). Finally a bit of work with pots: I mulched a few potted shrubs - daphnes, nandina and fuchsias. And rearranged my spring bulb pots to remove and feed those that have finished. Had to water a few of them.. only spots of rain/sleet over the last couple of weeks, could do with some more substantial rain.
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Weeded and mulched the front garden. It looks lovely and the blackbirds were happily snaffling the worms I'd disturbed
I play with plants and soil and sometimes it's successful
Not sure when I’ll finish it as weather is turning nasty
When dry I’ll burn on our house fire
Every year I say I won't grow onions as they are so cheap to buy and take up valuable space in the veg bed. Ever yearI grow some. So this year......I have sown some seeds today and put them in the cold frame.
I took some unwanted clumps of lily bulbs and gave them to the community garden in Par, they were very pleased with them and I think might plant them in the garden rather than leave them for someone to help themselves to take home.
I am just about recovered from my head cold thank goodness, still have a bit of a hacking cough.
I went to the ENT dept. of our local hospital where I had my ears suction cleaned, syringing no longer done apparently. It was so painful!!!! Now I have to have a hearing test to see if I need an hearing aid.
No other gardening done unfortunately, it has been glorious today but had to wait in for my computer nurd to return my computer, upgraded, so like a foreign language again. What with the hospital appointment, a committee meeting and cat sitting for my daughter not a lot of time for the garden.
Love living in Italy but a Loiner at heart
Finally a bit of work with pots: I mulched a few potted shrubs - daphnes, nandina and fuchsias. And rearranged my spring bulb pots to remove and feed those that have finished. Had to water a few of them.. only spots of rain/sleet over the last couple of weeks, could do with some more substantial rain.