Glory be! I managed to get a couple of hours in the garden. My soul is happy again and my hands were dirty. I cannot believe how satisfied I feel today. I emptied last years dead tomato pots onto the compost heap, replaced the waste from the heap back onto the heap, from where the dog and blackbirds had hauled it onto the path. Did some rather superficial hand forking and weeding of last years onion patch and potted on 8 scabious seedlings. I started them off from seed last year but only planted one in the garden. I thought the rest had probably died as they have been in tiny pots, outside, no protection, all winter. Just a tuft of dead stems. When I checked them last week new shoots had begun showing so I felt I owed it to them to help them along a bit. I found a pot of new potatoes left in from last year. Yum. The quince tree is just coming into leaf. Just in time for the freeze forecast for the next week. So many plants are showing new growth, if it is a cold as forecast, everything will be knocked back.
No gardening, too wet. The scabious, Cephalaria Gigantia, I potted on have grown so quickly! I can almost hear them growing. The tufts of tiny shoots are now proper leaves, I have kept them in the conservatory while they get over the shock of living in new soil and bigger pots. Not sure they really need cosseting but the freezing forecast is not good. I had some of the new potatoes found in a pot in the garden last week, with my dinner last night, still several meals of them left. I pinched out a few more of the sweet pea seedlings, the kale seedlings, sown 3 weeks ago are nearly ready to move into bigger pots. The Snail Vine I grew from seed and the tender climber I was given as a present from the family are both sending out new shoots. I have kept them on the dry side in a very large container in the conservatory. Now comes the big clean up, removing dead leaves trimming off the dead ends of tendrils and tying in stems. The Meyers Lemon tree I moved indoors a few weeks ago is going great guns. Lots of new leaves and buds. I gave it a good water as the soil had dried out much more quickly than I was expecting. I am watching out for any sign of scale insects, a real nuisance for me.
Nothing outside. I cleaned up.de dead leaves, my Snail Vine and my Dregea sinensis. Found lots of new shots and discovered if growing stems are cut it produces a sticky white sap. Weeded the pot, gave them a feed of Fish, Blood and Bone and a drink. Watered and tidied up the mini cyclamen. Weeded a couple of cacti, think I might get rid of them. They never flower, just sit there, prickly humps. Weeded the pomegranate bush. Does anyone know roughly how old they need to be before flowering when grown from seed. I am not really expecting to be able to pick fruit, I believe they need much hotter temperatures than I can provide. My plant is about 14 yrs old, about a foot tall, in a pot. Goes outside during the summer, indoors in the winter. Just an experiment to see if I could germinate a pomegranate seed. I know they probably do not come true to variety grown from seed. In other words, I pottered.
Looking out onto a very wet & windy terrace so don’t thing anything outdoors for me today. Unfortunately I am also looking at the poor orange tree which has suffered from hubby turning on a radiator which I had intentionally turned off. It has dried out one entire side, so now I have half a crispy tree and half ok but sad. Hope he has not killed it! I know as soon as I move it I am going to be facing an avalanche of crispy leaves all over the floor, with withered fruits thrown in for good measure.
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Hello , got up this morning to see everything white and snow ❄️ still coming down , now sunny and nearly all gone Hopefully get into garden tomorrow
@Joyce Goldenlily , very impressed with growing a pomegranate from seed 👍 Ive some Catus in pots in garden room and pleased to say they flower regularly
Now I know it doesn't take much to make me happy but I am so chuffed. I was surveying my "estate" from the window today and noticed the Snowy River Wattle I bought in late summer last year was looking a bit odd, like dying. The ends of the branches were a yellow brown colour. I have tried 3 times in the past to grow acacias and failed dismally so was sort of not surprised. You know the feeling, half expecting it. I went out to investigate and discovered the plant is about to come into full flower. I am so happy! Now I must look after it and keep it going. I gave it a pat, stroke and had a little thank you chat with it as a start! I'm not mad, at least I don't think I am. And my cock pheasant is back again, just going to put some peanuts out on the patio for him, I can hear him calling. The mad woman of Cornwall. There are a lot of us about.
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I emptied last years dead tomato pots onto the compost heap, replaced the waste from the heap back onto the heap, from where the dog and blackbirds had hauled it onto the path. Did some rather superficial hand forking and weeding of last years onion patch and potted on 8 scabious seedlings. I started them off from seed last year but only planted one in the garden. I thought the rest had probably died as they have been in tiny pots, outside, no protection, all winter. Just a tuft of dead stems. When I checked them last week new shoots had begun showing so I felt I owed it to them to help them along a bit.
I found a pot of new potatoes left in from last year. Yum.
The quince tree is just coming into leaf. Just in time for the freeze forecast for the next week. So many plants are showing new growth, if it is a cold as forecast, everything will be knocked back.
Checked greenhouse this morning , it went down to minus 2-9 last night , had covered plants with fleece
Not planting anything until it warms up a bit , last bit of winter
The scabious, Cephalaria Gigantia, I potted on have grown so quickly! I can almost hear them growing. The tufts of tiny shoots are now proper leaves, I have kept them in the conservatory while they get over the shock of living in new soil and bigger pots. Not sure they really need cosseting but the freezing forecast is not good.
I had some of the new potatoes found in a pot in the garden last week, with my dinner last night, still several meals of them left.
I pinched out a few more of the sweet pea seedlings, the kale seedlings, sown 3 weeks ago are nearly ready to move into bigger pots.
The Snail Vine I grew from seed and the tender climber I was given as a present from the family are both sending out new shoots. I have kept them on the dry side in a very large container in the conservatory. Now comes the big clean up, removing dead leaves trimming off the dead ends of tendrils and tying in stems.
The Meyers Lemon tree I moved indoors a few weeks ago is going great guns. Lots of new leaves and buds. I gave it a good water as the soil had dried out much more quickly than I was expecting. I am watching out for any sign of scale insects, a real nuisance for me.
I cleaned up.de dead leaves, my Snail Vine and my Dregea sinensis. Found lots of new shots and discovered if growing stems are cut it produces a sticky white sap. Weeded the pot, gave them a feed of Fish, Blood and Bone and a drink.
Watered and tidied up the mini cyclamen.
Weeded a couple of cacti, think I might get rid of them. They never flower, just sit there, prickly humps.
Weeded the pomegranate bush. Does anyone know roughly how old they need to be before flowering when grown from seed. I am not really expecting to be able to pick fruit, I believe they need much hotter temperatures than I can provide. My plant is about 14 yrs old, about a foot tall, in a pot. Goes outside during the summer, indoors in the winter. Just an experiment to see if I could germinate a pomegranate seed. I know they probably do not come true to variety grown from seed.
In other words, I pottered.
But at least the garden is getting some water (sleet, snow).
The agapanthus don't like it, but they've survived worse.
Hopefully get into garden tomorrow
@Joyce Goldenlily , very impressed with growing a pomegranate from seed 👍
Ive some Catus in pots in garden room and pleased to say they flower regularly
I was surveying my "estate" from the window today and noticed the Snowy River Wattle I bought in late summer last year was looking a bit odd, like dying. The ends of the branches were a yellow brown colour. I have tried 3 times in the past to grow acacias and failed dismally so was sort of not surprised. You know the feeling, half expecting it.
I went out to investigate and discovered the plant is about to come into full flower. I am so happy! Now I must look after it and keep it going.
I gave it a pat, stroke and had a little thank you chat with it as a start!
I'm not mad, at least I don't think I am.
And my cock pheasant is back again, just going to put some peanuts out on the patio for him, I can hear him calling.
The mad woman of Cornwall. There are a lot of us about.