I planted some pansies that I picked up yesterday in B&M, finished turning the compost, sprinkled some chicken poo pellets around the borders and started mulching with last year's compost. Then I got rained off
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
Pricked out the rest of the polyanthus seedlings and divided a tray of eurigeron seedlings into a bigger seed tray and sowed cosmos and marigold seeds 2 packs of each.
It's still not reliably dry for more than a couple of hours here, but it's definitely warmer - so I've turned the compost into the empty bay and done some emergency weeding. Lovely to hear the birds singing fit to bust!
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
Yes! Was out there for hours today. I pruned an Abelia, tidied up the Lavenders (they have a basic cut in Autumn for any stems I didn’t harvest, then a tidy early Spring), emptied some pots and had a general potter. My jasmine was pretty brown and leggy so it had a chop and if it doesn’t regrow then it’s time for retirement. I’ve been pushing my luck with it in a big pot for years anyway so it may have exhausted that space.
Just put up 2 plastic staging tables in my nice clean greenhouse. Put some kitchen waste on the compost heap and moved a couple of trays of plants outside the conservatory. It was positively hot. I was itching to spend the day in the garden but was saving my energy as I was taken out for a meal in the evening for Mothers' Day. We had a lovely meal, sadly we were the only customers in the dining room. Two young chefs took the pub over just before shut down so I imagine they must be really struggling to keep going although they did say they have been very busy during the summer holiday seasons.
Lovely sunny day in Lincoln so finished pruning Osha on stream bank , so much wood 🪵 put it a side to dry and will burn on house fire 🔥 Planted up to 2 pots of violas and repotted a Hydrangea that we where given as an indoor plant , now in greenhouse to try & get use to being outside
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It was positively hot.
I was itching to spend the day in the garden but was saving my energy as I was taken out for a meal in the evening for Mothers' Day. We had a lovely meal, sadly we were the only customers in the dining room. Two young chefs took the pub over just before shut down so I imagine they must be really struggling to keep going although they did say they have been very busy during the summer holiday seasons.
Tomato, Cucumbers, and lettuce.
Planted up to 2 pots of violas and repotted a Hydrangea that we where given as an indoor plant , now in greenhouse to try & get use to being outside