@2000GTV You certainly have been busy. Harvesting peas already, amazing and then your courgettes have fruit on (could be because you are in Italy). I have only just sown some seeds so a long way to go.
Something tells me that best efforts were still not genough and I end up with again just 5 plants.
We had heavy gales which made it impossible to plant annuals. I watered all plants in the greenhouse and sowed plants which failed to germinated or look a bit weak.
Pots sunk in the area of the garden set aside for chard. I need to get copper tape to put round them, before actually putting the seedlings out. We have so many slugs and snails in the garden, you'd think I was breeding them!!
The usual weeding, including removal of yet dozens more sycamore seedlings. Perhaps if I find more, I can pot them on, sell them, and get some profit from the procedure. Same applies to the dozens of hellebore seedlings just starting to show their heads.
Lovely sunny day so finished weeding the bed I'd half done yesterday and started on the one the other side. Watered all the pots - determined this year to keep on top of this job. Still trying to reduce the number of pots I have. Asparagus have started growing but look very weedy so watered these as well. Pear tree in blossom.
Mowed the front lawn and saw the moss is taking over, but there's an acer there so I'm going Japanese.. 😄. Made a few loose plans, moved a couple of plants, hoed the side border and dug up a tree peony (I'm assuming I'll be digging it out forever, if it's anything as deep as the normal one I removed last year). Topped up two pots, snipped a few deaders, and have just trimmed my balls which were getting a bit unruly. 🤭 Other than that, it's the first day I've been compelled to sit outside all afternoon and watch birds, as the sun is shining warmly in a pure blue sky, and I have no work tonight. Bliss!
The 20 strawberry roots I sent for arrived - all 27 of them! A quick hunt for something to pot the extras into also revealed some raspberries that had been evicted by building last year. They've spent 10 months in a potato sack, so I've spent an hour digging out builders rubble, filling with soil and planting and watering in. Not expecting too much from them after overwintering in dark dry shade but I don't feel so guilty now. Removing sycamore seedlings. If we could harness the reproductive energy of a sycamore tree it could power entire towns.
I’ve assembled the poly greenhouse, re-potted some plants, planted out some Camassia, potted-on courgettes and generally faffed about. Lovely in the sunshine today.
@bertrand-mabel thank you, I am almost fully recovered. Yes, everything is early/earlier here. It has taken quite some adjusting to, eg I had gazanias in flower at Christmas and a salvia that has never stopped flowering! I was going to participate in the site's New Year's Day flower count and took lots of photographs but when I read of other members' weather-related plant losses I felt guilty so didn't bother. I hope this year is better for everyone.
Martina Franca, Puglia, southern Italy Love living in Italy but a Loiner at heart
Not really, it rained nearly all day until 4 ish when I just wandered about the garden, mainly looking at all the bindweed shoots coming up, it seems a particularly bad year for it.
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The usual weeding, including removal of yet dozens more sycamore seedlings. Perhaps if I find more, I can pot them on, sell them, and get some profit from the procedure. Same applies to the dozens of hellebore seedlings just starting to show their heads.
Other than that, it's the first day I've been compelled to sit outside all afternoon and watch birds, as the sun is shining warmly in a pure blue sky, and I have no work tonight. Bliss!
Removing sycamore seedlings. If we could harness the reproductive energy of a sycamore tree it could power entire towns.
Love living in Italy but a Loiner at heart