Sowed a dozen sunflower seeds, and potted 6 Bacopa Snowtopia plugs. I haven't grown Bacopa before, and I'm looking to seeing how they grow.
Competed my quest to 'camouflaged' the water butt, after quite a bit of time searching on the internet I managed to find a 40cm diameter washing up bowl in black, it arrived today and was a relief to discover it fits snuggly into the 36cm 'hole' in the water butt with a 2cm lip all the way round. In the black bowl I've placed 3 climbing/hanging strawberries (Everest) each in it's own pot, and two pots with nasturtium seeds germinating. 3 'downpipe plant containers' with 2 Everest strawberry plants in each, hopefully completes the camouflage.
Done quite a bit over the last two days. Prepared the bed for the May sowing of carrot and beetroot, just added a bag of top soil as been covered all winter, and not a weed in sight. Hubby made, painted black, and hung a fan trellis, to which we planted ( with its partner on other side of bay window) Mrs George Jackman clematis, a white one. In the area that the flamingo willow was removed from, we weeded, added new soil/compost and planted a variegated holly a cutting from one we left behind at last house, two white Dicentra and a rose cutting now two years old. Transplanted a native holly that had self seeded, plus more weeding. Potted on four sweet peas, two Dahlia and a hot lips salvia. 🥵
I'm an early riser and no one else is so I found myself in the garden at 6:30am drinking my coffee. By 6:45 I was pottering about, mostly tidying here and there. By 7:30 I'd emptied out the shed, evicted 2 mice, filled a bunch of bags with rubbish and decided I don't actually need 3 spades.
After that it was mostly sowing climbing bean and mangetout seeds, pricking out Swan River Daisies (which are just tiny!) before heading in to watch the formula 1 (waste of time) and cook the roast (delish).
Had my first real day in the garden today and got a fair bit done…
> cut the grass > pulled all the weeds out the pots > planted a clematis into the ground to go with the obelisk i got last year that was too wide for the intended pot > planted two roses in the flowerbed > pulled the dead shrub up and planted a new one > mulched the flowerbed
Since Friday, I planted new purchases (a variety of cottage garden plants that I bought at Bampton Garden Centre £6 each), a Wisteria (OH wanted to give it a try), and some of my own-grown like Cerinthe and Cosmos. If the Cerinthe plants don't make it, I have another 5 in reserve. I also planted the window box, but they are in the greenhouse over night. I gave the marrow a try, and it's under a cloche over night. I have two other marrows in reserve if it fails. I just managed to do the shed yesterday, when it started raining again. I don't know what weather you have, but here in the NE of Wiltshire, the ground is soaked. The forecast says rain every day in the next 2 weeks and the same temperature of around 14 degrees over the day.
I moved my grown up onion seedlings out of the greenhouse to harden off, they don't really need it and moved some of the tender seedlings from the conservatory into the greenhouse. Finally planted my first early potatoes. Was going to throw out two geranium plants, until I discovered they both have live root balls. Dilemma. Is it worth the cosseting and waiting time to repot them and see if they put on any growth?
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Competed my quest to 'camouflaged' the water butt, after quite a bit of time searching on the internet I managed to find a 40cm diameter washing up bowl in black, it arrived today and was a relief to discover it fits snuggly into the 36cm 'hole' in the water butt with a 2cm lip all the way round. In the black bowl I've placed 3 climbing/hanging strawberries (Everest) each in it's own pot, and two pots with nasturtium seeds germinating. 3 'downpipe plant containers' with 2 Everest strawberry plants in each, hopefully completes the camouflage.
Cambridgeshire/Norfolk border.
Cambridgeshire/Norfolk border.
Hubby made, painted black, and hung a fan trellis, to which we planted ( with its partner on other side of bay window) Mrs George Jackman clematis, a white one.
In the area that the flamingo willow was removed from, we weeded, added new soil/compost and planted a variegated holly a cutting from one we left behind at last house, two white Dicentra and a rose cutting now two years old.
Transplanted a native holly that had self seeded, plus more weeding. Potted on four sweet peas, two Dahlia and a hot lips salvia. 🥵
After that it was mostly sowing climbing bean and mangetout seeds, pricking out Swan River Daisies (which are just tiny!) before heading in to watch the formula 1 (waste of time) and cook the roast (delish).
Can't complain.
> cut the grass
> pulled all the weeds out the pots
> planted a clematis into the ground to go with the obelisk i got last year that was too wide for the intended pot
> planted two roses in the flowerbed
> pulled the dead shrub up and planted a new one
> mulched the flowerbed
all in all a decent day for me
I just managed to do the shed yesterday, when it started raining again. I don't know what weather you have, but here in the NE of Wiltshire, the ground is soaked. The forecast says rain every day in the next 2 weeks and the same temperature of around 14 degrees over the day.
I ♥ my garden.
Finally planted my first early potatoes.
Was going to throw out two geranium plants, until I discovered they both have live root balls. Dilemma. Is it worth the cosseting and waiting time to repot them and see if they put on any growth?