Popped into the garden this morning to just have a check as I’ve not been out in a couple of days. The slugs finally got to my cosmos seedlings 😠😠😠 half of them have been eaten. It’s so frustrating as I thought I was doing so well with them this year and I really struggled to get more than 8 germinated.
I shall have to have a word with Monty about his claim that gardening is good for your mental health! 😭😭😭
My pear tree is a family tree with 3 varieties on one stock. I have it growing in a huge container, against the end of a shed where I have fan trained it. A month ago it had a lot of blossom on it and because it had one pear on it last year I decided to help things along by hand pollinating this year. Since then we have had some extreme gales down here in balmy Cornwall, plus torrential rain and that is what has blown the just setting fruits off the tree. I assume the same might apply to the quince. It is growing in open ground and has blossomed for several years but only a very few fruit. It looks healthy, plenty of new shoots and foliage, It is the variety Varanya which is self fertile. It sometimes has a few late flowers but I have doubted if there was enough time left in the season for the fruit to develop and ripen as I have never had any late fruit on it. I have always forgiven it for not fruiting because it is so beautiful when in in flower but am beginning to wonder about removing it if the non fruiting continues, also giving up on the pear.
Hello everybody , just got back of Holiday and I can’t believe the growth of everything in the Garden over the last couple of weeks Eg . Hawthorn & lilac in full bloom , lilies where just coming up , some are now 2 feet high and the back lawn looks like a meadow Pleased to say everything in greenhouse has germinated , next door watered them for us Can’t wait to see what’s what at allotment
planted a new shrub in a pot for the front door, finally getting rid of the very dead Azelia plant, got a steak for my very wobbly standard rose and threw a bit of compost over some grass seed for the patchy bits. I just need to get some more mulch for the bed and to pick up my cuttings
Not today, but in the week I finished the steps, apart from a couple of bits to tidy up. I had to build over a clay and concrete bank which at some point divided the garden, and it was not straightforward! Miner bees nest in the bank so I didn't want to dig it all out, now they have a panel with holes in so they can still get in & out. I managed to sneak a couple of tiny spaces in for more planting too. 😄 A couple of people will be pleased to see the temporary yellow flag home on the right, which I took out the pond yesterday. 😁
Cut the lawns , was amazed at the number of ant 🐜 hills in back lawn - 19 - raked them and put some grass seed on them and watered them Still lots to do Found some grasses that had flowered , never happened before
Went to GC and actually bought some plants! Got them planted, got some wire up between the fence posts for the raspberries, moved some logs and tree off cuts near the pond to try to encourage some wildlife in.
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A month ago it had a lot of blossom on it and because it had one pear on it last year I decided to help things along by hand pollinating this year.
Since then we have had some extreme gales down here in balmy Cornwall, plus torrential rain and that is what has blown the just setting fruits off the tree.
I assume the same might apply to the quince. It is growing in open ground and has blossomed for several years but only a very few fruit. It looks healthy, plenty of new shoots and foliage, It is the variety Varanya which is self fertile. It sometimes has a few late flowers but I have doubted if there was enough time left in the season for the fruit to develop and ripen as I have never had any late fruit on it. I have always forgiven it for not fruiting because it is so beautiful when in in flower but am beginning to wonder about removing it if the non fruiting continues, also giving up on the pear.
Eg . Hawthorn & lilac in full bloom , lilies where just coming up , some are now 2 feet high and the back lawn looks like a meadow
Pleased to say everything in greenhouse has germinated , next door watered them for us
Can’t wait to see what’s what at allotment
Happy gardening
planted a new shrub in a pot for the front door, finally getting rid of the very dead Azelia plant, got a steak for my very wobbly standard rose and threw a bit of compost over some grass seed for the patchy bits. I just need to get some more mulch for the bed and to pick up my cuttings
A couple of people will be pleased to see the temporary yellow flag home on the right, which I took out the pond yesterday. 😁
Still lots to do
Found some grasses that had flowered , never happened before