@Slow-worm, good looking job, just be careful going down the steps when it's wet as wood can get very slippery, I sometimes slide along the top of a sleeper step.
I potted on all my tomatoes yesterday and started hardening them off. I am a *little*concerned as I notice that quite a lot of the calendula pricked out into the same compost a week ago are dying. I can live without the calendula (or indeed could still sow more) but would be devastated if I lost my tomatoes. I have about 20 on the go all different and interesting varieties that are not replacable even if I could afford it. Anyway... I also potted on a delphinium, some petunia and a few other bits and bobs into the same stuff. Nasturtiums sown in it are coming up but are tiny but maybe that's normal. (I haven't grown them for a long time, so can't remember.) I am probably just being paranoid! Today I had a go at digging a hole to make a pond, but not sure it's in the optimal spot, sunwise - it's west facing but shaded for much of the day. The optimal spot is impossible to dig into (root bound from an old honeysuckle and jasmine) so I may need a rethink. I also did some weeding and sowed some poppy seeds and started 'deconstructing' the olive tree which I thought had died, but I think it may be just hanging in there, so it's had a stay of execution but a rather drastic prune. I am also in the process of filling in a hole where the old, sunken butler sink pond was. This will be a flower bed. (It's in full sun.)
I started by very carefully digging out (bad back!) a blue fescue, split it in half then replanted at each end of a flower bed. I also planted some other small herbaceous perennials and cyclamen from windowsill pots. Watered with OH's help all my potted roses and generally pottered. A good day.
Couple of hours this afternoon in garden , bit of weeding , killed 2 lily beetles 🪲 Moved agapanthus pots to its summer places Going to garden centre Thursday afternoon
I planted the last 3 plants that were left as reserve. Looking at the pile of empty pots that need cleaning, I must have used at least 150 pots including for potting on. I'm pleased with what I have done this year, and hopefully, everything will grow nicely.
Started planting out
seedling in their final positions. They're smaller than I'd have
liked, think it's been that kind of year, but I think they'll fair
better in their new positions slug-wise. I've a feeling slugs have
amassed from miles around to where I've had the 'nursery'.
While
dismantling temporary tunnels I came across 'The Frog', my goodness
he's looking huge. His skin is iridescently beautiful. Was so excited
that he'd not hopped off somewhere, he's obviously getting enough to
eat. He's now been named 'Godzilla'.
Tiny
carrot seedlings have been wiped out by slugs, will need to do
something different to catchup, so I've sown seeds on damp kitchen
roll sheets to quicken germination, will be keeping a much closer eye
on them this time round.
Tomatoes
are now in their pots on top of growbags, 9 hanging baskets and
containers have been planted up. Stuttgart onion seedlings, 2
Marketmore Cucumbers, and several dahlia tubers planted.
Built
a smaller wigwam in the centre of a bigger one to help sweet peas in
their climbing effort.
Today
hopefully it's more of the same, Red Toro Peppers will be evicted
from their pots and into their new spaces, 'frilly pansies', some
dahlia seedlings, and odd bits and bobs to be planted out.
I forgot to check my greenhouse, open it up and water so have lost all of my lettuce seedlings and nigella. Will have to re sow. I must plant out my sweet peas, they are looking weedy. Potted on the tomatoes. Looking good.
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I also potted on a delphinium, some petunia and a few other bits and bobs into the same stuff. Nasturtiums sown in it are coming up but are tiny but maybe that's normal. (I haven't grown them for a long time, so can't remember.)
I am probably just being paranoid!
Today I had a go at digging a hole to make a pond, but not sure it's in the optimal spot, sunwise - it's west facing but shaded for much of the day. The optimal spot is impossible to dig into (root bound from an old honeysuckle and jasmine) so I may need a rethink.
I also did some weeding and sowed some poppy seeds and started 'deconstructing' the olive tree which I thought had died, but I think it may be just hanging in there, so it's had a stay of execution but a rather drastic prune.
I am also in the process of filling in a hole where the old, sunken butler sink pond was. This will be a flower bed. (It's in full sun.)
Moved agapanthus pots to its summer places
Going to garden centre Thursday afternoon
I'm pleased with what I have done this year, and hopefully, everything will grow nicely.
I ♥ my garden.
Started planting out seedling in their final positions. They're smaller than I'd have liked, think it's been that kind of year, but I think they'll fair better in their new positions slug-wise. I've a feeling slugs have amassed from miles around to where I've had the 'nursery'.
While dismantling temporary tunnels I came across 'The Frog', my goodness he's looking huge. His skin is iridescently beautiful. Was so excited that he'd not hopped off somewhere, he's obviously getting enough to eat. He's now been named 'Godzilla'.
Tiny carrot seedlings have been wiped out by slugs, will need to do something different to catchup, so I've sown seeds on damp kitchen roll sheets to quicken germination, will be keeping a much closer eye on them this time round.
Tomatoes are now in their pots on top of growbags, 9 hanging baskets and containers have been planted up. Stuttgart onion seedlings, 2 Marketmore Cucumbers, and several dahlia tubers planted.
Built a smaller wigwam in the centre of a bigger one to help sweet peas in their climbing effort.
Today hopefully it's more of the same, Red Toro Peppers will be evicted from their pots and into their new spaces, 'frilly pansies', some dahlia seedlings, and odd bits and bobs to be planted out.
Happy gardening everyone.
Cambridgeshire/Norfolk border.
I must plant out my sweet peas, they are looking weedy.
Potted on the tomatoes. Looking good.