Thank you Lizzie 27 and Logan 4 for concern for my health, yes improving day by day stitches out this coming Wednesday, happily been able to do a little again today.
That's good Cornelly. I did a stint at the school garden I look after, a bit later than intended. Finished cutting down all the Verbena Bon., various perennial plants and mourned the loss of three Miscanthus 'Flamingo'. I really liked them and they were planted to help block the traffic noise. There are just one or two tiny little shoots so desperately hoping they'll regrow. The Polish Spirit clematis is growing strongly as are the wild violets I planted (original plants from my mum's old garden). Going to take down some of her wild primroses as well. On the way home, we stopped to chat to a new neighbour I gave some surplus plants to, as he's redoing his garden and he promptly offered me a bag full of prime organic compost as a thank you! Lovely stuff , from a firm/farm near Winchester he said. My roses are in for a treat.
Not only you @Guernsey Donkey2, my heated propagator in the greenhouse is shaded by the high tech addition of 2 old net curtains and l try to keep the compost damp. I sowed some antirrhinum a few weeks back, and half of them suffered from damping off while the rest seemed dry as a bone. I pricked out the ones l could rescue and they don't seem too bad. Everything seems to be taking longer to appear this year for some reason, and l haven't sown my tomatoes yet. Apart from pricking out, planted a couple of agastache "Blue Boa", some hardy geraniums and penstemons. Have been finding problems with vine weevil,so where possible l have been getting plants out of pots and into the ground. Touch wood, these seemed okay. @Lizzie27 , one good turn deserves another !
Hello , greenhouse , window & door opened in the day , in the 80,s then dropping to 1 over night with light frosts At allotment have planted cabbages & broccoli from g/h but rapped fleece around them
Sat in garden looking at all the work I had done when my son came home Mum do you want those tree stumps out, 3 of them and before I could say yes two were out, 3rd one more difficult so he'll try tomorrow. Mini greenhouse is up and Broccoli in under a cloche with fleece over to see if the can take the cold tonight. Potted on the two Azalea's into bigger pots and pulled out a few weeds on the patio still a few more, don't know where there all coming from.
AnniD, he just pulled it a bit and then put his foot on it and pushed then rocked it from side to side and out it came the same with the other one. Trouble is I think there might be a piece of dead wood/root still in there, not sure what to do about that. I want to put a clematis there to grow one the trellis along the top of the fence but not sure if it would be OK.
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Lovely stuff , from a firm/farm near Winchester he said. My roses are in for a treat.
Apart from pricking out, planted a couple of agastache "Blue Boa", some hardy geraniums and penstemons. Have been finding problems with vine weevil,so where possible l have been getting plants out of pots and into the ground. Touch wood, these seemed okay.
@Lizzie27 , one good turn deserves another !
At allotment have planted cabbages & broccoli from g/h but rapped fleece around them
Might need to cut grass again