Your blue shed seems to have acquired a handsome arctic camouflage, Hampshire Hog, very smart 😃
Raked and reseeded the lawn this AM, it doesn't look instantly better. Started raining when I was doing that, ceased and then started again when I was at the allotment.
Had some fun picking out new plants on the off chance my new rose does die. Haven't made a decision but I'll be slightly disappointed if the rose Co. offer to replace 😉
Easter looks like it might be an improvement weather wise, hoping for the best☀️
Potted on tomatoes and sowed basil, lemon basil, coriander and chives. Now breaking up pallets to build a potting/work table and will get the grass cut too! The silver birch I planted in the autumn (1 of which I moved a few weeks ago are just breaking into leaf now so can breathe a sigh of relief now! 😀
You will have to post a picture of pallet potting/work table when done, I have a pallet potting table built it a few years ago and has done really well for me
OH back to MIL's garden for more excavations. I stayed home, pruned hydrangeas (in pots) and gave them a feed. Planted a couple of hardy geraniums, one was "Mayflower", the other is a mystery . Tied in clematis. When OH returned, we sifted all the soil (10 bags worth). Got it down to 5 bags of reasonable stuff and 5 bags for the tip.
Yesterday planted a dozen tomato in the greenhouse, black cherry, Roma and a black heritage type. Took out to make room two tubs of sweet peas and a clematis that had been hardening off. Froggy was still in residence so that is probably why so few slugs under the tubs and why he has grown 🙂
Have planted carrots and sown seed too. Golden beetroot are in and a few lettuce. Moved rest of plants from conservatory to greenhouse, no longer looks like a garden centre. 😁 Fed birds. Watered everything as had little rain. Planted red troika nasturtiums seed and a purple verbena seed. Maybe a bit late for seed not sure.🤔
I'm happy had 99.99% germination of my parsnip seed sown into old toilet tubes, Just to be safe I sowed two seed's to each roll as parsnip we read are difficult to germinate but of course just to prove everyone wrong I get two in every tube except one.
I now have to decide do I remove one from each tube and destroy or do I carefully try to transplant them? again parsnips we are told don't like to be disturbed.
"You don't stop gardening because you get old, you get old because you stop gardening." - The Hampshire Hog
Dug out kniphofia (that was a job), and planted Rose "Hot chocolate" in it's place. Now have 2 roses of the same colour as the first one l got from the auction site is okay but looks like it's going to take a while to get going. Moved a salvia "Caradonna" and got rid of some very tatty polyanthus. Checked over the seeds trays in propagator, salvia "Merleau blue " almost ready to prick out. Started to rain so the next lot of soil bags for sieving will just have to wait !
Just sown a second patch of wild flower seeds this afternoon, there had been rain last night so the soil is damp and now the sun is here for a few days to help warm up the soil and seeds. Fingers crossed that they germinate. I also planted out some more aquilegia plants that I had sown from seed collected last year - if they grow great - if they don't nothing lost.
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Raked and reseeded the lawn this AM, it doesn't look instantly better. Started raining when I was doing that, ceased and then started again when I was at the allotment.
Had some fun picking out new plants on the off chance my new rose does die. Haven't made a decision but I'll be slightly disappointed if the rose Co. offer to replace 😉
Easter looks like it might be an improvement weather wise, hoping for the best☀️
I now have to decide do I remove one from each tube and destroy or do I carefully try to transplant them? again parsnips we are told don't like to be disturbed.
"You don't stop gardening because you get old, you get old because you stop gardening." - The Hampshire Hog