So did I, and I don't tease out roots that aren't pot bound. Peonies don't like root disturbance.
Horrid cold wet day today. OH has gone for a concert rehearsal followed by the concert tonight. I'm going to tomorrow's performance after lunch with son 2. Think I'll go and have a mooch around a GC now, while I have the chance.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Just come in from a good day in the garden. Final bit of weeding done - a patch of couch grass and hardy geraniums which was too far gone to do anything with apart from dig the lot out and start over 🤪. 4 tonnes of muck will land in the driveway on Tuesday for the annual mulch .....should keep me busy barrowing for a few weekends. Planted all my recent purchases too. Feeling very virtuous 😇
I think MD's paeonia's roots had barely reached the outside of the pot, much of the compost was falling away suggesting it hadn't long been potted on, so virtually no roots to tease.
Think of the under gardener as a beginner and then ask yourself how all that appeared to others lacking experience unlike folk like us who mostly know what they're doing.
Shattered again after furniture faffing. It is so much faster building radiator covers and laying rugs and moving stuff on my own and I don't get grumped at either but he does want to help and I did need a bit of muscled for the rug heaving. Oh well, nearly done.
Still raining and it seems we have a wee leak in the roof. Drips in the walk-in wardrobe. Botheration!
Chicky, is it not easier to mulch at the end of autumn when you don't have to avoid new shoots?
Enjoy your vegging AR. Still a bit for me to do before I hit the shower.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
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Obelixx, from my own experience it takes about a year before newly retired husbands get house trained and used to being at home all day - lots of patience needed but there is life the other side!
Obxx - I worry about covering crowns with autumn mulching. This way most things have already started growing, I’ve given it a good weed and the mulch then keeps it clean for the rest of the year. I don’t mind fiddling round laying it round my treasures - lets me see how they are all doing 😁
Seems reasonable Chicky. Lizzie - OH retired at the of 2015. We moved to France from Belgium at the end of September 2016 and he's got a lot of grass to mow and rough areas to strim which keeps him busy. He plays golf twice a week so I usually manage big stuff while he's out or away............;
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
So did I, and I don't tease out roots that aren't pot bound. Peonies don't like root disturbance.
Horrid cold wet day today. OH has gone for a concert rehearsal followed by the concert tonight. I'm going to tomorrow's performance after lunch with son 2. Think I'll go and have a mooch around a GC now, while I have the chance.
Just in from the garden and had a good scrub in the shower so got that post-gardening need to veg-out feel now.
Shattered again after furniture faffing. It is so much faster building radiator covers and laying rugs and moving stuff on my own and I don't get grumped at either but he does want to help and I did need a bit of muscled for the rug heaving. Oh well, nearly done.
Still raining and it seems we have a wee leak in the roof. Drips in the walk-in wardrobe. Botheration!
Chicky, is it not easier to mulch at the end of autumn when you don't have to avoid new shoots?
Enjoy your vegging AR. Still a bit for me to do before I hit the shower.