Bio hope you are recovering and soon back gardening with your animal tribe Oberlix , thanks for update Light rain at moment but had a real good down pour overnight a couple of days ago Been to garden centre to buy veg plants to replace those that didn't survive in the greenhouse following our holiday
Watering here too @Allotment Boy. Have to keep my "nursery" alive and then, on alternate days, I turn on the seep hoses in the tomato, dahlia and fruit beds.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
O/h delighted with major storms over the last three nights No need to tick watering off his jobs to do! Has your oH stepped in in times of stress? Lovely ukrainien nurse typing this for me from motley hand written notes. Nice to get Monty Don news about New grand Child and glad to hear he is now revoveri.g from this dreadful diseuse . Had first physio session today . Nearly finiished me off! Cant see myself slinging bags of compost around garden any time soon ..but cunning plans afoot Hopefully home next week. Absolutely détermined to get to garden fair in ezy sur Eure 4th june. Even if I just sit in à heap and watch the world go by Obelixx ypu are doing à great job Think I should hand the reins over to you and add my t'en penneth on biodynamics thank you for all your Best wishes.. just want to get back to my garden Town centres dont suit me at all. Not allowed to have Windows open due to pollution Miss the deer and the wild boar next d'oor by the fishng lake plus O/h says Woody Woodpecker has been walki.g round the lawn showi.g off his five new babies! Tzkee care of yourselves and have à lovely week-end
I hope your health is improving @biofreak and that you are back in your garden. Yesterday I finally got 2 peach trees and a nectarine in the ground after nurturing them in pots for 3 years. I also took cuttings of the female sea buckthorn. Fingers crossed they grow well. It seems my male buckthorn can handle several wives.
Happy to carry on with dates but have no info on things like weather and biodynamics. Here's the next installment for those who like to plan ahead:
Monday 30th May – ascending moon in Taurus which is an earth
sign and so a roots day. The moon stays
in Taurus till 14:46 BST on Wednesday 1st of June when the moon
moves into Gemini, an air sign, so flower days till 19:58 on Friday 3rd
of June. It will be Apogee – closest to
the earth - at 2:14 on Thursday 2nd so no gardening for 5 hours
either side but that’s OK unless you have insomnia and a very good torch to
garden by night.
Ascending moon phases are good for harvesting aerial parts
of plants – fruits, flowers, leaves.
At 19:58 on Friday 3rd the moon moves into Cancer, a water sign, so leaf days
on the 3rd and 4th.
It’s also a descending moon now so good for planting, transplanting, splitting
and layering. On the 5th the
moon moves into Leo until the 7th which means fruit days – good for tending,
harvesting, pruning and preserving fruiting plants.
At a garden club visit today one chap said that any graft taken on the 3rd
day after a full moon was almost guaranteed to take. We’d split into 2 groups for the visit with
most of the chaps looking at the host’s arboretum and fruit tree collection
whilst most of the women did the ornamental garden and roses first. Our host and 2 other club members waxed
lyrical about grafting techniques and equipment. not something I’m likely to get into but I
pass on that lunar tip to anyone who wants to try.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
I am still a bit behind on the Allotments. Still need to get courgettes, squash etc out but these cold night are making me hold back. Need to get the nets on the strawberries and cherry too.
A bit ahead of schedule for the next installment but I'm busy getting our garden set up so OH and I can have a few days off from Thursday to go to the Loire valley and the Chaumont garden festival.
Fruit days start tomorrow so I shall get my courgettes and squashes planted out in the bed I prepared today - weeded, raked, seep hosed and mulched tho I also have plastic bottles on standby to deliver water straight to the roots as we have a hosepipe ban already. I hope we get the rain they're forecasting.
I trust you are getting better @biofreak and can give us some updates on the biodynamic aspects, especially weather!
Wednesday 8th, descending first quarter moon in Virgo, an
earth sign, until Saturday 11th so anything to do with roots –
sowing, potting on, planting out, fertilising, harvesting roots such as early
beetroot, radish and spring onions.
On Sunday 12th the moon is in Libra, an air sign so anything to do with
edible and ornamental flowers but there is anode at 11h02 so no gardening
either side although you can do maintenance of fence, structures, cleaning and sharpening
tools or, as it’s Sunday you could have a BBQ and just sit and enjoy your
garden.
On Monday 13th the moon is still descending but is now in its second
quarter - waxing gibbous - and in
Scorpio, a water sign, until the 14th so leaves – ornamental foliage
plants, edible foliage plants.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
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Oberlix , thanks for update
Light rain at moment but had a real good down pour overnight a couple of days ago
Been to garden centre to buy veg plants to replace those that didn't survive in the greenhouse following our holiday
No need to tick watering off his jobs to do! Has your oH stepped in in times of stress? Lovely ukrainien nurse typing this for me from motley hand written notes. Nice to get Monty Don news about New grand Child and glad to hear he is now revoveri.g from this dreadful diseuse
. Had first physio session today .
Nearly finiished me off! Cant see myself slinging bags of compost around garden any time soon
..but cunning plans afoot
Hopefully home next week. Absolutely détermined to get to garden fair in ezy sur Eure 4th june. Even if I just sit in à heap and watch the world go by
Obelixx ypu are doing à great job
Think I should hand the reins over to you and add my t'en penneth on biodynamics thank you for all your Best wishes.. just want to get back to my garden Town centres dont suit me at all. Not allowed to have Windows open due to pollution
Miss the deer and the wild boar next d'oor by the fishng lake plus O/h says Woody Woodpecker has been walki.g round the lawn showi.g off his five new babies! Tzkee care of yourselves and have à lovely week-end
Missing deer and wild boar 🐗 , we only get the odd squirrel 🐿 and Harold the Hedgehog 🦔
Happy to carry on with dates but have no info on things like weather and biodynamics. Here's the next installment for those who like to plan ahead:
Monday 30th May – ascending moon in Taurus which is an earth sign and so a roots day. The moon stays in Taurus till 14:46 BST on Wednesday 1st of June when the moon moves into Gemini, an air sign, so flower days till 19:58 on Friday 3rd of June. It will be Apogee – closest to the earth - at 2:14 on Thursday 2nd so no gardening for 5 hours either side but that’s OK unless you have insomnia and a very good torch to garden by night.
Ascending moon phases are good for harvesting aerial parts of plants – fruits, flowers, leaves.
At 19:58 on Friday 3rd the moon moves into Cancer, a water sign, so leaf days on the 3rd and 4th. It’s also a descending moon now so good for planting, transplanting, splitting and layering. On the 5th the moon moves into Leo until the 7th which means fruit days – good for tending, harvesting, pruning and preserving fruiting plants.
At a garden club visit today one chap said that any graft taken on the 3rd day after a full moon was almost guaranteed to take. We’d split into 2 groups for the visit with most of the chaps looking at the host’s arboretum and fruit tree collection whilst most of the women did the ornamental garden and roses first. Our host and 2 other club members waxed lyrical about grafting techniques and equipment. not something I’m likely to get into but I pass on that lunar tip to anyone who wants to try.
Biofreak hope you are recovering
Allotment and greenhouse back on target after holiday , just need to get garden sorted
Fruit days start tomorrow so I shall get my courgettes and squashes planted out in the bed I prepared today - weeded, raked, seep hosed and mulched tho I also have plastic bottles on standby to deliver water straight to the roots as we have a hosepipe ban already. I hope we get the rain they're forecasting.
I trust you are getting better @biofreak and can give us some updates on the biodynamic aspects, especially weather!
Wednesday 8th, descending first quarter moon in Virgo, an earth sign, until Saturday 11th so anything to do with roots – sowing, potting on, planting out, fertilising, harvesting roots such as early beetroot, radish and spring onions.
On Sunday 12th the moon is in Libra, an air sign so anything to do with edible and ornamental flowers but there is anode at 11h02 so no gardening either side although you can do maintenance of fence, structures, cleaning and sharpening tools or, as it’s Sunday you could have a BBQ and just sit and enjoy your garden.
On Monday 13th the moon is still descending but is now in its second quarter - waxing gibbous - and in Scorpio, a water sign, until the 14th so leaves – ornamental foliage plants, edible foliage plants.