Cricket, sleep, washing-up, laundry, bins/recycling, Chelsea v Luton, couple of hours work, gardening (blow away is remarkably wet inside! Stuff needs drying out/moving), Utd v Liverpool, run, bit more work, MotD, SLEEP!
Chive that is a lovely selection of seeds there. You can get the sweet peas going now. They like a long root run in their 'nursery pots'. Ideal containers for growing the sweet peas are the insides of toilet rolls. Support these in plant pots, fill with compost and sow 2 sweet pea seeds in each one. Once the sweet peas appear and have about 3-4 inches (in old money) you might want to nip out the growing tip to make the plants bushy but this is not essential. The whole cardboard tube can be planted out into the garden when the weather is suitable and all you have to do then is make sure that they have something to climb up. Once you can pick flowers do it all the time and this encourages more flowers to form. If you forget and let the flowers go to seed the plant will think 'I have done my job' and stop flowering! The other two are fairly straight forward to grow. The Californian Poppy, once established will self seed where its happy.
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Oh wow Debs and Yvie, those is pictures are worthy of a C*******s card! I hope that you are going to build snowmen! Yvie, I am so sorry to hear about your firstborn and Merri. Fingers crossed they make a quick recovery.
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Hello there Biglad. You have a full day - bit like my handy brother. He is hoping Utd. beat L'pool, seeing as how he is an Evertonian. Someone has to be I suppose!
p.s. sorry for my ignorance but what is a blow away? That is a term I am unfamiliar with
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One of those mini greenhouses with a plastic covering that tend to blow away, @Ladybird4. I'm on my second one and it has got way too much moisture inside. Had a quick look in yesterday. Some of the cuttings look to have suffered and I had a box of barely-used bonemeal in there, which has got soggy! So I'm going to try and dry it out, somewhat, and move anything that needs to be drier into the shed.
Just popped out to feed the birds BRRRR it's really cold out there. Yes @debs64 we are close. More snow forecast for us from 5 today but it's supposed to warm up tomorrow.
Thank you Biglad for increasing my knowledge. It makes perfect sense now having witnessed my ex cat sitter chasing his around the field at the back of his bungalow.
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Have been doing hard core unmentionables today - ie cleaning both ovens. They weren't too bad but one door in particular was rather disgusting. Quite enjoy taking everything to bits so it can all go in to soak. Fingers crossed it all goes back.
Sorry to hear Firstborn and Merri are not well Yvie. Fingers crossed for a speedy recovery.Â
Chive - hope your test is negative. Must be a pain to have to keep doing tests but my friend says you sort of get used to them after a while.
I grow Californian Poppies. I just sprinkle them where they are to grow in spring. If it's sunny and not too wet they'll be happy plants. I cut them back when they get too leggy and they usually flower again. There's a gorgeous ivory one and I also like the deep red one - but it's always the yellows and oranges that end up taking over. They look lovely next to deep purple lavenders or salvias. As LB said - you'll have them forever if they like their spot.
Lovely snowy pics. We had a bit yesterday (still there because it's been too cold to thaw) and a few flurries today but nowt to scare the horses. OH was out earlier playing with his drone taking snowy landscape footage.
Right - need to put the ovens back together now - wish me luck!
Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
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Cricket, sleep, washing-up, laundry, bins/recycling, Chelsea v Luton, couple of hours work, gardening (blow away is remarkably wet inside! Stuff needs drying out/moving), Utd v Liverpool, run, bit more work, MotD, SLEEP!
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Have been doing hard core unmentionables today - ie cleaning both ovens. They weren't too bad but one door in particular was rather disgusting. Quite enjoy taking everything to bits so it can all go in to soak. Fingers crossed it all goes back.
Sorry to hear Firstborn and Merri are not well Yvie. Fingers crossed for a speedy recovery.Â
Chive - hope your test is negative. Must be a pain to have to keep doing tests but my friend says you sort of get used to them after a while.
I grow Californian Poppies. I just sprinkle them where they are to grow in spring. If it's sunny and not too wet they'll be happy plants. I cut them back when they get too leggy and they usually flower again. There's a gorgeous ivory one and I also like the deep red one - but it's always the yellows and oranges that end up taking over. They look lovely next to deep purple lavenders or salvias. As LB said - you'll have them forever if they like their spot.
Lovely snowy pics. We had a bit yesterday (still there because it's been too cold to thaw) and a few flurries today but nowt to scare the horses. OH was out earlier playing with his drone taking snowy landscape footage.
Right - need to put the ovens back together now - wish me luck!