Good morning @Pat E and @Dovefromabove, lovely morning here too. I got up for a drink in the night and the moon and the deep blue of the sky was beautiful. I am hoping to get a full day in gardening today, it sort of feels like a race against the budding shoots out there to get all the pruning done and weeding of course, astonishing how fast stuff has got going.
Slight interruption at lunch to do 4 fish and chips for some regular customers.
My dahlias arrived yesterday with some gladioli and ranunculus, first time growing the ranunculus so that will be exciting - I hope.
I do hope @Hostafan1 is ok, all sounds very painful.
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Morning folks, hope you are OK Hostafan 1. I went to bed about midnight, the moon was so full and bright, cloudless sky, it was like daylight in the conservatory, but chill 2c
Having thought there was nothing in this garden, apart from grass and trees, a peony has arisen from the lawn near the house. It's in an area that I was going to make a bed in for next year's project. P said he'd made a bed there years ago but the goats ate everything so he gave up. His MIL gave it to him and it's pink and scented.
I am going to cover that area, not the peony, with flat cardboard packing boxes and compost and leave it until next winter. Has anyone done that? I'm sure @Obelixx has, but it may have been in raised beds. How do you stop it all being blow away or washed away by rain? It isn't a raised bed.
I'm expecting a Welsh dresser, well, an Alps French dresser, to be delivered today for the breakfast room. I badly need more drawer and cupboard space.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Beautiful sunny day, but very heavy frost. Let us know how you are @Hostafan1 Today will be planned around the rugby, but hopefully get a bit done outside first.
How can you lie there and think of England When you don't even know who's in the team
Well what have you all been up to this week - lots of gardening and a couple of accidents/injuries judging by a skim read back. Hope you're all well and raring to go this morning. Fine here with a lifting light mist.
Heartily sick of many of the numpties I'm currently working with so I'm going to spend some time talking to plants today!
Some seed planting is in order I think, and maybe dig some more of THOSE bushes out to stuff in the already-completely-full garden waste bin
Good morning everyone. Hi @Pat E. Lovely blue skies and bright sun today but still perishing thanks to the breeze. I'm a golf widow today so some pottering indoors for me then some pottering outdoors when it's warmed up. No rugby here then.
Had grumpy chooks yesterday. I forgot to buy sweetcorn on Thursday so tried them out on a tin of chick peas. Not happy. Lots of clucking and moaning. Fortunately OH and Possum had appointments for haircuts at the end of the day and picked some up on the way. Happy chooks.
Hope everyone gets some sunshine today. The lovely Owain did the forecast this morning and thinks you will. Hugs where needed and get well soon for those who are poorly or injured or just worn out with it all.
Forgot to say @Busy-Lizzie that yes, we've been laying cardboard on veggie beds before mulching and then planting and also around recently planted shrubs and trees. We held that down by laying on some leaf mould and then the upside down turves we had removed to make the planting holes.
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and hoping to hear positive news from @Hostafan1 🤞
It’s a beautiful morning ... I’ve just been watching a beautiful full moon sink low behind the twiggy silhouette of a birch tree ... fabulous.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Slight interruption at lunch to do 4 fish and chips for some regular customers.
My dahlias arrived yesterday with some gladioli and ranunculus, first time growing the ranunculus so that will be exciting - I hope.
I do hope @Hostafan1 is ok, all sounds very painful.
Morning all.
Having thought there was nothing in this garden, apart from grass and trees, a peony has arisen from the lawn near the house. It's in an area that I was going to make a bed in for next year's project. P said he'd made a bed there years ago but the goats ate everything so he gave up. His MIL gave it to him and it's pink and scented.
I am going to cover that area, not the peony, with flat cardboard packing boxes and compost and leave it until next winter. Has anyone done that? I'm sure @Obelixx has, but it may have been in raised beds. How do you stop it all being blow away or washed away by rain? It isn't a raised bed.
I'm expecting a Welsh dresser, well, an Alps French dresser, to be delivered today for the breakfast room. I badly need more drawer and cupboard space.
Beautiful sunny day, but very heavy frost.
Let us know how you are @Hostafan1
Today will be planned around the rugby, but hopefully get a bit done outside first.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
Well what have you all been up to this week - lots of gardening and a couple of accidents/injuries judging by a skim read back. Hope you're all well and raring to go this morning. Fine here with a lifting light mist.
Heartily sick of many of the numpties I'm currently working with so I'm going to spend some time talking to plants today!
Some seed planting is in order I think, and maybe dig some more of THOSE bushes out to stuff in the already-completely-full garden waste bin
Had grumpy chooks yesterday. I forgot to buy sweetcorn on Thursday so tried them out on a tin of chick peas. Not happy. Lots of clucking and moaning. Fortunately OH and Possum had appointments for haircuts at the end of the day and picked some up on the way. Happy chooks.
Hope everyone gets some sunshine today. The lovely Owain did the forecast this morning and thinks you will. Hugs where needed and get well soon for those who are poorly or injured or just worn out with it all.
Forgot to say @Busy-Lizzie that yes, we've been laying cardboard on veggie beds before mulching and then planting and also around recently planted shrubs and trees. We held that down by laying on some leaf mould and then the upside down turves we had removed to make the planting holes.