Morning all - fresh from Zumba in my living room here 💃🕺🏻💃🕺🏻.
Mr C had his jab yesterday (yay 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻). Sore arm this morning, and vivid dreams last night (apparently Lionel Messi was driving his car very fast😱). He got the Pfizer one, so will see how he is today, but it will be a quiet one.
Shifted several tonnes of gravel yesterday- made a great start on the gravel paths in the veg garden - it makes such a difference. Maybe do some more tomorrow - although I am really earmarking that for rose pruning, since after tonight the frosts are gone for a while.
Hoping @Hostafan1 is being fixed up nicely - sounds like some nasty side effects. Sending positive thoughts and many hugs 🤗 🤗🤗🤗
OH's 90 yo mum has been in the wars. Her mobility has been very poor through cancer but recently declined to zero. Getting pain meds right has been a trial and some seemed to be affecting her stability. After much pushing to get her scanned again to see if her treatment had had any effect she was taken to hospital last night where they discovered she had broken her hip in one of her falls. They are looking at a hip replacement or pinned repair which is good news.
Everybody involved (and there a lots of them) was focused on dealing with the cancer pain management which is in the same area so missed the possibility of the hip fracture, probably not helped by her not mentioning the fall which did the damage.
Surgery will happen this weekend and they reckon two weeks to get her back on her feet again, literally. She doesn't understand why this happened to her, it only happens to frail old ladies.
I'm afraid it depends @Busy-Lizzie. Charles Dowding would say no, just lay the cardboard and compost/manure and plant. However, I kind of think that if soil has been compacted for years as lawn it benefits from being forked over and, as a minimum, I'd fork out deep-rooted perennials weeds.
For our new shrubs and trees we lifted a big square of turf for each one to reduce competition from grass and meadow weeds. There's plenty of space left between that is still grass and that will be strimmed then covered with cardboard and I'll plant perennials thru that as and when I have them ready. Lots of seed sowing coming up and some Lemon Queen and sanguisorbias to move in there.
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)."
Me too so I brought some with me from the Belgian garden. Planted some in a bed in full sun but, even tho they're supposed to like poor soil and hot sun they've really struggled. The rest I planted in the new rose beds at the back and all the lovely horse poo meant they grew way too tall and also a more orangey yellow so out they have to come.
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)."
Wow - I can understand soil conditions affecting growth and height, but never knew it could change flower colour (other than blue/pink hydrangeas).....you live and learn
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Mr C had his jab yesterday (yay 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻). Sore arm this morning, and vivid dreams last night (apparently Lionel Messi was driving his car very fast😱). He got the Pfizer one, so will see how he is today, but it will be a quiet one.
Shifted several tonnes of gravel yesterday- made a great start on the gravel paths in the veg garden - it makes such a difference. Maybe do some more tomorrow - although I am really earmarking that for rose pruning, since after tonight the frosts are gone for a while.
Hoping @Hostafan1 is being fixed up nicely - sounds like some nasty side effects. Sending positive thoughts and many hugs 🤗 🤗🤗🤗
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Thanks @Obelixx. I want to put cardboard and compost on the flower bed I will make next winter. Should I dig it first?
For our new shrubs and trees we lifted a big square of turf for each one to reduce competition from grass and meadow weeds. There's plenty of space left between that is still grass and that will be strimmed then covered with cardboard and I'll plant perennials thru that as and when I have them ready. Lots of seed sowing coming up and some Lemon Queen and sanguisorbias to move in there.