Nice and bright - but cold and windy, so today is a sorting out seedlings/potting on day. Enjoyed seeing Monty again last night - it seems as if it has been ages. Hope his wisteria survives!
Biglad and hosts,yeah lottery win so I can live in the middle of a field,we only use the garage for storage,no one has ever done that before, hopefully they won't again
Afternoon folks, woke up early to bright sunshine but it wasn't as warm as we thought when we did our usual morning walk for the paper. A local community gardening group was hard at work stripping the turf off some ground to make a wildlife meadow in the community orchard we walk through, so we stopped for a chat as we knew some of them from our gardening club. It was good to catch up news and will be lovely when we resume physical meetings. Back home after coffee and sticky buns from the local bakery (very naughty!) I went round the garden watering specific plants that prefer acid conditions and OH started to get the veg beds ready. We've got manure, sand, topsoil and leaf mould to top up the raised beds. That's a shame about your Dad @AuntyRach but hopefully the 6 months treatment will be worth it? You're going great guns Busy-Lizzie. I did chuckle at your tales of OH and his new lawnmower Obelixx. Right lunch is over and I'd better do another hour or so whilst its dry.
Afternoon folks, Some of you may have seen my rantings on other threads but I'm still fuming. After spending ages nurturing foxgloves that were grown from a packet of seeds with a lovely foxglove on the front, I now find that I have been looking after a load of Bl**dy comfrey which I hate. I have now dug the lot up and it's waiting for the green bin collection on Tuesday. Please don't tell me how lovely it is for the bees and how you can make lovely plant food from it. I don't care. I hate it.
Right now I have got that off my chest lets talk of pleasanter things. We didn't get a frost last night so nothing has been damaged in the garden and the cherry blossom has started to appear. I'm going to have another cuppa and some chocolate.
Afternoon all. Finished off digging over the veg patch and planted out some garlic, first crop in and probably last one out. Spuds going in next week. So far only greenhouse seeds sown and mostly up - tomatoes Roma and Sungold, Romano peppers and aubergines. Cucumbers and gherkins will be next up with outdoor bound peas, beans and courgettes to follow.
Oh dear, was just thinking of growing some comfry,I sowed some ferline tomato seeds,free packet in last year's garden mag, not one germinated then, they are still in date,and are aquligias!!yes the trays were cleaned out in fact scrubbed with zoflora,I haven't sowed them for years.I don't mind,I love them
as if stuff isn't bad enough: our cooker is now tripping out the house electrics. Engineer coming in morning. Last night's leftovers going into the microwave for dinner.
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Back home after coffee and sticky buns from the local bakery (very naughty!) I went round the garden watering specific plants that prefer acid conditions and OH started to get the veg beds ready. We've got manure, sand, topsoil and leaf mould to top up the raised beds.
That's a shame about your Dad @AuntyRach but hopefully the 6 months treatment will be worth it?
You're going great guns Busy-Lizzie.
I did chuckle at your tales of OH and his new lawnmower Obelixx.
Right lunch is over and I'd better do another hour or so whilst its dry.
Engineer coming in morning.
Last night's leftovers going into the microwave for dinner.
Just planted our potatoes......first crop in the new beds. Gave them a good talking to about the importance of growing well 😳
Mr C is out in the garage making me some seed tray tampers ......I’m going to be all Monty/Carol Klein ☺️
Thank heavens for microwaves Hostafan1. They do come in useful in emergencies.