@Busy-Lizzie, veg patch looking really good. You definitely have enough jobs to stop you missing OH at least.
I just have one last bit of garden to 'rediscover' now and that's all beds either weeded and planted up or turfed over. Hedges are now nearly all cut back, in some cases hacked at, but it had to be as they'd got so overgrown. Incredible speed things grow here. 😱 Then it's all about organising seeds and seedlings. And watching grass grow, quite literally - hopefully anyway.
Have to go to Limoges this morning to collect some stuff but hope to get back asap. Beautiful forecast for the week.
Dove thanks for the reference. It’s very informative, isn’t it. I’ve only seen one Tiger snake here before and I was walking my little poodle who was very short sighted and got quite close to it. At that time I grabbed a bamboo stake from nearby and gently put pressure on her shoulder and backed her slowly away. Thankfully, it didn’t react.
A lesson learned while walking her around. We were fairly close to a dam at the time, so I assume it had come from there (frog foraging).
Good morning! @Busy-Lizzie Great digging work. The beds look lovely and tidy. What have you planted so far?
@Pat E Nice bit of snake work there. We get them here too but they are discreet - usually. Last year I resurrected my fish pond minus the fish. A neighbour gave me some tadpoles for the pond and I had a very large brown visitor in summer. So, obviously interested in my frogs. I believe they are harmless, but I'm not stopping to find out!
Beautiful day today despite the weather forecast predicting mists coming off the sea. Not warm - but sunny. I will start hardening off my tomato plants today......slowly as it is far too early. Hope to plant out the end of April.
I have more digging and preparing to do too. Bit by bit. Have a good day everyone. Tui
Thank you to those who complimented me about the vegetable garden.
@Pat E we have grass snakes of various sorts, not venomous though they can bite, but usually too nervous. The only venomous snakes are vipers. One bit my son when he was 11 and he ended up in intensive care in Bordeaux children's hospital, but most people aren't allergic to them.
@tuikowhai34 I have planted 9 raspberries, 2 Tayberries, oak leaf lettuces green and red, pointy cabbages, red onion sets, 10 "Mara des Bois" strawberries in gaps in the fabric, sown broad beans and perpetual spinach. I'll plant Charlotte potatoes soon and later I'll plant tomatoes, courgettes, leeks and I'll sow a row of flat French beans.
More weeding today, of strawberries planted in the fabric, which hasn't prevented weeds!
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Morning all, glad I don't have snakes like that here. I have enough trouble persuading my fellow plotholders that slow worms are NOT snakes. I stayed on the Ardnamurchan peninsula, many years ago with my brother and friends. We stayed at a farm cottage, we realised part way through the week, the elderly couple that owned it were renting their home, and living in a corrugated iron clad hut just up the track. It made us feel quite guilty, but they explained it was an essential element of their income.
Morning all. Well done @Busy-Lizzie. @punkdoc, I love Top Gear. No real interest in cars 0-60 Yawn , bhp yawn, but I like the rather juvenile fun aspect of it. Misty here I thought we were due sunshine.)
Good morning Forkers. Brilliant sunshine here after a brilliant, heavy frost after a brilliant super moon and clear skies all night. I was awake for a lot of the moon with my knee shouting at me. Need to see about some more infiltrations.
Excellent work on your veggie beds @Busy-Lizzie. Lovely to be planting stuff. I'm waiting for my next bed to appear so I can plant the beetroot plugs and strawberries I've been hiding form the chooks.
For some reason @D0rdogne_Damsel I thought Easter was still a couple of weeks away - the Vendée school hols are from April 24th, hence my confusion. I shall have to check I have all the doings for HC buns this weekend then.
@punkdoc love the idea of wild, rugged land and sea but no longer amused by Top Gear tho I love the accents - much better than Clarkson's gang.
Yesterday I cleared all the hosta pots off the terrace ready for a pressure wash, cleared all the arum italicum out of the triangular walled bed to reveal the clematis and some hostas and did some potting up of borderline hardy shrubs which will now live in big pots against the front wall of the house - full sun and no north winds. Daphniphyllum which has flowers for the first time and Cassia corymbosa which looks like it hasn't enjoyed the cold this winter. Fingers crossed it produces more new leaves and some flowers later.
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Gosh @Pat E, braver than me. 😱
@Busy-Lizzie, veg patch looking really good. You definitely have enough jobs to stop you missing OH at least.
I just have one last bit of garden to 'rediscover' now and that's all beds either weeded and planted up or turfed over. Hedges are now nearly all cut back, in some cases hacked at, but it had to be as they'd got so overgrown. Incredible speed things grow here. 😱 Then it's all about organising seeds and seedlings. And watching grass grow, quite literally - hopefully anyway.
Have to go to Limoges this morning to collect some stuff but hope to get back asap. Beautiful forecast for the week.
Catch you all later, have a good Monday. 🙂
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@Busy-Lizzie Great digging work. The beds look lovely and tidy. What have you planted so far?
@Pat E Nice bit of snake work there. We get them here too but they are discreet - usually. Last year I resurrected my fish pond minus the fish. A neighbour gave me some tadpoles for the pond and I had a very large brown visitor in summer. So, obviously interested in my frogs. I believe they are harmless, but I'm not stopping to find out!
Beautiful day today despite the weather forecast predicting mists coming off the sea. Not warm - but sunny. I will start hardening off my tomato plants today......slowly as it is far too early. Hope to plant out the end of April.
I have more digging and preparing to do too. Bit by bit.
Have a good day everyone.
Tui
Thank you to those who complimented me about the vegetable garden.
@Pat E we have grass snakes of various sorts, not venomous though they can bite, but usually too nervous. The only venomous snakes are vipers. One bit my son when he was 11 and he ended up in intensive care in Bordeaux children's hospital, but most people aren't allergic to them.
@tuikowhai34 I have planted 9 raspberries, 2 Tayberries, oak leaf lettuces green and red, pointy cabbages, red onion sets, 10 "Mara des Bois" strawberries in gaps in the fabric, sown broad beans and perpetual spinach. I'll plant Charlotte potatoes soon and later I'll plant tomatoes, courgettes, leeks and I'll sow a row of flat French beans.
More weeding today, of strawberries planted in the fabric, which hasn't prevented weeds!
I stayed on the Ardnamurchan peninsula, many years ago with my brother and friends. We stayed at a farm cottage, we realised part way through the week, the elderly couple that owned it were renting their home, and living in a corrugated iron clad hut just up the track. It made us feel quite guilty, but they explained it was an essential element of their income.
Well done @Busy-Lizzie.
@punkdoc, I love Top Gear. No real interest in cars 0-60 Yawn , bhp yawn, but I like the rather juvenile fun aspect of it.
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Excellent work on your veggie beds @Busy-Lizzie. Lovely to be planting stuff. I'm waiting for my next bed to appear so I can plant the beetroot plugs and strawberries I've been hiding form the chooks.
For some reason @D0rdogne_Damsel I thought Easter was still a couple of weeks away - the Vendée school hols are from April 24th, hence my confusion. I shall have to check I have all the doings for HC buns this weekend then.
@punkdoc love the idea of wild, rugged land and sea but no longer amused by Top Gear tho I love the accents - much better than Clarkson's gang.
Yesterday I cleared all the hosta pots off the terrace ready for a pressure wash, cleared all the arum italicum out of the triangular walled bed to reveal the clematis and some hostas and did some potting up of borderline hardy shrubs which will now live in big pots against the front wall of the house - full sun and no north winds. Daphniphyllum which has flowers for the first time and Cassia corymbosa which looks like it hasn't enjoyed the cold this winter. Fingers crossed it produces more new leaves and some flowers later.