Grey here, but we are promised sun later. Wasn’t it glorious when the sun came out yesterday and Saturday.....feels like spring is definitely about to spring.
Some more weeding and clearing for me today. Giving Mr C’s arm another couple of days to heal completely before we start the heavy manual labour again.
What a difference a day makes, yesterday wall to wall sunshine, today thick fog. I am hoping to sow a few more seeds today, it is important I try to fill every window sill in the house, because Moira really likes that
Hope you are reclining in a louche manner @Hostafan1
How can you lie there and think of England When you don't even know who's in the team
Good morning all. A glorious night of uninterupted sleep last night. Happy St David's day to my lovely Welsh friends. Stitches out at 12.30 and the hospital called yesterday evening to have me back down there on Thursday.
Bright sunshine here but a ground frost! Brrr. Weeding and transplanting for me when it warms up a bit. Supposed to start foggy and a bit damp tomorrow tho.
Just wondering about sowing a pot of carrots and a window box of spring onions. No spare beds in the potager at the mo as we're waiting for the roof beams to come down off the barns to mark out new beds and all the rest are full - garlic, shallots, PSB, broad beans and pointy cabbage. Other than that a new table top to finish and that wee side table to paint again.
Sounds like you need a day indulging in plant porn @D0rdogne_Damsel or maybe researching new cake recipes. Hope your aches and pains have eased overnight @Busy-Lizzie. @Dovefromabove March has come in like a lamb here. Those hats'll be needed later this month then!
I have chipped bark to shift onto the new fruit bed later @chicky. Bit lighter than your gravel. Am working on persuading OH to sow grass paths between our raised beds. I really don't like the weed membrane we have at the mo and reckon the chooks would have more fun with grass too.
Happy St David's Day to all. Anyone making Welsh cakes?
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)."
Good morning to you all. Sunny here despite the forecast to be cloudy and dampish. I too, like @D0rdogne_Damsel am having a "rest" day. Been to Aldi this morning though. As @Obelixx says: March has come in like a lamb, I hope we don't pay for it too dearly later on.
I sowed some spring onions directly into the ground last week along with some white radishes "Chandelle de Glace" - delicious and crunchy. Also directly into the soil, some Potimarron (chestnut tasting pumpkins) and mini cucumber (with plastic and bricks on top until they appear). The tomatoes in the (unheated) glasshouse have peeped through, am waiting impatiently for the peppers to surface.
Happy St David's Day - I think I will boil some leeks and have them with vinaigrette.
I've been to the local small GC and bought a load of shrubs, they seemed much cheaper than the further away big GC, but less choice and some need planting badly. Now I'm off to Leclerc SM to buy a load more compost. Hope it's still on offer, was last week.
Still aching a bit, but I need a garden with flowers in it. It's not like when you buy a house and people tell you to wait and see what grows. Previous owner has walked around it with me and nothing, apart from trees and a peony, is growing in the large lawn area where I want my flower garden, because of son's goats. They have even killed a couple of laurels. Fenced off vegetable garden and orchard are full of fruit trees, apples, cherries, a pear, a fig, peaches, plums, greengages, looking forward to the blossom.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Hope OH wasn't too tired and achy after all that driving. No flowers here either @Busy-Lizzie except for the tree peony, lilacs and shrubs such as hibiscus, fuchsia, viburnum and some very poorly philadelphus. There's blossom on the cherry and plum trees but not good fruit and the birds nick them anyway.
No compost offer at Leclerc here but there should be one soon at France Rurale. I need some for re-potting the more tender fuchsias and a Geoff H rose plus some for sowing seeds.
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)."
Afternoon folks, Glad Hubby arrived safe @Busy-Lizzie It's flipping freezing here today. I've been out and planted my new rose Eustacia Vye and sulphur sprayed the roses but had to come in because I'm so cold. Good to see you are feeling more chipper today @Hostafan1
Might sow some seeds this afternoon after I've warmed up a bit.
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Some more weeding and clearing for me today. Giving Mr C’s arm another couple of days to heal completely before we start the heavy manual labour again.
What a difference a day makes, yesterday wall to wall sunshine, today thick fog.
I am hoping to sow a few more seeds today, it is important I try to fill every window sill in the house, because Moira really likes that
Hope you are reclining in a louche manner @Hostafan1
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
A glorious night of uninterupted sleep last night.
Happy St David's day to my lovely Welsh friends.
Stitches out at 12.30 and the hospital called yesterday evening to have me back down there on Thursday.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Just wondering about sowing a pot of carrots and a window box of spring onions. No spare beds in the potager at the mo as we're waiting for the roof beams to come down off the barns to mark out new beds and all the rest are full - garlic, shallots, PSB, broad beans and pointy cabbage. Other than that a new table top to finish and that wee side table to paint again.
Sounds like you need a day indulging in plant porn @D0rdogne_Damsel or maybe researching new cake recipes. Hope your aches and pains have eased overnight @Busy-Lizzie. @Dovefromabove March has come in like a lamb here. Those hats'll be needed later this month then!
I have chipped bark to shift onto the new fruit bed later @chicky. Bit lighter than your gravel. Am working on persuading OH to sow grass paths between our raised beds. I really don't like the weed membrane we have at the mo and reckon the chooks would have more fun with grass too.
Happy St David's Day to all. Anyone making Welsh cakes?
As @Obelixx says: March has come in like a lamb, I hope we don't pay for it too dearly later on.
I sowed some spring onions directly into the ground last week along with some white radishes "Chandelle de Glace" - delicious and crunchy. Also directly into the soil, some Potimarron (chestnut tasting pumpkins) and mini cucumber (with plastic and bricks on top until they appear). The tomatoes in the (unheated) glasshouse have peeped through, am waiting impatiently for the peppers to surface.
Happy St David's Day - I think I will boil some leeks and have them with vinaigrette.
OH arrived safely in Norfolk.
I've been to the local small GC and bought a load of shrubs, they seemed much cheaper than the further away big GC, but less choice and some need planting badly. Now I'm off to Leclerc SM to buy a load more compost. Hope it's still on offer, was last week.
Still aching a bit, but I need a garden with flowers in it. It's not like when you buy a house and people tell you to wait and see what grows. Previous owner has walked around it with me and nothing, apart from trees and a peony, is growing in the large lawn area where I want my flower garden, because of son's goats. They have even killed a couple of laurels. Fenced off vegetable garden and orchard are full of fruit trees, apples, cherries, a pear, a fig, peaches, plums, greengages, looking forward to the blossom.
No compost offer at Leclerc here but there should be one soon at France Rurale. I need some for re-potting the more tender fuchsias and a Geoff H rose plus some for sowing seeds.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.