Afternoon everyone, didn't log on this morning as the phone battery was flat. We have been repotting the patio wisteria, the old pot had split in two! It took ages for the sun to burn off the clouds but it's hot out on the patio now so glad we got on with it this morning. Hope your day is better than your night @Hostafan1.
Back from planting up the planters up in town. Soooo lovely to meet up with fellow gardeners, all the volunteers who help to keep the town looking its best, everyone willing and able to help and happy to be doing it. Bit of (v.late) lunch and out into my own garden...
Afternoon folks, Sorry to hear you had another awful night @Hostafan1
I've just waved Secondborn off, she popped in to see her Dad and we sat in the sunshine with a cuppa. Went to Ashwoods earlier for some compost and FBB. Picked up a couple of grasses and pelargoniums, came home and planted a few more containers. The trays of plants are slowly reducing, so there is more space in the greenhouse for the toms and cues. Mind you I still have quite a few pots to plant up.
Back from planting up the planters up in town. Soooo lovely to meet up with fellow gardeners, all the volunteers who help to keep the town looking its best, everyone willing and able to help and happy to be doing it. Bit of (v.late) lunch and out into my own garden...
We sometimes pass through when visiting friends in the Halesworth area ... we'll keep our eyes open for the planters this year
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Planted out some beans - finally. Which means - at last - some space to get brassicas started. Very late, I know. I just hope they'll catch up. Lovely day here. Hope everyone is having a relaxing Bank Holiday weekend
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
@Pat E to be honest, I wasn't fussed about which kind it was, just wanted a eucalyptus for Possum's medicines venture and it was on offer at 9€99 and a decent size and perfect pong. I have sown some seeds of eucalyptus rubida which, if successful, will take considerably longer to get to tisane and tincture making size.
I went out an hour or so ago to water all the babies in the potager and polytunnel and found all 6 chooks lurking in the shade under the wisteria near the front of the house!! Escapologist madames! However they clucked and crooned their way back to the potager when I called them.
Dahlia planting tomorrow and maybe my new clem and some other bits of flowery stuff that needs to go in asap. Have to be clean on Tuesday to go and get our WARPs - Withdrawal Agreement Residency Permits.
Which brings me nicely to having just found a magnolia Star Wars on offer at 50% off so I've ordered one.
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)."
Lots done outside today ... on my hands and knees weeding in the Wilderness, then planting lots of little native primrose seedlings. Planting out more perennials too so lots of watering. Now I’m bushed ... I may need another early night ... even feel too tired to knit ... 🥱
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
You and me both Dove, and my back is giving me warning twinges so might have to do just standing up jobs tomorrow. I bet most of the gardeners in the country are feeling the same, given the good weather.
Today went well, but was the busiest day we've ever had, so extremely tired now. New girls were ok, if a little zombie - fied at the end. Perfect weather, deck full all day, we must have refused 50 at least, just couldn't fit them in.
Been around the garden just now and watered but ready to fall into bed now..
Hope to catch up better tomorrow.
“Coffee. Garden. Coffee. Does a good morning need anything else?” —Betsy Cañas Garmon
Im the same @Lizzie27 been lugging pots around today, emptying and filling. I'm absolutely shattered. Have a few more to do tomorrow and the lawns to mow. I think it will be a couple of pain killers before bed tonight.
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
I went out an hour or so ago to water all the babies in the potager and polytunnel and found all 6 chooks lurking in the shade under the wisteria near the front of the house!! Escapologist madames! However they clucked and crooned their way back to the potager when I called them.
Dahlia planting tomorrow and maybe my new clem and some other bits of flowery stuff that needs to go in asap. Have to be clean on Tuesday to go and get our WARPs - Withdrawal Agreement Residency Permits.
Which brings me nicely to having just found a magnolia Star Wars on offer at 50% off so I've ordered one.
so lots of watering. Now I’m bushed ... I may need another early night ... even feel too tired to knit ... 🥱
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I bet most of the gardeners in the country are feeling the same, given the good weather.
Your chook stories are very amusing Obelixx.
Today went well, but was the busiest day we've ever had, so extremely tired now. New girls were ok, if a little zombie - fied at the end. Perfect weather, deck full all day, we must have refused 50 at least, just couldn't fit them in.
Been around the garden just now and watered but ready to fall into bed now..
Hope to catch up better tomorrow.