Sorry you’re still feeling rough @punkdoc ☹️. But the heron watching sounds fun 🐟
Stopped by our local farm shop/ restaurant yesterday, and picked up 10 of their surplus to requirements mushroom crates. Perfect for storing plant pots in, keeping all the same plants together and making for easy juggling 🤹🏽♀️ (now there’s an emoji I don’t often use 👏🏻). Did lots of potting yesterday, so there is much to juggle 🤹🏽♀️🤹🏽♀️🤹🏽♀️.
Also very excited to discover my Rowan tree (birthday present about 5 years ago) has got its first ever sprays of flowers ......so we might finally get some copper kettle berries later this year.
Sorry to hear you're feeling grim @punkdoc ((hugs)) Hope you're feeling better soon. It may be of interest to you that Wonky's Lovely Hub felt quite grim for around three weeks following his first jab (you're aware of his health condition). He is however determined to get his second jab as soon as it's due How lovely to watch a heron catching breakfast ... there was one on the roof opposite here yesterday ... they're my most favourite bird.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Hello all! I hope you are all ok, sorry to hear you are feeling under the weather still @punkdoc blood tests sound like a good idea. I have been looking in on you all but seem to have been very busy just lately with the garden and life in general. We are also on amber alert for storms later @Busy-Lizzie so I am holding out planting anymore at the moment, my Zinnias are so tall and lanky in the GH - note to self not to start them off so early next year! Have had to pot on cucumbers, potimarrons and courgettes, I would normally be near to planting out now but weather looks chilly and showery this week. The tomatoes are still catching up! I found a dead Black Redstart with a huge Tick embedded in its neck a couple of days ago, poor bird - a timely reminder to be careful out and about in the garden. I usually try to remember to leave any empty pots upside down outside as the lizards go inside but can't get out again but unfortunately I left one and it filled with water and hey ho a drowned lizard.
Heron watching sounds like a great distraction from feeling poorly @punkdoc. We have them here as well as greater egrets and cattle egrets - same shape on a smaller scale. A couple of days ago we had a pair of storks fossicking in a newly mown and baled hay meadow across the road. Great to see but somehow not as elegant as herons.
I had emu sausages as part of an Ozzie banquet before a talk by an astronomer in Uluru. There was also kangaroo steaks and crocodile "chops". The SM I used when we first moved to Belgium was on the southern edge of Waterloo within sight of that Lion mound and it stocked all of those plus ostrich and kudu. Lots of ex-pats and embassy shoppers.
Apart from an occasional Patak Indian and Thai curry paste I make all my spice mixes from scratch and no processed foods recently other than tinned beans, tuna, coconut milk so I don't think the knee is MSG related. I shall check the info on the packs of frozen Korean dumplings but we haven't had those in 2 or 3 weeks.
Hope you get your copper kettle berries @chicky. I'd been looking for one of those for over a decade for the Belgian garden but it probably wouldn't like it here. I have big plastic veg create from an SM in Belgium. They let me have them for 7€ each when I said I was moving and they'd be handy. Still going strong now.
Cooler here today and quite windy. I have seeds to sow. Rocket and basil and maybe some coriander tho I usually have problems with the latter.
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Very strong wind here too, although still warm, thundestorms warned for later. My poor babies, I do hope they'll be ok.
My gardener chap arrived with my 3 new obelixs, I am very impressed, he's done a great job, they're made from a design that @Obelixx shared with me, so thank you for that. Now to work out how to get them in around the roses safely (for me and the roses).
@Desi_in_London, I sowed three trays in total of Tithonia, the first two lots died, slowly and steadily, I was beginning to doubt myself - last lot are all doing fine, if fact I have ended up with 32 I only needed 4 maximum, they're enormous once they get going and stunning, but there's no way I can find homes for all 32! I think lack of light might have been the problem, although they are very fussy, warm but not hot, not too dry, not to wet - good job they are stunning, a lot of effort.
I hope you feel better soon @punkdoc, bird watching seems a perfect activity (or inactivity) for recuperation.
@Hostafan1, how many times have you been told about monitoring the oil situation.... btw, my hostas are doing marvellously, thank you.
Ok, back to the grindstone.
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Think I've finished doing my impersonation of a domestic goddess for the weekend - SM shop, 4 loads of laundry (dried and put away ) and chicken in red wine prepped and put in the slow cooker for tea.
Time to prick out some more tomato seedlings and squeeze in a run around the football on TV. I finally got some staples that fit into my seemingly obsolete staple gun. If it stays dry I might get to line another planter with compost bags later on.
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Stopped by our local farm shop/ restaurant yesterday, and picked up 10 of their surplus to requirements mushroom crates. Perfect for storing plant pots in, keeping all the same plants together and making for easy juggling 🤹🏽♀️ (now there’s an emoji I don’t often use 👏🏻). Did lots of potting yesterday, so there is much to juggle 🤹🏽♀️🤹🏽♀️🤹🏽♀️.
Also very excited to discover my Rowan tree (birthday present about 5 years ago) has got its first ever sprays of flowers ......so we might finally get some copper kettle berries later this year.
How lovely to watch a heron catching breakfast ... there was one on the roof opposite here yesterday ... they're my most favourite bird.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
We are also on amber alert for storms later @Busy-Lizzie so I am holding out planting anymore at the moment, my Zinnias are so tall and lanky in the GH - note to self not to start them off so early next year! Have had to pot on cucumbers, potimarrons and courgettes, I would normally be near to planting out now but weather looks chilly and showery this week. The tomatoes are still catching up!
I found a dead Black Redstart with a huge Tick embedded in its neck a couple of days ago, poor bird - a timely reminder to be careful out and about in the garden. I usually try to remember to leave any empty pots upside down outside as the lizards go inside but can't get out again but unfortunately I left one and it filled with water and hey ho a drowned lizard.
I had emu sausages as part of an Ozzie banquet before a talk by an astronomer in Uluru. There was also kangaroo steaks and crocodile "chops". The SM I used when we first moved to Belgium was on the southern edge of Waterloo within sight of that Lion mound and it stocked all of those plus ostrich and kudu. Lots of ex-pats and embassy shoppers.
Apart from an occasional Patak Indian and Thai curry paste I make all my spice mixes from scratch and no processed foods recently other than tinned beans, tuna, coconut milk so I don't think the knee is MSG related. I shall check the info on the packs of frozen Korean dumplings but we haven't had those in 2 or 3 weeks.
Hope you get your copper kettle berries @chicky. I'd been looking for one of those for over a decade for the Belgian garden but it probably wouldn't like it here. I have big plastic veg create from an SM in Belgium. They let me have them for 7€ each when I said I was moving and they'd be handy. Still going strong now.
Cooler here today and quite windy. I have seeds to sow. Rocket and basil and maybe some coriander tho I usually have problems with the latter.
My gardener chap arrived with my 3 new obelixs, I am very impressed, he's done a great job, they're made from a design that @Obelixx shared with me, so thank you for that.
@Desi_in_London, I sowed three trays in total of Tithonia, the first two lots died, slowly and steadily, I was beginning to doubt myself - last lot are all doing fine, if fact I have ended up with 32
I hope you feel better soon @punkdoc, bird watching seems a perfect activity (or inactivity) for recuperation.
@Hostafan1, how many times have you been told about monitoring the oil situation.... btw, my hostas are doing marvellously, thank you.
Ok, back to the grindstone.
Think I've finished doing my impersonation of a domestic goddess for the weekend - SM shop, 4 loads of laundry (dried and put away
Time to prick out some more tomato seedlings and squeeze in a run around the football on TV. I finally got some staples that fit into my seemingly obsolete staple gun. If it stays dry I might get to line another planter with compost bags later on.
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