Afternoon . A heavy shower has just brought me inside. In the middle of organising my  veg area. I usually just do a selection of veg in pots but this year I have expanded the area and added a sweet pea ‘fence’ and some cane ‘wigwams’ so there will be some height and a potager feel.Â
I saw a Heron today too! It flew over the garden and I wondered if it would land to investigate the pond but I probably scared it away by knocking on the window to alert OH of the spectacle.
Love the tulips @chicky - I really should plant some this year. Has anyone done a bulb lasagne? Seem to be on the all the gardening progs.Â
Bulb lasagnas don't work for me @AuntyRach. By the time the last flowers appear the foliage from all the earlier layers just looks horrendous and the timings can be off script too so I took to doing groups of the same bulbs in their own pots and shuffling pots about as they came into bloom or went over.
Love @chicky's tulips but even then I'd end up with them not following their scrip on heights and times and even colours. Bah!
I have re-potted my ficus elastica into his forever home after discovering he'd got a whole nest of roots in his drainage channel in the fancy pot on wheels.  He's outside on the terrace now for his summer hols with Benjamina.  Wasn't expecting today's winds but they're form the south west so no bovver on the terrace and it's warm enough, just draughty.
The chooks are all hiding in the open compost bins behind the polytunnel. Nice and warm in there plenty to peck at. The perishers turned up their beaks at oats. I though they'd love 'em.
I've done very little all day. Chatted to people after church. Watched LoD and GW. Chatted to a friend on the phone. Tied up the tomatoes. Storm hasn't happened yet, been a little rain and a lot of wind.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
I've been quite busy in the garden today as we had sunshine and warmth, although it clouded over after lunch. Planted a Parahebe I rescued from the front garden as it was too hemmed in, dug up a large Penstemon 'Garnet' and split it and generally pottered. After lunch, I sowed runner beans, dwarf French beans and peas in loo rolls stashed inside those very handy wash tabs plastic boxes, which are now sitting near a radiator on the dining room table. Just relaxing now with a glass of pink Pinot waiting for the roast to cook and Formula 1 to start. Hamilton is making history with 100 pole positions, the only driver to do so.
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I saw a Heron today too! It flew over the garden and I wondered if it would land to investigate the pond but I probably scared it away by knocking on the window to alert OH of the spectacle.
Love the tulips @chicky - I really should plant some this year. Has anyone done a bulb lasagne? Seem to be on the all the gardening progs.Â
Love @chicky's tulips but even then I'd end up with them not following their scrip on heights and times and even colours. Bah!
I have re-potted my ficus elastica into his forever home after discovering he'd got a whole nest of roots in his drainage channel in the fancy pot on wheels.  He's outside on the terrace now for his summer hols with Benjamina.  Wasn't expecting today's winds but they're form the south west so no bovver on the terrace and it's warm enough, just draughty.
The chooks are all hiding in the open compost bins behind the polytunnel. Nice and warm in there plenty to peck at. The perishers turned up their beaks at oats. I though they'd love 'em.
I've done very little all day. Chatted to people after church. Watched LoD and GW. Chatted to a friend on the phone. Tied up the tomatoes.Â
Storm hasn't happened yet, been a little rain and a lot of wind.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Just relaxing now with a glass of pink Pinot waiting for the roast to cook and Formula 1 to start. Hamilton is making history with 100 pole positions, the only driver to do so.
Asparagus will definitely be in the perennial veg area I'm planning for the front garden.
In the meantime, I'll make do with harvesting a couple of cabbage leaves to add to my fortnightly sweet potato curries.
There is some lovely food being created today folks. Just roast chicken in sandwiches here, but I crumbled on some black pudding - really good 😋.
Hair washed and toe nails painted and settling down for TV now. Enjoy the evening everyone.Â