Had a good day in the garden yesterday .....made my first ever frame of twiggy pea sticks 🤣. And finally cut back my gaura and penstemon......lots of new growth sprouting.
We’re off to Bournemouth today to see Chicklet ...I will be wearing many layers for alfresco dining 🧶🧣🧢🥶
Hope your sign man keeps his boots off the plants @D0rdogne_Damsel 🥾 😱
Morning everyone, rain overnight here too, kept me awake for a while. One of our gutter joints is leaking, and the water is dripping on to the tiles of a little roof over the bay. It's making a deep drumming sound, even my OH can hear it as it's a deep sound. I need to get up there and sort it out but the gusty winds are stopping me at the moment. Zoom funeral for our ex work colleague later, this morning.
Morning all, well the storms did not materialize here apart from some rain in the night. Love the deer @steephill glad they are in your garden and not ours! We have had the odd flock of sheep wandering in and horses from down the road! I need to clean my oven first before I do anything else then to pot up some more plants and later we have a stair man coming to measure for making new stairs in our extension. I hope hubby isn't trying to wander outside at night @Hostafan1 it must be difficult for you.
The buck was in the garden again this morning, lovely to see but it does severely limit what we can grow. Tulips get devoured as do bluebells but daffodils, crocus and fritillaries are left alone. The fruit and veg cages give the garden a PoW camp vibe but are the only way to get any produce outside the greenhouse.
Got the various dwarf/runner/climbing beans started in the greenhouse yesterday and moved the courgettes, cucumber, tomatoes, aubergines, sweet peppers and gherkins in there too. I may have overdone it again
Good morning Forkers. It's a bit windy here still and we've had some rain in the night but not as much as @Busy-Lizzie and @D0rdogne_Damsel and no sound and light show.
I might just plant out the two cucumbers in the polytunnel and see if the squash and pumpkins and courgettes need potting on. Need it a bit warmer before I put those outside and we're not getting it this week by the looks of things.
There are roe deer hereabouts and wild boar and rabbits and hare but - so far - none get in the garden as it is all fenced off and the paddock, currently occupied by a rather large bull and two cows, has thick hedging and trees all round and a leccy wire along the side with our garden.
I grew sweet potatoes once here after one I'd bought sprouted. Ended up with 3 plants on 3 obelisks. First plant gave us enough for one good meal. The 2nd plant had all its roots eaten and tunnelled by slugs and the 3rd produced hardly any tubers. Took a lot of watering to keep happy so, even here, we buy them. Lovely roast in chunks, roast as chips, mashed and curried.
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)."
I was brave last night and left Dahlia 'Waltzing Mathilda' out in the little growhouse (like a three story cold frame) with the roof propped up aboujt 8". She survived unscathed. Not so the folk on the corner (with the smart new patio area) 's smart new patio furniture ... Im afraid I saw Mrs Folk on the Corner getting soaked through running back and forth across the garden to the garage in the rain at around 6am .... now I see lots of big outdoor cushiony thingummies balanced on the washing whirlygig and propped against the sunny wall. Oh dear ... looks like they weren't expecting yet more rain .......... ☔
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Must admit I do wonder about all these new-fangled sofa sets with cushions and where you're supposed to store all those cushions when it's going to rain. I can understand them on the Côte d'Azur or Costa del Sol but nut here and certainly not in the UK where gardens tend not to be big enough to accommodate an extra shed for modern patio furniture.
It is not getting any warmer here so I have been busy sanding down a rusty iron table frame before lunch. Post lunch coffee to drink and then polytunnel and cucumbers and so on.
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)."
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We’re off to Bournemouth today to see Chicklet ...I will be wearing many layers for alfresco dining 🧶🧣🧢🥶
Hope your sign man keeps his boots off the plants @D0rdogne_Damsel 🥾 😱
Zoom funeral for our ex work colleague later, this morning.
Have you tried hellebores, peonies, oriental poppies and echinops? All get ignored by our deer 🦌
I might just plant out the two cucumbers in the polytunnel and see if the squash and pumpkins and courgettes need potting on. Need it a bit warmer before I put those outside and we're not getting it this week by the looks of things.
There are roe deer hereabouts and wild boar and rabbits and hare but - so far - none get in the garden as it is all fenced off and the paddock, currently occupied by a rather large bull and two cows, has thick hedging and trees all round and a leccy wire along the side with our garden.
I grew sweet potatoes once here after one I'd bought sprouted. Ended up with 3 plants on 3 obelisks. First plant gave us enough for one good meal. The 2nd plant had all its roots eaten and tunnelled by slugs and the 3rd produced hardly any tubers. Took a lot of watering to keep happy so, even here, we buy them. Lovely roast in chunks, roast as chips, mashed and curried.
Not so the folk on the corner (with the smart new patio area) 's smart new patio furniture ... Im afraid I saw Mrs Folk on the Corner getting soaked through running back and forth across the garden to the garage in the rain at around 6am .... now I see lots of big outdoor cushiony thingummies balanced on the washing whirlygig and propped against the sunny wall. Oh dear ... looks like they weren't expecting yet more rain .......... ☔
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
It is not getting any warmer here so I have been busy sanding down a rusty iron table frame before lunch. Post lunch coffee to drink and then polytunnel and cucumbers and so on.