Morning everyone, glad you're back ok @Obelixx, despite your troubles with Zafira. Dry start here, not sure if it will stay dry all day, will have to take it as it comes.
Cool and dry here, so just stopping by briefly on my way out to have another go at the overgrown part of the garden I've been slowly working my way through this week of my holiday. Hopefully I'll finish that bit today. If the forecast is right it'll get a good soaking tomorrow and then I can possibly get a thick mulch down and start planting it up with a load of plants I've accumulated from cuttings, neighbours' overspill etc.
Dogs have already had their walk this morning. When NewDog went out first thing there was a sudden mad barking. I was concerned he'd be waking the neighbours but having caught up to him, the cause of the noise was the neighbour's cat (which at that point was up an apple tree) so I don't feel so guilty. (no cats were harmed in the making of this post - although it did look a bit cross).
Hope you're all doing OK, recovering from holidays and road trips. Catch you later
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Well, there's pizza dough and bread dough proving ... plants have been checked, those in need of a drink have received one and slugs residing in the cucumber pots have been evicted and terminated. I don't usually squidge them, but I was annoyed ... four cucumber plants in four pots, each pot with a big fat slug sitting there looking smug ... they've been placed where the hedgehogs will find them.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Hope everyone who needed a rest is now rested! Forecast rain for yesterday didn't arrive so lots of clearing/tidying up done in the garden. Saw a couple of big fat leopard slugs in the compost bin which I was happy about. Sunny this morning too - another bonus, so can sweep the path and generally try and look a bit more respectable for garden visitors tomorrow. I do hope that having unexpected sun today doesn't mean rain tomorrow... There are a team of people who have worked very hard on the garden opens day - they even created a lovely map!
Will someone please remind me that next time I do some seed sowing etc on the table on the terrace, to raise my potting tray (gift from @WonkyWomble) up on something ... I've sown some Chinese cabbage, 'cut and come again' oriental stir fry greens, some Red Mezuna and two pots of the lettuce-leaved basil that's doing so well for me this year ... but now my back hurts
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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Must get on with sowing the Pak choi etc ... they're going in modules to be planted out when the Charlotte potatoes are up ...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Dogs have already had their walk this morning. When NewDog went out first thing there was a sudden mad barking. I was concerned he'd be waking the neighbours but having caught up to him, the cause of the noise was the neighbour's cat (which at that point was up an apple tree) so I don't feel so guilty. (no cats were harmed in the making of this post - although it did look a bit cross).
Hope you're all doing OK, recovering from holidays and road trips. Catch you later
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Lovely day here and the forecast is set fair for at least the next week. I hope it's wrong!
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Oh how I wish I wasn't quarantining! We'd be off to look at the gardens on @didyw's map. Google Maps says it's 36 minutes away.