I like Cavolo Nero, Dove. I only grew it one summer. It was a big success. Might make an effort next season.
We are in the same situation Tui. There is another outbreak of the virus in NSW (Sydney mostly), so there are closed borders all over the place. 🙄. Very irritating for everyone but you just have to fit in with the rules.
We have rain. It was not predicted. It's also very cool so jeans, long-sleeved t-shirt and slippers weather. Should dry up later tho which will please the chooks.
I made some courgette and cheese soda bread yesterday @Dovefromabove to have with soup for lunch. Very tasty but a bit heavy so I probably should have cooked it a bit longer but it'll be fine toasted.
Sewing for me this morning then and maybe some weeding this pm. My sweet peas are in a huge pot on the back terrace @Pat E and get fed and watered and we can pick a wee bunch every day but even so their stems are now much shorter than the early flowers and the foliage below is going straw coloured. I may give up on sweet peas here.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
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Misty and grey here, but heading out to the garden anyway - probably my last opportunity for a week.
Going out this afternoon to a local dementia day care centre, who are wanting to set up a drop in “club” with some gardening activities on offer. Sounds like it could be good.
Hope your back improves @punkdoc. And that your knee is starting to settle @Obelixx.
Sounds tasty @Obelixx ... hope the knee eases soon. Hugs for @punkdoc and Moira ... difficult times.
Now we have wall to wall blue sky and sunshine ... I'd better finish the watering before I start the bread ... a gardener's work is never done ...............
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
The rain of yesterday has abated. All is damp but it is forecast to be an increasingly warm and sunny week ahead.
Had some overnight car trouble so the offender is now at the garage awaiting resuscitation. I hope I can manage today's running around a field duties without dropping off I think an afternoon nap will be in order for this old man!
Time to get out the big guns and get the old petrol strimmer ready for action. Extracted tick no.23 last night so the long growth needs to go, at least enough to give me safe passage. I need to be very careful using that beast though as we have a lot of slow worms in the garden, mainly lounging around in the compost bins but also under every rock and throughout the long grass.
Potted up some peppers which were poking their roots out of the bottom of what should have been their forever home, now in airpots on the greenhouse floor alongside tomatoes and aubergines in similar pots. The squashes were big enough to go out to the veg plot so I am hoping for an Indian summer to ripen any fruit.
Deer have chomped the agapanthus, first time that has happened. I guess it was a muntjac as they eat things which the roe ignore.
Thats interesting @steephill …..agapanthus were on my deer proof list til about 3 years ago - which is around the time we saw our first muntjac. Hostas were fine til that point too - then they started getting munched. Agapanthus are now safely caged, and Hostas are surviving so far this year (touch wood) …..but haven’t seen muntjac recently either.
I'm here @Dovefromabove. I've been helping with the vicarage garden again this morning. I finished the bed I was doing. One of the church wardens had finished the patio I couldn't quite finish the other day. The whole place had been 2ft high in grass which had gone into the flower beds. You could hardly see plants for weeds, or the paving in the patio. Here is what I did.
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thats reminded me … I need to make some bread … your toast will mean we’ve no bread left!
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I made some courgette and cheese soda bread yesterday @Dovefromabove to have with soup for lunch. Very tasty but a bit heavy so I probably should have cooked it a bit longer but it'll be fine toasted.
Sewing for me this morning then and maybe some weeding this pm. My sweet peas are in a huge pot on the back terrace @Pat E and get fed and watered and we can pick a wee bunch every day but even so their stems are now much shorter than the early flowers and the foliage below is going straw coloured. I may give up on sweet peas here.
Going out this afternoon to a local dementia day care centre, who are wanting to set up a drop in “club” with some gardening activities on offer. Sounds like it could be good.
Hope your back improves @punkdoc. And that your knee is starting to settle @Obelixx.
Hugs for @punkdoc and Moira ... difficult times.
Now we have wall to wall blue sky and sunshine ... I'd better finish the watering before I start the bread ... a gardener's work is never done ...............
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
The rain of yesterday has abated. All is damp but it is forecast to be an increasingly warm and sunny week ahead.
Had some overnight car trouble so the offender is now at the garage awaiting resuscitation. I hope I can manage today's running around a field duties without dropping off
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I'm here @Dovefromabove. I've been helping with the vicarage garden again this morning. I finished the bed I was doing. One of the church wardens had finished the patio I couldn't quite finish the other day. The whole place had been 2ft high in grass which had gone into the flower beds. You could hardly see plants for weeds, or the paving in the patio. Here is what I did.