Hello again, sorry my first post was a bit brief but I was getting ready to go to war 🤺- biological war of course, it's that time again. I have treated all the pots, and beds with the vulnerable plants for vine weevil. 10× 10l cans later, it was another dull morning so ideal. Doing it again tomorrow for ants, this won't kill the ants but apparently they won't tolerate the nematodes in their nests so move elsewhere. They can live in the borders, just not in my Lemon tree pots and all over the lawn.
A visit to the GC a mile down the road produced a bag of manure and another of soil conditioner, N. Tete a tete, Actea and Kedron, a load of mixed species crocus and Gregii tulip ‘Calypso’ , and a hebe … can’t remember it’s name … I’ll get back to you on that.
Two barrows of mainly creeping buttercup have been removed from an area 1.5 x1.5m.
Struggling penstemon, primulas and ajuga rescued and dunked in a tub of water while we have lunch.
Dead branches removed from a peach tree.
A bag of farmyard manure dug in.
Now it’s time for a sandwich …
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
@D0rdogne_Damsel - you will have earned your skiing holiday - sounds lovely. And what a lovely son you have raised! @WonkyWomble - when you first said drunk Russians I thought you meant you had drunk lots of some kind of Russian drink (black Russian - isn't that something in a cocktail glass involving Tia Maria?). But then I read on... Sounds like a firm word from you gets them to behave. You have really got stuck in there @Dovefromabove! We had the Garden Street Market yesterday - it all went really well - lots of lovely stallholders who all sold well, lots and lots of visitors, good music at the Butter Cross in the centre of town and our first aid people had NO customers, which is good. Everyone in excellent spirits and a lovely sunshiny day! I slept like a log last night. Oh - and I bought a rose, a lovely red one to go in a pot. The rose people travelled 2 hours from Wisbech to get to us, their first time with us. They did well so hopefully they will attend next time too. Just a few pics taken before it got too crowded using my really not very good camera phone. Next time I will take my proper camera. Edited to add: @Hostafan1 - we had Mickfield Hostas with us for the first time. They sadly didn't do as well as say, Southwold Succulents - so no big hosta fans around our way. Succulents are very fashionable at the moment - my granddaughter bought 5 little ones to add to her collection. But the hosta people will come along again to the spring one and I hope they do better then.
That looks fabulous @didyw …hope you’ve raised lots of dosh 😀 it’s a shame we missed it but as we had to get away it was a good thing to travel yesterday … it’s given us much more time to get things done today.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Shame about the grandkids @Yviestevie. Hope they're better now.
Glad the fair went well @didyw. Hoping all will be well for ours next April as it's been cancelled 2 years running now. I'd buy hostas but not succulents tho, given the climate here, maybe I need to change.
Patchwork AGM was a success. We have 10 new members!! One is a former patchwork teacher from Paris. Another is from another club and has been at it for years but wants a more relaxed atmosphere now. Some are beginners. They all like the look of the projects we have lined up. Should be a good year then.
28C and muggy and we've had a few drops of wet stuff. So few we could probably count them but big 'uns. No more forecast for a week now. Humph!
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)."
Forgot to mention how much I admired your patchwork @Obelixx. You would love it here in Bungay - we have a fabric shop called Sew & So's which is a Mecca for patchworkers. They have loads and loads and loads of fat quarters and fabrics of all sorts just for patchwork (and patterns etc) and they hold regular classes and sometimes stage exhibitions. I used to have a little craft shop just next door and the ladies would flock from miles around just to visit. Some even planned their holidays near here just so they could visit the shop. And just down the road is a lovely old building used for conferences - and sewing retreats! My shop would also benefit from the sewing ladies - and sometimes their husbands but mostly the men would browse in the secondhand bookshop a couple of doors down.
The Garden Street Market looked very good @Didyw. thanks for the photos.
We've just had a very good quote from a gardening firm cutting the hedges opposite. We need our privet hedge top cutting - I couldn't quite reach it all earlier and OH can no longer manage it (or doesn't want to!). They will also trim the big native hedge on the roadside as we missed the farmer with his tractor back in January. Will have to wait until the middle of October as they are booked solid but that's ok with us.
We've picked all the apples and the pears. I say all but there were only a dozen pears this year, quite a miserable harvest. Most of the apples have been got at but I'm going to cook the worst ones down and make individual apple pies for our forthcoming family 'do' in early October. That's my contribution to the feast sorted!
I also carefully sprayed with a Bug Gun when the wind dropped my lovely variegated 2m high box bush in the hope I can save it at least for the time being.
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Now it’s time for a sandwich …
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
@WonkyWomble - when you first said drunk Russians I thought you meant you had drunk lots of some kind of Russian drink (black Russian - isn't that something in a cocktail glass involving Tia Maria?). But then I read on... Sounds like a firm word from you gets them to behave.
You have really got stuck in there @Dovefromabove!
We had the Garden Street Market yesterday - it all went really well - lots of lovely stallholders who all sold well, lots and lots of visitors, good music at the Butter Cross in the centre of town and our first aid people had NO customers, which is good. Everyone in excellent spirits and a lovely sunshiny day! I slept like a log last night. Oh - and I bought a rose, a lovely red one to go in a pot. The rose people travelled 2 hours from Wisbech to get to us, their first time with us. They did well so hopefully they will attend next time too.
Just a few pics taken before it got too crowded using my really not very good camera phone. Next time I will take my proper camera.
Edited to add: @Hostafan1 - we had Mickfield Hostas with us for the first time. They sadly didn't do as well as say, Southwold Succulents - so no big hosta fans around our way. Succulents are very fashionable at the moment - my granddaughter bought 5 little ones to add to her collection. But the hosta people will come along again to the spring one and I hope they do better then.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Glad the fair went well @didyw. Hoping all will be well for ours next April as it's been cancelled 2 years running now. I'd buy hostas but not succulents tho, given the climate here, maybe I need to change.
Patchwork AGM was a success. We have 10 new members!! One is a former patchwork teacher from Paris. Another is from another club and has been at it for years but wants a more relaxed atmosphere now. Some are beginners. They all like the look of the projects we have lined up. Should be a good year then.
28C and muggy and we've had a few drops of wet stuff. So few we could probably count them but big 'uns. No more forecast for a week now. Humph!
I saw the end of the match on YouTube and an interview with Emma, what a lovely young woman she is.
The digger man has been to look at the area in front of the garage that the concrete lorry messed up, he'll send an estimate.
We may have a storm soon, the sky has gone quite dark.
We've just had a very good quote from a gardening firm cutting the hedges opposite. We need our privet hedge top cutting - I couldn't quite reach it all earlier and OH can no longer manage it (or doesn't want to!). They will also trim the big native hedge on the roadside as we missed the farmer with his tractor back in January. Will have to wait until the middle of October as they are booked solid but that's ok with us.
We've picked all the apples and the pears. I say all but there were only a dozen pears this year, quite a miserable harvest. Most of the apples have been got at but I'm going to cook the worst ones down and make individual apple pies for our forthcoming family 'do' in early October. That's my contribution to the feast sorted!
I also carefully sprayed with a Bug Gun when the wind dropped my lovely variegated 2m high box bush in the hope I can save it at least for the time being.