Afternoon all, been doing a spot of indoor gardening. Potted up some rooted cuttings of our old Swiss cheese plant. It had grown too big so I chopped it right down and made a couple of leaf node cuttings from the trimmings for insurance. I left the cuttings in a vase of water for 3 months and now they both have good root systems. So now I have 3 Swiss cheese plants to get out of control instead of just one. Channeling my inner Baldrick!
Managed a total of 8 hours in the garden over the weekend which has hardly dented the amount that needs doing. I will be heading back out there after lunch to shred some big piles of prunings and storm detritus.
Funny, all this talk of cupboards - I have spent the morning clearing out the food cupboards. Been wanting to do this for ages, but just never had the inclination to actually start! Well, now I have. I have enough lentils of every variety to last a lifetime, rice to feed an army, yeast to raise many loaves and stock cubes to flavour casseroles for a year! A trip to the tip will be required for quite a lot of stuff. I wonder if chickens like quinoa?
Hello all, it's a very warm sunny day, been out pruning roses, my joints are now screaming at me to stop, even had to retreat to the shade at one point. I'm trying to tell myself it doesn't all have to be done in a day!
Hi folks, Miserable day here, the weather not me. I'm feeling a bit better lately, perhaps it's because the days are getting a bit longer. I have been an organised person all my life, had to be, both at work and at home. Since retiring I'm gradually learning that I don't need to do everything on time. I've started to do things when I feel like it instead of working to a time table. Have just contacted the carpenter that put a handrail on the cellar stairs to give him the go ahead to put a door between the kitchen and the conservatory. We don't heat it in the winter and the kitchen gets quite cold, so hopefully it will keep it warmer now. Heavy rain forecast for the rest of the day so no gardening for me.
Good offer in our farm shop this morning, get a pancake kit free when you spend £15.00, anyone who shops in farm shops knows it doesn’t take much to spend £15.00. I spent £30. The meat is so nice and not much more expensive than SM. It’s all born, reared and packed on their own farm. They also sell those giant marshmallows so got a couple of packs of those.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
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Well, now I have.
I have enough lentils of every variety to last a lifetime, rice to feed an army, yeast to raise many loaves and stock cubes to flavour casseroles for a year!
A trip to the tip will be required for quite a lot of stuff.
I wonder if chickens like quinoa?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I have been an organised person all my life, had to be, both at work and at home. Since retiring I'm gradually learning that I don't need to do everything on time. I've started to do things when I feel like it instead of working to a time table.
Have just contacted the carpenter that put a handrail on the cellar stairs to give him the go ahead to put a door between the kitchen and the conservatory. We don't heat it in the winter and the kitchen gets quite cold, so hopefully it will keep it warmer now.
Heavy rain forecast for the rest of the day so no gardening for me.
Came in to have some lunch and managed to slice my thumb with the bread knife. GGRRRR