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🌹HELLO FORKERS 🐝 🦋 🐜 June ‘22

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  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043
    @Lizzie27 they were greater celandines, the lesser celandines are long gone. The greater ones are gone too now, but my back aches so that's it for gardening today.

    We are catching up on yesterday's Jubilee celebrations on TV.
    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • raisingirlraisingirl Posts: 7,093
    I've spent the last 2 days in the garden, weeding. I love it. My veg beds have suffered from me being firstly too busy to do any gardening in the week and then building the greenhouse every weekend for the last month. I did a bit at Easter but haven't had a chance since. You can imagine, it was a jungle. All clear now, I have a load of self seeded parsnips and rocket, my beans are finally in the ground (they were getting a bit tangled in their root trainers), the garlic planted in the winter can finally see some sunlight having been shaded by vastly overgrown kale plants. The Easter spuds have all come up. I have some clear ground for when my courgettes and squash are hardened off (it's been so cold, I've only just taken them out) and my brassicas are potted on - they need to be a bit bigger to brave the world of munchers that is my garden.

    I find hand weeding hugely therapeutic - not too taxing on the mind but just enough so I have to focus and can't drift off to think about things that are stressing me. The sun's been shining but not too hot. The rain has arrived now, so not sure how much I'll get done tomorrow or Sunday, but I feel I've made some real progress at last  :)
    Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon

    “It's still magic even if you know how it's done.” 
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    @raisingirl, pop over here if you're missing it. 
    Devon.
  • AuntyRachAuntyRach Posts: 5,291


    Phone camera not doing a great job of showing you this fabulous double rainbow 🌈 
    My garden and I live in South Wales. 
  • raisingirlraisingirl Posts: 7,093
    That's a very sweet offer, @Hostafan1, but I've only done the veg beds - I still have all the rest of the garden to keep me happy 
    Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon

    “It's still magic even if you know how it's done.” 
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    edited June 2022
    I nodded off in my chair after the sumptious afternoon tea we had then awoke two hours later!  We're still not hungry so might just snack later. It rained whilst I was asleep.

    I've also got weeding to do but was waiting for some rain to loosen the soil (that's my excuse) so that may be tomorrow's job.

    Nice rainbow @AuntyRach
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    That's a very sweet offer, @Hostafan1, but I've only done the veg beds - I still have all the rest of the garden to keep me happy 
    Don't dismiss my kind offer out of hand. You'll be pining for some hand weeding before long.  <3
    Devon.
  • Allotment BoyAllotment Boy Posts: 6,774
    Hostafan1 said:
    That's a very sweet offer, @Hostafan1, but I've only done the veg beds - I still have all the rest of the garden to keep me happy 
    Don't dismiss my kind offer out of hand. You'll be pining for some hand weeding before long.  <3
    Can I  join the queue,  I  hate hand weeding.🤣
    AB Still learning

  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    Think of it as mindful meditation and let any worries drift away. I'm with Raisingirl here, I used to hate it and now quite enjoy it.
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    Hi all

    Very remiss of me, just realised I haven't said hello today.
    Nothing much happening here, continuing to plant out stuff.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
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