Very achy after last two busy days. My oldish bones can't cope with physical effort as well as they used to.
An easy day today, planning for perfection. Do you think a gardener is ever happy with what they have created? Do we ever think our gardens are "done". I hope not.
How can you lie there and think of England When you don't even know who's in the team
Well it was lovely earlier on but now overcast and 8c. Fairy I've taken the dog out, done 2 loads of washing, made chilli and curry for the freezer and about to clean the windows - after my next coffee that is. Hope I can get out to play later.
I know its nearly afternoon accidental lay in and first in years and years!
When Hubby's alarm went on snooze for the city time I think my brain turned my ears off!
Poor sprogs with stressful exams! Good luck!!! I feel for you! Actually used to make me ill! Chose all my degree subjects according to whether they had exam at the end and that was in my mid thirties! Still don't have a driving licence due to fear of exam stress! Yes there should be a better method to find out if we know something by now! Lord knows they know our inside leg measurement and what we had for breakfast by spying on us, can't they use their data collection in a useful way? Hand out driving licences and degrees and exams to random folk they've been watching? anyway good luck all!!!!
Thanks FG, gonna take a nose round the neighbourhood today and have a peek in their gardens! That sounds like good advice! I'm doing nothing until I have gathered the facts! very miss Marple!
Well I ventured into the garden after a couple of hours homework, it started raining, the soft kind that doesn't wet the soil but only the path and idiot humans who are willing to get wet for the sake of a to-do list.
So, I've finished clipping my box balls, hopefully it's the correct method to remove from the top to promote growth from the sides. There are so many YouTube videos about clipping but scant info on how to turn a blob into a ball
After that I finally planted my gorgeous red clematis Rebecca. She's so divine I have to have her near a path lest she become average. Perish the thought!
Then I thought about getting my choisya into the ground so started carefully digging a hole between my potted iris and my row of alliums where my clematis Dr.Ruppel used to be and what do you suppose I found?
I can't believe a clump of stems were buried so deep and trying to shoot! It took me ages to dig it out it was so deep and in the end I had to get a crowbar in the hole to lever the thick clump of stems out. It's potted up in intensive care now, and I'm indoors just because my garden coat was soaking by then
Looks like rain all day here, tickling the dry soil
Sounds like an extensive excavation Winter! Well done tho, grit and determination of gardeners is a force to be reckoned with!
gloomy here so haven't got past holding a steaming coffee by the kitchen window and as Alan Titchmarsh calls it, planning! can I get away with that one?
Hubby about to show up for cheese on toast lunch break then I'm really really going in the garden! Even tho it looks cold! Brrrrrrrr!
All my sweet corn, runner and french beans are up in the conservatory.
Courgettes are coming up in the greenhouse. I've potted on some salvia cuttings from last year. Good job I took them. All the originals which were supposed to be hardy have died, except for Hot lips, which is alive but struggling. The good bit is that I now have 4 Amistad to go in, a spare hot lips and some African skies.
I've posted out the wedding invitations. Whats the betting I still have to ring around at the end of August because my lot havn't replied.
I polished up the first two copper jugs for the flowers. One leaks but I'll put a freezer bag inside before I put the water in.
Have given up my planning session in the garden and retreated to the greenhouse for a while. Glad to see most of my Dahlias are growing quite strongly in their pots. It will be a marathon session to get them all in the ground.
How can you lie there and think of England When you don't even know who's in the team
Afternoon all! Dull here but dry, so having spent the morning doing chores I'll reward myself with a bit of potting on this afternoon (in the shed if it's too cold!). Dug a lot of dandelions out of the lawn yesterday, so it looks a bit better.
See you in a bit...
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
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Good morning, a beautiful day here but glad I covered plants with fleece last night and I think tonight is to be cold too
Good luck to all those going through the trauma of exams.
have a good day and don't overdo!
A A Milne
Morning all.
Cold and grey here, but no frost.
Very achy after last two busy days. My oldish bones can't cope with physical effort as well as they used to.
An easy day today, planning for perfection. Do you think a gardener is ever happy with what they have created? Do we ever think our gardens are "done". I hope not.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
Well it was lovely earlier on but now overcast and 8c. Fairy I've taken the dog out, done 2 loads of washing, made chilli and curry for the freezer and about to clean the windows - after my next coffee that is
. Hope I can get out to play later
.
Right, heading south to visit Ma - have a good day folks
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Morning all
I know its nearly afternoon
accidental lay in and first in years and years!
When Hubby's alarm went on snooze for the city time I think my brain turned my ears off!
Poor sprogs with stressful exams! Good luck!!! I feel for you! Actually used to make me ill! Chose all my degree subjects according to whether they had exam at the end and that was in my mid thirties! Still don't have a driving licence due to fear of exam stress! Yes there should be a better method to find out if we know something by now! Lord knows they know our inside leg measurement and what we had for breakfast by spying on us, can't they use their data collection in a useful way? Hand out driving licences and degrees and exams to random folk they've been watching?
anyway good luck all!!!!
Thanks FG, gonna take a nose round the neighbourhood today and have a peek in their gardens! That sounds like good advice! I'm doing nothing until I have gathered the facts!
very miss Marple!
Hope work goes swiftly and uneventfully!
Second coffee time
Well I ventured into the garden after a couple of hours homework, it started raining, the soft kind that doesn't wet the soil but only the path and idiot humans who are willing to get wet for the sake of a to-do list.
So, I've finished clipping my box balls, hopefully it's the correct method to remove from the top to promote growth from the sides. There are so many YouTube videos about clipping but scant info on how to turn a blob into a ball
After that I finally planted my gorgeous red clematis Rebecca. She's so divine I have to have her near a path lest she become average. Perish the thought!
Then I thought about getting my choisya into the ground so started carefully digging a hole between my potted iris and my row of alliums where my clematis Dr.Ruppel used to be and what do you suppose I found?
I can't believe a clump of stems were buried so deep and trying to shoot! It took me ages to dig it out it was so deep and in the end I had to get a crowbar in the hole to lever the thick clump of stems out. It's potted up in intensive care now, and I'm indoors just because my garden coat was soaking by then
Looks like rain all day here, tickling the dry soil
Sounds like an extensive excavation Winter! Well done tho, grit and determination of gardeners is a force to be reckoned with!
gloomy here so haven't got past holding a steaming coffee by the kitchen window and as Alan Titchmarsh calls it, planning!
can I get away with that one?
Hubby about to show up for cheese on toast lunch break then I'm really really going in the garden! Even tho it looks cold! Brrrrrrrr!
Dull cloudy and cold here.
All my sweet corn, runner and french beans are up in the conservatory.
Courgettes are coming up in the greenhouse. I've potted on some salvia cuttings from last year. Good job I took them. All the originals which were supposed to be hardy have died, except for Hot lips, which is alive but struggling. The good bit is that I now have 4 Amistad to go in, a spare hot lips and some African skies.
I've posted out the wedding invitations. Whats the betting I still have to ring around at the end of August because my lot havn't replied.
I polished up the first two copper jugs for the flowers. One leaks but I'll put a freezer bag inside before I put the water in.
Cold here to fidget.
Have given up my planning session in the garden and retreated to the greenhouse for a while. Glad to see most of my Dahlias are growing quite strongly in their pots. It will be a marathon session to get them all in the ground.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
Afternoon all! Dull here but dry, so having spent the morning doing chores I'll reward myself with a bit of potting on this afternoon (in the shed if it's too cold!). Dug a lot of dandelions out of the lawn yesterday, so it looks a bit better.
See you in a bit...