Yes, Bizzie B we have rain forecast for about 4o'clock today. The garden needs it badly. One of my FB friends was on GW last night and it was so lovely to see her and her husband and her garden and beautiful container plants. The whole family call me Auntie Marion as I have become so interested in them through the garden. Niki has so many good ideas that help aged people like me cope with all the jobs just as well as when they were much younger. I do hope her appearance on Gardeners world has inspired a lot more people to give gardening a go and carers to help.
I watched GW with interest Marion and found Nikki's ideas helpful. Now looking at lighter weight tools, particularly spades and forks - longer handled tools would also be a great help. Certainly got me thinking. What a stunning display of plants she has.
Planning narrow beds for the allotment and deeper sided boards to contain the soil. Having already planted in the ground I think beds will be good for root vegetables.
Clouding over, windy and cooler. A last check around the garden before the rain
No rain as yet in Bristol but it did get windy and knocked a quite big pot with a huge hydrangea in it over. Feels fresher. Everything is very lush so expecting great crops. The plum branches are weighed down with the amount of fruit on them. My godetia seeds i had to sow late for Mr. F.'s trials need potting up so must go for some more compost tomorrow. My conservatory is going to be like summer all winter long this year.
We had a drizzle of rain through the night and it is spotting now and very dull. But it does seem less languid. I must have a look for wild raspberries in my spinney. i can usually find a serving or two. There are only a few strawberries left and i have made my blackcurrants into squash. We are forecast to have really hot weather from Thursday onwards so must get all the heavy work done before then.
Marion I was on the bus going through the village on Thursday and there was a lady who looked like your profile pic without the hat sat on the bench outside the supermarket. It made me think of you
My garden looks so much happier without all the mad veg! I've got some beautiful giant fuchsias in flower at the moment. Not doing so much flower wise in the garden this year, but next year I will be
No time to sit on the bench in Crow Lane, Fruitcake! I pop along their for my shopping on a Sunday morning when it is quiet and do all my sitting down in my garden, either on the kitchen patio or the patio outside the potting shed or in the shade of the bamboo and fernery garden or in the potager or butterfly garden which all have table and chairs. Your fuchsias sound nice. It will soon be the Gardening for Bristol competition for Bristol in Bloom.
It was westbury village... Even I wouldn't hang around on crow lane for longer than I have to!
You can tell B in B is coming up- the council are going mad making sure everything is well watered, including the hanging baskets! They have 2 blokes who go around in a van to water them. It's nice to see though but I'd like to see some colour in the winter too because Bristol can be pretty dingy then
Good evening everyone, hope your all well?, just been catching up on Beechgrove, I find it very interesting and teaches you a lot if your a beginner , yesterday I cut my lawn, deadheaded flowers then got my book out, sat and relaxed in the sun with a glass of cold Purdy mmmmm, Marion you sound like you've got a busy week while it's cooler, getting closer to Bristol Bloom, are you looking forward to it?. My cherry tomatoes are growing fast, no flowers as yet, watering them every day and opening the doors every day, my curly Kale is now 4in tall, can't wait to see them fully grown and start eating them, but have a feeling that will be a while yet, just watching Titanic, ha I cry each time I watch the end , i'm a big softy at heart
A long and busy day: checked on the allotment and watered the vegetables (thank goodness the water is supplied as part of the plot rent) looking good. A shower of rain hardly wet the ground so watered the drier parts of the garden. Finally cut back the hardy geraniums, divided the roots and potted on. Same for a cornflower which was in the ' wrong' place. The lady's mantle had grown in the cracks of the pavings so those were winkled out and potted up.
Relaxed and read GW magazine, found the article on pruning very useful, took a few photographs
Enjoyed gardening today got a lot done uninterrupted!
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Yes, Bizzie B we have rain forecast for about 4o'clock today. The garden needs it badly. One of my FB friends was on GW last night and it was so lovely to see her and her husband and her garden and beautiful container plants. The whole family call me Auntie Marion as I have become so interested in them through the garden. Niki has so many good ideas that help aged people like me cope with all the jobs just as well as when they were much younger. I do hope her appearance on Gardeners world has inspired a lot more people to give gardening a go and carers to help.
I watched GW with interest Marion and found Nikki's ideas helpful. Now looking at lighter weight tools, particularly spades and forks - longer handled tools would also be a great help. Certainly got me thinking. What a stunning display of plants she has.
Planning narrow beds for the allotment and deeper sided boards to contain the soil. Having already planted in the ground I think beds will be good for root vegetables.
Clouding over, windy and cooler. A last check around the garden before the rain
No rain as yet in Bristol but it did get windy and knocked a quite big pot with a huge hydrangea in it over. Feels fresher. Everything is very lush so expecting great crops. The plum branches are weighed down with the amount of fruit on them. My godetia seeds i had to sow late for Mr. F.'s trials need potting up so must go for some more compost tomorrow. My conservatory is going to be like summer all winter long this year.
No rain here either, well, a few spots on the wind, cooler with thunder in the distance. Someone must be getting a drenching.
Harvested the last of the raspberries, delicious. Just have a few canes in two of the borders, hides them from the blackbirds!
We had a drizzle of rain through the night and it is spotting now and very dull. But it does seem less languid. I must have a look for wild raspberries in my spinney. i can usually find a serving or two. There are only a few strawberries left and i have made my blackcurrants into squash. We are forecast to have really hot weather from Thursday onwards so must get all the heavy work done before then.
My garden looks so much happier without all the mad veg! I've got some beautiful giant fuchsias in flower at the moment. Not doing so much flower wise in the garden this year, but next year I will be
No time to sit on the bench in Crow Lane, Fruitcake! I pop along their for my shopping on a Sunday morning when it is quiet and do all my sitting down in my garden, either on the kitchen patio or the patio outside the potting shed or in the shade of the bamboo and fernery garden or in the potager or butterfly garden which all have table and chairs. Your fuchsias sound nice. It will soon be the Gardening for Bristol competition for Bristol in Bloom.
You can tell B in B is coming up- the council are going mad making sure everything is well watered, including the hanging baskets! They have 2 blokes who go around in a van to water them. It's nice to see though but I'd like to see some colour in the winter too because Bristol can be pretty dingy then
Good evening everyone, hope your all well?, just been catching up on Beechgrove, I find it very interesting and teaches you a lot if your a beginner
, yesterday I cut my lawn, deadheaded flowers then got my book out, sat and relaxed in the sun with a glass of cold Purdy mmmmm, Marion you sound like you've got a busy week while it's cooler, getting closer to Bristol Bloom, are you looking forward to it?. My cherry tomatoes are growing fast, no flowers as yet, watering them every day and opening the doors every day, my curly Kale is now 4in tall, can't wait to see them fully grown and start eating them, but have a feeling that will be a while yet, just watching Titanic, ha I cry each time I watch the end 
, i'm a big softy at heart 
A long and busy day: checked on the allotment and watered the vegetables (thank goodness the water is supplied as part of the plot rent) looking good. A shower of rain hardly wet the ground so watered the drier parts of the garden. Finally cut back the hardy geraniums, divided the roots and potted on. Same for a cornflower which was in the ' wrong' place. The lady's mantle had grown in the cracks of the pavings so those were winkled out and potted up.
Relaxed and read GW magazine, found the article on pruning very useful, took a few photographs
Enjoyed gardening today
got a lot done uninterrupted!