Cooking huge family lunch- leg of lamb with provencal stuffing, creamed cannellni beans, purple sprouting broccoli, carrots, spring greens and roast spuds. Pudding lemon syrup tart with rhubarb sauce. Trouble is, I think I'll be too knackered to eat it!
Finished roses - phew - shows how out of condition I am as well.
Pink wheelbarrow came into its own as I could put all i needed on it and trundle around, instead of having to make loads of seperate trips .
26 roses - even I'm impressed.- just need to make sure they flower now
Went to Morrisons this morning and they have several varieties of magnolia for £6, bought a stellata, the one I have is very sad, threw it away once, saw a bud so rescued i tbut think i should have thrown it. I will leave it in and plant new one alongside it
Digging, sieving and a 'helpful' 4 year old do not mix!!
Figrat! That sounds absolutely yummy!!! I'm not doing Sunday lunch today. Forgot to buy potatoes. We will have pork steaks, chips (frozen) and beans!! A Royle Family dinner!
Planted a gooseberry that has been in pot since it arrived at Christmas. Also investigated a hydrangea that i bought last year for white border only to find the white flowers turn pink as they mature So sort of ignored it. any way did that test on stem and it showed green so have plonked it in by neighbours shrubby fence. It's an area I plonk things in if not sure about them, if it survives it will also be its home. a sort of wild area, it will never b cleared but has very attractive ivy honeysuckle clematis and bulbs so may perk it up with hellebores next year. I am purposely leaving it without a plan
Backs sore now, but not quite finished, mug of tea time
Oh no. Have decided that my garden looks like a before Everyone has such beautiful gardens. Still trying though. Bunny did you build that retaining wall. Was it easy. Need one myself.
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Just come back from the allotment, where I built my new link-a-bord raised bed with hoop thingies. These things are not a lot of fun single-handed.
Other people have a lot more done down there, but they are mostly retired. Looking forward to retirement next January.
Now I am going to the pub.....because I can! |_P
Finished roses - phew - shows how out of condition I am as well.
Pink wheelbarrow came into its own as I could put all i needed on it and trundle around, instead of having to make loads of seperate trips .
26 roses - even I'm impressed.- just need to make sure they flower now
Went to Morrisons this morning and they have several varieties of magnolia for £6, bought a stellata, the one I have is very sad, threw it away once, saw a bud so rescued i tbut think i should have thrown it. I will leave it in and plant new one alongside it
Figrat! That sounds absolutely yummy!!!
I'm not doing Sunday lunch today. Forgot to buy potatoes. 
We will have pork steaks, chips (frozen) and beans!! A Royle Family dinner! 
Chris your garden look so neat and tidy- and so productive
A lot of us have a lot of work to do
loads of gardening done, definately out of shape, I feel like I have been run over.. lol
Planted a gooseberry that has been in pot since it arrived at Christmas. Also investigated a hydrangea that i bought last year for white border only to find the white flowers turn pink as they mature
So sort of ignored it. any way did that test on stem and it showed green so have plonked it in by neighbours shrubby fence. It's an area I plonk things in if not sure about them, if it survives it will also be its home. a sort of wild area, it will never b cleared but has very attractive ivy honeysuckle clematis and bulbs so may perk it up with hellebores next year. I am purposely leaving it without a plan
Backs sore now, but not quite finished, mug of tea time