SG - sounds like your undergardener needs to be given indoor jobs if he won't help outside - washing up, dusting, vaccing, ironing, cleaning loos - anything that leaves you the time and energy to do outside stuff. You might find that motivates him to do heavy lifting for you.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
Pruned one-and-a-bit apple trees and attempted to dig up a couple of parsnips. Soil was so wet that the fork had no purchase and just leaned backwards. Fortunately I was able to pull them out. Field/lawn flooded.
I might do some pottering today. Maybe dry off my arbor and have a brew outside
Yesterday I potted on some primulas I had delivered earlier this week, elatior, muscarioides, candelabra and another kind. Attempted to layer some of my dogwood stems as I think I planted the original too close to the fence
Nowt much else to do, just waiting on confirmation of an order of interesting perennials from a company I've not used before. Looking forward to that
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SG - sounds like your undergardener needs to be given indoor jobs if he won't help outside - washing up, dusting, vaccing, ironing, cleaning loos - anything that leaves you the time and energy to do outside stuff. You might find that motivates him to do heavy lifting for you.
obelixx - that's a brilliant idea!
No gardening today though - it's raining again.
I knocked the snow off the phormiums, hebes, conifers and the fatsia.
Put endless amounts of food out for the blackbirds
Does that count?
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Snow, eh? Alright for some.
Pruned one-and-a-bit apple trees and attempted to dig up a couple of parsnips. Soil was so wet that the fork had no purchase and just leaned backwards. Fortunately I was able to pull them out. Field/lawn flooded.
Too wet to do any digging but put rotting onions in compost heap. Rhubarb still lying around since before xmas, can't replant with all the rain.
I might do some pottering today. Maybe dry off my arbor and have a brew outside
Yesterday I potted on some primulas I had delivered earlier this week, elatior, muscarioides, candelabra and another kind. Attempted to layer some of my dogwood stems as I think I planted the original too close to the fence
Nowt much else to do, just waiting on confirmation of an order of interesting perennials from a company I've not used before. Looking forward to that
Ooh a brew outside. Lovely.
im going to tinker about in the greenhouse today.
Love seeing all of the bulbs coming through. Sun is shining here but it's nippy.
Tootles , same sun out but nippy , will be going in garden shortly
have a good day everybody