I'm so fed up with the weather! It's been so windy that even the plants on my very sheltered patio are being buffeted and it's pouring with rain. I need to finish digging out the weeds on my allotment before the spring arrives! (Of course it might not arrive this year, like it didn't last year, so that would sort that out.)
Went to a GC yesterday and bought an indoor mushroom-growing kit. I've never grown mushrooms before, but the instructions seem quite straightforward.
Lovely bright morning here. Have watered some cuttings and had a little potter in the greenhouse. Come in to listen to BBC radio Nottinghams gardening slot - love it.
After raining ALL day yesterday, it was nice and sunny this morning so potted-up a dozen new bare-root shrubs which arrived in the week - square pots in pic below:
Also cut the autumn raspberries (Polka) back to thr ground and did a bit more weeding. Going out again after a cuppa to do more weeding - the ivy-leaved speedwell seedlings are popping-up everywhere as usual and are growing fast!
A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
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Not a chance ! Been pouring down AAAAALLLLLLLLLLL day.
but our paper recycling bag is now full of last year's gardening catalogues.
I'm so fed up with the weather! It's been so windy that even the plants on my very sheltered patio are being buffeted and it's pouring with rain. I need to finish digging out the weeds on my allotment before the spring arrives! (Of course it might not arrive this year, like it didn't last year, so that would sort that out.)
Went to a GC yesterday and bought an indoor mushroom-growing kit. I've never grown mushrooms before, but the instructions seem quite straightforward.
Started off nice this AM, sat outside and had a brew/made some plans but had to go out and by the time I got back it was peeing it down
Sowed my first seeds of this year, snaps, lobelia and some perennials and organised the next batch in the tin
cleared storm ditches if that counts and lots of planning whilst I was walking round.
Lovely bright morning here. Have watered some cuttings and had a little potter in the greenhouse. Come in to listen to BBC radio Nottinghams gardening slot - love it.
Yup also sick of the weather. My mycorrhizal fungi (copied spelling off packet) has arrived so I must go out and transplant that rose asap.
We had a heavy fall of freezing sleet earlier and now it's very windy but quite sunny also. I'll just have to grit my teeth and get on with it.
Then I am off to the garden centre with my birthday money.
Nipped out to see what's growing for a little floral table display to go with Sunday lunch. Mother Nature had come up trumps, again.
After raining ALL day yesterday, it was nice and sunny this morning so potted-up a dozen new bare-root shrubs which arrived in the week - square pots in pic below:
Also cut the autumn raspberries (Polka) back to thr ground and did a bit more weeding. Going out again after a cuppa to do more weeding - the ivy-leaved speedwell seedlings are popping-up everywhere as usual and are growing fast!
cut back some blackthorn, see Forkers Thread.
Pruned the gooseberries, cut back raspberry Polka, cut back dried perennial stems, pruned roses (I know it's early but the garden is sheltered)
and squidged a Lily Beetle
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.