I dug over my compost daleks - mainly to distribute the contents more evenly as the most empty one has been blowing around the garden this week. It did warm me up though and saved an hour or so of heating bills!
I finished creating my raised heated propagator bench and spent a long time working out how to make a "lid" for it. Almost finished, but bad light stopped play.
I potted up loads of poor bulbs that have been waiting for workable conditions to coincide with me having the time to plant them. Decided that the garden will probaby be a no-go area for weeks yet so pots it is. Checked on some I had planted up earlier for use in our cold porch and found the first iris reticulata were flowering. And noticed flower buds on the daphne mezereon. Two cheering discoveries when all around is bleak and chilly looking. It was actually quite a nice day, blue sky and sunshine, but the hills were very white and glittering and the bare trees looked very black. Beautiful, but not warming!
Fruitcake - Yes going to the allotment counts - I went there too to check that nothing had blown away and to see if any purple sprouting was sprouting (no luck there) too early. Itching to get going on gardening now. Took kitchen waste to the house compost bin and found something has been inside as black compost coming out of the holes at the base and a huge pile of soil erupted by the side of it. Could be the mole back again who burrowed up inside the compost to eat the worms. Too cold to investigate and can't do anything about it anyway.
Back to reading my Carol Klein 'Year in a Cottage Garden' which I bought off eBay.
Slashing and burning, started on a large area of brambles, elder and nettles, to create a woodland area for hellebores dog tooth violets and epimedium.
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nope not doing anything about 2 inch of snow on the ground, and its quite dark in the greenhouse with snow on the roof
I dug over my compost daleks - mainly to distribute the contents more evenly as the most empty one has been blowing around the garden this week. It did warm me up though and saved an hour or so of heating bills!
I planned - it's warmer.
I finished creating my raised heated propagator bench and spent a long time working out how to make a "lid" for it. Almost finished, but bad light stopped play.
sowing petunia seeds & clearing out beds .
I potted up loads of poor bulbs that have been waiting for workable conditions to coincide with me having the time to plant them. Decided that the garden will probaby be a no-go area for weeks yet so pots it is. Checked on some I had planted up earlier for use in our cold porch and found the first iris reticulata were flowering. And noticed flower buds on the daphne mezereon. Two cheering discoveries when all around is bleak and chilly looking. It was actually quite a nice day, blue sky and sunshine, but the hills were very white and glittering and the bare trees looked very black. Beautiful, but not warming!
Fruitcake - Yes going to the allotment counts - I went there too to check that nothing had blown away and to see if any purple sprouting was sprouting (no luck there) too early. Itching to get going on gardening now. Took kitchen waste to the house compost bin and found something has been inside as black compost coming out of the holes at the base and a huge pile of soil erupted by the side of it. Could be the mole back again who burrowed up inside the compost to eat the worms. Too cold to investigate and can't do anything about it anyway.
Back to reading my Carol Klein 'Year in a Cottage Garden' which I bought off eBay.
Slashing and burning, started on a large area of brambles, elder and nettles, to create a woodland area for hellebores dog tooth violets and epimedium.
I thought about it but I couldn't find my water wings.
done some pruning of bits - dirt in pots frozen