Yesterday was a great day in the garden. Planted 3 varieties of potatoes, Sharpes Express, Home Guard and Queens. Sharpes under perspex cloche. Soil temp was 11 deg.
Filled 3 small raised beds for strawberries and repaired a footpath.
Tidied up scraggy border tried to sort out a few probs thought a lot about what I want for the garden got loads of advice from guys on forum smashing bunch!!!
Had my special ones (grandchildren) overnight so couldn't start till afternoon. As long as I do a little each day I can keep on top of things. Can you remind me of that word of wisdom when things get busier
was allowed out for an hour and a half!! planted a rose that a friend gave me that had been heeled in for weeks, planted a few crocuses from pots into beds, dug up all(?) crocosmia, what was left of the shasta daisies i'm trying to get rid of and a couple of excess geraniums and japanese anenomes, potted a lot up to give to friendds just starting to have an interest in gardening, hhoped to get to gc for some sweet pea cupani seeds and some mini cucmber seeds if i can find any but didn't get time today , still pleased with what i managed
Started out turning over the veg plot again. It's a battle with our clay and I have to keep doing it for several weeks. The trick is not to let a hard crust form else I get dry hard bullets of clay that will never break up. I have to keep at it, bringing the claggy stuff up from below and re-burying the dry stuff. Seems better than last year though after lots and lots of horse manure was added in the autumn.
Pricked out and potted on my tomatoes, they look great already, they don't half grow quick!
Finished off working around my single 'flower border' half of it has rhubarb in it, the other half I'm prepping up for foxgloves. So I gave it a weed, broke up the crust on the clay and added a couple of bags of very well rotted muck for good measure.
Bit of a rescue job with my cauliflowers, think possibly grey mildew, some of the leaves have been getting grey patches and dying off. Cut off the infected leaves and will try to get the plants outside more and get more fresh air around them. Everything is a bit cramped on my windowsills at the moment.
Poor Gemma - your ground sounds like a piece of work I have clay sub soil too but being idle I've never totally dug it over - I excavate bits here and there for plants and leave the claggy lumps exposed, until eventually they shatter like a piece of slate
I haven't done much today - was out first and last thing but felt very cold inbetween so I stayed in. Ordered some new plants and did a bit of planning after and found I could fit them all in
Noticed a wren checking out my garden debris heap which is waiting for the brown bin collections to start...so I dutifully carried a few armfuls back up the garden and chucked it on the reserve hedgehog heap. I would be over the moon if I got a wren nest but you can guarantee it won't like the heap I made specially.
loving being able to get outside again! Today I did a spot of weeding & tidying of a border, made more sowings of a variety of annuals, some coriander & basil as well as leeks & spring onions in the greenhouse, am running out of space now!!!
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meant to say thanks Liz, glad to be back.
Chris
Oh good, I also bought climbing Crown Princess Margareta when we went to David Austin's last June.
Yesterday was a great day in the garden. Planted 3 varieties of potatoes, Sharpes Express, Home Guard and Queens. Sharpes under perspex cloche. Soil temp was 11 deg.
Filled 3 small raised beds for strawberries and repaired a footpath.
To-day sowed Leek seeds in trays in garden shed.
carried on splitting agapanthus.
Carried on cutting back last year's dead tops, A few days to go yet I think
BORING
Then shredding
Then some weeding, moving and much more interesting stuff
In the sticks near Peterborough
Tidied up scraggy border tried to sort out a few probs
thought a lot about what I want for the garden
got loads of advice from guys on forum 
smashing bunch!!!
Had my special ones (grandchildren) overnight so couldn't start till afternoon. As long as I do a little each day I can keep on top of things. Can you remind me of that word of wisdom when things get busier
was allowed out for an hour and a half!! planted a rose that a friend gave me that had been heeled in for weeks, planted a few crocuses from pots into beds, dug up all(?) crocosmia, what was left of the shasta daisies i'm trying to get rid of and a couple of excess geraniums and japanese anenomes, potted a lot up to give to friendds just starting to have an interest in gardening, hhoped to get to gc for some sweet pea cupani seeds and some mini cucmber seeds if i can find any but didn't get time today , still pleased with what i managed
Glad to be outside today, it was lovely.
Started out turning over the veg plot again. It's a battle with our clay and I have to keep doing it for several weeks. The trick is not to let a hard crust form else I get dry hard bullets of clay that will never break up. I have to keep at it, bringing the claggy stuff up from below and re-burying the dry stuff. Seems better than last year though after lots and lots of horse manure was added in the autumn.
Pricked out and potted on my tomatoes, they look great already, they don't half grow quick!
Finished off working around my single 'flower border' half of it has rhubarb in it, the other half I'm prepping up for foxgloves. So I gave it a weed, broke up the crust on the clay and added a couple of bags of very well rotted muck for good measure.
Bit of a rescue job with my cauliflowers, think possibly grey mildew, some of the leaves have been getting grey patches and dying off. Cut off the infected leaves and will try to get the plants outside more and get more fresh air around them. Everything is a bit cramped on my windowsills at the moment.
Poor Gemma - your ground sounds like a piece of work
I have clay sub soil too but being idle I've never totally dug it over - I excavate bits here and there for plants and leave the claggy lumps exposed, until eventually they shatter like a piece of slate 
I haven't done much today - was out first and last thing but felt very cold inbetween so I stayed in. Ordered some new plants and did a bit of planning after and found I could fit them all in
Noticed a wren checking out my garden debris heap which is waiting for the brown bin collections to start...so I dutifully carried a few armfuls back up the garden and chucked it on the reserve hedgehog heap. I would be over the moon if I got a wren nest but you can guarantee it won't like the heap I made specially.
loving being able to get outside again! Today I did a spot of weeding & tidying of a border, made more sowings of a variety of annuals, some coriander & basil as well as leeks & spring onions in the greenhouse, am running out of space now!!!