Just pondering sowing more tomatoes and chillies. It snowed when I was trying to help the dunnock out of my greenhouse on Sunday, then I broke a pane putting the glass back. The surviving ones in that eurotray aren't looking too well. Everything non-hardy is inside now in plant ICU (my sitting room table). One eurotray left hot plants or cold ...decisions, decisions.
Carried on revamping the damp bed (6m long by irregular 2 to 4 metres wide) after taking two small conifers out of there a couple of weeks ago to make a new conifer bed elsewhere. Needed to referee hostas, ligularias, astilboides, hellebores and primulas so loads of plants emptied out, cleaned of weeds, divided as appropriate and bunged back in with loads of lovely garden compost.
Still have half the bed to mulch with compost and loads of snowdrops and daffs to go back in plus homes to find for hemerocallis and lily of the valley and some hostas.
Good day.
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Tidied up the raised brick flowerbed in my sons schools playground and planted some 'spare' plants from home. Spent so long doing it, I got surrounded by children at breaktime asking questions and wanting to help. Not finished, though. Another day and it will be done.
And now it's sunshining ! Lol. Northern lancashire . Off out to give my soil a treat with nemaslug as it's so wet , saving me extra work of having to drench everything.
Weather in normally sunny Sussex not brilliant either - cold, drizzly and windy - so not ideal gardening conditions. Only job done today was watering all my containers and 'nursery' plants
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Just watering. Filled up a couple of plug trays but haven't sowed yet as I've ran out of 100mm labels and coffee stirrers.
Changed a door seal on the greenhouse. Bunged some of neighbour's cuttings behind neighbour's shed (with permission) for the 'hogs
Just pondering sowing more tomatoes and chillies. It snowed when I was trying to help the dunnock out of my greenhouse on Sunday, then I broke a pane putting the glass back. The surviving ones in that eurotray aren't looking too well. Everything non-hardy is inside now in plant ICU (my sitting room table). One eurotray left hot plants or cold ...decisions, decisions.
Carried on revamping the damp bed (6m long by irregular 2 to 4 metres wide) after taking two small conifers out of there a couple of weeks ago to make a new conifer bed elsewhere. Needed to referee hostas, ligularias, astilboides, hellebores and primulas so loads of plants emptied out, cleaned of weeds, divided as appropriate and bunged back in with loads of lovely garden compost.
Still have half the bed to mulch with compost and loads of snowdrops and daffs to go back in plus homes to find for hemerocallis and lily of the valley and some hostas.
Good day.
Tidied up the raised brick flowerbed in my sons schools playground and planted some 'spare' plants from home. Spent so long doing it, I got surrounded by children at breaktime asking questions and wanting to help. Not finished, though. Another day and it will be done.
No , because it's SNOWING ...... Blah !
SNOWING?????? Where?
And now it's sunshining ! Lol. Northern lancashire
. Off out to give my soil a treat with nemaslug as it's so wet , saving me extra work of having to drench everything.
Here in Essex yet another b****y frost last night and now high winds wrecking every thing in the garden,
Weather in normally sunny Sussex not brilliant either - cold, drizzly and windy - so not ideal gardening conditions. Only job done today was watering all my containers and 'nursery' plants