Not being beaten this weekend, my husband and I got our wet weather gear on and proceeded to prune roses, cut back perenials and plant up stone troughs - in the pouring rain. We got soaked but felt great! I can fully recommend it.
Snow has turned to sleet...now rain :-/ not amused...Spring like last year please, starting around March 1st (daughter's birthday) would be nice, thank you
Winter does officially go on till well into March and after last year's late frosts which came and zapped a lot of plants excited by early and untimely warm weather, I have to say i'd rather winter dragged on a bit longer and that spring came later and without such frosty setbacks.
Plenty to be getting on with in the mean time- structural maintenance, painting obelisks, tuning compost heaps (OH's job) and clearing paths of weeds. Next month i'm hoping to buy and erect a new shed but will need a man to dig a level hole and fill it with a good concrete base. Time to chat up the farmer neighbours and their son-in-law who does landscaping...........
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)."
Then I can finally start building my raised flower bed, laying some plum slate and moving stuff around - oh and a few trips to garden centre too...plus sedun-roofing the new shed SO STOP RAINING!
its been a great sunny day here,in north yorks,dug in some horse manue on my raised beds,ready for the leeks n sprouts ( hopefully later next month ), frost permiting.Put some more compost in mi Belfast sink,where i grow onions,and topped up my v large grow bags where taities ( potatoes ) shall do there business this year.( giving me a nice crop ).If its sunny tomorrow ( weatherman says so ) i"ll do a bit more of the same.
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Not being beaten this weekend, my husband and I got our wet weather gear on and proceeded to prune roses, cut back perenials and plant up stone troughs - in the pouring rain. We got soaked but felt great! I can fully recommend it.
Good for you pema
My husband and I emptied the shed, moved it to other side of garden, wood preserved the inside and moved a bamboo, also in the pouring rain!
Feels good, doesn't it?!
I stayed indoors and stuck photos from 2011 in the album. But if it carries on raining I'll have to join you in it! Hope you don't get colds.
Come and join is Busy!
Snow has turned to sleet...now rain :-/ not amused...Spring like last year please, starting around March 1st (daughter's birthday) would be nice, thank you
Winter does officially go on till well into March and after last year's late frosts which came and zapped a lot of plants excited by early and untimely warm weather, I have to say i'd rather winter dragged on a bit longer and that spring came later and without such frosty setbacks.
Plenty to be getting on with in the mean time- structural maintenance, painting obelisks, tuning compost heaps (OH's job) and clearing paths of weeds. Next month i'm hoping to buy and erect a new shed but will need a man to dig a level hole and fill it with a good concrete base. Time to chat up the farmer neighbours and their son-in-law who does landscaping...........
Then I can finally start building my raised flower bed, laying some plum slate and moving stuff around - oh and a few trips to garden centre too...plus sedun-roofing the new shed
SO STOP RAINING!
off you go then Obelixx
its been a great sunny day
here,in north yorks,dug in some horse manue on my raised beds,ready for the leeks n sprouts ( hopefully later next month ), frost permiting.Put some more compost in mi Belfast sink,where i grow onions,and topped up my v large grow bags where taities ( potatoes ) shall do there business this year
.( giving me a nice crop ).If its sunny tomorrow ( weatherman says so 
) i"ll do a bit more of the same.
please send some of that weather down to Tenby PLEASE we are all waterlogged