Too wet to garden sadly but hubby and I are sourcing wire tensioners and all the bits to go along the entire length of new fencing and put wire up for the new climbing plants and roses to climb on and to train the pyracantha along.
Just replaced the broken pane of glass on one of my two greenhouse roof vents with polycarb and fitted a new automatic opener. The old one died over the winter and allowed the vent to flap in strong winds, hence the glass breaking. Noticed the blummin' squirrels have destroyed 3/4s of my new strawberry plants which went in last October. Sorry my furry friends but that's the last straw. First you discover how to get into my roof space via next doors unmanaged ivy, have eaten all of the apple tree fruit buds, keep emptying and slobbering all over the bird feeders (even though they are suspended from long wires), let's see how you fare with a kania 2000.
A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
Snow here today, so no gardening - but I was at the best garden centre, a few miles away, which had a 'potato day' and got some seed potatoes which are now placed to start chitting, and on the way home found a Magnolia soulangeana discounted from a supermarket. (OK, I don't usually buy plants from a supermarket, but this one was calling to me...)
Does setting seed potatoes in egg cartons to chit count as 'gardening'? Plus I should add a lovely discussion with a friend about herbs and what she can do in her new garden...
The other day I sprayed weedkiller on the gravel drive of our new 2nd home cottage. Not gardening otherwise as my main garden is in France and I'm in England.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
It was supposed to snow here but we've just had incessant rain all weekend making the garden really muddy. I have to keep reminding myself it's February and that it will be at least another month before we can get out there.
Back tomorrow, Hosta. Garden in Norfolk is a gravel parking place with a flowerbed on the edge, nothing in it yet but I have plans. The back is a small patio looking over a field. I plan to put large pots with plants for dry shade. So not big.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Cleaned out the dead leaves and stems from my strawberry plants. New ones to be planted when the water subsides. No digging done yet as the ground is saturated. The only thing growing is Rhubarb and MOSS!
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Too wet to garden sadly but hubby and I are sourcing wire tensioners and all the bits to go along the entire length of new fencing and put wire up for the new climbing plants and roses to climb on and to train the pyracantha along.
Just replaced the broken pane of glass on one of my two greenhouse roof vents with polycarb and fitted a new automatic opener. The old one died over the winter and allowed the vent to flap in strong winds, hence the glass breaking. Noticed the blummin' squirrels have destroyed 3/4s of my new strawberry plants which went in last October. Sorry my furry friends but that's the last straw. First you discover how to get into my roof space via next doors unmanaged ivy, have eaten all of the apple tree fruit buds, keep emptying and slobbering all over the bird feeders (even though they are suspended from long wires), let's see how you fare with a kania 2000.
Snow here today, so no gardening - but I was at the best garden centre, a few miles away, which had a 'potato day' and got some seed potatoes which are now placed to start chitting, and on the way home found a Magnolia soulangeana discounted from a supermarket. (OK, I don't usually buy plants from a supermarket, but this one was calling to me...)
Does setting seed potatoes in egg cartons to chit count as 'gardening'? Plus I should add a lovely discussion with a friend about herbs and what she can do in her new garden...
Brick and stone work . Looking good
bright but cold weather
The other day I sprayed weedkiller on the gravel drive of our new 2nd home cottage. Not gardening otherwise as my main garden is in France and I'm in England.
Check you out Lizzie. Can we call you "Busy in one of my two gardens Lizzie" from now on.?
When are you back to France?
It was supposed to snow here but we've just had incessant rain all weekend making the garden really muddy. I have to keep reminding myself it's February and that it will be at least another month before we can get out there.
Back to the indoor hobbies.
Back tomorrow, Hosta. Garden in Norfolk is a gravel parking place with a flowerbed on the edge, nothing in it yet but I have plans. The back is a small patio looking over a field. I plan to put large pots with plants for dry shade. So not big.
Cleaned out the dead leaves and stems from my strawberry plants. New ones to be planted when the water subsides. No digging done yet as the ground is saturated. The only thing growing is Rhubarb and MOSS!
safe Journey Lizzie.