Like your style Frankie, I'm planning to get Hubby to put together a cold frame that was delivered this morning and lug a load of bags of manure round the garden so that I can do some mulching. That's if I can get him out of bed. Lawns had their first trim yesterday. No seeds sowed yet but I'm itching to get started on them.
My lawns are too wet too trim and rain is forecast again all next week. There has been flooding in Dordogne. Cold and grey today, but I hope to tackle the greengage tree bed.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Snap with my bags of manure, (piled up at the front of the house, just opposite the barn conversions) but in my case I think I will get the boy to lug them round. No signs of any gardening enthusiasm in him yet, but a useful and cheap labourer when you can catch him in or not at a party or 'event'.
I am going to be daringly optimistic today and sow some seeds in the propagator after I have found it. Most other gardeners seem to be very good at Winter - washing and stacking pots, sharpening tools and putting them away for winter. I just close the door on the greenhouse and wait for Spring. I do have to feed and water my 3 wild hedgehog boys hibernating in there but otherwise I leave well alone.
It has been freezing all week and now we have low cloud and waves of rain blasting past. I've been out to feed the birds and will have to go out again to empty Compost Corner onto the heap. Filled it up with peelings from a home grown butternut squash and red onion peelings to make soup for lunch.
Gardening by proxy?
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)."
Frankie, I'm like you, I just close the GH door on it. This year I'm worse than usual, GH still has dead tomato plants in it. In fact, I rarely wash pots for seedlings and I haven't had any bother so far.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Verd - stop with the 'dry and mild' or I'll have to send a plague of frogs to you....again!
No chance of anything remotely resembling gardening here. My neighbour cut her grass a few days ago...not sure why. Can't begin to describe what it looks like....
I fed the birds and contemplated looking at stuff online (garden stuff I mean) and then I watched the birds.
Hopeless
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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Like your style Frankie, I'm planning to get Hubby to put together a cold frame that was delivered this morning and lug a load of bags of manure round the garden so that I can do some mulching. That's if I can get him out of bed
. Lawns had their first trim yesterday. No seeds sowed yet but I'm itching to get started on them.
My lawns are too wet too trim and rain is forecast again all next week. There has been flooding in Dordogne. Cold and grey today, but I hope to tackle the greengage tree bed.
Snap with my bags of manure, (piled up at the front of the house, just opposite the barn conversions) but in my case I think I will get the boy to lug them round. No signs of any gardening enthusiasm in him yet, but a useful and cheap labourer when you can catch him in or not at a party or 'event'.
I am going to be daringly optimistic today and sow some seeds in the propagator after I have found it. Most other gardeners seem to be very good at Winter - washing and stacking pots, sharpening tools and putting them away for winter. I just close the door on the greenhouse and wait for Spring. I do have to feed and water my 3 wild hedgehog boys hibernating in there but otherwise I leave well alone.
It has been freezing all week and now we have low cloud and waves of rain blasting past. I've been out to feed the birds and will have to go out again to empty Compost Corner onto the heap. Filled it up with peelings from a home grown butternut squash and red onion peelings to make soup for lunch.
Gardening by proxy?
Frankie6... wild hedgehogs? How cute. Any chance of pics?
Frankie, I'm like you, I just close the GH door on it. This year I'm worse than usual, GH still has dead tomato plants in it. In fact, I rarely wash pots for seedlings and I haven't had any bother so far.
Gardenviking - I will post when I can. Pumpkin and Toffee are sleeping soundly. Apple keeps getting up.
Busy-Lizzie, I am so glad I am not alone in my idleness.
Verd - stop with the 'dry and mild' or I'll have to send a plague of frogs to you....again!
No chance of anything remotely resembling gardening here. My neighbour cut her grass a few days ago...not sure why. Can't begin to describe what it looks like....
I fed the birds and contemplated looking at stuff online (garden stuff I mean) and then I watched the birds.
Hopeless
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
How come it's dry and mild at Verdun's when I saw the UK weather last night and it was like a sock full of rain was pulled over Cornwall.