Lovely to read so many posts about sunshine and spring and pricking out seedlings - makes me feel happy to be alive!
OH & I have just got back from our "regular" walk (not too long, but enough to make us feel good) & I'm just about to venture into the garden. Might try a bit of lawn re-shaping, though it's probably still too wet really... or carry on with removing moss and liverwort from little plants - tedious, but rewarding later in the year when they flower.
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
Speaking of pricking out - just doing my toms - one of my Sungolds has three cotyledons - is that unusual or have I just been really unobservant in the past?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Cleaned and hoovered the cottage, made the beds for OH's family. Put up the children's bedroom curtains and curtains in front of the alcove in bedroom 2 to make a cupboard.
Just having coffee and a mini pork pie, can't get them in France, then will go out and do some planting.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Pdoc - what a lovely garden you must have ... a pair of dippers and a song thrush family on its way - very very envious.
I've just spent a lovely couple of hours pricking out the tomatoes and cosmos seedlings, taking salvia cuttings and sowing sweetcorn and pattypan squashes.
The tomatoes and cosmos are in the little greenhouse - will I be brave enough to leave them out there overnight, or shall I bring them in and put them on the dining table overnight ? ..................... just checked the Met Office website - I'll bring them indoors for the next few nights - the temp's going to drop to 1C tomorrow night - then things are going to be a bit milder after that.
I also pulled nearly 2.5 kilos of rhubarb from my one plant - and I still left one third on the plant ... it's in a big dish in the oven with some sugar and covered with foil. Some of it will be for breakfasts next week, and some will go into a Rhubarb and Custard Cake
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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Went back to bed at 6am and caught up on sleep until 9.45!! Anyway, it's a lovely sunny morning so out to the garden. . . with a bit more energy.
Morning friends
Lovely to read so many posts about sunshine and spring and pricking out seedlings - makes me feel happy to be alive!
OH & I have just got back from our "regular" walk (not too long, but enough to make us feel good) & I'm just about to venture into the garden. Might try a bit of lawn re-shaping, though it's probably still too wet really... or carry on with removing moss and liverwort from little plants - tedious, but rewarding later in the year when they flower.
Speaking of pricking out - just doing my toms - one of my Sungolds has three cotyledons - is that unusual or have I just been really unobservant in the past?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Just found a song Thrush nest in the Orchard, lovely.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
Cleaned and hoovered the cottage, made the beds for OH's family. Put up the children's bedroom curtains and curtains in front of the alcove in bedroom 2 to make a cupboard.
Just having coffee and a mini pork pie, can't get them in France, then will go out and do some planting.
Pdoc - what a lovely garden you must have ... a pair of dippers and a song thrush family on its way - very very envious.
I've just spent a lovely couple of hours pricking out the tomatoes and cosmos seedlings, taking salvia cuttings and sowing sweetcorn and pattypan squashes.
The tomatoes and cosmos are in the little greenhouse - will I be brave enough to leave them out there overnight, or shall I bring them in and put them on the dining table overnight ?
..................... just checked the Met Office website - I'll bring them indoors for the next few nights - the temp's going to drop to 1C tomorrow night - then things are going to be a bit milder after that.
I also pulled nearly 2.5 kilos of rhubarb from my one plant - and I still left one third on the plant ... it's in a big dish in the oven with some sugar and covered with foil. Some of it will be for breakfasts next week, and some will go into a Rhubarb and Custard Cake
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.