I spent most of the day yesterday on my knees, weeding and planting. Ache all over today. It's raining today so good excuse not to garden, but HW needs doing.
GWRS, I tried putting a hose pipe down a mole burrow, the mole went else where - into another flower bed! Traps and bombs are all that work here.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Very luxurious having 5 butts full again, it's almost making watering fun
Spent most of the morning planning for next year. I want to extend my lawn grass a little way towards the pond extension to give an impression of more space (garden has a slight tendency to look overgrown) but haven't quite figured out how to do it. Then I have to find homes for 8 million plants...Found a potential new home for a bench which got taken over by a blackthorn...then tried to sort out the malingerers ward of potted stuff - didn't get very far, dont know which are ungerminated seeds, empty because something has died or just unidentified. Lots are in the pending tray as I have nowhere to put them or it's too risky to put them in the ground.
Made a death chart of lazy things that wont thrive. Chucked helianthus salicifolius and rudbeckia maxima so far, another half dozen on the list
Don't try eating a raw courgette GWRS - they aren't very tasty in sandwiches or salads!
We snipped the growing ends off our apple tree shoots this morning. Me doing the low branches and OH up on the step ladder. The Bramley tree has a good crop coming along but the other trees are a bit sparse of fruit.
Admired our new branch in the pond - there were a couple of blue tailed damsel flies resting on it this morning.
You can grate them in a salad good for you, or make a cake same as carrot cake. Did some weeding t 6.30, desided it was too hot to garden yesterday! Busy-Lissie you BOMB the moles, drastic eh!
I don't know if you can buy the mole bomb thing in the UK but it is sold here in France. It's a sort of detonator that you attach a small bomb that looks a bit like a firework banger to and you push it into a mole burrow.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Oh dear BL, that is a nuisance for you and perhaps sitting down is the only option today for you.
In this heat sitting under a large umbrella or tree is the only option for me - it is far too warm to do gardening. OH has been for a swim at the beach and I have been catching up on magazine reading - W.Home.
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I spent most of the day yesterday on my knees, weeding and planting. Ache all over today. It's raining today so good excuse not to garden, but HW needs doing.
GWRS, I tried putting a hose pipe down a mole burrow, the mole went else where - into another flower bed! Traps and bombs are all that work here.
BL , IIke the idea of mole Bombs ?
Very luxurious having 5 butts full again, it's almost making watering fun
Spent most of the morning planning for next year. I want to extend my lawn grass a little way towards the pond extension to give an impression of more space (garden has a slight tendency to look overgrown) but haven't quite figured out how to do it. Then I have to find homes for 8 million plants...Found a potential new home for a bench which got taken over by a blackthorn...then tried to sort out the malingerers ward of potted stuff - didn't get very far, dont know which are ungerminated seeds, empty because something has died or just unidentified.
Lots are in the pending tray as I have nowhere to put them or it's too risky to put them in the ground.
Made a death chart of lazy things that wont thrive. Chucked helianthus salicifolius and rudbeckia maxima so far, another half dozen on the list
Victoria S , be ruthless !
Change of plan , coming hedges today , o/h has been sorting out g/h , found out what we thought was a cucumber plant was a courgette! Made us laugh ?
Don't try eating a raw courgette GWRS - they aren't very tasty in sandwiches or salads!
We snipped the growing ends off our apple tree shoots this morning. Me doing the low branches and OH up on the step ladder. The Bramley tree has a good crop coming along but the other trees are a bit sparse of fruit.
Admired our new branch in the pond - there were a couple of blue tailed damsel flies resting on it this morning.
You can grate them in a salad good for you, or make a cake same as carrot cake. Did some weeding t 6.30, desided it was too hot to garden yesterday! Busy-Lissie you BOMB the moles, drastic eh!
Definitely , going to allotment this afternoon
Need to do h/w this morning , might try and sneak an hour or do in
pleased with this planted chimney
I don't know if you can buy the mole bomb thing in the UK but it is sold here in France. It's a sort of detonator that you attach a small bomb that looks a bit like a firework banger to and you push it into a mole burrow.
Too hot for gardening, 33°. But I seem to have done something to my hip so gardening isn't an option at the moment.
Oh dear BL, that is a nuisance for you and perhaps sitting down is the only option today for you.
In this heat sitting under a large umbrella or tree is the only option for me - it is far too warm to do gardening. OH has been for a swim at the beach and I have been catching up on magazine reading - W.Home.